I haven't watched them in 21 years.

Yes, only one. The Young and The Restless. Years ago I used to watch several, but only one now.

Sue

I'm still a fan of Days of Our Lives, after all these years. Because of work, I haven't watched Days in real time for years but I still record it every day. I try and catch up once a week. There are a lot of rumors that Days will be the next soap to be cancelled. I sure hope not, since watching this is my silly pleasure.

My sister watches them religiously, and has for about 35 years. I'm afraid I don't watch them, I figure life is tough enough with out watching someone else's tales of woe.

Alexis

I still record All My Children.

no, just never got interested, when the children were young there was no time in the day to watch soaps.

I used to watch "Days of Our Lives". I got hooked on it when I cared for my aging grandparents, they watched several soaps... but that is the one I ended up following for years. I don't watch it anymore.

I have watched Days of our Lives since the very beginning with my mom and grandmother! Through school, if I was sick, it was on....summertime it was on. I have always had a lunch break where I could go home for an hour, and I would plan it around that. Now...I am able to watch it at work! LOL If we are busy and I can't have the volume up, it isn't like I miss anything...figure it all out tomorrow! =) I "don't HAVE to watch it" but I do enjoy it...and I have since 1965! Every day when I hear the theme song...I have a pic of my mom & grandma in my head! :))

No. I cannot stand them. But in the late 50s, there was a weekly afternoon serial type soap opera drama that was completed every week with a well known actress whose name I cannot recall. Those I watched. Was it Phyllis Thatcher?

Oops, meant to mention I watched them during the summertime only.

I'm guilty, I watch One Life to Live.

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Used to watch Guiding Light, love it. Now I watch As the world turns, now and then. Going to cancel it next year, I heard. Oh well.

Not since they cancelled Guiding Light. I had watched it since 1966. I don't like any of the rest of them. I used to watch As the World Turns but gave it up years ago. I got bored with it. Used to watch Y & R at lunch but really thought it was awful. So no more for me.

Linda

I have watched DOL for years.Probably ever since it started.I stopped a few years ago because it seemed to be stuck in a rut.LOL Then my DH started coming home for lunch at that time and we would eat in front of the TV.He got interested in it and I started watching with him.I can take it or leave it (it's so predictable) but he still thinks he can't miss a day of it.LOL he was relly upset today becaue it wasn't on because of the Olympics! If I need him to take me shopping or something we can't go until it's over.LOL

No, I don't. I'm not a tv watcher. I'd rather be crafting.

I DVR General Hospital and have been a fan for 30 years.

I used to watch afternoon soaps in the 60's when I was in high school. . I liked Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and Dark Shadows. Both long gone. My baby sister is and always was a fan of All My Children.

Never

I like One Life to Live and usually have All My Children on since it comes on first. Don't you just love how nobody ever really dies on those shows? I love the story lines about how they can miraculously come back to life!

Watched The Edge of Night when I was pg, which was 44 years ago.

No, I don't!

When DH and I first got married (in 1962) I watched General Hospital. When I changed jobs I couldn't watch it any longer.
After several years I was a SAHM and started watching it....but found out nothing had really changed so I quit.
Have never watched a soap opera since then.
Funny thing about soap operas. When I was eight years old I was very ill and out of school for four months or so. I started listening to Ma Perkins on the radio and got hooked.
I used to discuss it with my visiting teacher. (I think that was in 1948.)

I started watching GH the very first episode...stayed current while I was working only because ABC used top broadcast over a radio station.
Kept up until about 2003, then lost interest when my favortie characters were being canned and kids were SORAS'd (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome).
I think the only 2 shows I watched between them and the end of 2009 were the 25th Anniversary of Luke & Laura's wedding and Robin's wedding.
Out of sheer boredom,I turned it on last week when we had all that snow...been getting caught up, but not as totally into it as before.

No, I never watch them.
Lois

I've watched General Hospital (with a few short gaps) since the beginning. I was even invited to be on the set for a full day of taping, back in 1995. It was Ingo Rademacher's first day (taping) as Jasper Jax. I was given an autographed script and blueprints of sets... It was a lot of fun!

I really don't watch soaps, but the Bold and the Beautiful is always on during my lunch hour. It is the most RIDICULOUS show I have ever seen. It's only 1/2 hr so there's limited characters. The same story line keeps going over and over and over and people are sleeping with their step mothers and brothers, etc. etc. I cannot believe anyone really watches this show.

Ive watched days since childhood.My mother watched it back when Julie had long hair and was every man on the show...I still see it occasionally because its on when Im at dialysis.

I've watched All My Children off and on since it began. I used to watch Ryan's Hope years ago. I remember Another World also that ended a long time ago.

I don't watch any, but if I'm watching something else, and it is over, a SO will come on. What the heck was that about yesterday when a bride lifted her veil and guests were surprised that she wasn't really dead?!!!

I watched "All My Children" for 25 years. Then I switched to Y&R. One day I just thought to myself, "I'm wasting my time watching this". I guess it just didn't fit me anymore. So I stopped watching. That was about 15 years ago. I don't miss them at all.
Donna

My SIL used to watch a lot of the soaps. She was such a fan she actually went to Soap Opera Conventions. She got to mix and mingle with her favorite stars. She has a huge VHS library of past shows she taped. Wonder if she ever watches them? She's single (now age 52) and never had a boyfriend, so I guess they provided an emotional outlet.

I only watch Y & R faithfully :-)
Deb

funny i should answer this post as i'm watching days, lol...

Thanks for mEntioning Another World. That was probably my favorite in the 60's. Russ Matthews, Alice Matthews, Steve Frame, all the rest.

I've watched Days of our Lives since the start of the show.