Retirement Work for Baby Boomers » Nostalgia

About the Nostalgia Page.

Kellio — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:10 +0000

This really isn’t the nostalgia page at all. The nostalgia page is in the above margin above the header but I just thought I’d introduce it here.

As a result of the feedback and comments I received about the “Older than dirt” post I thought I’d reserve a special page just for nostalgia.

Since this blog is really from a baby boomer for the benefit of other baby boomers, we should see some amusing and maybe “lump in throat” memories emerge.

The whole idea is to just go to the nostalgia page above and write about a nostalgic memory. Preferably your post should be about things that no longer exist such as the way things were done “back in the olden days when WE were kids”

However you don’t have to be a baby boomer to post on the nostalgia page.

Any interesting stories you might have about the past are welcome. Maybe you heard something from your parents or grandparents which will be fine.

I’ll start it off with a few and hopefully others will add to it as time goes by.

Just click on the nostalgia page at the top of this page or click here to start.

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Older than Dirt.

Kellio — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:07:41 +0000

Someone sent this to me today in an email.

Considering the topic of my blog I thought I’d include it here as part of a post for those old enough to remember:

“Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favorite ‘fast food’ when you were growing up?’
‘We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him.
‘All the food was slow.’

‘C’mon, seriously. Where did you eat?’
‘It was a place called ‘home,” I explained !

‘Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn’t like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.’

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn’t tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I’d figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn’t have a television in our house until I was 10.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 p.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people…

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn’t know weren’t already using the line.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home… But milk was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers –My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don’t blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn’t what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother’s house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it… I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to ‘sprinkle’ clothes with because we didn’t have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi’s
11. Metal ice trays with lever
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don’t tell your age,
If you remembered 11-14 =You’re older than dirt!

I must be ‘older than dirt’ but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don’t forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends….I just did!!!!!!!!!

(I used a large type face so you could read it easily)”

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Introduction to Internet Marketing for Baby Boomers.

Kellio — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:09:15 +0000

I created this site as an on going journal and personal record of my travels down the highways of the budding baby boomer entrepreneur internet marketer.

Apart from that being one hell of a mouthful, firstly it’s important for me to remember that one of the first things I learned is that although there is much hype about it being easy to break into this field……It’s not.

I’ve read that the cold hard facts are that 90% of people who try to make money through internet marketing….fail.

But, among the other things I’ve learned, is that if you are willing to work hard and adhere to a set plan, there is every possibility that you can make a good living as a baby boomer internet marketer.

I found that the main problem I faced (and I believe is faced by most of us baby boomers), is a lack of education in computer use and indeed the Internet and its burgeoning Internet Marketing industry.

The vast majority of us had no formal internet or computer related education at school or university simply because the technology was so new that those who did have the opportunity to learn were indeed the developers of the same technology.

My Introduction to Internet Marketing for Baby Boomers

I remember when I was about 16 years old, walking down a street in Newcastle NSW where I grew up…. with my older brother and a couple of friends who were also brothers to each other…. when we walked past a building where a couple of attractive young girls were standing out the front handing out promotional brochures on computer education and carrying out a quick question and answer survey.

Now… we being the young virile chaps that we were…. were far more interested in the girls themselves than we were in what they were promoting. Well….three of us were anyway, but Kevin (one of the brothers) probably being the one with the sharpest mind and the eldest of our little group, decided that it would beneficial to us all to go inside at the girls coaxing to sit an aptitude test relating to computer education.

Along with my brother and Gerry (the other friend), I initially scoffed at the idea but went along with it anyway mostly because I’d taken a real shine to one of the girls who kept throwing me sidelong glances and batting long dark eye lashes at me which were partially hiding the biggest and darkest eyes I’d ever seen.

Well, it was one of those old aptitude tests involving moving geometric shapes around and….. if I had 6 oranges and gave 3 to Mary and 2 to Bill who gave 1 of his to Anne who gave it to Mary who gave it back to me, how many would I have left type of thing…… that were very common in that era and which always had me totally bewildered within the few seconds of opening the first page.
Not that I could concentrate much on it anyway while the girl of my dreams was lurking just a few feet away just out side the door, batting those long eyelashes at yet another kid who’d just come out of the bowling alley across the street in Broadmeadow which was a central suburb of the city and a main junction point of the many roads leading out into the other surrounding suburbs.
Anyway, at the end of it all Kevin walked away with a swollen head having done very well in the test, while the other 2 guys produced average results leaving me with a very low score and a broken 16 year old heart…..for at least an hour anyway.

The whole point is that had I taken things a little more seriously at that time, my life could well have taken a far different direction and I wouldn’t have found myself floundering in confusion all these years later in trying to understand computer technology and indeed internet marketing.

However since I didn’t follow that road, I’ve really had to learn the hard way through independent research, trial and error, frustration, computer rage, uncontrollable tantrums, ripping hair out, hours of confusion, sufferance from my family and the list goes on and on. Anyone who has tried to paddle the same boat will be well familiar with those times and emotions.

It’s therefore my intention to deliver to you, the reader as much as I possible can over the next few months or years, everything I’m learning as I continue my journey in as simple a way I can to give you the opportunity to become a successful baby boomer internet marketer as well.

I will provide it to you in this blog by regular posts, giveaways, free training courses, other great blogs I’ve learned from and anything else I consider relevant.

Hopefully it will help my readers avoid the mistakes and pit falls I’m sure I’m going to make and in so doing save you the reader a lot of time and possibly an awful lot of money.

Update 15 January

I just learned that my old pal Kevin Ford (mentioned above), had past away a couple of days ago after a long illness. RIP old mate.