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.

I give you:

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Claw the 80s hen sounds great, and I'm up for that BUT only in addition to what I've asked for already. Do both, or I'm sacking you off as my maid of honour and starting 1000 threads about what a bitch you are.

These were quite the thing too - 'living flame'. With a modest background, these were quite posh where I lived.

Actually to be fair, if you'd actually 'bought' it and not stolen it, it was quite posh.

You were middle class if you bought something knowing it was nicked, but I digress...

Sorry keep I’ve forgotten your other demands! I did start to write them down in my Filofax, with my multi coloured pen. Got distracted by my novelty pencil case and smelling my scented erasers!

I use Air-Wick to erase my scent.

Filofax

The funniest thing was people thinking they were somehow "new" ... (who remembers the guy in "Eastenders" who had one surgically attached to his hand ?).

Turned out they were from WW1 and services officers uniforms had a special pocket to fit one perfectly. I found this out when I went shopping with a friend in the RAF, and we went to the London store. They bought an insert which recorded the officers shooting range results.

This is me in the 80's at my interview for the Household Guards

(not really)

A lot of this stuff was in my aunt's house in the 1970s. She was clearly a big follower of trends! She had the pin and string pictures, the telephone book with the dial thing on the front, umpteen ashtrays and the 'table lighter'.

I remember when my friend, circa 1986, got one a Sony Sports cassette player in yellow. I really wanted one, but my DM thought they were too expensive and got me something cheaper.

Not that the cassette player was tacky or grim, it was the height of sophistication for a 12-year-old back then.

june oh yes, let’s talk about mother’s and their cheap versions of things!

I wanted a Burberry mac. My mum went to the market and got me a mac with a check lining!

I wanted a Racer bike, I got a second hand chopper, with the little gear thing and the seat duct taped!

At Christmas we always had a bowl of shelled nuts, but no nut cracker! I’m sure the same lot got used every year, for display purposes!

I’m scarred for life 😁

Clip on animals from the early 80s...

I had this - I support Manchester City - my mother bought be a second hand football shirt from the market - West Ham. Hmmm

Wanted Adidas football boots - she gets me some animous National Health version (at school we called that Adidas two stripe, or Adidas National Health).

In the end it cost more, because I wouldn't wear them (the boots) and had to save up to get what I wanted anyway - would have been much better for her to give me money towards what I did want!

I got a Chopper bike just as 'Grifter' came out. arrrrrgh.
Was always the same - always a couple of years behind the times!

Still, it didn't do me any harm, it's not like I'm bloody bitter and twisted about the 70s and 80's massively oppressed childhood or anything ;-)

I actually had one of these jumpers. They were popular (really they were).
God knows how.

Apart from Heather Shimmer lipstick ( I now wear Amethyst Shimmer) and Wade Wimsies, I seem to have been deprived in the 70's and 80's.

We did have a knitted poodle for a spare toilet roll but I think my Nana gave it to my Mother which she bought from what she called a Bazaar (Jumble Sale).

Haha! Ungrateful little sods we were!

I was more tactful, I put my obvious dodgy take on a Burberry mac, into my school bag (a Harrods plastic carrier bag, we would go to Harrods, just to get a bag!) the moment I left the house and froze to death walking to school!

We recently removed one of those glass doors from out front room!

Ok I will supply the irritating 5yo flower girl. And demand I get to choose what she wears. Definitely clashing with the bridesmaids. And insist on a 24/7 lolly supply for her.
And throw a massive strop when she's not in every seventy billion wedding photos.

Re what will be laughed at in the future- grey interiors? I remember them from the late 80s, so maybe grey is on a 40 year rotation?

My MiL has a cabinet full of bloody Lladro!

As a child of the early 60s, I'm loving this thread!

That glass door looks fabulous to me!

I think maybe our houses have got safer in the last 70 years!

Oh my god... the acrylic jumper with 3 white stars on! I was just going to post that! Mine was emerald green with white stars. Were they not something to do with Wigan's Chosen Few?

No, they were American - they just ended up popular over here.
I think there were popular all over the UK

And yes to mother's always buying us the Leeds Kirkgate Market version of what we really wanted. I wanted Levis and got bought some cheap ones off of Leeds Market (or it might have been Keighley) that left a trail of blue dye on everything I touched. My legs looked like something from a horror film when I took them off. I had a matching waistcoat too. That left blue armpits on all my shirts.

@shampainchary Wade! Thank you I'm straight to eBay 😁

I give you...... the Queen Anne butter dish from Argos. I received one as a gift and was scared to use it. I always expected it to walk off sideways like a crab. 😂