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- Many households had one car. We were UMC but only had one car until my brother and I were in grade school. My dad would take the car to work most mornings so my mom would load us into the stroller when we were small and walk to the park or playground or to meet up with friends. Nowadays, most people would put the stroller in the back of the SUV and drive to the park or whatever. 
- My mom would have thought I was nuts if I'd asked her for a ride to school, or to a friend's house, or to the Metro when I could walk or bike to those places as a teenager. My brother broke his foot once and she was very put out at having to drive him to/from school because we always walked.
- We ate crap (sno balls, Doritos, Kool Aid, sugar cereal) but we played outside all the time practically every single day. We had one TV that was reserved for my dad's news shows and weekend football games. I'm one of the younger Gen Xers, late 70s birthday, and my parents never had cable. I didn't have a cell phone until I was out of college. There was a lot more to do and see outside. We spent hours prowling around storm sewers, hiking through fields, and exploring.
- Dieting was heavily encouraged. I knew a lot of girls who would eat grapefruit, cottage cheese, and Tab or Diet Coke or black coffee almost exclusively. A lot of people also took diet pills (aka, speed) which was easy to get at the time from a doctor.
- Overall there was more manual labor involved with nearly everything. No one had a lawn service. That job was performed by dads or teenage boys in the household or neighborhood. Same with shoveling snow or raking leaves. Pretty much everyone washed their own cars. We didn't have Task Rabbits to do stuff like that. Like someone else said, you had to get your own groceries or walk around a mall if you needed new clothes. [/quote]

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