Agree that a lot of these were money related. I grew up in the 50s and 60s, when food was relatively a lot more expensive, rationing was still remembered so waste was appalling, hardly anyone had an automatic washing machine, and we had no central heating until I was 14.
One bathroom* for 6 of us (no shower) so we couldn’t all have a bath every day, the solid fuel boiler would never have coped and the immersion was too expensive to have on all the time.
*the loo was separate, as was usual at the time.
A ‘proper wash’ with a sponge or flannel kept for the purpose, was what we had in between baths. And no, it wasn’t ‘eewww’ - it was what most people had to do for ages before plentiful hot water was a thing.
No choice at meals, TBH it wouldn’t have occurred to us - my DM cooked everything from scratch. She was a pretty good cook though. Between-meal snacks just weren’t a thing, but much of that was because money was always extremely tight. Only ever had orange squash or chocolate biscuits at birthday parties, or friends’ houses.
I used to love the occasional tea at a GM’s house - she would buy us ‘luxuries’ like Dairylea triangles and Wagon Wheels - things we never had at home.
We didn’t have TV until I was 11, but ITV wasn’t forbidden - I did know someone whose parents thought ITV was common, though.
My folks didn’t actually use the C word, but saying ‘lounge’ and ‘toilet’ was frowned on - had to say sitting room and lavatory - ditto women smoking in the street. And until he died my DF didn’t like to see women drinking pints! You’d have a half of lager or cider.
Compared to some pps’ stories, though, considering they were born in 1916 and 1918, my folks were pretty much non-weird. The other thing I notice now, though obv. not at the time, was that I never once heard a racist, homophobic or anti-Semitic word from either of them.