How we baby boomers, made it through our childhoods without (disposable) water bottles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easy - We drank Diet Coke.

+1 (but without the diet)

Amazing how much coke we drank. Now, I hardly ever touch the stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boomer mom will only drink bottled water. My kids and I drink tap water.

Same in our family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A little off topic but I'm 47 and i am still nostalgic for the taste of water out of a hose. Ours had a tinge of copper and a little rust from the nozzle.

Surely you have access to a hose and can experience this whenever you want.

[Anonymous]

Don't know, but I do know that most elderly women in MoCo and nasty drivers who will flip you off and stop traffic and cause a scene after they backed into you while you were walking and she was pulling out of the parking space, and then she will think you are in the wrong and block your car so you can't pull out. You are well on your way to joining their ranks.
(this is just one of the instances of "cute/vicious" elderly women harping and being insane like you are.

[Anonymous]

^^are nasty drivers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - We drank Diet Coke.

+1 (but without the diet)

Amazing how much coke we drank. Now, I hardly ever touch the stuff.

Diet coke?! For those born in 1960 and 1970s? I think not! Plain Coke.

[Anonymous]

There is a slight problem with the fact that you were born in 1962 and still have children in the house! I am much younger than you, and both in college.

[Anonymous]

We had one big plastic cooler with Dixie cups on the sidelines

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A little off topic but I'm 47 and i am still nostalgic for the taste of water out of a hose. Ours had a tinge of copper and a little rust from the nozzle.

Surely you have access to a hose and can experience this whenever you want.

The hose water at my high school was also kind of rusty tasting. At practice we would have to take turns filling up those big Gatorade water dispensers and carrying them all the way up to the field. A lot of times there were no cups and you'd just have to wait in line and drink straight from the little dispenser. Those were the days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy - We drank Diet Coke.

+1 (but without the diet)

Amazing how much coke we drank. Now, I hardly ever touch the stuff.

Diet coke?! For those born in 1960 and 1970s? I think not! Plain Coke.

Tab or Fresca (sp).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a slight problem with the fact that you were born in 1962 and still have children in the house! I am much younger than you, and both in college.

Judge much? I was born in 72, my kids will be seniors in high school in 10 years.

Start your own thread if you want to argue the merits of having kids early or late. (FYI - I think you took the wrong route).

[Anonymous]

By being thirsty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a slight problem with the fact that you were born in 1962 and still have children in the house! I am much younger than you, and both in college.

Judge much? I was born in 72, my kids will be seniors in high school in 10 years.

Start your own thread if you want to argue the merits of having kids early or late. (FYI - I think you took the wrong route).

Seriously?! I mean, poor kids!

[Anonymous]

35 pack non-reusable bottle buyer here.

While many of you are completely lying, we buy the multipacks of plastic bottles water. Why? Because we are middle class and yeah it’s easier. Our tap water more than likely is polluted despite what authorities say. Every year some pollution report comes out letting us know that indeed, the tap water sucks. My kids don’t keep up with their reusable bottles. They get dirty gross and lost.

And no I don’t think I’m raping the earth. Clothing production pollutes more than water bottles anyway.

[Anonymous]

Because we don't live in Colorado, where we could just have better water on tap!