You Know You're A Member of AW When...

[vacerator]

My old cat Scooter

Supertramp, Alan Parsons project, Level 42, Men at Work, Jefferson Starship, Blue Oyster Cult, and on and on.
Oh, and yes I had a Sony Beta-HiFi. It still worked when someone pitched it in the trash when I wasn't home. I had most of the Miami Vice episodes on Beta and the Golden Girls.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . your eventually relished the smug satisfaction of making the superior choice while friends and family thought you were strange because you installed a cassette player in your car instead of an 8-track.

 

[vacerator]

I had a Craig

8 track under the seat of my 1970 Impala, then an in dash Sanyo auto reverse cassete radio in my Gremnlin which a neighbor stole out of it. Three of them ran the neighborhood casing cars for CB's and stereos. No, this was not a high crime area. I had a job, they were thieves.
I left at age 19. Good riddens to bad rubbish.

 

[grwasher_expert]

You Know You're A Member of AW When...

-You know which company produces each detergent
-When you buy a new electrical appliance,you thoroughly read the instruction manual as if it was a novel
-Your favorite place in a super market is the laundry detergent isle
-You know how to use the washing machine better than your mother/wife
-You argue with your grandmother about which detergent cleans the best
-You remember all detergents tv commercials with every detail
-Laundromats are your happy place
-You know which model of washer has every friend and relative of you
-Doing laundry is your favorite household chore
-You get caught by the chambermaid sneaking into the hotel's laundry room and secretly using the hotel's washing machine(yes ,yes I've done it and I'm proud of it)
-When you visit a home for first time,you go to the bathroom,even if you don't have to,in order to see which model of washer they have and what detergents they are using(in greece,most people have their washer in the bathroom)
-The first time you look at when you go to a kitchen,is the dishwasher
-Friends and relatives ask you for laundry advice
-Every time you travel,visiting a laundromat is always on your "must do" list
-Every time you go to the mall,you pay a visit to the electric appliance store,even if you don't need to buy something
-Friends call you with detergent names as nickname
-You hate havind to wash mixed fiber garments,because you always get in dilemma on which wash programme you should select
-You will use the dishwasher,even if you have only a few dishes to wash
-You love watching the wash process of a washing machine through the door window.The sight of clothes tumbling chills you out
-You wish that dishwashers had windows too,so you could take a look at the washing process

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . during every entertainment awards telecast, you fire up a pizza, ice up some brewskis and settle in to watch the entire Heavy Duty cycle (with extra rinse and extended spin) on your front-loader (or top-loader if you've overridden the safety interlocks).

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you didn't buy a first-generation Maytag Neptune washer because it didn't have a window in the door.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . it takes you at least 5 seconds to remember Jesse White's name when he shows up on TV not playing the lonesome Maytag Repairman.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

How do often do you seem to sing out "I gotta get my laundry clean" and think of this song?

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy46iOwWQiE

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you can fill in all these blanks without help from friends, family or Google:

You Can Be Sure If It’s __________

It’s a _________, The One and Only

__________ __________ Progress Is Our Most Important Product

__________ just slightly ahead of our time

__________ That Little Blue Flower And A Whole Lot More

Don't give away the answers but feel free to admit you can or confess you can't.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I remember my toddler stage asking "Tops?" as in a store that we used to go to when my "mommy" said we were going to the store...  It was a small store that sold just about everything and I remember it being real dark inside it...

 

Then I remember some big K Mart type place where I got my toy blender at--and wonder how when one broke I got another one--but broke/lost 'em both... (My mom said when we were getting the 1st one--the blade inside it twirled w/ the push of a button; it abpoviously ran on a couple batteries--"Oh, you're excited about the blender!"--and I was...)

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . a Freudian slip made you say "the altar" when you meant to say "the stove."

 

[vacerator]

Dave,

Topp's was a discount store similar to Ames, or Zayer for those not in the mitten area.
Do you remember also Shoppers Fair, Arlans, W.T Grant, or Yankee?
There were one or two Spartan Atlantic's as well, and E.J Korvette.
I was driving already (at least) when Break My Stride came out.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Ones I have & had such a Mad Crush On:

& The Cartoon Girl who's Introductory Theme still brings a tear to my eye:

 

Dorothy Hammill, Debbie Harry, Juliet Mills, Madonna--now it's Sofia The First:

 

Oh, the store I got my toy blender at probably had to have been WT Grant's--and when it folded it was Spartan Atlantic, until it left of the retailing map...

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpQ4ypF_6t4

 

[foraloysius]

There is a bath rug in front of the Miele in my bathroom. I call it the prayer rug or worship rug.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . over the cacophony of the TV, someone talking on the phone and someone else playing games on their smartphone or tablet, you can hear the subtle "ping" of your pressure cooker's safety valve opening after a natural pressure drop from two rooms away.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you miss your Presto Burger­ and can't remember what became of it.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you've assembled at least one Heathkit. Extra credit if you assembled a Heathkit microwave oven (which you had to ship back to Heathkit after assembly for FCC emissions certification).

