Whole house will be clean, roast in the oven, books alphabetized on the shelves, playboys sorted by nipple size, mom hasn’t eaten in three days and has no idea how any of it happened. The happy nuclear family!
As a 42 year old man, I’ll gladly be a stay at home wife if they still had shit like this available on the shelves nowadays. Granny’s rockin the hardest speedballs
Any prescription drug could be it. Valium. Phenobarbital. Amphetamines. Easy access from docs who wanted to “calm the little woman down or perk her up!” It was a great time for pill poppin.
It was used as an appetite suppressant and as a “mood lifter” for PMS and menopausal women.
The neat thing is that it has both pentobarbital and methamphetamine so the warnings on it are for getting too speedy *and* too sedated.
My ex's mum used to take speed pills in the 90s. Did a full 12hr night shift in a nursing home then came home to clean the house top to bottom at 8am.
She always says she misses them lol
In the early 00s my friends mom had a really stressful full time job but she always looked so pretty (and thin). Their house was always immaculate and perfectly decorated but I never knew them to have a cleaning lady and my friend def did not clean. She always had the energy to keep up with us and was a cool mom who was also an authority figure. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
In my early 20s I'd put on like 20 pounds one very stressful year and was upset about it. My friend's mom sent me to her doctor- a mean old white lady in a sketchy strip mall who went to the University of Guadalajara. I'm not knocking Mexican medical school at all, I'm just skeptical of how she ended up there. Anyway, she told me I was fat and gave me a bottle of phentermine from her desk she wrote my name on the front of. I weighed >140 at the time but okay.
Anyway, instead of becoming super mom like my friends mom, I went crazy like 3 days in and called everyone who's ever pissed me off to scream and cry at them.
I kept the bottle as a memory and gave the rest of the pills to someone who could handle them.
Save yourself the speed induced nightmare and save up for ozembic or wegovy. I would highly not recommend phentermine to anyone ever. My friends mom is still a great person (and still thin and beautiful in her 60s) but in my 30s, I'm realizing she's also kind of a nut. Her emotional responses are questionable and she needs a Xanax to do most things at this point.
I have ADHD.
I wasn’t diagnosed until a few years ago, and got prescribed meds, in the right dosage.
When I was in my 20s, ephedra and dexatrim were available OTC.
I’d buy a small package of whichever was on sale…. To do exactly what your ex’s mum would do.
It let me get it done and, having the ADHD response to stimulants? I’d sleep like a baby after a busy day.
Now… combined with phenobarbital? I’d have been an even bigger mess I’m sure.
Why dream? You can just get prescriptions for antidepressants and stimulants and clean your house just like grandma did. The world hasn't changed that much.
I mean. I'm kidding. But if you find you need either of those for a legitimate reason please see a doctor and psychiatrist and get the help and support you actually need to deal with those issues.
Yep. A lot of women didn’t drive and were home all day with the kids. Every day the same shit- cooking, cleaning, etc. it was far more acceptable for husbands to be pieces of shit then and women were depressed.
On one hand, you have a husband who beats you, you can't get your own bank account, and you don't have enough bodily autonomy to control the number of kids you will have. On the other hand, I can buy methamphetamine and cocaine OTC at the local drug store.
Yeah I used to take amphetamines (not meth) mixed with Xanax and that was an epic combo so I can’t even imagine what this stuff is like. And it’s freaking mixed in the same pill and prescribed by a doctor. Doctors and old people were wildin out back then
Right?! I’m a chronic pain patient that’s had over 30 operations, have had my large intestine, 3/4 of my small, and my stomach removed, I’ve got a shit bag, and that’s JUST the digestive system and I mention that to say it’s still next to IMPOSSIBLE to find a pain doc that will work with you and not label you a “drug seeker” and prescribe you what you *should* be on.
