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markizamkd25: I remember that i was spending summers barefoot and at the end of the day my feet were so dirty that i was spending hours to clean them before go to sleep.
Usually we didnt go to eat at home we just grabed something usually bread and feta cheese and than jump in to the naighbours garden to steal tomato and peper,imagine holding all that in 2 hands,there is way but not able to show u that on here
Usually we didnt go to eat at home we just grabed something usually bread and feta cheese and than jump in to the naighbours garden to steal tomato and peper,imagine holding all that in 2 hands,there is way but not able to show u that on here
Except for going barefoot we did it all too.
Stealing fruit eating outdoors as we blackmailed my mother that if she would not let us eat outdoors we just refused to eat.
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I know.I lived in different area still some things r normal we didnt even have cartoons,maybe one at 7pm and bad time after that.Usually were russian farytalles without any violance 
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I remember when the milk man would deliver milk to our door in glass bottles. he would go down the alley and stop at each house to see if you needed milk. We had a medium sizes metal box beside our door that sat on the ground. It was insulated. He would reach in and take out what bottles we had in it and replace it with the same size bottles.
We kids in the neighborhood used to beg him for chucks of ice off the truck. This was the way the milk was kept cool in those days. It was a real treat to get a chunk of ice to suck on on really hot days. Of course he really didn't have to do this and wasn't really suppose to. But he just did it to be nice to us kids.
The milk bottles had cardboard caps in them. The cream would raise to the top of the bottle and stick to this cardboard cap. I remember my sister and I would always get to it before my mother and lick off the cream and stick the cap back on. My mother never knew we did this as there was still plenty of cream left in the bottle.
We kids in the neighborhood used to beg him for chucks of ice off the truck. This was the way the milk was kept cool in those days. It was a real treat to get a chunk of ice to suck on on really hot days. Of course he really didn't have to do this and wasn't really suppose to. But he just did it to be nice to us kids.
The milk bottles had cardboard caps in them. The cream would raise to the top of the bottle and stick to this cardboard cap. I remember my sister and I would always get to it before my mother and lick off the cream and stick the cap back on. My mother never knew we did this as there was still plenty of cream left in the bottle.
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markizamkd25: I know.I lived in different area still some things r normal we didnt even have cartoons,maybe one at 7pm and bad time after that.Usually were russian farytalles without any violance
I was 20 when the first black and white tv's came in with a few programs from Germany.
Many Dutch learned German that was a good thing.
I am happy that we had no t.v so we played outside all the time.
Every season had something different.
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hollandgirl: I was 20 when the first black and white tv's came in with a few programs from Germany.
Many Dutch learned German that was a good thing.
I am happy that we had no t.v so we played outside all the time.
Every season had something different.
Many Dutch learned German that was a good thing.
I am happy that we had no t.v so we played outside all the time.
Every season had something different.
Buying candy the cashier asked me how much was 49 and 59.
I told her 108 less 2.
Oh my she said you are a mathematical genius ha ha.
It was simple the way we learned it in school.
Remember to do your tables? All of us would sing 3x4 is twaalve.
I still know them today
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every word of truth....Yeahhh! for those good old days...
I had a great youth....did all of that.
I had a great youth....did all of that.
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Ziva1: every word of truth....Yeahhh! for those good old days...
I had a great youth....did all of that.
I had a great youth....did all of that.
Hi Just finished reading your what else can go wrong today.
Yeah I know it is funny now but not that day.
Once you start remembering things from the past so many things come up again.
Some good and some not so good.
When it comes to medicen I take today of course.
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hollandgirl: Hi Just finished reading your what else can go wrong today.
Yeah I know it is funny now but not that day.
Once you start remembering things from the past so many things come up again.
Some good and some not so good.
When it comes to medicen I take today of course.
Yeah I know it is funny now but not that day.
Once you start remembering things from the past so many things come up again.
Some good and some not so good.
When it comes to medicen I take today of course.
yes! it so so true,
I am actually writting a book, over my Lappish experience here, that is hilarious its self..of all the stuff that happened over the few years...
even if its just a momento for my grandkids, what a crazy grand mother they had..
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I left my shorts on naighbours fence dog started chasing me because i was stealing cherries 
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Ziva1: yes! it so so true,
I am actually writting a book, over my Lappish experience here, that is hilarious its self..of all the stuff that happened over the few years... even if its just a momento for my grandkids, what a crazy grand mother they had..
I am actually writting a book, over my Lappish experience here, that is hilarious its self..of all the stuff that happened over the few years... even if its just a momento for my grandkids, what a crazy grand mother they had..
