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

When we used to answer our landline quoting the number! Wtf was that all about?!
Ring ring...
“Hello, 01455 657744”
Person: “Hello Jeff it’s me Tom”

Bizarre!

I remember the Green Shield shop in Birmingham, I don't remember what we got from there but I remember filling the books up, and the CoOp stamps too.

School milk was disgusting. I swear that it was stored in the sunniest place and the smell was horrible. I remember crying when it stopped, not because it stopped but because the youngest four children in each class were still to have it for some reason - and I was one of the four youngest in my class.

Margaret Thatcher "the Milk Snatcher" .. priceless!

My dad WAS the Pop Man!! He delivered Corona pops, pickled eggs and cooking oil to chippies all over the West Midlands. A firm called LOM, London Oil Medina.

Can't believe no one has mentioned CB radio. We used to pretend we were in Convoy the movie. "10 4 for a copy ...That's a big 10 4...Mercy's sake looks like we've got us a convoy" etc I've even still got the soundtrack on LP. Should i be admitting this?!

And what about the Raleigh Chopper? ..my childhood Harley Davidson

BooseysMom, surely your Dad was the Pop Mon!

Little bottles of orange juice - or was it squash? - delivered by the milkman, a third of a pint, sealed with a silver foil cap with tiny oranges printed on it.

I remember reading the Green Shield catalogue and realising we had no hope of getting anything better than some drinking glasses.

topcat2014 thank you! I'm sure Sally Traffic called it The Hot Air Balloon roundabout too if I recall.

No phone
No tv
No computer
Coal fire...1 for whole house
Washing machine that had a paddle in the middle
A mangle to get water out of clothes
Clothes horse round the one and only fire
to dry clothes
Bakelite radios
Worrying in case there was going to be another world war
Blankets not duvets.. with bedspreads
A square of carpet with Lino round the edge
Terry nappies
Omo Washing powder
Hand made clothes... they were lovely... mum was an excellent seamstress

@rosemarysalted ...
Radio Luxembourg

Oh yes! When i was little i used to have a beetle radio (like a ladybird but i called it a beetle!) and i used to listen to this whilst hiding under the bed sheets at night when i was supposed to be asleep!

Buying fireworks from the corner shop, I was about 8 or 9.

No home telephone...walking to the phone box and pressing 'B' to connect
Taking dinner money to school in old money... didn't know what to make of the new stuff🙄
Jackie magazine and Twinkle when younger
The milkman
Windows frosting on the inside
Coal fires and having to keep the lounge door shut to keep the heat in!

Paraffin heater in the hall. Such a cosy smell.

Leaving 10p by the phone when you rang to be collected from a party.

Letting the phone ring five times from a public phone box to say you were ready to be picked up from a known destination but not pay for the call.

Warm ciggie smoke fug on a misted up Routemaster on a wet day.

Frost inside single glazed windows alongside getting dressed rather quickly

Paper bus tickets. Plus if you were there at the right time the conductor would give you the end of the roll.

Visiting my mother in law in hospital, with an ashtray on her bedside table

Mother rented an automatic washer, it was as big as a chieftain tank, it bounced across the kitchen whilst spinning

I used to say our phone number when I answered the phone.

555343 hello

Single pain windows and hearing the birds pecking the putty v early in the morning
Dying for the next episode of Dallas
Watching Miss World and having my own scoreboard 😬
Great matches between Borg and McEnroe
Going to see my friends and coming back when the street lights went on ( getting into lots of mischief whilst hanging out with my friends)
Sitting on my dads knee whilst he drove a Zeffa ( maybe wrong spelling)
Going on holiday to Spain when “Viva Espana” was in the charts
4 star and 2 star petrol
The radio gram

@TheJellyBabyMadeMeDoIt
We had a comma too!
I also remember loosing all gears halfway up a hill and my dad fixing it with a cable tie. They were bloody awful vans. Always breaking down but I was very attached to ‘Bessie’.

Giving your pal a 'three ring' to let them know you were home safe.

Cars with no seat belts
Pull up aerials on cars
Not all cars had indicators
Having to push the family mini van to bump start it
Every one had a Haynes manual and a AtoZ

The pop man ( Alpine)
Milk man , though I still get my milk delivered now.

Black and white tv's with a tiny screen.
Much later betamax vcr the size of a suite case

Paraffin heaters and paraffin lamps we had about six in our house god knows how I didn't burn the house down

Suitcases with no wheels

Booty bags ( bag of mixed sweets & lollys )
10p mix from the news agents
Mojo were my fav
Cream soda sherbet, I loved this but almost fatal if you inhaled it !
Very rarely buying frozen stuff , except ice cream.
Twin tubs
No showers
Everyone sitting at the dinner table to eat all meals.
Only drink alcohol in the house on special occasions.
We had a dark room so printed our on photos ( from a 35mm film )
At weekends going out to play after breakfast and not coming home till tea time.

Conductors on buses taking money and using the fancy silver machine to print your little yellow ticket , usually with the date on it so faint you could barely read it.
Clipper cards
Smoking allowed upstairs on buses

Building gocarts from scraps of wood and pram wheels

Allotments being a necessity for a lot of families rather than something you did as a luxury.

That's all I can think of for now but there will be many many more

WinkyisbackontheButterBeer

Ours was called Nellie (her wing mirrors looked like elephant ears 😂)

Bags of broken biscuits. Some of them were barely dented!

And a bit before that, going to the tiny little corner shops on every street corner and buying groceries an ounce or two at a time.But if I was with my mum or my gran who bought a reasonable amount at a single setting (or coughed up an acceptable amount of chat and gossip) being given a biscuit from the tubs of loose biscuits in front of the cash register.

Buying our first colour tv when I was about 10 & just watching anything cos it was such a novelty!
Taking pop bottles back for the deposit
Playing really basic games on the tv & thinking it was the best thing ever!
Bonfire Night & Halloween etc not going on for weeks!
People actually talking to each other instead of constantly gazing at a screen
Another one who recorded The Top 40 on a Sunday night on cassette

Buying a quarter of sweets from the jars in the local shop