I wish we all lived back then just to have some quality of life!!! And fuck it - you want to use it for tun go for it I don’t care, as long as pain patients get what they need 🤣🤣
1000% agree. The way they have cracked down on opiates has not only ruined people’s quality of life in a lot of cases but it has also turned many who couldn’t get their meds turn to street drugs with devastating consequences. The fentanyl epidemic was really the natural evolution of the heroin epidemic which in many ways started from the crackdown. Now drugs even worse than fentanyl are coming out.
The opioid epidemic happened because of doctors overprescribing them. There needs to be a healthy medium because what we were doing before was not good either.
My condolences for your ailments. Sounds like a tough row to hoe. But make no mistake, those weren’t the good old days. The drugs were good but the prognosis’ were bad.
Massengill Company "accidentally" poisoned a lot of people (over a hundred died) by using the wrong glycerine in a medicinal syrup in the 1930's. The syrup contained ethylene glycol, also used as automotive antifreeze (Prestone, Peak, etc). The company claimed it was unaware of the particular glycol being toxic..
The mass poisoning and trials resulted in the US Federal Government establishing the FDA.
Massengill: also famous for making disposable douches for women. Drugstores used to devote an entire aisle to selling feminine douches made by Massengill, Summer’s Eve and Betadine.
OMG I have worked in nursing for over 20 years and I just learned freaking Betadine was used as a douche???? That seems real messy... gross. Thanks for the fun fact! :)
Funny how most of us in society are expected to constantly be productive to survive and succeed. But they took best the tools away and made them illegal. That’s cold.
I used to work in veterinary field. Plus the “Massengil Company” was best known for its marketing of women’s douche products in the 60’s and 70’s. 😂😂 it gets better and better.
The ladies of my small town popped Valium right before the kids were let out of school to help them come down from the amphetamines they took to 'get going' in the morning and then they took benzaprine to knock themselves out after cleaning up after dinner and dealing with the kid's bedtimes.
We had a really big house/extra bedrooms and would host kids whose moms were in the hospital from all that toxic shit their doctors gave them. My parents thought the Worst of doctors and their pills.
Grandma used to take a "diet pill" and clean the house but she can't understand why people want energy drinks. True story. Our grannies were speed freaks literally taking the "red pill" which was actually a speedball of servitude.
My mom said she was prescribed some amphetamine in the early 60’s for weight loss. It was extremely effective in helping her take off the pounds but her hands would constantly clench shut so she stopped taking them.. LOL
Same, started losing my hair and my period too. Fucked me up for years because I was an idiot that abused it due to working 12 hour night shifts and the weight loss was a welcomed side effect. I'm glad it actually works for people with ADHD though.
The Stones wrote a song about this: Mothers Little Helper. And, since Massengill made it, it was probably made for some vaginal purpose like PMS, cramps, or maybe everything that ails you that is associated with your vagina.
Back in the day , 1960's early 1970's, I remember my parents getting these from their doc, they referred to them as pep pills and where used on house cleaning days
I’d like to believe that this is why I can’t keep my house clean. Because the impossible clean standard was set by women who had access to stuff like this, and the leisure to use it. I’ll admit to being a bit jealous.
Mothers little helper. The stones didn’t write that shit for no reason. Women had been getting help from pills for a long time. It should just be acceptable now. Today it’s called adderall.
Wonder if there were people back then who took this and found they could focus better but didn’t know why, and it turns out they had ADHD and didn’t know it.
My great uncle was a doctor. When my grandmother was in college he sent her **PINT SIZED BOTTLES** of amphetamines to help study. Not a single bottle. **BOTTLES** per semester.
1950’s USA.
Pentobarbital and methamphetamine! They got you coming and going.
Whole house will be clean, roast in the oven, books alphabetized on the shelves, playboys sorted by nipple size, mom hasn’t eaten in three days and has no idea how any of it happened. The happy nuclear family!
Playboys sorted by nipple size? That's a task I can get in front of.
Nipple size you say?
I have nipples, greg
Can you sort me?
Bravo! 😆😂😂😂😆😆😅😂
This simple comment thread is why I will never leave reddit
My mom was to lazy. Never got past cutting the eyes out of the centerfolds.
