Those of us that are over 50 didn't have that. We had the plastic suits you'd put on over your clothes, with the plastic mask with eye holes and the smallest hole imaginable to breath through.
Cool whip containers, old chip dip containers, sour cream, you name it... Those were cleaned and repurposed. Don't forget the gallon buckets from ice cream. Those were great if you needed a small amount of amount of water that was too much for one of the water bottles, but way too little to justify going into the garage to get a 5 gallon bucket
My mom never reused them for food but she did use washed ice cream buckets, the ones with the handle. She would wash them and save them for any time somebody got sick.
My mom always made my costume so my winter jacket could fit underneath it. The 91 blizzard was the only time I wore my coat over my costume. My dad and I went home 4 times for more clothes. I started the night in a hoodie and jeans and ended it in boots, snowpants, winter jacket, 2 sweat shirts, stocking cap, and mittens. Still my most favorite haloween ever. Plus, school was canceled the next day, which made it super amazing.
Haloween Blizzard of 91 was on a Friday. I was working at the feed mill at the time. We were racing that moring to get feed ground and hauled because we knew shitty weather was comming. It was fun watching people come into the bar that night in their costumes walking through a foot of snow. LOL.
Last month I was given Snickers salad in a Cool Whip container to take home from a get-together. Gotta love Wisconsin grandmas. The "salad" table at potlucks is always half-filled with sweet things chopped up and mixed with Cool Whip.
I'm from Calif but both my parents are from the mid west (Illinois & Iowa) and I am the one who collects bowls. Also, love hot dishes/casseroles and road trips!
My husband was excited to see a Sweet Martha's cookie container in the fridge, only to be massively let down when he discovered left-over broccoli in it. 😀
We had an unfinished basement and would roller skate all day long - steel skates with leather straps, concrete floors, steel support poles, ping pong table, workbench, thick 2x4 wooden shelves, etc., it is a wonder any of us survived. Then my parents got it 3/4 finished (1/4 was unfinished backroom with W&D, cast iron sink, work bench, water softener, half finished toilet and shower), carpet without padding, fake wood paneling, 2x4 fiberglass ceiling tiles, can lights, and pool table. Hide and seek became the new pastime. Spent hours upon hours with my brother and sister - love them dearly.
Same here. Loved it. Had to shower down in the basement after a long day splitting wood. Also did my difficult gymnastics beam routine on the railing of the back porch I helped build when I was 7.
I grew up in the Midwest and we never went to Mt. Rushmore or the Wisconsin Dells. However, we did go many times to Cedar Point as well as sea world in Ohio.
3:35 this was my parents basement. It was unfinished and had a toilet in the middle of it. Right above it was the hole in the upstairs linen closet where they would drop dirty clothes. So if you were sitting on the toilet and they opened the door they could see you 😂 In one section we had an old area rug with an old living room set with an old 70’s console tv. On the right side was a 8 track under the lid and the left had a record player. If we weren’t playing a video game we were watching mtv videos. I spent most of the 80’s down there with my friends.
I was talking to my friends from California and I was mentioning my aunt’s puppy chow recipe and they had no clue what I was talking about…they only knew it as muddy buddies
We always had rice Krispies My mom's big thing is using zip loc bags for like 5-10 years and washing them over and over. I told her we would bury her with her collection someday.
I've been reusing them my whole life but have you noticed they started making the zippers to break?? I still have a Ziploc from my childhood that's still totally fine but I can't get the new ones to last very long
@@melanieruddy399 I use the plastic containers and wash them then I never have any leaks. My mom also saved butter tubs. I don't eat butter except at their house.
Yep ! As a boomer in Illinois , grew up w/ the " Joys of Jello " recipe book & a year's worth of seasonal jello molds . As recently as a few years ago at my mom's Lutheran after-funeral lunch served by the L. ladies , there were jello dishes - my mom would have approved !! 😇😅
I’m old and I’ve lived in Detroit nearly my whole life, and yes, the love of containers is 100% real. It hurts my soul to put a container in the recycle bin.
I remember taking my nieces and nephews out trick or treating during a very heavy snow. Others stayed home, and they made a killing. They understood why i grabbed extra bags 😉
My brother and I ate cereal out of those emptied butter and Cool Whip containers. Those "bowls" were only thrown out after they'd eventually crack and fail to retain milk.
