What can you remember that makes you seem ancient?

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I remember us getting our very first colour TV.

I can remember a rag and bone man coming up my granny’s street - can’t remember if it was a horse drawn trailer or not.

Granny had an Anderson shelter.

I remember not having to wear seatbelts.

When everyone used to smoke at work and in pubs.

I can just about remember the local co-op milk delivery coming in a horse drawn cart.

Floppy disks.

Neil Armstrong's moon landing - I was six. Also horse drawn rag and bone cart.

Turning the numbers on a dial on a phone.

The first Channel 4 episode, when videos became a thing and the introduction of breakfast TV.

When our area code got an extra digit! When channel 5 caused great excitement!

Putting 50p in the gas and electric meters

My work computer still has floppy disks!

Taking travellers cheques on holiday.
Writing letters to my best friend while on holiday.

White dog poo

Banda machine, anyone?

Getting running water. Yes really!

I sometimes still convert prices to old money. "What? Ten shillings for that???"

My gran had an Anderson shelter, no telephone and an outside loo. No indoor bathroom just a tin bath on a hook in the kitchen. She only moved in the mid 80's as the houses were being demolished. I loved her house.

Sixpences. I was actually born in the year of decimalisation but they were still in circulation for a bit

Sleeping in the Anderson shelter the night before my 3rd birthday.

Pop van.
DD was utterly baffled at concept of video rental stores recently too.

First TV aged 7
Grandads Moggy van
Pop Man delivering to Granny's
Sterilisd milk at Grannies with beer bottle tops
The first applemac...
Being the only person in the office of about 50 people not scared to get stuck in with the new computer - setting it up and teaching the secretaries how to use word processing and structure a file system so they knew what they had done, where it was and could find it. Showing how to do standard letters etc.

Being taught to double de clutch
Using a choke
No seatbelts in new cars
Black jacks and fruit salads being 2 a penny
It being normal to walk to school and families only having one car as the norm
the herb garden and the wombles first time around

My GM and a great-aunt both had fully functioning outside toilets - great fun, but cold in winter! They had indoor, too, but when they had a houseful people would 'just nip outside'.

Rotary phones.

The introduction of £1 coins and 20ps.

When you had to save vouchers from your My Little Pony boxes to send off for a baby. I was the first girl in my school to get a baby pony

I remember when the hill by my house was full of children on nature trails, not drug addicts.

Getting woken up by dad to see Torvill and Dean in 1984 (94? 82?).

I'm 43, we always had seatbelts as children, i loved mine as it was orange and clipped together like a pilot's (so i thought!). I used to pretend i had a seat-eject button that i'd press if my DSis was annoying me

Learning to type on an old-fashioned typewriter (not even an electric one).

When Soadstream was a 'thing'.

When Xmas TV used to be good.

Recording songs off the radio on cassettes.

My sister writing to 'Jim'll Fix It'. Happily he didn't.

My grandparents had an outside toilet. I hated it.
I can remember gwtting 2 chews for 1p. We had a rotary phone & a black & white tv for ages. I also remember taking bottles back to the shop & getting the deposit back.

Our first phone was a shared party line with neighbours about 6 doors up. We had to take turns to make calls.

Helping my mother with the washing by turning the mangle as she threaded the sheets through it.

The rag and bone man used to come round with a horse and cart

Toasting crumpets over the fire after school in the winter

When my mum was learning to drive, my sis and I were too young to be left at home, so we used to sit on the back seat of the driving instructor's car (no seat belts obviously) whilst our mum had her driving lesson.....

DH was born in the late 40s and he had a baby ration book issued

Sitting at the table having my tea and hearing a plane overhead and saying 'that's daddy's plane' and someone saying no it isn't and being grabbed and pushed down into the lowest part of the cupboard under the stairs so there was room for my teenage cousin and my mum and my grandad in there as well. It was an air raid and I was about 4yrs old. I'm not sure I've actually answered the OPs question because I suppose I am ancient, there's no 'seem' about it

O yes and there was a circular hole cut higher up in the wall of the cupboard, for fresh air I imagine, and I vividly remember the times when my grandfather would light up his pipe and puff it out of the hole, and there'd be a chorus of 'Thomas, put that light out!'

Yes to the extra digit in the telephone number.
How long before people are saying the old style car reg plates on these threads? Then I'll feel very old.

We had an outside toilet at the house share I had in uni- in 1996!

Having a party line instead of a private phone line.

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