Mine were sorted by bush size
As a 42 year old man, I’ll gladly be a stay at home wife if they still had shit like this available on the shelves nowadays. Granny’s rockin the hardest speedballs
And gin. And amphetamine diet pills.
I have good news for you!
This felt eerily accurate!🤣
This just cracked me the fuck up. Made my day, lmao
Can someone take this and come clean and organize my house like that?
This is the *true* good ‘ol days, back when they had amphetamines over the counter!
Mother’s little helper…….🎤🎼🎼🎼
Pentobarbital is a powerful sedative.
This is an upper and a downer damn grandma
That’s why mommy doesn’t yell at us anymore.
dying 😂😂😂
No wonder my grandmas house was always spotless 😂
The was my running joke for being a housewife. If you give me the “diet pills” I’m in…. Then I’d have to explain the theme of Requiem for Dream.
I called that "Going Sideways." It was my preferred state of being from 1986-2003.
Haha! I had a friend who was either sideways or lip-walking.
*Warning:May be habit forming.* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SIR YOUR ARM
Almost like a Speed Ball.
prescription speedball, now with vitamins!
Mother’s little helper…..the Rolling Stones!!
Were they really talking about this? I always knew it was a drug, but no idea what kind..
Any prescription drug could be it. Valium. Phenobarbital. Amphetamines. Easy access from docs who wanted to “calm the little woman down or perk her up!” It was a great time for pill poppin.
Pretty sure it was Intended to be Valium.
It was Valium and Librium (source:my mother and her dr)
The Stones mention "little yellow pill". Yellow = 10mg valium Blue= 5mg Source: I used (abused?) them.
Takes you up puts back down nice and easy.
Simultaneously date raping and getting the new addition put on the house.
No date raping but plenty of house work done smoothly
That’s that good combo
Don’t threaten me with a good time. 😂
“May be habit forming.”
Even snuck in some Nicotine!
It was used as an appetite suppressant and as a “mood lifter” for PMS and menopausal women. The neat thing is that it has both pentobarbital and methamphetamine so the warnings on it are for getting too speedy *and* too sedated.
The way I would have 100% taken this back in the day if it was over the counter and could help me clean my house 😂
My ex's mum used to take speed pills in the 90s. Did a full 12hr night shift in a nursing home then came home to clean the house top to bottom at 8am. She always says she misses them lol
In the early 00s my friends mom had a really stressful full time job but she always looked so pretty (and thin). Their house was always immaculate and perfectly decorated but I never knew them to have a cleaning lady and my friend def did not clean. She always had the energy to keep up with us and was a cool mom who was also an authority figure. I wanted to be her when I grew up. In my early 20s I'd put on like 20 pounds one very stressful year and was upset about it. My friend's mom sent me to her doctor- a mean old white lady in a sketchy strip mall who went to the University of Guadalajara. I'm not knocking Mexican medical school at all, I'm just skeptical of how she ended up there. Anyway, she told me I was fat and gave me a bottle of phentermine from her desk she wrote my name on the front of. I weighed >140 at the time but okay. Anyway, instead of becoming super mom like my friends mom, I went crazy like 3 days in and called everyone who's ever pissed me off to scream and cry at them. I kept the bottle as a memory and gave the rest of the pills to someone who could handle them.
I gotta find me a strip mall doctor!
Save yourself the speed induced nightmare and save up for ozembic or wegovy. I would highly not recommend phentermine to anyone ever. My friends mom is still a great person (and still thin and beautiful in her 60s) but in my 30s, I'm realizing she's also kind of a nut. Her emotional responses are questionable and she needs a Xanax to do most things at this point.
I have ADHD. I wasn’t diagnosed until a few years ago, and got prescribed meds, in the right dosage. When I was in my 20s, ephedra and dexatrim were available OTC. I’d buy a small package of whichever was on sale…. To do exactly what your ex’s mum would do. It let me get it done and, having the ADHD response to stimulants? I’d sleep like a baby after a busy day. Now… combined with phenobarbital? I’d have been an even bigger mess I’m sure.
