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Post by haapai on May 22, 2018 22:17:29 GMT -5
One thing that occurred to me immediately and I didn't post it because it's a bit TMI: tampons. I reached puberty back before anyone had thought of pads with an adhesive strip. They were held in place by an elastic belt that was slung around your hips under your clothes, with a notch in the back and front to hold the pad in place. It was, as a female cousin aptly described it, "bunchy and icky". I muddled through for two years with this system and finally got up the nerve to try a tampon after reading the instruction leaflet multiple times. It took some getting used to but I was FREE. It turned periods into a minor nuisance instead of a showstopper. For one thing, it meant that I didn't have to sit out a week every month at the local pool where we practically lived in the summers. I told my mother after the fact. I guess I didn't ask beforehand because it wasn't something she'd brought up when she discussed puberty. She was fine with it. I resolved then and there that if I ever had daughters, they'd be told from Day One. I had only DS but when my two granddaughters get to that age I plan to talk with DDIL and encourage her to bring up the subject. I think that you should start a new thread with this as the OP. I'm 49, and was spared the belts and pads thing but I have no idea by how many years. I bopped around between the first and the third worlds as a kid and I can tell you that non-adhesive pads were still a thing in tropical third world countries in the late seventies and early eighties. They were sold in boxes that looked very similar to boxes of Kleenex. I remember encountering the pads and hearing references to Modess, but I never, ever saw one of the belt contraptions. Did those things actually exist? Was it possible to wear pants with a pad pinned to one's underwear? (I'm thinking a lot about how gas station mini marts used to always sell panty hose and don't now. Are better pads and plugs are part of the reason why? Not being able to wear pants for a week each month and being extremely self-conscious about the reason why would certainly nudge one toward wearing skirts almost all of the time.) I'd really appreciate it if one of you crones would tell me when adhesive pads hit the US market and there are extra points available to anyone who can describe the pricing. I may not remember belts and pins, but I do remember an era in which a pad that had multiple adhesive strips or wings had a premium price that discouraged adoption.
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Post by busymom on May 22, 2018 22:18:41 GMT -5
I can think of a number of things: my Tupperware citrus peeler (it took skill to learn to peel an orange with a sharp knife. This tool I could just hand to my kids after showing them how to do it.) earlier the cookie scoop was mentioned when making cookies. Saves LOTS of time. baby wipes. I use them when cleaning the bathroom.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 5:30:26 GMT -5
NastyWoman, it depends on which Kindle you have. The Kindle Fire accesses the internet, etc. You can play music through Amazon so I imagine you could play through Pandora, Spotify, etc. I have no idea about Itunes. I got mine to replace the school IPAD, which they declared obsolete and took away. It was regularly $199 but on sale for $99. It also has Alexa, which I don't use because I have an ECHO in the bedroom. It's too confusing when they both respond. I had the original Kindle Fire, but it recently stopped charging.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 6:47:41 GMT -5
I'd really appreciate it if one of you crones would tell me when adhesive pads hit the US market and there are extra points available to anyone who can describe the pricing. I may not remember belts and pins, but I do remember an era in which a pad that had multiple adhesive strips or wings had a premium price that discouraged adoption.
