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.

Tin bath on a nail by the back door
Sharing an outside loo with 4 other families
The rag and bone man with his horse exchanging old clothes for donkey stones or balloons
hula hoops the first time round
walking everywhere
getting our first telly. the cabinet was massive and the telly was 12"
we had to crowd round and squint to see it but we thought it was great
getting proper bus tickets from a machine that went 'kerching' I always wanted to be a bus conductress
that's enough for now!

staying up really late to record (onto a cassette tape) computer games off the radio for the ZX81/Spectrum. We actually had a ZX80 as well as my DF was In Charge of computers at school and "acquired" it. No idea what happened to it, but I imagine it would be quite valuable now.

Really enjoying this thread!

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I had a zx81 I think we'll a 1/3 share in one (with siblings) given my dd gets impatient if a web page takes more than 10 secs to load NO WAY could she have coped with 90 MINS to download a game (and even then it didn't always work and you had to start all over again!)

Wooden school desks with lids and ink wells

Turn dial phones
VHS 📼
Walkmans
Cassette tapes
BBC computer
Amiga 500 computer
Rainbow
Button moon
Ceefax
Chucky egg computer game
Lemmings computer game
Ink killers - school stationary
Typex

@Julianaa now that is a thing of the past! Wonder why we don't see that anymore?!

Ice on the inside of the windows in Winter.

Hiding with my Mom from the gypsies when they knocked on the door.

Being sent to the shop to buy my Dad’s cigarettes when I was in junior school, I remember my teacher sent me to buy him some midway through a lesson once too.

Power cuts in the early 1970s

It being the norm to come home from school for lunch, and just walking with friends from infant school while our Moms were home waiting for us.

The week of the Queen's coronation, we were all given a commemorative mug at school.Mum told me to ask my teacher for one for my little sister. I didn't dare ask my teacher, so I went home, pretended I'd asked, and said "Mrs. Green said no, but she can have one next time."

Mum muttered "Well, she'll be waiting a bloody long time!" Very true, as it happens!

We had a student smoking room at Sixth form at school in the 80s!

Outside toilet
Smoking on trains, planes, in cinemas etc
The pantry ( still have one! )
Power cuts
Gas fire in bedroom and electric fire in bathroom
Cassette tapes

Milk being delivered by horse and cart and my mum taking me out to give it a carrot. This was very early eighties in a normal surburban area so it must have been one of the last working milk cart horses i would imagine.

the winter of '63 & wearing trousers to school because of the snow & our toilet froze in the house getting frozen milk which pushed the foil lid up

when I was really little our old house had gas lighting from the gas mantles with those paper bulbs

Rewinding VHS videos after you'd watched them. See also - Blockbuster.
Taping the top 40 off the radio.
Pepsi music cds.
10 b&h being about £2.
Map reading on days out in the car.
Teletext / ceefax.
Fixing your cassette tapes by inserting a pencil into the hole and turning it.

Elastic sanitary belts with hooks front and back where you hooked on the sanitary towels. Grim.

Ohhh God - I remember those too, @doeswhatitsaysonthetin - you are right - utterly grim. And my mum didn’t want them going in the bin, so I had to put them, wrapped in newspaper, in a bag in a cupboard, and she’s burn them in the coke fired central heating boiler - I was old enough to have periods, but not old enough to be trusted with Fire!

Getting colour TV.
Paying 2p in the phone box in the village to ring home from camp.
Rag and bone man with horse.
Chimney sweep, going out to look for the brush from the top.
Ice on the inside of the window in winter.
Power cuts.
Winter of discontent.
Reel to reel tape recorder.

Useless gadgets/products by K-Tel

Britannia Music Club

Lucozade in glass bottles wrapped in orange cellophane only sold in chemists. Only drank when you were ill.

Playing a ping pong tennis computer game that plugged into the TV

Cake or block mascara with a seperate brush.

If you wanted your hair lightened, you had it "streaked" No different blonde colours, just bleach and pulled through with a cap.

My mum had block mascara!

The death of JFK. The coal man. Playing in the Anderson Shelther. Police Call boxes as in Dr. Who. The first episode of Dr. Who!
I'm ancient!

Bergerac. I was totally shocked and def thought ‘well, guess that’s it then. Today I have officially become ‘old’ ‘ when I mentioned Bergerac at work and they hadn’t a clue what I was talking about. I count Bergerac as being practically yesterday. How do my colleagues not know about it?! Did they watch Midsomer Murders for all those years, completely unaware of how tight that Nettles’ trousers used to be, and how he was practically a pin-up?

We have a one £1 note on the kitchen table. No idea where it appeared from.

When toothpaste came in a round, flat tin.

Champion the Wonder Horse in black and white.

Curling tongs that you put in the grate to heat up - and the unfortunate singeing smell when DM got it wrong

Germolene was the cure-all for everything, unless it was a grazed knee, in which case you had to suffer TCP first.

Orange and lemon fruit slices being the ultimate Christmas luxury confectionery.

Holding up Quality Street wrappers in front of your eyes while watching tv to pretend you had a colour set.

When the Light Programme changed to Radio 2.

Wooden draining boards.

When they played the National Anthem in the cinema at the end of the film.

Outside toilet
Princess Anne marrying Captain Mark Phillips
Death of Elvis
Silver Jubilee
Jaws, Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Grease at the cinema