I flagged that ad. Hopefully enough other people will do so too and it will be pulled. How would you feel if someone used your picture like that to mock you and your family?

I've seen this photo many times before, I think it's a joke.
Although I have no clue if the people in it know it's circulating.
It could be 35 years old, if it's from 1975 .

dilly, why would you flag the ad ?

Wouldn't be '75 -- maybe '85? Wasn't that the 'big hair' era?

I should research it !! I got married in 74 and my mom had big hair.
These people have frizzy mullets, it almost looks photoshopped and exagerated.
I keep hearing the song "lady bump" when I look at the picture.

No it is not photoshopped. Someone just hated this family and started emailing their photos around along with insults and mocking, to which others added more and it kept growing. That poor little boy probably read all the comments when he got older. Here is another photo of them taken a year later that circulated around the internet. It is NOT photoshopped. They look like a nice loving family.

Like I said before...How would you feel if someone nabbed your photo and posted it in a CL ad with a comment like "I'm selling my couch so I can pay for a nose job." or something like that?

Why would I flag it?? Things that are jokes, spoofs, or fake get flagged by everyone.

{{!gwi}}

They look happy.

Ah, that's sad. :(

Getting back to the original question. I have a friend that is very good on the computer. She helps friends and family with projects such as slide shows, scanning, copying CD's, DVD's, publishing cookbooks and family history books. She rarely takes payment, and instead ask for FOOD. lol She is not a cook, and relies on others to make meals for she and her husband. I think it's great and wonder why I didn't think of that!

Gosh, that is hurtful and immature, someone needs a life.

I would love to give people ideas on how to do their rooms. I see people on television that are absolutely awful, and they have their own show.

It makes it nicer when money is no object, but I think I could work with a modest amount. Not ten dollars of course like they show on TV. (lol)

I have a friend that does beautiful cakes, and she usually ends up doing them for free. She could charge a fortune for those wedding cakes, she's that good.

....Jane

LOL, I thought you were talking about...that movie with Robert Redford and Demi. lol

Okay folks. I never would have posted this had I thought it would cause such a stir! Geesh! It's just someone on our local CL trying to draw attention to an item they have for sale and possibly get voted for "Best of Craigslist". Which is just what I did. Personally, I thought it was hilarious.

As for that poor family being shamed all over the internet, my guess is they started the boat floating themselves. I think everyone has at least one photo of themselves or with their family, that is down right funny looking back on after a couple decades. Hairstyles, clothing and the goofy things many of have done in our lives are often funny in retrospect. It's just the way it is. Look how many folks turn their embarrassing videos into Those TV shows in hopes of having their fifteen minutes of fame and maybe even win some cash to boot.

Dilly Dally and Jane, if this family was deformed or odd looking in ways that were anything other than something that could easily be changed I'd have not posted it. I can't see comparing this to someone with an over-sized nose. That's not easily changed. Hair styles are by choice, noses aren't. I'm very sorry this offends you. I didn't mean to do so.
NHB and Jane, that's a neat idea that your friend has. I should do that. I hate to cook. HA!

Mitchdesj and Sweeby, as for the era of the photo, the style looks more eighties to me, I could be wrong, but the big bangs yell of that decade to me. It really doesn't matter though.
NatesGramm Nope. I wouldn't go that far for any piece of furniture. I do believe you got this was suppose to be a "funny".

And by the way, I'm not out of cash and I'm not this obsessive about buying furniture. I was attempting to be funny. Obviously I failed miserably. I can still control my urges and take the time to think things through before purchasing them. I passed up a perfectly good, actually beautiful, waterfall headboard yesterday that was only five dollars. It didn't have the foot-board and I couldn't vision re-purposing it any way that I thought would be worth the trouble.

I have seen that picture for years---it might even be in a book I have seen about mullets. I wouldnt be surprised if the kid in the picture leaked it. They have even done a bad picture thing on "Ellen", where people show bad school pictures.

I have bartered design services for gym training and some other things.

My comment was no reflection on you Justgotobeme. I would freak before I would put some of my old pictures on here, gawd.
I forgot about even saying anything on this subject, that's how much it meant to me. (lol)

....Jane

I think it's funny because the hairdos are over the top, no matter what year. Maybe, later on, they all had Fro's.

Hey I never had hair like that, I feel cheated somehow....

I have seen that same photo floating around the "funny e-mail" circuit for the past 2-3 years along with many other "dated" family pictures. I think one that a friend sent me was titled something like "Does Olen Mills take credit" or something similar. The photos featured the big hairdo's, mullets, curly perms (male and female), polyester bell bottoms and leisure suits, big collars...........basically just a "joke".

My children enjoy the picture of their dad in a brown polyester leisure suit with a floral type polyester shirt...yep, big collar. He was quite fashionable....at the time. And the slacks were bell bottom...and he is such a conservative guy.

I upholstered a sofa for my carpenter in exchange for installing my kitchen cabinets. Took a month, and the sofa turned out beautifully, but I still think I got the better end of the deal.

Me, too, Palimpsest. I did a family room-library once in exchange for a couple of months with the trainer who lived in it. The room was so in need of help that I couldn't say no!
He gave me a lovely T-shirt that said "Sweatin' to the Moldings."

The photo is from a blog called Awkward Family Photos. The writers of the blog also did a book. People usually send in their OWN photos.

Here is a link that might be useful: Awkward Family Photos

I don't understand people who trash others for posting something that has been all over the web for years....
Newdawn and newhomebuilder....what you said was hurtful to those who you "know"....why would you do that in defense of total strangers?
And that hair was from the very late 70's...I know I have a picture of me with huge hair....but tastefully done... LOL!
No one ever wants what I have to offer in exchange for what I want...
Take that as you wish.
Linda C

I bartered my drafting/design services with a contractor for a new two car garage and greenhouse. He got a "free" set of house plans to build his personal house and all I had to do was pay for the construction materials for our garage. That was a sweet deal!

That pic is epic. I have a great pic of DH and I at the height of the 80's big hair/mullet. My hair is at least 5" taller than my head, he's got the mullet to beat. We were the hottest couple in our town back then. Even today, when I see the pic of DH and his Def Leppard hair, I swoon.

(frighteningly...in 1988, DH had hair just like Joe, in the center...mine was like the guy to 2nd on the right)

And, yeah, we've always bartered our work/services for others. We've learned the hard way, to charge retail price for our product when trading, because we often don't get the same deal. For example, recently DH was going to trade a unique stone bench that retails for $400 and the guy wanted to give us a half cord of wood, because DH said he'd take $100 cash for it, since that is wholesale price. We've noticed that a lot of traders want to give us retail or contractor rates for our wholesale, so we now do trade at that rate, cash at another.

I own my on business. I belong to a barter group were you "trade" services for barter money. You can then use that "money" to buy goods or services from others in the organization. Everything from paying your electricity bill to going on a vacation or buying a new car. I think you could sustain your whole life just by bartering thru this organization. You pay taxes on the bartered money. The organization makes money because they charge a small fee too each party when a transaction is made.