First pad with an adhesive strip came out in 1970. You could wear the belt contraption with pants, but they couldn't be tight pants- there would be a telltale bump where the pad was fastened to it in the front. This link has an interesting but very graphic history of what women have done over the millennia to deal with periods. We're very fortunate in this country and this era. Even now there are places in India and Africa where girls stay home from school one week a month because they re-use rags. (An old BF would use the expression "on the rag" to describe a woman in a particularly foul mood- now I know the origin of that phrase. ) One man in India got passionate about solving the problem after he saw what his wife had to deal with. He asked so many questions, did so many investigations, that his wife and daughter left him and he was ostracized. He eventually developed a low-cost machine to make pads, which he then sold to people in individual villages. (His wife and daughter reconciled with him and he was later the subject of a Bollywood movie.) changethecycle.com/blog/2017/05/evolution-sanitary-pads/
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 23, 2018 9:09:03 GMT -5
One thing that occurred to me immediately and I didn't post it because it's a bit TMI: tampons. I reached puberty back before anyone had thought of pads with an adhesive strip. They were held in place by an elastic belt that was slung around your hips under your clothes, with a notch in the back and front to hold the pad in place. It was, as a female cousin aptly described it, "bunchy and icky". I muddled through for two years with this system and finally got up the nerve to try a tampon after reading the instruction leaflet multiple times. It took some getting used to but I was FREE. It turned periods into a minor nuisance instead of a showstopper. For one thing, it meant that I didn't have to sit out a week every month at the local pool where we practically lived in the summers. I told my mother after the fact. I guess I didn't ask beforehand because it wasn't something she'd brought up when she discussed puberty. She was fine with it. I resolved then and there that if I ever had daughters, they'd be told from Day One. I had only DS but when my two granddaughters get to that age I plan to talk with DDIL and encourage her to bring up the subject. I think that you should start a new thread with this as the OP. I'm 49, and was spared the belts and pads thing but I have no idea by how many years. I bopped around between the first and the third worlds as a kid and I can tell you that non-adhesive pads were still a thing in tropical third world countries in the late seventies and early eighties. They were sold in boxes that looked very similar to boxes of Kleenex. I remember encountering the pads and hearing references to Modess, but I never, ever saw one of the belt contraptions. Did those things actually exist? Was it possible to wear pants with a pad pinned to one's underwear? (I'm thinking a lot about how gas station mini marts used to always sell panty hose and don't now. Are better pads and plugs are part of the reason why? Not being able to wear pants for a week each month and being extremely self-conscious about the reason why would certainly nudge one toward wearing skirts almost all of the time.) I'd really appreciate it if one of you crones would tell me when adhesive pads hit the US market and there are extra points available to anyone who can describe the pricing. I may not remember belts and pins, but I do remember an era in which a pad that had multiple adhesive strips or wings had a premium price that discouraged adoption.
I started my period at 12.....in 1971, and pads with belts were the only option. My starter kit came with belts, I used it once and moved to safety pins.. Adhesive strips came in about 2 years later, but they weren’t very good. I still pinned the pad to my underwear (and yes, I wore pants) because the pad always slipped with the adhesive alone. A year later, I found tampons. I can’t tell you the pricing, as I wasn’t buying them myself then. I was buying tampons at 15, I found OB, and a box was about $1...maybe a little more. My sister, who was 4 years younger started her period, and I discovered that when she mooched my tampons, didn’t tell anyone and left my box empty. That caused WWIII. I think the same sized box was about $7 the last time I looked. Last time I bought them (2007ish?), I clearly remember getting 2 boxes of 40 on sale for $6. I used to stock up when I came upon these sales.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 23, 2018 9:33:03 GMT -5
NastyWoman , it depends on which Kindle you have. The Kindle Fire accesses the internet, etc. You can play music through Amazon so I imagine you could play through Pandora, Spotify, etc. I have no idea about Itunes. I got mine to replace the school IPAD, which they declared obsolete and took away. It was regularly $199 but on sale for $99. It also has Alexa, which I don't use because I have an ECHO in the bedroom. It's too confusing when they both respond. I had the original Kindle Fire, but it recently stopped charging. Thank you. That is good to know
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Post by Tiny on May 23, 2018 12:51:17 GMT -5
I think that you should start a new thread with this as the OP. I'm 49, and was spared the belts and pads thing but I have no idea by how many years. I bopped around between the first and the third worlds as a kid and I can tell you that non-adhesive pads were still a thing in tropical third world countries in the late seventies and early eighties. They were sold in boxes that looked very similar to boxes of Kleenex. I remember encountering the pads and hearing references to Modess, but I never, ever saw one of the belt contraptions. Did those things actually exist? Was it possible to wear pants with a pad pinned to one's underwear? (I'm thinking a lot about how gas station mini marts used to always sell panty hose and don't now. Are better pads and plugs are part of the reason why? Not being able to wear pants for a week each month and being extremely self-conscious about the reason why would certainly nudge one toward wearing skirts almost all of the time.) I'd really appreciate it if one of you crones would tell me when adhesive pads hit the US market and there are extra points available to anyone who can describe the pricing. I may not remember belts and pins, but I do remember an era in which a pad that had multiple adhesive strips or wings had a premium price that discouraged adoption.