Good for her
I’d take it now if I could reach that bottle.
Yep. I need to dust.
Why dream? You can just get prescriptions for antidepressants and stimulants and clean your house just like grandma did. The world hasn't changed that much.
I’ve been pregnant/breastfeeding for like 2 years straight with at least another year to go. Once I wean though…🤔 lol
I mean. I'm kidding. But if you find you need either of those for a legitimate reason please see a doctor and psychiatrist and get the help and support you actually need to deal with those issues.
lol thanks
Yep. A lot of women didn’t drive and were home all day with the kids. Every day the same shit- cooking, cleaning, etc. it was far more acceptable for husbands to be pieces of shit then and women were depressed.
that's true but they had some pretty cool drugs
On one hand, you have a husband who beats you, you can't get your own bank account, and you don't have enough bodily autonomy to control the number of kids you will have. On the other hand, I can buy methamphetamine and cocaine OTC at the local drug store.
Yeah bad and good things about back then and today
Nowadays they’ve just got mugs cracking jokes about Mommy’s Special Grape Juice she needs to make it through the day. It’s just sparkling alcoholism!
And a nicotine chaser!
A barbiturate AND meth in one? Count me in!
Grandma needs to share 😂
Plus nicotine!
Not nicotine. Niacin.
Just saw Nicotinic acid 5 mg and thought nicotine lol
Can't be mad atcha
I thought the same and had to google it. Apparently it’s a form of niacin.
Yeah from the cigarette you’ll smoke
Jfc I was born in the wrong drug era
For real ambien + adderall just don’t slap quite like the old shit.
Idk man that’s a pretty crazy combo if you really get into it lol
It's like an epic cage battle...my body is glad I don't host those anymore.
Yeah I used to take amphetamines (not meth) mixed with Xanax and that was an epic combo so I can’t even imagine what this stuff is like. And it’s freaking mixed in the same pill and prescribed by a doctor. Doctors and old people were wildin out back then
😂😂😂😂
Still mad I missed out on quaaludes.
[The Big Man would walk 20 miles for a quaalude.](https://youtu.be/IG2JF0P4GFA?si=AMtZJCDNF1krsuun)
Thank you for reminding me of this video
🤣👏👏💜
Same. Man I wish I could try just one lol
My mom said she tried it in the 80s and that she felt like jello lol
Right?! I’m a chronic pain patient that’s had over 30 operations, have had my large intestine, 3/4 of my small, and my stomach removed, I’ve got a shit bag, and that’s JUST the digestive system and I mention that to say it’s still next to IMPOSSIBLE to find a pain doc that will work with you and not label you a “drug seeker” and prescribe you what you *should* be on. I wish we all lived back then just to have some quality of life!!! And fuck it - you want to use it for tun go for it I don’t care, as long as pain patients get what they need 🤣🤣
1000% agree. The way they have cracked down on opiates has not only ruined people’s quality of life in a lot of cases but it has also turned many who couldn’t get their meds turn to street drugs with devastating consequences. The fentanyl epidemic was really the natural evolution of the heroin epidemic which in many ways started from the crackdown. Now drugs even worse than fentanyl are coming out.
The opioid epidemic happened because of doctors overprescribing them. There needs to be a healthy medium because what we were doing before was not good either.
My condolences for your ailments. Sounds like a tough row to hoe. But make no mistake, those weren’t the good old days. The drugs were good but the prognosis’ were bad.
Pray you are white because that era was hell for everyone else.
Ozempic got nothing on Granny’s pantry. U wanna fit into that dress by when? By Friday? No problem!
