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dsvajda

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47. Ours was ...

Reply to Jeebo (Reply #22)

Wed Dec 4, 2024, 12:15 AM

Dec 4

I use the full telephone exchange name and number plus a few special characters as my password. Since we had two different exchanges and two different phone numbers, it works well for me. Until my memory finally fades.

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Who else remembers their childhood phone number but not the [View all] Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 OP

Guilty chicoescuela Dec 3 #1

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #2

Yeah, I always have to reset passwords. mucifer Dec 3 #3

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #6

284-8884 OAITW r.2.0 Dec 3 #4

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #7

sounds like an ambulance chasing lawyer rampartd Dec 3 #15

Was my childhood phone number True Dough Dec 3 #5

🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #8

Is that you, Jenny? Xavier Breath Dec 3 #18

From the block? Like JLo? True Dough Dec 3 #33

Main 5 65 21!!! elleng Dec 3 #9

😃 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #11

Hint: Make your next password your childhood phone number.... Sogo Dec 3 #10

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 3 #12

GOOD idea!!!!! elleng Dec 3 #13

I've done that already! catchnrelease Dec 3 #24

lol! FemDemERA Dec 3 #26

Raises hand! virgdem Dec 3 #14

Not only my childhood phone #... fairfaxvadem Dec 3 #16

B-R-549 SalamanderSleeps Dec 3 #17

Not me Faux pas Dec 3 #19

I remember my childhood phone number. It started with WH. Dem2theMax Dec 3 #20

That would be me. NNadir Dec 3 #21

Ours was TRINITY 2-1575 Jeebo Dec 3 #22

Texas-4-3023. Hubby's was - Avenue - something, something. Srkdqltr Dec 3 #32

Ours was ... dsvajda Dec 4 #47

I moved every two years Skittles Dec 3 #23

010 353 4636677 mwooldri Dec 3 #25

7642 - and it was a party line. There were 6 other houses on our line dai13sy Dec 3 #27

Childhood phone number was easy to remember mwooldri Dec 3 #28

Yeeup WestMichRad Dec 3 #29

Anybody remember the "beep line"? crimycarny Dec 3 #30

Remember my phone # from the 1970s and those of 5 or 6 friends AdamGG Dec 3 #31

Wow, I just remembered my neighbor's phone number in Greece 50 years ago. Pompoy Dec 3 #34

These days only mine and my wife's, not the son's and daughter's. Pompoy Dec 3 #38

Vernon 7 -2628 later 837-2628 in late 1950s. PufPuf23 Dec 3 #35

I guess I am older than most of those that replied.... walkingman Dec 3 #36

Yes! snacker Dec 4 #48

Yes snacker Dec 4 #49

I carefully write my passwords down on a piece of paper. Then I only have to remember where I put the piece of paper. hay rick Dec 3 #37

The password I created the other day was my childhood telephone number Brother Buzz Dec 3 #39

Same here. My siblings and I use that number for lots of things. Midnight Writer Dec 4 #57

EL5-7442 bobandrileysmom Dec 3 #40

25 R 12 DallasNE Dec 3 #41

My parents still have the same phone number as when I was a child... RockRaven Dec 3 #42

BRunswick 8 5748 boonecreek Dec 3 #43

Yep IbogaProject Dec 3 #44

Sure Cirsium Dec 4 #45

ARdmore 1-1307 hedda_foil Dec 4 #46

Does the one from age 12 count? By the time i was 12, my family... 3catwoman3 Dec 4 #50

Me. TE-7-3942. Try it. See if I answer. HUAJIAO Dec 4 #51

That's me! KitFox Dec 4 #52

Can't remember that phone number other than it started duncang Dec 4 #53

All the time. Think it through. DFW Dec 4 #54

Yep Figarosmom Dec 4 #55

I remember the one phone number until I moved out at age 16 airplaneman Dec 4 #56

Well, I use a password manager.... CousinIT Dec 4 #58