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you have owned (or still own) at least one pre-DVD videodisc player.

 

[gorenje]

GRWasher_expert

hahahaha LOL you said it right ! It is all true, everything you've said applies also to me

 

[tolivac]

Own two Laserdisc players-one has a DVD player in it-Pioneer-first machine of its kind-still works.The Sony Laserdisc machine is still packed from a move.Never heard of a Heathkit Microwave-sounds like more trouble than its worth.Remember other Heathkits,though-mainly weather stations built for radio stations.And a Heathkit DVM-never really worked right,though.Oh yes-still have a Sony VCR-never used thought-lately-did still work.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . your Tupperware is marked MADE IN U.S.A.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You put your mom on Hold when she calls you from the neighbor's house across the street, while she's helping you type your book report for school (I don't know what was wrong w/ our typewriter! Did it need a new RIBBON?!) and in that book, there was a gal that drove an MG over a tarred road, but she'd misinterpreted the make of the car as a Mr. G. (what my girl I had the mad crush on's dad's personalized license plate on his car had) as opposed to MmmmmgGeeeee...

 

That is, the phone at our house lay on the kitchen counter while I was waiting for my Crosby, Stills & Nash '45' of "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes" (b/w "Marrakesh (not AMERICAN) Express, as my dad pointed out!) to finish... (And the teacher whose class I was in doing the book report for was a big fan of the group--there was a book w/ a photo of these guys, plus Neil Young in it (And somehow it reminded me of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It Was Worth"--but no way could that be what they were playing; they were in a studio around a keyboard (I think Graham Nash was playing) while the rest of the three principals had their guitars) and boasted of having all their albums, and not just seeing them in concert at Medowbrook (which is where they'd notably played circa. that 30-+-years-ago, but all around the Country...)

 

Mom gave me the "I'm doing this for you!", as I'd finally got to the phone--and I don't think it occurred to me until after a long pause what her questions before I could clear up the confusion she'd been stumbling over, meant!!!!

 

 

-- Dave

 

 

 

 

[vacerator]

Put Mom on hold

while she was talking to the neighbor across the street? The neighbors were usually on the party line.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . the phrase "Dexter Twin-Tub" is not a mystery to you and might even have been part of your childhood (had one in the cellar of the house in Port Vue, PA).

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you're the oldest person in the self-service checkout line at the Walmart Neighborhood Market (and therefore, a member of the generation that trashed the planet and left it for the Millennials to fix) and you're also the only one who brought reusable shopping bags.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Years ago Mom burned the cauliflower--and pulled the chain that started the wall-mounted exhaust fan (nearing the last times anything like that ever got used--or even WORKED!--hence I would ride my bike past the four houses on our block (including ours), and the seven across the street from us & the seven around the block behind those, saying "Closed", "Open", "Open", "Closed", in viewing how many doors on those sides of the houses showed those fans (which by now all of probably fell into total dis-use) were on--even slowly peering up a driveway, with a little suspense in my voice saying: "OPEN!" (--maybe even Shouting)... Can't help but wonder if some grown person on a 10-speed riding in the street, that I saw, was mimicking me--he seemed to be saying that to himself, riding past the houses like I did... (Maybe not...)

 

Anyway, at my grandma's sister's house, my great-aunt Ruth, I noticed no exhaust fan in her kitchen--wall or ceiling, so asked what does she do when she burns the cauliflower (I asked my grandma that, after the incident--she said that she just juts opened a window) and she turned on this exhaust fan that was over her oven (I think she had a Fabulous 400 or Flair-type of stove, that years later I completely forgot what it got replaced with, or just never acknowledged a plain, ordinary cooking appliance taking its place, as much everything else--including a stacked washer & dryer, that I think replaced a stacked W&D) and gave a bashful "Wow!" when she turned it on...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

 

 

 

 

 

. . . when you find an unidentifiable ice-encased food storage container way in the back of the freezer, so you thaw it out, pop it in the microwave oven for a few minutes, and this message thread is what was inside.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . Norelco products were in at least two rooms in your house.

(shaver [still use], coffee maker [long gone], Carry-Player cassette player [ditto])

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Norelco florescent lights, long and with that light'nin'-shaped "N", on the side of 'em, while staring up at 'em, up in the ceiling of whatever place you were at, while Leo played!

-- Dave

http://https//m.youtube.com/watch?v=4btyYgIEX6A

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

A real experience for me circa. 2000-something:

You go into a thrift/resale/junk shop and immediately look to your left where the appliances would be just for the lady-owner of the store to tell you: "THERE ARE NO APPLIANCES!" and keeps asking you: "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" when you got your head locked & face frozen in that direction, only to see a fitting room ("THAT'S A FITTING ROOM", she also screamed at me) in that far corner where, well, you thought was appliances, yes, she only sold clothes ("I only sell clothes...", she said calmly), bed of story...

-- Dave