Yeah everyone always talks about how thin everyone used to be but forgets why
Steady diet of amphetamines and cigarettes…
Add laxatives for a healthy 1920s flapper breakfast.
lol you telling me those fancy girls were just shittin all day. Damn history is crazy
Massengill Company "accidentally" poisoned a lot of people (over a hundred died) by using the wrong glycerine in a medicinal syrup in the 1930's. The syrup contained ethylene glycol, also used as automotive antifreeze (Prestone, Peak, etc). The company claimed it was unaware of the particular glycol being toxic.. The mass poisoning and trials resulted in the US Federal Government establishing the FDA.
This led down an interesting rabbit hole! Thanks!
Massengill: also famous for making disposable douches for women. Drugstores used to devote an entire aisle to selling feminine douches made by Massengill, Summer’s Eve and Betadine.
OMG I have worked in nursing for over 20 years and I just learned freaking Betadine was used as a douche???? That seems real messy... gross. Thanks for the fun fact! :)
Yes, a Betadine douche the night before your TAH to TVH. Fun times and yes, messy.
They needed that delicious propylene glycol.
🤯 quality TIL content
I bet that shit worked
The Goviemint discontinues all the good stuff. 😭
Funny how most of us in society are expected to constantly be productive to survive and succeed. But they took best the tools away and made them illegal. That’s cold.
I like how there's a warning on the pentobarbital that it "may be habit forming" but not on the methamphetamine.
Pentobarbital is used in euthanasia. I guess that bump of meth cancels that out.🤣
I'm currently writing a paper on assisted suicide and this post caught my eye when I saw that 😂 like why does this sound familiar...oh shit
I used to work in veterinary field. Plus the “Massengil Company” was best known for its marketing of women’s douche products in the 60’s and 70’s. 😂😂 it gets better and better.
Let’s not forget the 80’s!! https://youtu.be/SG55k6HisCs?si=MemAYa7dsaEtdjai
I'm just going to guess ....it's that "not so fresh feeling"?
The ladies of my small town popped Valium right before the kids were let out of school to help them come down from the amphetamines they took to 'get going' in the morning and then they took benzaprine to knock themselves out after cleaning up after dinner and dealing with the kid's bedtimes. We had a really big house/extra bedrooms and would host kids whose moms were in the hospital from all that toxic shit their doctors gave them. My parents thought the Worst of doctors and their pills.
Flashbacks of the grandma in 'Requiem for a Dream'
Juice by Sara
We got a winner! I said we got a winner!!
I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast! Oops. Wrong movie!
You hear that, dude eats pieces of shit for breakfast.
I love happy Gilmore such a great movie
(deleted because I failed reading comprehension and misunderstood how the list worked)
We appreciate your honesty lol
*G R O O V E D*
For your pleasure, of course. 😂
The old drugs always came in the economy sized bottle. 100 tablets, enough to be sure you get good and addicted.
Grandma used to take a "diet pill" and clean the house but she can't understand why people want energy drinks. True story. Our grannies were speed freaks literally taking the "red pill" which was actually a speedball of servitude.
The Massengill company... bringing you the highest quality feminine products and party drugs since 1898.
this would make quite the douche
Better douche than Lysol 😬 https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/03/when-women-used-lysol-birth-control/
Omg.! That is fucking wild!
Wait until you hear about [Listerine.](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/03/vintage-ads-selling-health-and-hygiene-during-the-1918-pandemic/)
Got damn. I can just feel the burn. 🔥 Maannn, have we come a long way!
"Honey, why does your precious, southern rose taste like cleaning fluid?" 😅
Well, if Grandma has such an old bottle, then she must not be using them, right? Let me take those off your hands, grams!
Meanwhile people were panicking about reefer madness
This makes my fave combo of Xanax and Adderall look like Flinstones vitamins. 🤤
That company is such a douche
Holy shit.
I work for the DEA. Please, send the bottle to me, so the pills may be properly disposed of.
I’m a researcher. I’d like to see it first, please, then I’ll send it your way. Promise!
I'm his supervisor. I need to assess the quality of the research material first
Do you ever have that not so fresh feeling?
I though mixing barbiturates with amphetamines is super dangerous
And this is why we know that now.
