[Jane Long]

Not a youngster, but....*that* was before my time :-)

Speaking of homemade toys....

We used to play ‘beauty shop’....outside....we’d lean lawn chairs back, against the iron porch railing (amazing we didn’t fall back and crack our heads), then use the water hose as the ‘sink/faucet’ to wash each other’s hair. It was cold, at first, but you were used to the water temp by creme rinse time (remember creme rinse??).

And, since we had the water hose on, and were near the yard/flower beds....we’d then make mud pies, and set them out to “bake”, along the raised brick flower beds.

(We needed more than our hair washed, after that!)

[Lakeside Granny]

Never played “beauty shop” but played “restaurant” a lot.

Mom would wonder where the food was going as we fed the neighborhood kids.

We would make the coolest cloths line house using all the blankets in the cupboard and the tall window screens before dad put them on the windows in the summer.

We all knew how to make our own fun, didn’t we?

[Spirit of Liberty]

True confession time....

After my parents separated, my mom and my aunt joined forces. Mom was divorced with 2 kids in the 70s and my aunt was widowed with no kids. So Mom went to work in a factory and my aunt kept house and ran a beauty shop out of the house so she could be home with us. My Mom was a beautician before she married so she could do hair, too. The shop the sink, reclining chair and a hair dryer.

THIS kind of hair dryer!!!

My hair was always professionally done when I was growing up. Of course, it also looked like an old woman's hair.

[Spunky]

“..(remember creme rinse??).”

Yes I do remember cream rinse. What I got was pink color and in a gallon jug. It was the best stuff ever. NOT like these conditioners of today. I remember Hair-so-New and Clairol Cream Rinse. I wonder why they quit making them.