@youbetcha…. I hope you and your families are all ok after the outbreak yesterday. God be with the people of Iowa and Nebraska!!!! 🌪️💔 was one of the most incredible things Ive ever seen.
That's pretty much spot on. Our MN unfinished basement was awesome. We played soccer indoors during the winter for decades and I remember my road trip to the Dells fondly.
Grew up in the very most mid-west place of Kansas. We vacationed in Roaring River to fish every year despite there being five daughters. Right on target about Scotcheroos and reusing butter tubs. But the red vomit bucket is new-/you know how I know? We bought this same one at dollar tree last year. And yes wasn’t need to back to being a mixing bowl.
Born and raised in northwest Ohio steeped in Michigan/Indiana/Wisconsin/Midwest. These videos hit so hard it hurts. Now I live in northeast Ohio and it's freaky how only a few hundred miles away and still in the same state I'm in a completely different world! They actually think I'm the odd one. Oofda!
And reusing food containers and bowls that had a sketchy past? Absolutely. We even had to open our birthday and Christmas presents very carefully because of course the wrapping paper could be used again!!!
Oh my gosh my boyfriend grew up in California and I told him about how jealous I was of kids who lived in California or Florida because here in Michigan it was either you wear your costume over your coat or yes wore it under your coat 😂😂
Most families can’t even afford Halloween in places like California. You just roll around in some dirt and say your dressed up as a homeless person like everyone else did.
Cool whip and butter containers were our Tupperware in my tiny rural hometown in the Appalachian Mountain Region of the Southern Tier of the only good part of NY State. School was K-12…one building. 😂
I've never been to South Dakota or the Wisconsin Dells. Probably because I'm from Michigan. Michigan has so many great destinations that we never managed to get out of the state.
You forgot the Michigan basement with the dirt floor and Ball jars with spiders in them. One if my students told me his buddy hung grow lights and rototilled part of Michigan basement to grow dope in. Third Midwest vacation destination, Niagara Falls. Michigan here, and we all got dragged to Canada to see the falls. Mmm, hot dish ...
My grandfather owned Arrow Plastics for decades, the maker of the "puke bowl" you have... LMAO. Let me know if you need a care package with extras! I have the hook up.
I’m gonna yap and list as many of my grandma’s hot dish recipes Macaroni hot dish Tater tot hot dish Cheesy macaroni ham hotdogs (literally just Mac and cheese with ham) Pizza hot dish And many more I’m forgetting
It's not that bold of a prediction. The Rapid City area is the perfect family road trip spot for the midwest. Remember road tripping out there in the 90s from MN as a kid checking out all the Wall Drug signs along the way (have been thru SD on I-90 several more times as an adult, still somewhat amusing).
Basement at my house had a poker table, a full kitchen(with cabinets) because my house was constantly under “construction,” a water bed(used for folding clothes on,) the washer and dryer, and a make shift roller rink obstacle course(for rainy days and the long Midwest winters.) Naturally mold and mildew smell, and the classic urinal that is the ejector pit. Can’t wait to teach my boys that last one.
I lived for when the new Wisconsin Dells travel guide would come out in the spring and I would plan everything I wanted to see and do. What usually ended up happening was a day trip to Noah's Ark, but I still loved to look at the travel guide and dream...and Noah's Ark is fun as hell, so no problem with that.
Those kids that got to go to Wisconsin Dells sure were lucky. The only place we went to for vacation was Duluth. Not that there’s anything wrong with Duluth. I love going there, but it sure would have been nice to go somewhere else at least once.
whenever the bowl wasn't used for puke or measuring it was 24/7 used as a fruit bowl. I remember the fruit laying strewn across the counter because we finally bothered to make a cake or one of my siblings bothered with the cake threw it up. lol
Dude had a midwesterner give me scotcheroos and now i make them every year for my birthday. Im just now realizing im a grown ass man i can make scotcheroos whenever the hell i want them.... im going to the store for beer and scotcheroo ingredients!
As an Iowan, we have officially done the Mt. Rushmore and Wisconsin Dells vacations. Will be going to the Dells this summer, hopefully....after we already went on Spring Break. It's a great place, what can I say?
On Halloween, I used to just chuck my jacket in a bush and come back for it later after trick or treat. I'd usually end up freezing to death and with bronchitis after, but at least everyone got to see my costume!