I started my period at 12.....in 1971, and pads with belts were the only option. My starter kit came with belts, I used it once and moved to safety pins.. Adhesive strips came in about 2 years later, but they weren’t very good. I still pinned the pad to my underwear (and yes, I wore pants) because the pad always slipped with the adhesive alone. A year later, I found tampons. I can’t tell you the pricing, as I wasn’t buying them myself then. I was buying tampons at 15, I found OB, and a box was about $1...maybe a little more. My sister, who was 4 years younger started her period, and I discovered that when she mooched my tampons, didn’t tell anyone and left my box empty. That caused WWIII. I think the same sized box was about $7 the last time I looked. Last time I bought them (2007ish?), I clearly remember getting 2 boxes of 40 on sale for $6. I used to stock up when I came upon these sales. Pads for/with belts were still available in 1976... That's what I started with. I cried and felt like my life was over. I was 12 or so. I switched over to the ones with adhesive strips. I tried tampons but I found them, I don't know "uncomfortable", I have a bladder the size of a lima bean, and my period was always kind of "hmmm, yeah, I guess it's time to start... not sure, maybe later...." and then some unpredictable time later... "We're doing it NOW!!! Whooo hoooo! Let's play beat the clock!!" followed by "Ok, bored now -why bother..." followed by "oh hey, forgot to finish this chore". Pads just seemed to work better.
I never had problems with pads - and they pretty much made my period a non-issue. (I absolutely HATED having swimming for gym class and refused to do it. I have an irrational fear of water and they wanted me to get in a pool of it, without my glasses (so everyone/everything was an indistinct blur) with 50 other kids thrashing and splashing and dunking each other... Um, No. Can you say Panic AttacK? )
I never thought twice about the cost... I started buying my own once I had a part time job. It didn't strike me as outrageous.
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Post by teen persuasion on May 23, 2018 13:09:45 GMT -5
I remember when Windows was released. OMG, it was so amazing to be able to have a stack of Windows (they were stacked like sheets of paper you riffled thru) open AT THE SAME TIME. No more closing one program before opening another, over and over. I could have a window for my code editing, one for compiling, one for running compiled code, one for output, one for editing 98 pages of docs...
Also from my CS days, some basic concepts, applicable to everything, that changed my life: Plan for 10% downtime (that's computer system is down, not free time) on projects (AKA, if you have 30 days to deadline, chances are everything will go haywire for 3 of those days- plan accordingly). KISS - keep it simple, stupid. Don't reinvent the wheel, somebody's already written the code somewhere. Stepwise refinement - start with the basics for a program, get that running, and add more features, one at a time. Document, document, document! If you document a problem properly, it's not a glitch, it's a feature. Also, someone will have to take over after you someday - they need to know how to do things.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 23, 2018 14:50:56 GMT -5
NastyWoman , it depends on which Kindle you have. The Kindle Fire accesses the internet, etc. You can play music through Amazon so I imagine you could play through Pandora, Spotify, etc. I have no idea about Itunes. I got mine to replace the school IPAD, which they declared obsolete and took away. It was regularly $199 but on sale for $99. It also has Alexa, which I don't use because I have an ECHO in the bedroom. It's too confusing when they both respond. I had the original Kindle Fire, but it recently stopped charging. Thank you. That is good to know Just be aware that the screen is different with the Fire, so you can’t read in the sun.
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Post by toomuchreality on May 23, 2018 15:11:15 GMT -5
I don't know that I consider them to be life changing... but maybe! I LOVE Mr Clean sponges! Even though they break up and fall apart quickly and I still use other cleaners, they are my "go to" when it comes to cleaning smarter, not harder.
I finally upgraded from a flip phone to a good smartphone (Yes, they do make terrible smartphones! I loved my old flip phone with a full keypad) and I really enjoy it! Maybe one day I'll give up my landline. LOL
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Post by Rukh O'Rorke on May 23, 2018 17:19:56 GMT -5
One thing that occurred to me immediately and I didn't post it because it's a bit TMI: tampons. I reached puberty back before anyone had thought of pads with an adhesive strip. They were held in place by an elastic belt that was slung around your hips under your clothes, with a notch in the back and front to hold the pad in place. It was, as a female cousin aptly described it, "bunchy and icky". I muddled through for two years with this system and finally got up the nerve to try a tampon after reading the instruction leaflet multiple times. It took some getting used to but I was FREE. It turned periods into a minor nuisance instead of a showstopper. For one thing, it meant that I didn't have to sit out a week every month at the local pool where we practically lived in the summers. I told my mother after the fact. I guess I didn't ask beforehand because it wasn't something she'd brought up when she discussed puberty. She was fine with it. I resolved then and there that if I ever had daughters, they'd be told from Day One. I had only DS but when my two granddaughters get to that age I plan to talk with DDIL and encourage her to bring up the subject. My six year old already knows about menstruation and tampons. It doesn't have to be a big talk. She asked when she saw me in the bathroom. I think the less mystery about all of it, the better. My kids never didn't think it existed. At 2 DS was in the kid seat of the shopping cart and asked me if I was bleeding out of my butt, cause we were in a paper products aisle and I guess it reminded him of feminine protection.
