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.

elephant sorted.

butocks wear whatever you like. Naked but for a football scarf and deeleyboppers if you want, as long as you come!

It better be a City scarf!

Torn, you had your chance and you blew it.

My nan, god rest her soul, used to have a bar in her living room and those glass clowns.

The Merlin brought back a distant memory of my childhood torn so thank you for that. And I agree with you in its magnificence.

I also remember those chicken tiles in my parents kitchen. They had the blue ones in the bathroom (actually they looked quite nice at the time). And the coffee table with the tiles on it.

We had a 'door' from the hallway to the kitchen. Brown vinyl and it folded up and opened out whilst sliding along a track. Well, I think that's what it should have done but I recall it just hanging limply most of the time until my dad put it back into the grooves again.

Keep, I am not reading any of your posts so I cannot know that I have blown it!

OMG concertina doors! that was what my mum had for her under stairs 'pantry'!!!
Brown vinyl. Spooky

Oy. My DH still wears his kecks like the rollers. They're so out, they're in!

lol kecks... thats a long lost term

Who had the pin and string art?

I remember being compelled to make those string pictures as part of the craft activities during in-hospital school. The horror of it is with me still.

I tried to resurrect art with string, but got told to get knotted

OMG I had those exact same shoes catchyusername.

I can honestly say that at least one member of my family at any given time has owned every object mentioned on this thread. I feel sort of proud :)

Don't mean to embarrass you but it's 'mousse knuckle' for men. :p

I’d kill
For that drinks trolley!

Maybe we are all related?

My surname is Clampett, formerly of Beverley Hills - any relation?

My mum had a bathroom suite that colour-with pink Artex on the walls!

TornFromTheInside I honestly thought it was a fire hydrant thingy whatever its called!

Mum used to put silverskin onions on the sticks as well.

Don't mean to embarrass you but it's 'mousse knuckle' for men

I am staggered at the detailed knowledge of such subjects such innocent ladies.
I have had my eyes opened - someone have lifted the 1970's multicoloured knitted veil from my eyes!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. We had so many of these exact items! There must have been less choice in the 70s/80s.
My parents still have some out on show now!

We were so poor we didn't have any of these. But when my friend and I went to D.H. Lawrence's house in Eastwood, we were both amazed because it is just like how we grew up! In the sitting room where the arm-chair and table are, both of these are the same as we had, as are many other things. When I was little, people used to give stuff they were throwing away to us. Now it would sell for loads of money!! But I was looked down on by my school friends who had the drinks trolleys and so on because my house was so old-fashioned!!

I've still got a couple of those picnic boxes.

The Soda Syphon? it was basically a sort of flask that you put a cartridge of gas into and it made carbonated water (Soda water I would assume). Then you squeezed the trigger handle and squirted it into a glass - it spurted with some pressure if I recall correctly

We did have a Schreiber (spelling?) side-board around about 1976. I didn't like it much and cut a hole in the back to put a wire through to the electricity plug. I was in big trouble!!