It was usually the gallon ice cream buckets my dad still insists on saving to this day that was the upchuck bucket. Although there were definitely a few times the popcorn bowl got used 😂 why lol why are we like this 😭
You could not have described my childhood any better. Scotcharoos are gluten-free and dairy-free! I became that aunt who now brings them to every family holiday 😂
After I met my wife, I learned to line your puke bowl with a plastic bag or two. That way, it's not "quite" as gross when you're eating pasta salad out of it next week. Blew my mind
riding in the back seat of dad's ramcharger pulling a camper from the 1960's across nebraska to see mount rushmore. tail-whip all the way there, my 3 year old brother barfing his brains out in mom's dumped out purse, lunch at flintstones land, mom got a bunch huge boulders that we loaded in the front of the camper, and seeing carhenge on the way home.
This sounds pretty typical of my upbringing here in the Northeast. We had an unfinished basement with a few rugs thrown down. Electric heat. Laundry area. Some old books that I would look through. A TV. The TV for the house was in the unfinished basement. We had some old chairs sitting around. A bunch of board games. We had a lot of fun there.
YB is hitting on all cylinders with this one. I remember the Haloween 91 blizzard; drinking at the bar. And hot dish is used as a term as in "Bring a hot dish to the football supper at the Legion", mom would just say we are having a casseroll for supper. Meat, potato/rice/noodles, vegitable, cheese, can of some kind of soup, more cheese Casseroll's are some of the best food anywhere on the planet. Fight me. This guy is real deal upper Midwest. North central Iowa, class of 88 and proud Gen-X!
The rich kids got to go to the Dells. We went to Anvil Lake by Eagle River, WI for a week each June. 47 years old now and I still go camping in a tent for vacation.
Don't forget a bag full of bags.
😢 I have to bags full of bags in our kitchen closet. Paper an plastic
Yes!
Is that like not a regular thing? I mean I live I. Sd
@@CamlynCotton-lo2zd Excellent! Our midwest culture is spreading!!
Sorry I meant to say I live in South Dakota I thought that was just a regular thing lol
Proper Midwest parents design the Halloween costumes to fit over the snowsuit
Those of us that are over 50 didn't have that. We had the plastic suits you'd put on over your clothes, with the plastic mask with eye holes and the smallest hole imaginable to breath through.
I can't tell you how many times i went as a ninja because i had to wear a scarf.
We wore long johns under our costumes
@@amystreasuresdesign So true!!
"It teaches us to lower our expectations” 10000% truth
I felt that one in my soul.
Ha ha ha
Roller skating in the basement was definitely one of my favorite memories of my 80s midwest childhood!❤️
In the ‘70s I was an Olympic roller skating champ in my sort-of-finished basement.
Yes!
And if you were lucky enough to get a bike for Christmas you rode it in the basement.
That's my grandpas basement
Growing up, the cool whip containers were in the garage on the tool bench holding random nuts, bolts, screws, and reused nails
I was going to comment that we keep fish bait in them but maybe that's going too far 🤷♂ 😄
Cool Whip containers were too valuable to us for that - for random hardware we used Folgers Coffee cans.
@@mirrorblue100 That's a core memory for sure! Even in our Lumber Co. miscellaneous hardware was sitting in rusty Folgers Cans ☺
Not to mention, marbles, crayons, chalk anything really.
Cool whip containers, old chip dip containers, sour cream, you name it... Those were cleaned and repurposed. Don't forget the gallon buckets from ice cream. Those were great if you needed a small amount of amount of water that was too much for one of the water bottles, but way too little to justify going into the garage to get a 5 gallon bucket
The puke bucket brought back so many memories! 😂
Same. I now have one for my kids. But….i don’t use it for food. I just can’t anymore.
It was always a pot. Next day pasta was in it. Good lord.
My mom never reused them for food but she did use washed ice cream buckets, the ones with the handle. She would wash them and save them for any time somebody got sick.
Your parents must have been nice. I got a pillow and blanket on the bathroom floor.
@@jenniferhansen3622yep same here. Kemp’s ice cream bucket
I STILL have an old yellow blue bonnet margarine bowl that's over 30 years old that we use as a cereal bowl 😂
I was born in south Alabama. If you think the butter container has butter in it, you’re wrong virtually every single time.
