Old Spice is back! Say it isn't so. I mean I remember it but not fondly.

Hip hugger bell bottoms resurfaced briefly in N.California but didn't stay long.

Capri pants came back, not too many women can wear those successfully and certainly not short women like myself, makes us look shorter. And on older women (again list myself) it's a lot like mutton dressed up as lamb:)

Gkid wants a beanbag chair for Christmas.

Couple years ago a young friend showed me his latest technology toy, a new self-winding wristwatch.......... no batteries needed. LOL. I told him my father had one of them when I was a little girl.

The song Blue Moon, how many times has it been resurrected? It's about time again.

My iron cookware has a direct line of descendancy. It never went out of style in my family's kitchens. I'm using skillets older than me.

Angora sweaters. Saw a bunch of them in Old Navy. Chocolate fountains are just a rehash of the fondue party.

And fondue pots are in again too. LOL! I got four of those things as gifts for my first wedding in 1970!!

The whole 1950's decor thing seems to be back in style under the guise of being "retro." I find it sort of amusing, but having grown up with pink & turquoise kitchens & bathrooms, I don't have any desire to live with them again. And if the fifties are now nostalgically popular can the shag carpeting and electric orange & yellow floral contact paper on the kitchen walls be far behind?

Old Spice never went away.
Neil always used the pre electric shave and
he always smelled so nice. They have stopped making it
so I had to find something else for him.
IMHO it smells better than some of the stuff guys are
slathering on today.

Old Spice gets my vote.
May it live forever.

What Suzy says about Iron skillets.
Will never give them up. They are a southern staple
don't you know. No kitchen is complete without
( my grandmother's old iron skillet).

Jan, I've got to say when I met Neil he smelled nice...

When were old iron skillets "out"? I would not be able to cook without them: the original non-stick pans, the older they get, the better they are.
Fondue is a family tradition here, dating back to the Swiss ancestors long before my time. We never needed a so-called fondue-pot, bean-pots do very well. DH's parents turned up their nose at all the fad fondues, such as fried or cooked in broth bits and particularly the chocolate desert fondues - the only acceptable variety was the original Appenzell/Emmenthal and Gruyere cheese combo, plenty garlic, dry white wine and a shot of Kirschwasser, dipped with sourdough French bread cubes.
It is sad, but we just don't have enough people wanting to participate now, so haven't made one for a long time.

How about Hai Karate...however it was spelled?

I'm amazed at the young women who act like they discovered the Holy Grail when the talk about cooking from scratch! I am glad that the domestic arts are become popular again....cooking, sewing, etc.

Speaking of retro men's scents.....I particularly loved Russian Leather. I think it reminded me a a parfume I wore for years by Coco Chanel named Cuir de Russie. The way some women collected shoes, I collected scents. Another I wore was Magie by the House of Lancome. They do not make that one anymore, but have a newer version called Magie Noire. Not the same, not the same at all. My signature scent was Je Reviens by Worth. It can still be bought, and is one you can use to abandon and not smell like the proverbial little ole lady in the elevator.

I just ordered Arpege cologne and body lotion by Lanvin for myself...it's been around since the 1930's but for the last 20 years or so I've had to hunt it down ...it's the only fragrance I've ever worn. Ordered English Leather for DH...his old favorite aftershave. I doubt either will be popular again since they are no longer advertised, though.

Back on topic, I've noticed electric frypans being mentioned lately, especially used for frying fish or anything which would be better cooked outside on patio to keep smells out of kitchen. They were popular in the mid-fifties and I cooked everything from bacon/eggs to beef stews in mine. I think they went "out" when most everyone got dishwashers...mine could only be submerged up to the handle so had to be handwashed.

Knitting, crochet, quilting, and other handsewing seem to wax and wane in popularity. One if the sharpest ads I saw in recent years was the rear view of a woman in a rocking chair with her knitting basket alongside...then they showed her from front and she was in her twenties...LOL I think the home decorating mags sparked more interest by featuring throws of some description on most every sofa and bed lately. josh

Some of those old can be found in the Vermont Country Store catalog which is a treasure trove of products you thought had disappeared off the face of the planet. And odd as this may seem, I've seen some oldies but goodies at Big Lots. I was in there the other day & saw a bottle of Canoe for only $5.00. I had to buy it. It was a men's fragrance, but was worn by both sexes when I was in high school & college. The company that made it also marketed a "women's version" that smelled exactly the same, but had a different name (that, of course I now can't remember).

And Josh, the thing about electric fry pans was that things would over-cook, or scorch. in that ring where the hearting element was located. However, everyone had one (made by Sunbeam if I'm remembering right). I got one for a wedding present in 1970.

Today when Neil and I ventured out to K Mart to
buy him a new electric shaver, I noticed that Old
Spice has lots of new products with different scents.
I was trying to find out if they had disguised his
pre-electric shaving lotion.

Andie, an electric skillet is the one thing I never
bought or received as a gift. My aunt could fry up
the best chicken you ever tasted in hers, she loved it and only used it
for frying chicken.

Andie, I was just a beginner cook and if something burned I probably thought it was my fault, not the electric skillet. Nost likely ate it anyway...LOL I just had a few recipes: spaghetti sauce, beef stew, grilled cheese sandwiches or eggs and bacon. I was content to let others show off cooking skills...I brought wine and a mean green salad!

In those days it was usually steaks on the grill, baked potato, salad and garlic bread if you had guests, but mostly our crowd ate out. Lots of little family run restaurants not too expensive. Most of the single and lots of the married girls were working and very few of us liked cooking or considered it an art, not a chore! Then Julia Child came along...but I didn't listen for some years after that...josh

I mostly remember making spaghetti sauce or sloppy Joes in mine. Once I tried a "quick paella" (one of those unfortunate recipes from Family Circle magazine)& that's when the heating element = scorching came into play. The rice that was around the heating element had a definite different texture from the rest of the dish.