Old Timey Basics
Household Know-How
Money Matters
Communication Throwbacks
Survival Skills
100

This item had to be spun with your finger and made clicking sounds to call someone.

Rotary Phone

100

This appliance keeps your food cold and should always be closed tightly.

Refrigerator

100

This green paper stuff is still accepted even if you never carry it.

Cash

100

Before texts, people passed these paper notes in class.

Handwritten notes

100

This 4-letter word is how you treat someone when you want to show basic human decency.

Kind

200

Before Google Maps, people found their way using this paper item.

Road Map

200

You use this to flip pancakes, not to discipline children like it's 1950.

Spatula

200

If you spend more than you have in your account, the bank calls this a ________ fee.

Overdraft fee

200

These devices let you talk to someone across the house or on a job site.

Walkie-talkies

200

You should do this when entering a room where people are already talking.

Say "excuse me"

300

If you wanted to rent a movie on a Friday night in 1999, you'd go here.

Blockbuster

300

Before air fryers, this hot appliance was used to bake things.

Oven

300

The total you owe on a receipt before taxes and tips is called this.

Subtotal

300

Phones used to need this cord to connect them to the wall.

Phone Line

300

When your tire is flat, you should check this emergency item in your trunk.

Spare tire or car jack

400

To "burn a CD" in the early 2000s meant doing this, not lighting it on fire.

Copying music onto a blank CD

400

This button on your toilet is not a decoration - it makes everything go bye bye.

Flush lever

400

You do this to make your paycheck go into your bank without going to the bank.

Direct deposit

400

This once-popular social media site let you rank your top friends, decorate your profile, and have a site song.

MySpace

400

This basic skill lets you stitch a button or patch a hole in clothes.

Sewing

500

This TV accessory had to be adjusted constantly- often with tin foil- to get better reception.

Rabbit ears or Antenna

500

If your power goes out, check this switchboard before panicking.

Circuit breaker

500

The three-digit number follows you forever and determines how trustworthy you seem to lenders.

Credit Score

500

This service was used to leave voice messages before texting existed.

Answering Machine

500

If there is a pamphlet on your car window when you leave a location, you should do this.

Drive away without grabbing it

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