Same in South Carolina 🤣
Western New York is where the Midwest starts Buffalo New York Rochester the surrounding areas this is where the Midwest starts
My mom always brings me food or sends me home with leftovers in butter containers lol
The butter cookie tin is a lie. Universal law. Why is it in the pantry, despite being filled with sewing notions? No one knows.
Butter containers are for cranberry sauce after Thanksgiving. Everyone knows that.
1000% agree, a Midwest childhood is the best childhood!!!
the best. Malta, Illinois
And then we all move to actual good places to live like cali or florida 🤣
My mom always made my costume so my winter jacket could fit underneath it. The 91 blizzard was the only time I wore my coat over my costume. My dad and I went home 4 times for more clothes. I started the night in a hoodie and jeans and ended it in boots, snowpants, winter jacket, 2 sweat shirts, stocking cap, and mittens. Still my most favorite haloween ever. Plus, school was canceled the next day, which made it super amazing.
same! I was trick or treating in 91 and so jealous of the neighbor who was a ghost that year so just wore her sheet over her snowsuit
Haloween Blizzard of 91 was on a Friday. I was working at the feed mill at the time. We were racing that moring to get feed ground and hauled because we knew shitty weather was comming. It was fun watching people come into the bar that night in their costumes walking through a foot of snow. LOL.
Last month I was given Snickers salad in a Cool Whip container to take home from a get-together. Gotta love Wisconsin grandmas. The "salad" table at potlucks is always half-filled with sweet things chopped up and mixed with Cool Whip.
The mixing bowl for vomit too… ALSO the trick or treat candy bowl!
We always threw up into the left over ice cream buckets lol, and showering in the unfinished basement!
I'm from Calif but both my parents are from the mid west (Illinois & Iowa) and I am the one who collects bowls. Also, love hot dishes/casseroles and road trips!
My husband was excited to see a Sweet Martha's cookie container in the fridge, only to be massively let down when he discovered left-over broccoli in it. 😀
It do be like that
The biggest disappointment!
That infamous, blue tin that claims it holds Danish butter cookies. We all know it’s a sewing kit!
That’s a dirty trick 🤭
@icarubinns, you are cracking me up! 🤣🤣🤣 I have had one of those sewing tins for decades 😁
We don't call them "hot dishes" here in my part of Iowa. We call them "casseroles."
I am from southwest Wisconsin, and I agree! Hot dishes are made on top of the stove. Casseroles, like the tater tot casserole, are baked in the oven.
Same in Michigan!
Same from Northeastern Wisconsin, but I have heard both
Same in Texas
Ahhhh that makes more sense as to what he was talking about. Now I agree! Lol
Yes the spagetti stains in the container 😂
I am from Wisconsin and I approve this message!
If I could give this 1,000 👍 I would (although frugal family from Ohio)
We had an unfinished basement and would roller skate all day long - steel skates with leather straps, concrete floors, steel support poles, ping pong table, workbench, thick 2x4 wooden shelves, etc., it is a wonder any of us survived. Then my parents got it 3/4 finished (1/4 was unfinished backroom with W&D, cast iron sink, work bench, water softener, half finished toilet and shower), carpet without padding, fake wood paneling, 2x4 fiberglass ceiling tiles, can lights, and pool table. Hide and seek became the new pastime. Spent hours upon hours with my brother and sister - love them dearly.
Same here. Loved it. Had to shower down in the basement after a long day splitting wood. Also did my difficult gymnastics beam routine on the railing of the back porch I helped build when I was 7.
I grew up in the Midwest and we never went to Mt. Rushmore or the Wisconsin Dells. However, we did go many times to Cedar Point as well as sea world in Ohio.
Lucky. My family only ever took road trips to visit distant relatives whom I'd never see again, who even Mom and Dad seemed stiffly formal with. 😂
Cedar Point was the highlight of every summer.
Did all three...can't forget Macinac Island, Wall Drug, or any of several Mystery Spots.
Took me three tries to find the butter at Mom's house the other day. Not bad considering I had 7 choices of butter tubs to choose from.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
My Canadian childhood sure had a lot in common with your Midwestern one. 👍
3:35 this was my parents basement. It was unfinished and had a toilet in the middle of it. Right above it was the hole in the upstairs linen closet where they would drop dirty clothes. So if you were sitting on the toilet and they opened the door they could see you 😂 In one section we had an old area rug with an old living room set with an old 70’s console tv. On the right side was a 8 track under the lid and the left had a record player. If we weren’t playing a video game we were watching mtv videos. I spent most of the 80’s down there with my friends.
