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.

Those purple ink sheets, duplicating machine thing at school. Computers that took up a room, home computers that had cassette players.

Girdles!
Playing with knickers elastic at school (French skipping)
The arrival of punk.
The Queens Silver Jubilee.

"Does anyone remember the fish man in the pubs? Used to come round with seafood as a snack"

My Mum did this on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night's as a second job.
Our fridge was chockablock with seafood all over the weekend, but we couldn't have a single bite.

I remember pig bins in the street, nearby residents put the scraps and vegetable peelings in it and the pig man came round every few days to empty it, I remember the coal man carrying half a hundred weight of coal on his back up the cut to the coal cellar. I remember my mother heating the iron, an iron iron, on the gas stove and how when she got an electric iron it had to be plugged into the ceiling light fitting, no sockets in the house which still had working gas mantles, handy when the meter ran out. On a lighter note I remember the fad for wearing cardigans back to front, older ladies with hair dyed lavender, pink and blue. I remember outside loos and slipper baths, I even remember the lamplighter on his bike with a long stick turning the street lights on, God I'm old.

My dad getting a pounds worth of petrol at the petrol station
1st colour TV
Andy Pandy
The wooden tops
The wee bottles of milk at school (they were disgusting as were always warm) only like it ice cold
Bakelit phones
Listening to the radio in school (they were large brown wood square shaped with speaker in centre)
Ten shilling notes
Half crowns
Bringing money to school to buy savings stamps which were put in a book

Winlinbin! How amazing that your Dad was in The Appleyards! Looking back, they were such happy innocent days.
I also remember the big white five pound notes that were still around then, Mum had one in her dressing table drawer, maybe an emergency fund?!
We used to have our summer holiday in Bournemouth, which meant an exciting journey on a steam train out of Waterloo, with such an evocative smell of coal, oil and steam.
Sweets from the shop next door to our school, four for an old penny of black jacks, or sherbet-filled flying saucers, or tuppence for a small paper bag of sherbet, which was just flavoured sugar.
Such happy days!

I remember when we had cable (before sky) and there was a game on there called oddballs, all the neighbourhood kids loved it and gathered in our house to play 😂😂 also dial up, imagine the kids of today. Taking 10 minutes to connect, then if you got a phone call that was it game over and had to start again.

The pools man coming to the door so my dad could make a bet on the footy.

Knocking on the off license glass sliding door to get some pop and sweets.

Power cuts. All. The. Time.

Irish dad being rounded up by police in 70s - Birmingham pub bombings.

Mars bars bring 7p

Phone number only having 4 digits.

Terry Wogan on the radio. The first time!

Les Dawson on telly.

Only getting new clothes at Christmas.

Taking dinner money into school.in a tobacco tin to give to the teacher. I think the school had provided the tobacco tins

The first episode of Doctor Who.
1963.

Scared the wits out of me and my sisters.

When your parent could send you down the corner shop with a note to get some fags 🤣🤣

Our phone number was 3 digits. Those were the days :)

Asking 'are you on the phone?'

Rag and bone man, and mum using a dolly tub and mangle in the back yard. Moved up to a twin tub which seemed the height of sophistication. We used a tin bath in front of the fire (till we moved when I was 5 to the luxury of a semi with proper bathroom! Frost on the inside of bedroom windows, Outside toilets, black and white TV, remember going to friends house to marvel at their colour TV. We had no phone at home till I was 12, so had to trudge down the road to the phone is to call my friends.. Makes me feel ancient!

I remember watching the first episode of Grange Hill and Trish being given wrong directions on her first day by an older child. I loved Grange Hill and still watched it and Countdown after school.at a friend's house in the sixth form. (It was Georgina and the hidden donkey by then')

I remember the rag and bone man and his horse and cart.

Rag and bone man.
Flat bedded truck selling lemonade, limeade etc by the crate in the street.
Sanitary belts.
No tv, then a black and white tv with a dial, no buttons.
Half pennies.
Hair dryers that sat on the ground and had a big pipe attached.

Bamboozle on Teletext.

Everyone in my family gathering around a beige PC that had a noisy modem attached and marvelling at the incredibly slow internet.

The Coal Man covered in soot carrying a sack on his back and emptying it into my Nan's coal bunker.

Thinking I looked great as a teenager covered in glitter and hair mascara.

Buffalo G shoes? Baby G watches?

Also remember one of my Nans sellotaping a couple of pound coins in birthday cards.

Using ink pens to do Architectural /!Engineering drawings.

Ten shilling notes. The were brown and worth 50p.

I can remember Tiswas

Farthings, sixpences, threepence, florins ....
Many of the things others have mentioned

Pools man and Tupperware parties 😀

Phones with dials and curly cords.

My nhs glasses.

More recently when filling in dob having to scroll down for ages till I get to my year or birth.

Going to the travel agent and booking a holiday with only the 'review' available being that the travel agents friend of a friend went once 3 years ago.

Leaded petrol.