Good Old Days

Subject: Good Old Days Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:33 pm

By
Jan Phillips

We were poor when I was just a kid
No fast food was on our table
We had to cook to eat instead

My clothes were made from feed sacks
Hand crafted you might say
Not ready made as they are today.

It was really hard to see at night
Because we had no electric light
But we got along alright.

I had one pair of shoes to last me all the year
When they got too small the toes were cut clear.
I would get a new pair the next year.

We had an outhouse to use in the day
And we had a bucket beside the bed for dark
That we had to empty every day.

The good old days were both good and bad
They are days gone by but I’m not sad
They made me as I am today and I’m okay.

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:13 am

Awesome work. I love the little window into your life that you allowed us to peak into. It really connects the reader into your work. Loved it!

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:26 am

I try to write what I know about. It doesn't seem so stilted that way.

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:04 am

You are so much more than "okay".

We had the ole' bucket system for a coupla' years ourselves.
Thanks be to God for running water and indoor plumbing.

p.s.
...and toilet paper instead of newspaper...LOL!

God Bless.

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:20 am

Thank you for the good words. I don't regret a minute of the past, but I sure don't want to go back and live it again.

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:59 am

So glad you shared your life with us.

Your life was a lot like mine-are we long lost sisters???? LOL

Farm girl here until age 12.

Feed sack dresses for me too.

Big hugs

Quote :: The good old days were both good and bad
They are days gone by but I’m not sad
They made me as I am today and I’m okay.

As I get older I can see more of the good
And can see the lessons learned from the not so good...

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:48 pm

Seems like we are so much alike Ms. Thena that we should be sisters. I was a farm girl until around 12 also. I was in 7th grade when we moved to town. I started in first grade at five years old so was a little ahead of most in my grade. Still had outhouse and mom still grew a big garden, still went to western Oklahoma to pull cotton so didn't change some things much.

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:41 pm

Moved in 7th grade here too. Loved moving to town although I missed the animals and trees to climb.

Used to climb up in the hickory tree with a quilt and read a book. Hung by my heels from the pear trees and walked through the melon patch and garden with a salt shaker snacking on water melon or tomatoes ..LOL

Had a playhouse under a big tree by the gravel road and baked mud pies. :-)

Subject: Re: Good Old Days Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:36 pm

Sounds a little more sophisticated than what we did. I used to pack a lunch when I was about 7 or 8 and go into the woods and take a book to read. My mother never seemed to worry about me so I took advantage of that to make myself scarce.