The only recipe you need is "this will probably taste good together".
& cheese for anything 🔥
From Minnesota and 100% did EVERYTHING you talk about
YESSSS!!! 🤣
Midwest childhood BEFORE cell phones, social media, internet even is what it's all about. 80s and 90s FTW!
ok boomer lol
And the 2000s
Ping-pong in my friend's basement in Illinois. Filled with spiders. No containers ever tossed out.
Any child hood in the 50's, 60's and 70's was great in the USA!
I was talking to my friends from California and I was mentioning my aunt’s puppy chow recipe and they had no clue what I was talking about…they only knew it as muddy buddies
We always had rice Krispies
My mom's big thing is using zip loc bags for like 5-10 years and washing them over and over. I told her we would bury her with her collection someday.
Of course, I still do that, we were lucky to have ziploc bags..and if you threw one away..oh noo!
My mom does that, and I just started. 😂they’re so bad for the environment and it’s so wasteful not to
I've been reusing them my whole life but have you noticed they started making the zippers to break?? I still have a Ziploc from my childhood that's still totally fine but I can't get the new ones to last very long
@@melanieruddy399 I use the plastic containers and wash them then I never have any leaks.
My mom also saved butter tubs. I don't eat butter except at their house.
that's awesome😂
Those nights where you and the friends go in the basement and clear out a spot to do whatever shenanigans we had planned.. memories
So I thought the midwest side dish was green jello mold with shaved carrots on a bed of lettuce. Ever church function had at least 5 growing up.
Yep ! As a boomer in Illinois , grew up w/ the " Joys of Jello " recipe book & a year's worth of seasonal jello molds . As recently as a few years ago at my mom's Lutheran after-funeral lunch served by the L. ladies , there were jello dishes - my mom would have approved !! 😇😅
At least five different jello recipes. We had a big family.
My goodness, that ending "I turned out fine" is peak MN parent/grandparent
Michigan here, Miles described the good ol days to the T
I can still feel the wind, snow, cold sleet that came down every Halloween. It goes right through ya and the memory is forever.
Holy cow. 0:26. I still remember my family’s growing up. We used it for popcorn, leftover spaghetti, brownie batter, and puke.
I’m old and I’ve lived in Detroit nearly my whole life, and yes, the love of containers is 100% real. It hurts my soul to put a container in the recycle bin.
Same!!!😂😂😂
As someone born and raised in Wisconsin - this is 100% correct.
I remember taking my nieces and nephews out trick or treating during a very heavy snow. Others stayed home, and they made a killing. They understood why i grabbed extra bags 😉
My brother and I ate cereal out of those emptied butter and Cool Whip containers. Those "bowls" were only thrown out after they'd eventually crack and fail to retain milk.
Lol same
Family vacations - 10-hour drive to the Northwoods, and watching the Min-Aqua-Bats!
The unfinished basement! 😂
BLIZZARD OF 91 GANG
Yup😊 That was the last year I went trick er treating! Trekked through the snow down the block and then back home 😊
YO.
@youbetcha…. I hope you and your families are all ok after the outbreak yesterday. God be with the people of Iowa and Nebraska!!!! 🌪️💔 was one of the most incredible things Ive ever seen.
The second I saw the red bowl, I was like, PUKE BOWL!!!
Lol yupper I remember mom running for it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The halloween one hits hard
I'm a veteran of the Halloween Blizzard of '91. Still got half a pillow case filled.
I started going as a zombie hunter my winter coat was orange I stipend have a halloween picture of me in it with snow pants on
That's pretty much spot on. Our MN unfinished basement was awesome. We played soccer indoors during the winter for decades and I remember my road trip to the Dells fondly.
Grew up in the very most mid-west place of Kansas. We vacationed in Roaring River to fish every year despite there being five daughters. Right on target about Scotcheroos and reusing butter tubs. But the red vomit bucket is new-/you know how I know? We bought this same one at dollar tree last year. And yes wasn’t need to back to being a mixing bowl.
I'm a born & raised Minnesotan and this video is very true.
