To say I was born in the early 70s

Matching lunch boxes and flasks - I had a Holly Hobby one.....

Vienna never got to number one. It was kept off by Shaddap ya face 🤣

Some great 'remembers' on this Richard Digance video.

Idiot mittens! With elastic that went through your coat sleeves. 🧤

When I was properly young - Button Moon, Chorlton and the Wheelies. Rentaghost, Number 73 “Hey you, get ready get on your feet get into gear and hit the street…”

Saturdays of The A-Team, Dallas, Dynasty, 3-2-1, so so many sit coms (loved The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)

Getting your first bit of "proper" jewellery.

Helen, if you're out there, do you still have your gold coffee bean?

Nicking Pick n Mix or make-up from Woolies, it was a rite of passage. No wonder they went bust.

Lipgloss in a glass bottle with a roller ball on the top. Tasted of e additives and fake fruit.🤢

Awww - great thread! Nothing much to add - you've all said it all. Did anyone mention Smash Hits magazine?

Never experienced this though :

Teachers throwing board rubbers at you or whacking the metre ruler on your desk when you were talking in class

St Ivel Gold
Lo bars
The F Plan diet

Rimmel frosted peach lipstick
Lip gloss (flavoured and very shiny)
Glitter on cheeks

Dear Cathy & Claire

Smash Hits

Recording the top 40 on Sunday afternoon on Radio 1

The first time Channel 4 came on

Who shot JR?

Freda the tortoise going into hibernation

Off to Woolworths for some cover stick, Rimmel Heather Shimmer topped with the stinger of Lipcote! Then squeeze into the photo booth with your mate. Black and white unless you were flush and didn’t mind the orange curtains behind you.

A computer room at school (BBC Microcomputer) which was only populated by nerdy boys. Girls and those not doing science, you will have no need of a computer in your life.

Calling home, letting it ring 3 times then hanging up. And parents knowing that it meant to pick me up from a pre-arranged location. Meant no need to use a 10p on an actual phone call.

DH and I still do this to let each other know we're on our way home.

Teachers throwing board rubbers at you or whacking the metre ruler on your desk when you were talking in class

This is such a lovely thread. Bringing back so many memories. I remember having a BMX and my mate had a Chopper and we used to swap being out for hours just riding around… bliss.

Ah, teachers cars:

Citroen Dolly in cream/burgundy cool now, not so much then
Rover SD1 Vitesse - and he was a history teacher too!
Morris Minor.
VW Beatle before they got cool.

Boots 17 Sweet Ice lipstick (God knows why, it made people looks like corpses)

Yes we loved a good annual, Christmas Day night reading!

Omg you could even get the Swap Shop Annual!!!!!

Oh iced champick. I’d forgotten about that. Also twilight teaser lippy

Watching TV all together as a family, whether it was a David Attenborough documentary or The Jewel in the Crown (I was quite young, remember it being a bit saucy!).

Getting really excited by the films on TV especially at Christmas

Obsession with the Megan Follows Anne of Green Gables

Playing 'the advert game' (shutting eyes and first to guess as correctly wins).

As a late teen, making compilation tapes for boyfriends with a subtext in the chosen songs!

Finding it so easy to get a Saturday job at 16.

Going on a language exchange (state school).

French francs were a thing!

@BlastedPimples
Those headbands with springs on and glittery balls bouncing around on the springs

Deely Boppers!

Spending your afternoons and weekends riding your bike around the estate with your friends.

Spending the entirety of the school holidays outside, only coming home for tea.

Calling home, letting it ring 3 times then hanging up. And parents knowing that it meant to pick me up from a pre-arranged location. Meant no need to use a 10p on an actual phone call.

Answering the phone with your phone number.

Taking phone calls sat on the bottom stair. Oh the joys when cordless phones made an appearance and I could take a call in my bedroom!

The Top 40 really mattered ij those days too. I remember having a 20 minute conversation at Guides when a particular song by the Jam went straight to number one.

Also songs staying at number one for MONTHS

Ultravox - Vienna
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Spandau Ballet - True
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You GoGo

I feel like these songs were at number one for months on end or maybe it just seemed like that.

Ankle length skirts with the tassels around the hem.
Ra-ra skirts.
Being a bridesmaid in a froofy peach dress with a fucking massive bow on my not insubstantial 15yo arse thanks Julie

And yes to pp Why don't you and Willow the Wisp!

Right. So:
Sinclair ZX81, with the extra 16k of RAM on the back
When that blew up, ZX Spectrum
BBC Model B at school
Later, Atari 520STFM (and 1040STF at school)
One of our teachers having an Escort XR3i in diamond white and thinking he was cool (he was not)
Raleigh Grifter bikes
Just about everyone wearing bloody moon boots in winter

Ooh love this!
Such nostalgia!
Ski Sunday, the muppet show on a Sunday evening (I was allowed to stay up for this).
The snooker world championship!
My mum used to go late night food shopping on a Thursday while my dad looked after us after work. She said it was her 'me time'......
Bejam
Gardeners question time on a Sunday afternoon after lunch. Very boring.
Those ball hoppers which was a ball with a plastic rim which you jumped up and down on (not space hoppers)
I had a pogo stick which I never mastered.