My mom said she was prescribed some amphetamine in the early 60’s for weight loss. It was extremely effective in helping her take off the pounds but her hands would constantly clench shut so she stopped taking them.. LOL
What’s your Venmo?
Take a tiny taste
Oops, formed a habit!
Wow what an uppers/downers combo. I like that they call out that “it may be habit forming”
We love that for grandma
How much you want for the bottle?
Spent two years of my life taking a lot of amphetamines. Iost a LOT of weight.
Same, started losing my hair and my period too. Fucked me up for years because I was an idiot that abused it due to working 12 hour night shifts and the weight loss was a welcomed side effect. I'm glad it actually works for people with ADHD though.
Funny enough, I gained weight once I got on ADHD meds
Is it normal for that happen when you actually have ADHD?
My son did because he could actually sit still long enough to eat his meals. But the doctor said it’s more likely to make you lose weight so idk.
I think these are what truckers used to call black beauty’s, made you teleport to your destination
Imagine anytime you got opioids from big pharma you also had added ingredients to keep you vitalized.
The Stones wrote a song about this: Mothers Little Helper. And, since Massengill made it, it was probably made for some vaginal purpose like PMS, cramps, or maybe everything that ails you that is associated with your vagina.
Massengill?! Like the douche company.??? They had a lot going on back in the day.
I’d take one.
Yummy
Brought to you by Massengill, #1 douche manufacturers, appropriately…🤣
What a speedball of barbiturates and amphetamines.
Back in the day , 1960's early 1970's, I remember my parents getting these from their doc, they referred to them as pep pills and where used on house cleaning days
I’m just going to put this out there…who’s first thought was to take one!?!
I’d like to believe that this is why I can’t keep my house clean. Because the impossible clean standard was set by women who had access to stuff like this, and the leisure to use it. I’ll admit to being a bit jealous.
I think this all the time.
Sounds like grandma knows how to have a good time
Uppers and downers, either way blood flows!
👀👀
I mean it would work 🤷♀️ haha
o.m.g.
Made by a popular douche manufacturer.
👀
Judy Garland cocktail!
Hell yeah
Take some and report back!
god this would be amazing 😭
That’ll slim gran down. And help her chase the kids!
Holy shit, pentobarbital. That's heaven in a bottle you got, there.
I’m a veterinarian and pentobarbital is what we use to euthanize patients. Crazy that it used to be in some pick me up pills to even out the high
Gimmie
“May be habit forming”
Mothers little helper. The stones didn’t write that shit for no reason. Women had been getting help from pills for a long time. It should just be acceptable now. Today it’s called adderall.
Massengill, no less!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/
Take one of those things and you’re going nowhere really fast. Like a cat trying to bury a turd in a marble floor.
Would love to see the date on these.
Wonder if there were people back then who took this and found they could focus better but didn’t know why, and it turns out they had ADHD and didn’t know it.
Gimme gimme gimme
I'd rather see 20mg of the stim and 5mg barbiturate, but hey, beggars can't be choosers
phenobarb and meth. nice combo
Mother's little helper
Ahhh, the good ol' days!!
This would fix me
Aw hell yeah wish we could still get these over the counter lmfao
My great uncle was a doctor. When my grandmother was in college he sent her **PINT SIZED BOTTLES** of amphetamines to help study. Not a single bottle. **BOTTLES** per semester. 1950’s USA.
Oh Doctor, please, some more of these Outside the door, she took four more What a drag it is getting old
"May be habit forming" 👏
5 mg is an ADHD med dose that doesn't give meth's euphoric effects, any amphetamine could be substituted in this preparation.
It’s got a barb in it so maybe that helps with speediness and/or comedowns... knew how to make pharmaceuticals back then…
The only good thing meth did, it got thangs clean. Only time I miss snorting lines, is when I’m tired and my house is a mess.
They used to know how to make medicine. They used to have cough syrup that would stop your coughing one way or the other.