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Blue Laws - that's it! Yes, we kept on our Sundays best and couldn't change into play clothes. No cleaning, vacuuming, mowing. Dinner in the oven, read the paper, play checkers or whatever until Sunday company came over. Saturday night - get ready for Sunday - everything laid out, we had to clean our shoes, etc. envelope ready for church. Everything in order including bedtime. Whether they went to church or not, they all seemed to live the same and respectful of others. Now you see kids out at 10 pm or after. No structure, more chaotic, with the 'whatever' mindset.

Things only get worse, the moral fabric of USA is in shreds and people are more accepting of things on what they weren't before. Down down we go to now where anything goes. What's wrong is right and right is wrong. Even though it happened slowly over the years, it came on fast! We aren't going back but further away from what was 'good'.

Amen. I remember those days. Those are what we talk about when we speak of the Good Ole Days. Not some bunch of junk. But, these kind of days, when children were respectful of parents, parents were actually responsible people, laws were enforced, people actually behaved, children were disciplined by parents when they misbehaved without fear of arrest.

Everyone today speaks of being so busy, having so much too do, not having time for family, yada yada yada. That is a self inflicted wound. Everyone can choose to run at break neck speed, or you can say, no, I am not going to do all that crap, I am going to actually have time for me and my family. I have actually been on vacation and saw people so in a rush because they were trying to cram in a year of "fun" so they could get back to 50 or 51 weeks of breaking their necks running around. I did that rat race after I retired from the Army. It was not fun. You run to keep up with everyone around you. When my wife and I finally called it quits, we walked away from high paying jobs (me at a law firm and my wife from her banking job), and said enough was enough. We want time for ourselves. We are very happy we did that. We don't have the money we had before, but we don't care. God provides. That is all that is important.