I was lucky to get a walkman, what about you?
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
April 25, 2019 6:05pm CST
I went to the local Moravian Museum town today. It was actually field trip day as well so kids from different schools were there touring the place. Their tour is different than what the adults experience. The kids go into buildings and get to experience what it was like to be educated in those days (late 1700's - mid 1800's). The adults get about 10-12 buildings they can go into, which isn't all that bad to be honest.
Anyway, I'm going off track...
We were walking ahead of the group of kids. I overheard one of the girls saying "We are going to get so many steps in today!" and I nearly turned around and looked at her. I mean, dont' get me wrong, I think it's great that her parents are helping motivate her to exercise by getting her a fitness tracker..
However when I was her age, I was lucky to get a walkman (a cassette tape player). What about you?
I am sure there are many here who will tell me "We didn't even have a walkman when I was growing up."
My, how times change!
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@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
26 Apr 19
I was the same way getting a Walkman was a huge deal! I got one, one year for my birthday I felt so cool lol!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
Mine might have been a hand me down but I am not sure. My sister and I were six years apart, my brother and I ten, so I often got hand me downs.
I do remember playing my father's cassette tapes in them so I ended up listening to a lot of Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones.
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@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
26 Apr 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I ended up listening to a lot of Paula Abdul and Jim Croce as well as Bob Seger and Whitney Houston
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
@Michellekidwell I had to rely on hand me down / around tapes. I think I may have listened to Michael Jackson / Jackson 5, which would have been popular about that time / a little earlier.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
29 Apr 19
I had a Walkman, a cassette tape player with phones. I don't know where mine is now.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Apr 19
I am not sure who bought me mine and I certainly have no idea where it is. It's probably in soemoene else's home or else at the local dump.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
29 Apr 19
@nela13 Oh I see. I feel like mine was either given to me as a gift, or was handed down to me. I think it was given to me as a gift, however.
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@nela13 (59365)
• Portugal
29 Apr 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum my parents gave it to me as a Christmas gift.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
Walman is just what we called the casette tape player. I don't think we ever had one that connected ot a computer.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
@LadyDuck Oh okay, I see. We just purchased cds when the cassette tapes began to become obsolete.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
26 Apr 19
Wow, that is crazy. I always think about what the kids have today and I'm like...I got a CD player for the first time when the 2nd gen of iPods were coming out haha I was always a bit behind.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
I mean, kids have cellphones at 10 or less! It's amazing to me. I mean, cellphones weren't there when I was that young, but when I was in high school the flip phones were coming out and I still didnt' get one until I turned 18 and bought my own!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
@DesirousDreamer I bought my first smartphone, it was that beyonce phone that had two sides to it., I don't even remember what year that was to be honest.
I was the first of my friends to get one, then I stayed with flipphones for a few years (was dating and then married a guy, we lived out in the boonies, smartphones weren't very smart) and so my friends got ahead of me on the smartphone craze.
@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
26 Apr 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I got my first phone at 12...11...Pretty sure 12 so I guess that was pretty young, but it was a free phone and I had it until I was 14 and then I got my first smartphone so that was in like 2009 when the smartphone craze was happening but it wasn't one of the fancy smartphones it was like a smartphone before smartphones. A touch screen, but going on the internet was really hard haha
@hillhjill (23761)
• United States
26 Apr 19
I remember when I had a Walkman and I thought I was cool sh*t lol.. yes these kids today have so much and is spoiled a little to much if you ask me.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
27 Apr 19
@hillhjill Except for when cd's skipped.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
Yes, I thought the walkman was the coolest thing, and then when the portable cd player came out, that was the coolest thing ever.
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@SophiaMorros (5044)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
26 Apr 19
I didn't have a personal cassette player (knock-off walkman) until I was in college. And I bought it myself.
My kids all have had gadgets but not until they had jobs and could buy their own.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
I didn't get my first cellphone until I Was old enough to pay for it myself. My dad did buy it for me but I had to keep up the minutes.
I grew up in a "hand me down" family. That isn't to say we didn't get new things, but we earned them first.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
@SophiaMorros Oh I know, times have changed. It's easier and safer for kids to have phones.
I just know a parent (*cough* my sister *cough*) who kept buying my nephew a phone after he constantly broke his. I would have gotten him a flipphone after that.
Oh, and I ate at the Tavern in Old Salem yesterday. Have you ever had a meal there? It was decent, but I expected a little more from the pot roast meal.
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@SophiaMorros (5044)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
26 Apr 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I bought first phones for a couple of my kids but usually they got a hand-me down from me and I got a new phone 
. And they only got phones because I needed them to have one.
. And they only got phones because I needed them to have one.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
26 Apr 19
i used to borrow my brother's..what a battery pig it was tho.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
26 Apr 19
I don't remember that about it, but I am sure you are right. I remember walking outside and listening to the tapes while I hung out with friends.
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@Lolaze (5092)
• St. Louis, Missouri
30 Apr 19
I was spoiled and had Walkmans that also picked up the radio.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
30 Apr 19
I think mine might have done that but I don't rightly remember.
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@JESSY3236 (22244)
• United States
3 May 19
I don't think I ever had a walkman. I do wish I had a fitness tracker though. But in the 1700 and 1800's, they didn't have walkmans or fitness trackers. lol
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 May 19
Nope, and they were concerned with excersise I'm sure, but it was all done without any equipment.
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