Living like the Walton's

  The Walton's is one of my favorite tv shows. I grew up watching it when I was little. Most of the shows I watched was with my dad. Like WCW and WWF. I started watching the show again and it makes me wonder what life was like back then. It seems like life was so much simpler. I can't imagine having 7 kids though. But Ive been told thats about how many kids people had back then. "Ohh, they didnt have tv back then so what else was people to do with their time but make babies". Alot of people would say that the oldest would help take care of the youngest and so forth.  Yea right, Devin wouldn't babysit even for money.
  I remember when there was no cell phones. Pagers came out when I was in 7th-8th grade. Oh everyone thought they was so cool and had to have one. So I got a clear purple one. Thought I was so cool having it clipped to my hip and only had like 2 friends that ever sent me a beep. Then cell phones was in style and pagers was out the window. But now everyone has a cell phone and frankly mine gets on my nerves. I used to love talking on the phone when I was a teen but now I hate talking on the phone. So I could live back in the old days without a phone.
  Most produce was home grown unlike today most people just buy from the store. My dad had a good size garden most of my childhood. I used to help him out gathering and such. I loved trying to grow watermelons, most of them would bust. We grew so much that he would give most of it away. That's something that I will have when I have a house of my own one day. And you just might see me on the side of the road selling from my home grown garden.
  I remember my dad would always say " oh hell, the weather man don't know what its going to do, just go outside and look". Thats about right. I like watching tv, but what if it was never developed. Back in the day, people just listened to the radio or read the newspaper. I guess tv has made the world lazy, cause I know it does me. If we didnt have it, I would probally get more things done.lol. My dad would tell me stories about what all he done for fun back then. He was born in the 50's. He worked on a farm when he was a teen and got paid .25 cents per day. And he would go to the movies and .25 cents would pay for the ticket,popcorn and drink..Wow..thats hard to believe.
  I think life would be easier without so many distractions. But on the other hand things do make life easier. I love watching movies that represent the past. Seems like romance was different to back then..Just a thought..