Back to school: Today vs 1970

[spindle92]

I thought this was a great read for this board.

www.scarymommy.com/back-to-school-the-70s-vs-today/

[mryrcn]

Ha! We ordered from the Sears catalog and prayed that it fit.

[dorothyinAus]

I wore uniforms from kindergarten all the way through high school, so replace Sears with uniform store and it's just about right.

These posts make me so very happy I don't have kids.

But I do miss shopping for supplies, so much so, that every September, I buy myself a new journal and some crayons or colored pencils. I'm really digging the retro-style composition books for journaling lately, so it feels even more like back-to-school shopping.

[mrsukyankee]

I'm quite certain if I had kids that I would be closer to the 70s style mom (w/o smoking) than the current mom. I love research and buying all things but I wouldn't go all bananas (I would hope), probably because I've seen friends lose it due to trying to be that mom.

[Linie]

Aug 2, 2016 2:14:07 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

I'm quite certain if I had kids that I would be closer to the 70s style mom (w/o smoking) than the current mom. I love research and buying all things but I wouldn't go all bananas (I would hope), probably because I've seen friends lose it due to trying to be that mom.

The '70 mom described is actually more frivolous than my '70 mom and the way I would do it!

My non-existent children are very relieved...

[drloretta]

I was very pleased to see a reasonable supply list, but I still think DD won't use half that stuff.

I dearly remember those 70s lunches. Replace Twinkies with Ding Dongs, and that was us

[TBM]

Aug 2, 2016 8:48:59 GMT -5 drloretta said:

I was very pleased to see a reasonable supply list, but I still think DD won't use half that stuff.

I dearly remember those 70s lunches. Replace Twinkies with Ding Dongs, and that was us

I was a Twinkies girl all the way, but we would have had cheetos in a Glad fold lock top bag, not Planters cheese balls in a baggie with a twist tie...and no one in my family would have smoked a cigarette or had Sanka. ;p

I loved getting new notebooks and dividers and organizing things.  Too bad it didn't stay organized.lol


Not really related, but I'm going to drop this here.  The schools here asked for donations of supplies, backpacks, etc. this year, but they had to be turned in by July 16th.  Why wouldn't they put a later date so that people could get in on all of the sales and give more for their money?  Some of the stores had just started getting in the back to school stuff and nothing was on sale yet.

[drloretta]

Aug 2, 2016 10:33:49 GMT -5 TBM said:

Not really related, but I'm going to drop this here.  The schools here asked for donations of supplies, backpacks, etc. this year, but they had to be turned in by July 16th.  Why wouldn't they put a later date so that people could get in on all of the sales and give more for their money?  Some of the stores had just started getting in the back to school stuff and nothing was on sale yet.

Yeah that's weird. Our MOMS club is doing a backpack drive, but it just started

[sweetcheeks]

70s Mom actually reminds me of the mom on the TV show "The Middle".

We didn't eat lunch in school, We came home for lunch, but lunch was always a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (or cream cheese), bologna with Miracle Whip, tuna fish or an ungrilled cheese sandwich. Clothes were from Sears or Two Guys (similar to a K-Mart). School supplies were bought at the 5 & 10 cent store.

If my girls were school-aged now, I'd probably be close to today's Mom. They did take lunch to school and I tried to make it interesting. I was also the PTA school store lady, so I was all into school supplies.