Add:
1. Watched Mickey Mouse Club on B&W TV
2. Used wax paper on the slide at the park to make us go down faster
3. Had a newspaper route to earn a few dollars (and my father taught me to drive a stick shift at 12, when he helped me deliver the Sunday Papers)
“Used wax paper on the slide at the park to make us go down faster”
I forgot about that.
Mine's nearly identical to yours. Remember Fizzies?
If we got sick or sunburned or experienced some other childhood injury that needed a bit of pain relief, we were given an aspirin!