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.

We had one of these

And nylon sheets 😖

National health specs. My poor wee sister wore these with a giant eye patch to correct a lazy eye. She hated them and tried her best to destroy them but they were virtually indestructible

StoneofDestiny I remember Creamola Foam, the 'fizzy' drink you got if your parents were too tight to buy proper lemonade, even the slightly sub-par stuff from the Alpine van. Except my Mum rationed how much CF granules went into the glass, meaning you got water with a very vague taste of lemon, orange or raspberry and a couple of bubbles if you were lucky. A Scottish 70s right there.

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I used to eat Creamola straight out the tin. The burps! My god - they came from the soles of my feet!

I also had NHS specs, they were round pink ones and a large patch on one eye unfortunately it didn’t work and I am still practically blind in one eye but at least I ditched the specs when I was about 7 as it didn’t work.

Those were my glasses LargeGlass! 😂

I want the drinks trolley - including all the drinks!

You can't scare me. DD made me watch Celebrity Big Brother last night

CocteauTwin
I saw the stuff being sold in a retro tourist shop in Callendar a few years ago! Hate to think what was in it. It was like an experiment in a science lab making it 😂😂

Did you wear the patch actually on your eye or on the specs? My dad used to riiiiip it off my sisters eye 🤨

Ooh Double Dipper!

I was a mixer!

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and this 'drinks trolley' which my mother had

I have BOTH of those houseplants, Torn, but not the drinks trolley

My Horrible Nana had the toilet roll holder, but hers was pink - not unlike the delightful toilet set you have shown us

Margot I too was musing about cornish pasty shoes, but thought I might get some weird google images. We had sandals in the 70s that were possibly Clark's, I think we called them 'Jesus boots', anyway if you left them outside in the sun the soles would melt. I was reminded of this, on holiday, when Ds complained that his sliders were sticking to the pavement.

Did anyone else have this tastefully understated bedding? I had the matching curtains and lampshade, and my carpet was emblazoned in huge triffid stylee peach flowers.

Basically my whole bedroom looked like a really bad acid trip.

I wonder what people will post about us in 40 years.

Haven't RTFT but I'm guessing
Big words stenciled on walls - "Always KISS me GOODNIGHT" being the most common offense
Wooden cut-out words/letters giving tragically obvious advice, e.g. "Bathe" on the bathroom windowsill
Astroturf gardens

I’m sure I wore the patch on my good eye, with pink round specs on top, I was quite young, I don’t know how I managed to see though as my eye is quite bad, I spent a lot of my early childhood at the eye clinic, it doesn’t really bother me now as I have always had it, so it is not like suddenly losing most of your sight in one eye

The Toilet Bride is lovely!

I was quite lucky with NHS specs as a teenager because Elvis Costello was really cool, even if my classmates called me ' Joe 90'.

Joe 90 - In retrospect, is anybody else freaked by the young serial killer, his bizarre home set-up and BIG RAT?

This bloody thing

Wings of Love . . .

Also - that Chinese Woman with the green face. Also from Boots IIRC

Anyone remember Tabu perfume around the early 70's?

OMG OMG OMG!! The crochet squares waistcoat My mum had one! And the hanging glass ball net things with SHELLS on the tassels.Ahh my childgood. 😊My friends grandparents had the hanging things AND a mini bar with....a Pineapple ice container & Spinning bar stool!! Eh. Very Margo and Jerry!! 😁😉

Penelope we definitely had something with that pink design on it. I’d forgotten about it but seeing your pic has jogged something.

I also had orange nylon sheets.