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

Thank you for the Green Sheild explanation trackingmedown. I'm not entirely sure we ever managed to get anything! The books were always in the car, and I remember if we were good we got to lick the stamps to put in the books!!!!! Can you imagine that being a treat nowadays?!

Maps, road atlases and the London A to Z!

My Dad did quite a lot of driving for his job & liked to get a new road atlas every year & they're all still stacked up at their home! My mum used to barf if she had to map read, so I'd have to do it from the back seat of the car. I was really good at it. Utterly useless skill nowadays of course!

I used to love sticking the stamps in the books too. And when mum had one of those really big catalogues in the house I was in seventh heaven I loved looking at them so much. She stopped getting them in the end as they were always on at her to order more stuff (the companies not the catalogues).

I remember Energen starch reduced rolls. They did taste vaguely bready but were the texture of polystyrene.

Sat in our back room watching the old back and white tele and it would suddenly go off and my older DSis putting money in the back of it to get it to work again!!

having to put 50p in the gas meter ,
insurance man coming round ( ours was a real creep )
Very few supermarkets , we went to Shoppers Paradise or if we were rich Safeways
Heavy wooden garden gates
Gas cookers with pilot lights
Mum making 7 day stew in a huge pan on the aforementioned pilot light
More recently walkmans and then personal cd players .
Sending foil milk bottle tops to Blue Peter
Tony harts tv show Take hart ( I never got my pic on the gallery wall ) Morph and Chas .

@GrandmaSteglitszch 😂

SerenDippitty, my mum ate Energen search reduced rolls to try to lose weight.
My brother and I thought they were made of brown paper.