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19. Thank you very much for sharing with us, House of Roberts. Somehow the heat didn't bother me, during the day. but at

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Sat May 30, 2026, 02:24 PM

May 30

night it did. We never had AC in the house. Lived there until I was in 9th grade.

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Memory Lane, How did you keep yourself cool in the hot summer heat? Running through a sprinkler? the inflatable 4 ring [View all] debm55 May 30 OP

Water hose. LoisB May 30 #1

Yup... that was about it. Occasionally my Mom would take us to a community pool. hlthe2b May 30 #3

Yep, that is right. hlthe2b. We didn't have a community pool. So it was the jumping through the sprinkler and the little debm55 May 30 #6

Yeah.. when I say "community" pool, not like an HOA-Subdivision pool, but a city pool 20 miles away... hlthe2b May 30 #22

Oh, I knew, but living in a Steel Mill town, did not give us a community pool. Carnegie Library in the little town had a debm55 May 30 #23

That was my life too. All the fans did was blow around hot air. If we were LoisB May 30 #21

Garden hose! johnp3907 May 30 #2

Thank you very much for sharing with us, johnp3907 debm55 May 30 #7

Picking mushrooms and going to the sinkholes. Big Dismal wasa favorite Lochloosa May 30 #4

Thank you very much for sharing with us, Lochloosa. debm55 May 30 #8

Ice True Dough May 30 #5

HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHHAH. OMG. Thank you True Dough. debm55 May 30 #9

uhhhmmm...shrinkage. ret5hd May 30 #20

No way to keep cool. Just awful unc70 May 30 #10

Thank you very much for sharing with us, unc70, As a kid, we didn't have AC. I agree. , fans did nothing. My husband debm55 May 30 #11

There are cooling small towels : mucifer May 30 #12

Thank you very much , mucifer. I wil have to try. debm55 May 30 #13

As a kid, I didn't know a damned thing about thermodynamics, so what I did was pretty dumb. NNadir May 30 #14

Great post, NNadir. We have a Cape Cod house. ---two bedroom/attic upstairs. Even though, we have whole house AC. it is debm55 May 30 #15

That's what I grew up in, a "Cape Cod" house. NNadir May 30 #16

I remember sleeping outside as the house seemed to hold the heat.Never had AC in the car either . AC was a luxury that debm55 May 30 #18

I never had a house without AC. House of Roberts May 30 #17

Thank you very much for sharing with us, House of Roberts. Somehow the heat didn't bother me, during the day. but at debm55 May 30 #19

There was a playground, probably about a half mile from our apartment ... surrealAmerican May 30 #24

Loved those sprinklers at the playground. Thank you for sharing your memory with us.surrealAmerican. debm55 May 31 #32

slip n slide - great fun jgo May 31 #25

I loved that, jgo. Great fun and wonderful memories. debm55 May 31 #33

I lived four blocks from Lake Michigan. greatauntoftriplets May 31 #26

That sounds wonderful, greatauntoftriplets. Thank you For the memories. debm55 May 31 #34

Neighborhood pools open every day, and I was there most days.. Permanut May 31 #27

I am going to have to try that. Thank you very much for sharing, Permanut. debm55 May 31 #35

Sprinkler MIButterfly May 31 #28

Yes it was , Thank you very much,MIButterfly for sharing the memoring with us. debm55 May 31 #31

Most of July and August gladium et scutum May 31 #29

Thank you very much for sharing with us, gladium et scutum. I slept outside too. debm55 May 31 #30

I grew up on military posts mainly in the South. Aristus May 31 #36

Keeping cool wasn't a problem as a kid LogDog75 May 31 #37

Lay on the floor w a fan on high and a pan or pot filled w ice water. AllaN01Bear May 31 #38

We we hit triple-digit weather, i used to haul a folding chaise lounge from sporting goods to the frozen food isle... Brother Buzz May 31 #39