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Post by Pants on May 23, 2018 17:24:13 GMT -5
My six year old already knows about menstruation and tampons. It doesn't have to be a big talk. She asked when she saw me in the bathroom. I think the less mystery about all of it, the better. My kids never didn't think it existed. At 2 DS was in the kid seat of the shopping cart and asked me if I was bleeding out of my butt, cause we were in a paper products aisle and I guess it reminded him of feminine protection. Yup.
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Post by Ava on May 23, 2018 21:48:04 GMT -5
My blender. I wanted to do fruit smoothies for breakfast and vegetable soups to have for dinner. I bought a "silent" blender, Black and Decker for $40. I live in a condo and the walls are paper-thin. I am very respectful of others and blenders can be too noisy for 7am. This blender is my life-saver. I love it.
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Post by countrygirl2 on May 24, 2018 0:01:32 GMT -5
When dad and mom finally got a bathroom in the house. Not to little I guess but was wonderful for us, also having a hot water heater and mom and I not having to heat water for everything anymore. I guess those were big things, it sure made our lives easier.
As far as tampons, I found those and my mom had a fit because I used them. My mom was way behind, she also had a fit when I didn't just take a spit bath during that time of the month and got in the bathtub. She just knew that would stop me and then I would get sick. Also did not want me to shave my legs, I wasn't hairy or dark but still young women did not sport hairy legs. She had some weird ideas about things. She did not finish school, I'm not sure how many years she went, she said 8th grade but I wonder. She definitely was way behind times and superstitious about a lot of things.
Remember her not wanting me to see my dying aunt when I was pregnant with my son, "it would mark the baby".
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Post by movingforward on May 24, 2018 9:18:27 GMT -5
Thank you. That is good to know Just be aware that the screen is different with the Fire, so you can’t read in the sun. I read in the sun with mine but I do have to turn the back lighting way down.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 24, 2018 9:36:28 GMT -5
The Mirena. I used to have mind numbing heavy periods when I was a teenager and before I had the girls. After I had Gwen I decided to try the Mirena. I am one of the lucky ones who had her period stop completely and it's been AMAZING.
So much so that even though DH is going to get snipped I am still considering going to PP to get another one solely for that particular perk.
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Post by MJ2.0 on May 24, 2018 10:50:07 GMT -5
OMG yes, BCPs! The one I'm on now not only makes my skin look wonderful, it also makes my periods nearly nonexistent. That's a complete 180 from what I've had to deal with for the past 25+ years.
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Post by ohmomto2boys on May 24, 2018 12:00:38 GMT -5
Since there is a lot of talk about lady parts..... I got a hysterectomy at the age of 40. Best day ever. I don't wish the problems I had prior to the surgery on anyone, but the end result was removing my uterus and NO MORE PERIODS. I was able to keep the ovaries, so I did not have to go on any medications. Recovery was a breeze too.
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Post by midjd on May 24, 2018 12:25:17 GMT -5
Not sure this is a "little" thing, but now that it's 3 months behind me and the memory of smelling my corneas being burned off with a laser has faded (they really did not prepare me for that...), my PRK surgery was pretty life-changing. It's not even eliminating the hassle/expense of contacts, it's the fact that even with contacts, my vision was about 20/40. I hate that I spent so much of my life unable to see very well and thinking my corrected vision was similar to what other people saw. As of my last appointment, my vision is 20/15. It's like having bionic eyes. It is a double-edged sword in some ways, though -- I already had some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and being able to see a speck of dust on the floor from 30 feet away has not tempered them any. I'll still take it though!
