Seriously tacky and grim...

[TornFromTheInside]

Inspired by a thread about hygiene - carpets in kitchens and toilets, I thought it could be interesting to recall some of the diabolical tat from the past.

Bushtailadventures I had that exact cabinet in my bedroom as a kid. I once bounced off my bed and split my lip on the drop down door.

Me and my sister, circa 1977ish.

I'm not saying which is me...

MooseBeTimeForSummer I bet you're from the same place as me...

I'm 59, and I used to do the pineapple chunks on sticks (very sophisticated we thought at the time). My brother gave me a tiled coffee table. I hated the Bay City Rollers, so none of their stuff applied........ but my MIL had every single crappy thing on here.

My auntie had Eternal Beau crockery. My mum had to be different so she went with the Harvest Garland. We had that stuff for years and years. Am now kind of wishing she'd kept it, because I've just seen that the teapot is worth about £50 and dinner plates are about £20!

My Grandma and Grandad had almost this exact sofa - so soft and snuggly, just like them.

And I had a Holly Hobbie quilt cover and pillowcase set, usually (mis) matched with the stripy flannel sheets DameSquashalot posted.

I don't think anyone I know had the Spanish Lady or Crying Boy pictures, but BrettAndersonscheekbones may have provided my next MN username!

Cheese and wine dos ....

"Dinner Dance" ?

and of course Tupperware parties.

National Housewives Register ?

Yes moose I had that lunch box with the road signs - educational lunch time! It was very sturdy, no squashed sarnies but quite big and almost took up the entire school bag!

I remember my school PTA holding fundraising "cheese and wine evenings", oh, and "Beetle Drives". What the actual feck was a Beetle Drive?!?!?!

Beetle drives / whist drives - ace !!

Pierrot the creepy clown

Holly Hobbie and Sarah Kay! 😍

I was desperate for one of these. Never got one

surly holly hobbie reminded me I had the Victoria Plum one, and wallpaper!!

My Nan had these wooden stags, used to freak me out a bit, gawd knows why!

Eternal Beau - Urgh.

Mind you, I would have the drinks trolley if only I had the room.

Oh yes, Holly Hobbie. Strawberry Shortcake and Victoria Plum too.

WingMirrorSpider - I have that exact glass hanging Siamese cat from when I was a child in the 1980s. I never knew there was a glass and mouse to go with it!

Strawberry shortcake! Smelled of...not strawberries!

mypoo yes, half a melon, which didn’t get thrown out! After sticks were removed, sliced up for us to eat!

Aww I actually got some Babysham and the glasses last Christmas. Not quite as I remember, it tastes like shit!

Yeah, I don't know what Strawberry Shortcake smelled of, but it definitely wasn't strawberries! haha!

Not forgetting, of course, the Flower Fairies and Rainbow Brite

Does anyone remember this book? I can't remember the main plot of it, but there was something about a buckle coming off Cindy's shoe and the Enchantress using it to freeze her foot?

Ive got an Ercoldrinja trolley in my living room, we’ve got the record player on it. I also have a sunburst clock ( I kept it from my nana house). When dds friends come round they look at stuff like we live in a museum

surly I Loved the flower fairies. My brother and sister had the rainbow brite characters.

Don’t remember the book, sorry, but i’m Now thinking about Folk of the Faraway Tree books, from around that time, loved those

I still have a Holly Hobby. My brother brought it with him when he was born! (No mum, I never believed that...)

@hamsterwheel my school bag was exactly that but red!! I also had a wm low carrier bag inside it to stop my crap getting wet

@MooseBeTimeForSummer I had that packed lunch box!!

vivalafrida Do you know Brian?