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.

This thread has been an absolute treat, thank you all. I'm a late 70s baby and this has taken me back in time to some very happy memories.

Brown shagpile carpet anyone?

At one point Mellow Birds was all the coffee I needed - and a level teaspoon was plenty strong enough!

Torn's threads are always entertaining! ❤️

Aww you say the nicest things.
(wonders what's she's up to)

This beauty! No doily clad sideboard was complete without one !

Pissed on Bristol Cream! 😀

OMG Fibron

JaneJeffer I had a number of those purses. Every time I got one I swore I wouldn't pick the beads off, but I just couldn't resist it. Who remembers Brinylon sheets? Really sweaty and uncomfortable with sun burn, but 'dried so quickly and didn't need ironing'.

Pissed on Bristol Cream! 😀

Did it taste any better that way?

Ahem, I'm from Bristol and Fino Sherry is now the height of sophistication, I'll have you know. I'm just back from Portugal and had some gifts to buy for my lovely garden waterers and cat feeders. I so wanted to buy bottles of Mateus Rose so they could drink it and then melt a candle in it, however as they are even older than me I don't think they would get the joke.

Get busy with the fizzy! Soda stream for people without taste buds!

If you had tastebuds before - you won't after.
My mum's one used to come with packets - powder stuff. Rank.

I have LOVED this thread. 50s baby so grew up with all of these. I remember my nana having a vase filled with honesty which was like fur on small branches and some papery twigs. Obviously too poor for real flowers. Loved scraps swapping and playing bouncing balls off the walls. Played jacks at school. British bulldog in the playing field.

elephant my childhood bedside lamp was a Mateus Rose bottle (the posh sort, with a wicker cover) with an orange hessian lampshade, assembled by my Dad ... I loved it!

My mum and Dad have those smoky mugs in their trailer tent. They were one of their engagement presents. Love them!

We also recently removed a mint green bathroom suite and chicken tiles. Hideous was not sad to see them go.

Fab thread. I've got the candy stripe sheet on my bed at the moment. It's an original one from the 70s / 80s and it's still going strong

Ahh I remember the holiday souvenir dolls!

I had loads of them, most like this. I thought they were beautiful.

‘Choosing life’ and whether you fancied George or Andrew!

Vegetables used to taste different in the 70's -
They used to be boiled to death until you could hardly tell one from the other and it became like a vegetable soggy mash.

Mum's cooking? - no bloody thanks!

Tartyflette

Yes, my user name does indeed date from that era and I also had to learn it off by heart. What a strange connection!

My nan and grandad moved to Spain in 1973 (an up and coming place called Lloret de Mar) so we spent many holidays there. We always drove and one year DSis and I begged for a 3ft donkey each. Hers was pink and mine was blue. 2 days travelling back through France sharing the back seat with these two donkeys was how we got them home. I also had loads of the Spanish dress postcards (wish I knew where they were) plus my own fully polyester Spanish flamenco dress - I crackled as I walked but felt I was the bees knees.

Love this thread - I can identify with everything on it 😁.

Does anyone remember the Hush Puppies shoes with the holes in. They came in grey, black and burgundy. Our school wouldn't allow the grey ones but we got away with the burgundy ones. Seriously doubting they were Hush Puppies now as I can't find a picture of them at all.

I had a pair of the burgundy ones.

More 60s and 70s items we had:

Onyx table lamps
An oil lamp with a wick
Spong mincer
White pyrex as in the picture
Ashtrays with a button you pressed to make it all disappear
We had a (rented of course) video recorder with A REMOTE CONTROL. Except the remote control was actually on a very long wire which stretched across the room.
A battery TV as in the picture (this really was the height of technology at the time, bless my Dad for loving all this stuff)

There was a phase at school when all the boys started to wear Pringle or Lyle and Scott golf jumpers - obviously in school colours - they were very expensive. But out of school they wore the awful typical gold patterns of that time. What the heck were we thinking?

And... within the space about 4 years, we went from tying school ties with huge big knots, to tying them the wrong way around so they were super thin.

Your "seriously tacky and grim thread".

I'm about the first poster on there, and haven't been back since. I recognised you and you posted back I've no bloody clue who are! gimme a clue!. Ok, so I sound like a stalker now, but we've had "bantz" on a few threads. I think the anonymous letter one. Def the sex under the hedge one. And I pm'd you and another poster about that hysterical thread about some FB (or something) with the group and all the "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE" messages from the moderators. Do you know what I'm talking about?

And I PROMISE that I'm not a stalker, but you asked who I was and the thread is now up to about 400, and it would be ridiculous to answer you on there, so hence this PM. I want to go and read the thread now.

and I've no bloody clue who are! gimme a clue!
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