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 24, 2018 12:48:57 GMT -5
Not sure this is a "little" thing, but now that it's 3 months behind me and the memory of smelling my corneas being burned off with a laser has faded (they really did not prepare me for that...), my PRK surgery was pretty life-changing. It's not even eliminating the hassle/expense of contacts, it's the fact that even with contacts, my vision was about 20/40. I hate that I spent so much of my life unable to see very well and thinking my corrected vision was similar to what other people saw. As of my last appointment, my vision is 20/15. It's like having bionic eyes. It is a double-edged sword in some ways, though -- I already had some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and being able to see a speck of dust on the floor from 30 feet away has not tempered them any. I'll still take it though! Can you redirect the money not needed for contacts/glasses to home improvement necessary now that you have great vision? Lol.
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Post by midjd on May 24, 2018 13:08:51 GMT -5
Not sure this is a "little" thing, but now that it's 3 months behind me and the memory of smelling my corneas being burned off with a laser has faded (they really did not prepare me for that...), my PRK surgery was pretty life-changing. It's not even eliminating the hassle/expense of contacts, it's the fact that even with contacts, my vision was about 20/40. I hate that I spent so much of my life unable to see very well and thinking my corrected vision was similar to what other people saw. As of my last appointment, my vision is 20/15. It's like having bionic eyes. It is a double-edged sword in some ways, though -- I already had some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and being able to see a speck of dust on the floor from 30 feet away has not tempered them any. I'll still take it though! Can you redirect the money not needed for contacts/glasses to home improvement necessary now that you have great vision? Lol. LOL, yes! And thank you for all the advice and good info you gave via your brother. I might have chickened out if I didn't "know" someone who had it done and lived to tell the tale.
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Post by swamp on May 24, 2018 13:14:56 GMT -5
I agree about the eye surgery. I had Lasik, and while it was really weird to smell your eyes burning, the results rock!
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Post by MJ2.0 on May 24, 2018 13:16:29 GMT -5
do you have to fall within a certain rx range to qualify for lasik? I had looked into it once and I think at that time my eyes were too bad.
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 24, 2018 13:25:51 GMT -5
Glad the people who live in your computer could help!
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 24, 2018 13:26:57 GMT -5
do you have to fall within a certain rx range to qualify for lasik? I had looked into it once and I think at that time my eyes were too bad. Some people who don't qualify for Lasik can do the PRK that midjd and my brother had done. I do think there are limits to Lasik.
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Post by Jaguar on May 24, 2018 13:27:42 GMT -5
Glad the people who live in your computer could help! THIS, so much so!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 24, 2018 13:30:03 GMT -5
NastyWoman , it depends on which Kindle you have. The Kindle Fire accesses the internet, etc. You can play music through Amazon so I imagine you could play through Pandora, Spotify, etc. I have no idea about Itunes. I got mine to replace the school IPAD, which they declared obsolete and took away. It was regularly $199 but on sale for $99. It also has Alexa, which I don't use because I have an ECHO in the bedroom. It's too confusing when they both respond. I had the original Kindle Fire, but it recently stopped charging. Thank you. That is good to know IDK if anyone got around to it yet, but yes you can play music on it. You can play stuff marked Prime for free if you have that, or you can upload/download your own to Amazon or the Kindle.
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Post by MJ2.0 on May 24, 2018 13:31:21 GMT -5
do you have to fall within a certain rx range to qualify for lasik? I had looked into it once and I think at that time my eyes were too bad. Some people who don't qualify for Lasik can do the PRK that midjd and my brother had done. I do think there are limits to Lasik. hmmm... I can't decide which I'd rather have - boobs or bionic eyes. I doubt I'll be able to ever afford both.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 24, 2018 13:34:00 GMT -5
Thank you. That is good to know IDK if anyone got around to it yet, but yes you can play music on it. You can play stuff marked Prime for free if you have that, or you can upload/download your own to Amazon or the Kindle. Prime --- Don't stay home without it
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Post by Chocolate Lover on May 24, 2018 13:41:48 GMT -5
IDK if anyone got around to it yet, but yes you can play music on it. You can play stuff marked Prime for free if you have that, or you can upload/download your own to Amazon or the Kindle. Prime --- Don't stay home without it And on the reading in the sun issues, I have better luck when I make the background of the book black. The contrast is much better and easier to see for me.
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