If 70s moms had blogs

My mom had a blog?  Who knew?

Too bad she forgot the part about us fighting over who got to lay on the shelf under the rear window in our '68 Catalina....that was the BEST way to travel in a car!

Which did she decide, avocado green, harvest gold or colonial blue?

Green.....and when I became 16 it was my car.  I crashed it into everything and neither me nor any passengers ever got a scratch.  That car was a tank!  Oh yeah, we didn't wear seatbelts.....but I can't remember why.....probably just thought it was stupid.

Next they're doing new shag rug in the den. Burnt Orange, baby!

DUDE!!!  The bedroom I shared with my brother, that my dad built us in the basement, had burnt orange shag carpet!  The drop ceiling was perfect for hiding my dad's Playboy magazines that we retrieved from the trash.  Later we hid our weed there......it's always been a wonder that my dad never checked up there, or wondered why we were broke up giggling at dinner. 

I remember once we were so broke up at lunch that a noodle from his chicken noodle soup came out of my brothers nose when we was laughing. HAHAHA!!!

Basically, at that point, lunch was over.

Heh heh, and she can upload a picture of it onto instagram. 

Just be sure to smoke it in the car with the windows all the way up for maximum efficiency. I heard that on tv. 

2 stories, then I'm outta here for happy hour:

TW and I bought a house in the mid 90's with Burnt Orange shag rug in the den. We ripped it up and threw it out the front door while the seller's were in the front yard packing their moving truck. It was HORRID!!!!!!

We moved to Fl in 73 in a Duster with mom chain smoking the entire trip. Yeah, the windows were NOT rolled down. 3 kids in the back, I slept on the floor, while my little sister slept in the back window and my older sister slept across the back seat. Seatbelts???????

Rear seat belts weren't mandated until 1968.  At the time, almost all of the belts were manually adjusted.  We had to wear seatbelts in driver's ed (1981) and I had to wear a seatbelt anywhere I was driving/riding at the air force base (1984). 

As to the OP, those were the days!  My mom never bought Jiffy-Pop and rarely bought Tang. 

Now that's funny, and so true!

Almost as bad as not rolling down the window was when they would flick the ashes out their front window and they would come in the back window and burn us!

I'm not sure whether to laugh at it as a joke, or be saddened at how close to reality it is (was).

Oooh sadly, my parents (who have been living in the same house for 39 years) still have a living room with green shag carpeting---the same carpeting I grew up laying on while watching t.v.---while dad smoked, fussed about the government, and mom did typing (some home based secretarial stuff--on a TYPEWRITER, but the "modern new electrical" type!)...They removed the majority of the carpet from the rest of the house, and luckily changed the coloring of the kitchen from yellow/gold to off white, but the living room still has the shag!!!

That's called a Landau.  I had a '78 Monte in high school, of the non-Landau variety.