Modern Times

I am as guilty as the next person when it comes to surfing the internet. I know way too much about the royal families and Pinterest is absolutely addicting. However, looking at lifestyles one will never live and things one will never need could be regarded as wasting time.

Here are some things we used to do in the Olden Days. It's far from complete but it's what I remember for now:

We read MAD Magazine. (Now, there's another complete waste of time.)

We read Highlights when we went to the dentist.

We played Barbie.

Us girls played with our dollhouses.

We played cards when the neighbor's grandkids came to visit. I think we played Hearts a lot. We played Monopoly too.

We played Crazy Eights on the front porch of the club. We played solitaire and double solitaire ( I regard this as a nerve-wracking pastime.)

The boys played Stratego all the time. And we got a kick out of watching them.

We did watch TV occasionally: Mickey Mouse Club, Superman.

And, at a young age I began to do needlepoint and have stuck with it.

We read a book every night for a half hour before we went to sleep.

Books?? Yes. Get yourself a Kindle as soon as you can.