Born and raised in northwest Ohio steeped in Michigan/Indiana/Wisconsin/Midwest. These videos hit so hard it hurts. Now I live in northeast Ohio and it's freaky how only a few hundred miles away and still in the same state I'm in a completely different world! They actually think I'm the odd one. Oofda!
And reusing food containers and bowls that had a sketchy past? Absolutely. We even had to open our birthday and Christmas presents very carefully because of course the wrapping paper could be used again!!!
The ping-pong table is so true haha spot on as usual Miles😅
Oh my gosh my boyfriend grew up in California and I told him about how jealous I was of kids who lived in California or Florida because here in Michigan it was either you wear your costume over your coat or yes wore it under your coat 😂😂
I'm from Michigan too
🤜🤛 I always wore princess, ballerina, butterfly type costumes so I hated that it ruined my whole look lol
Most families can’t even afford Halloween in places like California. You just roll around in some dirt and say your dressed up as a homeless person like everyone else did.
Floor hockey, Nerf wars and PS1 in our Michigan basement......take me back
As a 42 year old male from Winnipeg MB, this hit home hard!
Yup, it was the same in SK!
Cool whip and butter containers were our Tupperware in my tiny rural hometown in the Appalachian Mountain Region of the Southern Tier of the only good part of NY State. School was K-12…one building. 😂
I've never been to South Dakota or the Wisconsin Dells. Probably because I'm from Michigan. Michigan has so many great destinations that we never managed to get out of the state.
You forgot the Michigan basement with the dirt floor and Ball jars with spiders in them. One if my students told me his buddy hung grow lights and rototilled part of Michigan basement to grow dope in. Third Midwest vacation destination, Niagara Falls. Michigan here, and we all got dragged to Canada to see the falls. Mmm, hot dish ...
What else are you supposed to do with empty food containers, put them in the recycling? Blasphemy 😂
This can't be limited to the midwest. Surely everyone does this?
everything ended up in the burn barrel eventually....
My grandfather owned Arrow Plastics for decades, the maker of the "puke bowl" you have... LMAO. Let me know if you need a care package with extras! I have the hook up.
Your Grandfather the proud producer of medical equipment ❤
You'd think that growing up here and experiencing all those halloweens would have taught me to buy my kids a size larger costume, but to no avail.
You gotta get an extra big Halloween costume to go OVER the coat and snow pants
We also use containers for left overs in Australia! It's always a lucky dip what you're gonna find in my Mum's fridge!!
I’m gonna yap and list as many of my grandma’s hot dish recipes
Macaroni hot dish
Tater tot hot dish
Cheesy macaroni ham hotdogs (literally just Mac and cheese with ham)
Pizza hot dish
And many more I’m forgetting
Don’t remember snicker salad but everything else is spot on
northern indiana here, that halloween one hit on such a personal level lol
Dude, your weight loss is awesome. Great job!
I went to South Dakota in June of 2014 and saw Mt Rushmore and I’m from Kansas it’s scary you got that right.
It's not that bold of a prediction. The Rapid City area is the perfect family road trip spot for the midwest. Remember road tripping out there in the 90s from MN as a kid checking out all the Wall Drug signs along the way (have been thru SD on I-90 several more times as an adult, still somewhat amusing).
2:26
The license plate game and the horse game were also prevalent.
Indeed
Basement at my house had a poker table, a full kitchen(with cabinets) because my house was constantly under “construction,” a water bed(used for folding clothes on,) the washer and dryer, and a make shift roller rink obstacle course(for rainy days and the long Midwest winters.) Naturally mold and mildew smell, and the classic urinal that is the ejector pit.
Can’t wait to teach my boys that last one.
I'm from the Detroit area but my dad is a Yooper so our vacations were either long drives up there to visit my grandparents, or camping. 😁
I lived for when the new Wisconsin Dells travel guide would come out in the spring and I would plan everything I wanted to see and do. What usually ended up happening was a day trip to Noah's Ark, but I still loved to look at the travel guide and dream...and Noah's Ark is fun as hell, so no problem with that.
I love the popcorn-vomit bucket
My family it was an empty gallon ice cream bucket.
Hey you mix your baked goods in there too. Dont under sell the bucket
@@puremaledark8305 so true. We also stored watermelon in there too
Man. That Halloween weather still makes me sad to think about.
Loved the Wisconsin Dells! ( we went there in childhood on a school field trip).
