I'm so old...

[jennymanara]

I remember when Iceberg lettuce was exotic
When you had to load up a computer game using a tape recorder
When hitchhikers were common

Ah I loved Bamboozle on teletext

Pluto was still a planet

Screaming at someone to get off the internet because you couldnt use the house phone

Stick on Garfields on car windows...

... had forgotten about teletext too

Bonus Print. Double Print or may Triple Print so you could share photos with friends!

Waiting six months for a landline to be installed.
Early closing on Wednesdays.
Buying an electrical appliance and then having to buy and fit the plug as well.

The rag and bone man came on Monday, the pop man on a Thursday.

Black & white TV, Ready Steady Go on Fridays, and Donovan singing Catch the Wind.

Vesta dried ready meals.

Milkman delivering Corona pop in glass bottles, ice cream soda made with the Corona cream soda.

Tiny bars of Cadburys chocolate wrapped in purple foil, 1d or 2d each (pre-decimilisation).

Washing machine that had a mangle attached, it washed but didn't spin and the mangle folded down inside when not in use.

I don’t remember it but my mum told me in her first flat you put coins into the box for heat and electricity. She would come home to darkness and put enough money in to last until bedtime.

My first mobile was huge and kept in a black case ( almost like a satchel)

I remember seeing Stars Wars in the theatre and being absolutely awed.

Books of stamps. I think my Mum had one for the Coop and one for Green Shield. I'm still not entirely sure what the Green Shield ones were for - can anyone remember?

Never wearing seatbelts. Cars filled to bursting point with children for the school run home. The most we ever managed was 10 in an Austin 1100!!!!

Home made clothes. Jumpers knitted by grannies and skirts and dresses made by mums. The jumpers always seemed to have really tight head holes.

Compulsory milk at nursery school, always slightly warm - vom!!!!! Still can't drink milk to this day.

The untold excitement of going for tea at a friend's house who had a Sodastream.

Black and white TV with 1 channel
oranges and bananas at christmas only (1 per child) bought in a special shop, because
no supermarkets
chocolate as the luxury it ought to be
no seat belts on cars
busses with a driver and a ticket seller in a tiny booth in the middle
and of course the moon landing - we were allowed to stay up

Trying to detangle large quantities of magnetic tape that had spooled out of your cassette and wrapped itself around the innards of your cassette player.

We have still have bag-twirling greengrocers round here.

I remember queuing for the phone: 500+ students and four booths. On a Saturday night it was a case of 'Hi mum hi Dad yeah I'm fine, bye!' Anything else went in the weekly letter.

I remember when we switched from old pence to new pence, it was so strange, Mum and I met a friend on her way back from the shops and she said "I can't wait for the old money to come back tomorrow, this np stuff is so confusing",

Waiting 28 days, for delivery. Kidd today, don't know they're born 😂

The Corona man delivering on Thursdays - we wanted cherryade but had to make do with lemonade
Dial-up Internet connection
Dan the sanitary man emptying outside loo - he had a horse and cart with a big tank that he emptied the 'bucket' into
Women frowned upon in pubs, my mother didn't go into one until I took her when I was 20!
Smiths crisps with the blue twist of salt
Gob stoppers the size of golf balls for 2d
Ice cream cones that were oblong

Decimalisation.

Watching the moon landings

When England win the men's football World Cup

The great drought of 1976

When Slade's Christmas record came out for the first time

Watching Z Cars

John Pertwee as the new Doctor

Black and white telly, with only three channels, two of nit all 3 of which shut down in the afternoons.

Cassette players being introduced for the first time

The introduction of cashpoint machines

Clackers - and the playground bans which made the headlines

The Yorkshire Ripper

Cars having chokes (but no rear seat belts)

"I'm still not entirely sure what the Green Shield ones were for - can anyone remember?"

You could cash them in IIRC from a catalogue, and from certain shops (I think there were some in cities that took them?) essentially it was the original version of a rewards card

"I'm still not entirely sure what the Green Shield ones were for - can anyone remember?"

Keeping the DGC (us) quietly occupied with licking and sticking

When Margaret Thatcher (milk snatcher) stopped free school milk. We still got the wee bottle at break but our parents had to pay 10p a week per child. Since this was slightly more than the milk cost we were also given a rich tea biscuit as well to make up the difference. The luxury of having an entire biscuit to myself every day was beyond my wildest dreams and made up for luke warm full fat milk.

The nit nurse coming round every term.

Renting out rooms in our house to lodgers to help pay the rent. One was an old lady called Mrs Roberts who could remember seeing Queen Victoria being driven down the London -Brighton road (now the A23).

The local sweet shop selling fizzy drinks from large bottles by the glass and the glasses were chained to a metal pole outside the door. Very hygienic.

Slightly later on you could buy whole bottles of fizzy drink and there was a 2p deposit on each bottle. We lived near a large park and we would search for bottles discarded by rich people who didn’t care about the 2p and return them to get the money. It was a nice little earner.

Manual choke on the car. Don't pull it out to far!

Leaving the choke out too long and flooding the engine.

Free school milk was often rank though! And of course although the (misogynist) press took to the rhyming slogan, it was actually the Wilson government who first withdrew it (from secondary age pupils). Anyone else remember it in secondaries?

And on a completely different note - I remember when genital herpes was first reported on (a disease which had been incredibly rare and therefore basically unknown increased over 1000 fold mainly in the 1970s) and life before HIV was discovered.

You,took the Green Shield stamps to the Green Sheila stamp,shop and exchanged them for household items. I think we got our first electric kettle that way. It took a LOT of stamps to get anything any good.

Later all the GSS shops became Argos as well. They ran side by side in the same premises until GSS stopped. Apparently the same man owned both companies.

Radio Luxembourg
Your parents putting a lock on the phone whilst they were out. So you tapped the number out to call friends.