I wrote a book too about my life in Holland, the war years, my coming to Canada my experiences here as a new immigrant.
Several on here have read it.
I would love to read your experiences in Lapland.
Maybe you could put some stories on here?
Your grandkids would love to read about the things their "crazy"
grandma did.
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markizamkd25: I left my shorts on naighbours fence dog started chasing me because i was stealing cherries
I can just piecture that one lol lol.
Who ever said that stolen cherried don't taste so good.
They lied they taste the best.
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hollandgirl: I can just piecture that one lol lol.
Who ever said that stolen cherried don't taste so good.
They lied they taste the best.
Even if u dont eat them Who ever said that stolen cherried don't taste so good.
They lied they taste the best.
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hollandgirl: I wrote a book too about my life in Holland, the war years, my coming to Canada my experiences here as a new immigrant.
Several on here have read it.I would love to read your experiences in Lapland.
Maybe you could put some stories on here?
Your grandkids would love to read about the things their "crazy"
grandma did.
Several on here have read it.I would love to read your experiences in Lapland.
Maybe you could put some stories on here?
Your grandkids would love to read about the things their "crazy"
grandma did.
well I will post a few bits on here once finished...well one grandchild is in the book too, she's 3 yrs old now, and she will remember some occasions..
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Ziva1: well I will post a few bits on here once finished...well one grandchild is in the book too, she's 3 yrs old now, and she will remember some occasions..
Okay Ziva1 we will wait.It is a lot of work eh? Before computers it was much worse.
If you want to read some of mine, email me okay? (Anyone else?)
Jenny
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hollandgirl: Okay Ziva1 we will wait.It is a lot of work eh? Before computers it was much worse.
If you want to read some of mine, email me okay? (Anyone else?)
Jenny
If you want to read some of mine, email me okay? (Anyone else?)
Jenny
thanks...i will
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YEAH!!! We made it!!!
My eldest son's almost 40, youngest isn't 8 yet and I remember when Bob Horn was MC of American Bandstand. I survived as you all those horrors of the 50's,60's (loved Woodstock and Strawberry Fields), and 70's (VOLUNTEERED for VietNam) and my Eldest came along when I was 19.
WE MADE IT. Let all those who can't deal wipe the milk off their faces and DEAL with it!!
Yer all grown up now.
My eldest son's almost 40, youngest isn't 8 yet and I remember when Bob Horn was MC of American Bandstand. I survived as you all those horrors of the 50's,60's (loved Woodstock and Strawberry Fields), and 70's (VOLUNTEERED for VietNam) and my Eldest came along when I was 19.
WE MADE IT. Let all those who can't deal wipe the milk off their faces and DEAL with it!!
Yer all grown up now.
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hualapaiguy: YEAH!!! We made it!!!
My eldest son's almost 40, youngest isn't 8 yet and I remember when Bob Horn was MC of American Bandstand. I survived as you all those horrors of the 50's,60's (loved Woodstock and Strawberry Fields), and 70's (VOLUNTEERED for VietNam) and my Eldest came along when I was 19.
WE MADE IT. Let all those who can't deal wipe the milk off their faces and DEAL with it!!
Yer all grown up now.
My eldest son's almost 40, youngest isn't 8 yet and I remember when Bob Horn was MC of American Bandstand. I survived as you all those horrors of the 50's,60's (loved Woodstock and Strawberry Fields), and 70's (VOLUNTEERED for VietNam) and my Eldest came along when I was 19.
WE MADE IT. Let all those who can't deal wipe the milk off their faces and DEAL with it!!
Yer all grown up now.
Some of us had a war to get through and it was not easy to leave your own country and start anew in another.
Especially having to learn a new language and having to learn about pounds and yards etc. knowing only the metric system.
Taking on all kind of jobs as you first needed to learn the language.
Learning about new food and new ways.
Potatoes for breakfast? (Hashbrown's)
Yes we made it.
Spilt a few tears in the beginning, but we could not give up and we didn't.
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As I was reading your thread it brought back the good times. I also remember when we got a inside bathroom and didn't have to use the outside john, we call it the white house lol. My dad took a can of white wash and paint it, and the name stuck.
Susie
Susie
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littlesusie: As I was reading your thread it brought back the good times. I also remember when we got a inside bathroom and didn't have to use the outside john, we call it the white house lol. My dad took a can of white wash and paint it, and the name stuck.
Susie
Susie
Hi Susie, yes I remember that our w.c. was on the end of our balcony. No fun espessially in the winter time.
That was cute calling it the white house.
Years after I had moved to Canada did we get an indoor toilet.
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