This really made my day better 😄So relatable and funny! Thank you 😃
Those kids that got to go to Wisconsin Dells sure were lucky. The only place we went to for vacation was Duluth. Not that there’s anything wrong with Duluth. I love going there, but it sure would have been nice to go somewhere else at least once.
I grew up in Duluth. No vacationing where you live...
whenever the bowl wasn't used for puke or measuring it was 24/7 used as a fruit bowl. I remember the fruit laying strewn across the counter because we finally bothered to make a cake or one of my siblings bothered with the cake threw it up. lol
Dude had a midwesterner give me scotcheroos and now i make them every year for my birthday. Im just now realizing im a grown ass man i can make scotcheroos whenever the hell i want them.... im going to the store for beer and scotcheroo ingredients!
when he said mt rushmore and wisconsin dells road trip. my family did both
As an Iowan, we have officially done the Mt. Rushmore and Wisconsin Dells vacations. Will be going to the Dells this summer, hopefully....after we already went on Spring Break. It's a great place, what can I say?
Wisconsin here. We never took family vacations. Maybe a trip to a nearby beach.
Rhode Island here. That Snickers situation sounds scrumptious.
On Halloween, I used to just chuck my jacket in a bush and come back for it later after trick or treat. I'd usually end up freezing to death and with bronchitis after, but at least everyone got to see my costume!
Being from Montana we would have our Halloween costumes 2 to 3 times the size just because we could where the winter gear under the costumes
It was usually the gallon ice cream buckets my dad still insists on saving to this day that was the upchuck bucket. Although there were definitely a few times the popcorn bowl got used 😂 why lol why are we like this 😭
Lmao! I had a sour cream container at work that I had to throw away because I wasn't able to wash it out and I felt like it was sacrilege!
You could not have described my childhood any better. Scotcharoos are gluten-free and dairy-free! I became that aunt who now brings them to every family holiday 😂
After I met my wife, I learned to line your puke bowl with a plastic bag or two. That way, it's not "quite" as gross when you're eating pasta salad out of it next week. Blew my mind
We just used an old ice cream pail when we were sick. My dad thought the bowl was gross.
The butter containers 😂 specifically country crock
Yes! grew up in Louisville, Ky (pronounced looeyville for those not from round there) and K-bars were a coveted dessert.
riding in the back seat of dad's ramcharger pulling a camper from the 1960's across nebraska to see mount rushmore. tail-whip all the way there, my 3 year old brother barfing his brains out in mom's dumped out purse, lunch at flintstones land, mom got a bunch huge boulders that we loaded in the front of the camper, and seeing carhenge on the way home.
Holy smokes...ALL of this checks out
Grew up in Wisconsin and still here. My dad would save Dannon yogurt cups for regular drinking cups. 🙄
My grandma would use empty Kaukauna cheese spread containers as cups
We had the old glass jelly jars with the pictures on them for drinking cups. I think ours had dinosaurs on them?
Bars! Hot Dish!❤ coat over my first angel costume on halloween😢 roller skate and hot wheels race track in the basement! we had the same childhood 😊
This sounds pretty typical of my upbringing here in the Northeast. We had an unfinished basement with a few rugs thrown down. Electric heat. Laundry area. Some old books that I would look through. A TV. The TV for the house was in the unfinished basement. We had some old chairs sitting around. A bunch of board games. We had a lot of fun there.
YB is hitting on all cylinders with this one. I remember the Haloween 91 blizzard; drinking at the bar. And hot dish is used as a term as in "Bring a hot dish to the football supper at the Legion", mom would just say we are having a casseroll for supper. Meat, potato/rice/noodles, vegitable, cheese, can of some kind of soup, more cheese Casseroll's are some of the best food anywhere on the planet. Fight me.
This guy is real deal upper Midwest.
North central Iowa, class of 88 and proud Gen-X!
I agree Midwest childhood was the best and everything is true he said I was born and raised in north dakota. It's the same here to
Our family vacation was Gulf Shores. And the millions of trips to Ohio/King’s Island
The rich kids got to go to the Dells. We went to Anvil Lake by Eagle River, WI for a week each June. 47 years old now and I still go camping in a tent for vacation.
You forget dad changing a flat tire in the Badlands on a 63 Plymouth wagon that's black with no air conditioning.