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.

These fabulous things. Gran used to warm up fizzy lemonade and dish it up in these glasses for supper.

Ah, dental care in the 70s!

Oi, the drinks trolley is well back in fashion right now!

Handmade Orville!? A bit like this

We had beaten copper wallpaper. Looked vair swish (in the 80s) but the bastard thing would arc off the light switch and give you a small shock every time you turned The Big Light on or off.

IllHaveALargeGlassOfRed, OMG, we had some of those as well - what in god's name was my mother thinking of?!?!

The Big Light Yes

IllHaveALargeGlassOfRed

I remember playing scraps - loved them. No-one else apart from my Scottish friends remembers these, are you Scottish by any chance?

Indeed I am @GetoutofthatGarden

Playing scraps. I tried to find a non Scottish term but nope, scraps is what they are!

Beaten Copper in Manchester usually means a poor policeman involved in a scuffle!

Right @GetoutofthatGarden maybe you can me with this query!

Early to mid 80s clothing. Something we called a "smoothy jacket" which you got in the local markets/cheap shops. Mine was a pale grey with a contrasting blue collar. They were hip length, slight elasticated waist, semi shiny material and a wee bit puffy.

Maybe it was only a Dundee thing from Lorne St Market!

It wasn't just a Dundee thing
It was just you!

I'm beginning to think so Torn! My Dundonian DH doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about 🤨

Ice blue stay-prest, smoothy jacket, Y-Cardiff and smoothy shoes. Giving it laldy at the skool disco 😀

Y-Cardiff? Wtf? Y-cardi

Have you been at the sherry again?
What have I told you about that?

Scratchy woollen blankets and chenille bedspreads.

Sorry Torn

My mother still has this gem from our childhood.

+slips a large red to large glass of red+

Oh yuck MrsPuss 😷

MrsPuss has been banned for too much lip! ;-)

(not really) - hope she knew it was in jest!

I love that table grumpy

Those were candlewick bedspreads in Salford. I spent hours picking mine apart

I've got tonnes of naffness to post when MN decides to give me my 30 pics back

Anybody remember that 'Camp' coffee thing? looked like a HP sauce bottle but was liquid coffee concentrate or something like that.
My God, that was something.