To say I was born in the early 70s

I remember them well and I still have a crush on Anthony Head, especially in the TV series Merlin >>swoon<<

Oh goodness me yes! Nick Stone! Christchurch road .... swoon. {He went to St Paul's Boys} are any of you married to him?!

Board rubbers were heavy hardwood with compacted felt for the ''rubber'' part.
Also teachers chucking bits of chalk at people chatting- but kids were so well behaved in school then.

A bit of chatting, and that was it.

Summer of 76 and cracked pavements. Also millions of ladybirds!

Dogs wandering around freely

White dog poo

Black and white TV - 3 channels

No seatbelts in the back of cars and not worn in the front

The pop man

Snow! Lots and lots of it and deep

Taping the charts on a Sunday evening

Going to discos and drinking draft fizzy orange pop

YY @Projectme the Black Beauty theme tune is like a Time Machine back to the 80s!

Dior Poison and CK Obsession

And me. I bloody hated that clown, but my mum loved it. 🙄

Sunday tea buffet
football pools
angel delight
crispy pancakes
Clearasil soap that burned your face
vosene shampoo as a kid then Timotei as a teenager
perms that needed a whole lot of
mousse and scrunch

Little pots of tiny sequin stars or glitter suspended in gel to swipe on your cheekbones for the school disco. Teamed with all in one skin tight brightly coloured leotard catsuit things like the green goddess on breakfast TV.
Anne French Cleansing milk or Bonne Bell 10 0 6 cleanser followed by Clearasil or Oxy 10!
Prize yogurts, Hippopotamousse.
Mum spending all Sunday making a roast and dessert from scratch, including Yorkshires, while dad sat on his arse watching telly.

A Jackie magazine and putting the poster all over my bedroom walls.

buying singles in woolies and playing them on my nans grammaphone thing
(singing along to my ding a ling- still wonder what that was all about)

I still use it, and have done since I was 15. I’m probably keeping the company afloat!

Heather Shimmer lippie by Rimmel

Half a can of hairspray on the brushed up section of hair on the side of your head.

Tubs of bright green hair gel

Black & White films on BBC2

Best music in the early to mid 80s and taping the charts on a sunday

Proper cooked from scratch meals, no crappy UPFs until Findus crispy pancakes came along (still have internal scarring from them taking the inside of my mouth off!! 😆)

Black Beauty on Sunday

Roller boots

No central heating til 1986!

Jackie and Just 17 magazines, or if you were more edgy Smash Hits.
Always listened to the Top 40 and taped the songs I liked, and never ever missed TOTP!

I did not know he is called Nigel until now. I can see why he went with John, Nigel does not have the same street-cred!

OMG that's it - I see wow still for sale! Wonder if it is made of the same stuff...?

My room was completely decked out in Pierrot - including the bin 🤦🏻‍♀️

Bat wing jumper with a frog or other animal on the front. Some had a bit you pressed so it squeaked.
Clingfilm on the inside of the windows stuck on with blue tac.
Trip to harrods and would sometimes see the lion cubs ( awful).
Jelly bags.
Pixie boots,large elastic belts.
Eating lots of stewed rhubarb and gooseberries from the garden.
Roller skating around the village.
Kick the can and British bulldog played up the green.

It was lipcote and can actually still buy it I was surprised to see

Lipcote I think it was. I reckon it was basically nail varnish!

YY to Twilight teaser, lace Madonna gloves and girls / boys playgrounds, frozen mousse and embarrassing braces on jeans.

Pierrot figurine with matching bedding
ISpy books
Scented erasers (I had a huge collection!)
Metal Mickey
Also dancing around the playground to that song 'Hey Mickey'
Velour pedal pushers at the school Christmas disco.
Space dust
Cabanas
Hollie Hobbie
Pods
RaRa skirts
Ski pants
Satin shorts and Vests sets bought in Spain
Perms
Grolsch bottle tops on my DMs
Ripped jeans the first time round
Care bears
Pound puppies
Cabbage patch dolls
Ghettoblasters
Black and white portable TVs
Soda stream
Vesta curry
Original My Little Pony
Sindy
Granny shoes? (with a wedgy wooden heel)
Camping outside in the garden
Being outdoors all day every day in the summer hols.
Fame!
Legwarmers (see above)
That's Life!
Auf Weidersehen Pet
Wooden desks at school
Pac Man
The Bionic Man
Kojak
Wonder Woman
Blondie
The Love Boat
Laverne and Shirley
The Sullivans
Lets Pretend
Happy Days

Some lip gloss we used to buy that you painted on with a brush attacked to the lid and it stung like hell. I cannot remember its name, it was clear with red writing I think. Lipstick would then take around 3 days to remove!

How do you get to be proper Gen X? And what is improper Gen X

i think I might be improper Gen X 🙈

Had to Google those ball hoppers for their name, they're called rock n hopper. We had them too. Looked like Saturn. Also got skateboards with wings.

Sunday night I always think Spitting Image. So many times I stayed up late watching that with school the next morning.

I was born in 1974. Army brat so moved a lot. Music for me was Adam and the Ants and Madness in primary school. Goth and synth pop early teens then Madchester/indie and rave. Smash hits was the best.

I vaguely remember cute little mini glass bottles of warm milk at break time. Playing out for hours even in foreign countries we had only just moved to. Every time we moved house being told to ‘go outside and make some friends’.

Kids have really lost out on free play and over protective parenting but I’m glad there is more MH awareness. I was so unhappy (in my room listening to goth). I hid it by getting smashed from 15 onwards which was completely normal at the time.