Things you thought were posh/exciting/unattainable as a child that are actually everyday items

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I'm just searching for scotch tape on Amazon ready for Christmas. It got me thinking how double sided sticky tape was but a dream back when I was little. Blue Peter used it all the time but it was something I'd never have. The same with play dough. I only ever had plasticine. Scotch tape was fancy too, we only ever had yellow sellotape. Ribera. I'm sure I'll think of others.

Satsumas or nuts at any time other than Christmas.

Fruit scented pens.

Parents who liked each other.

In the 70’s;

Alpen museli
Ski yoghurts
Home furnishings from Habitat
Fresh coffee made in a percolator
Broadsheet newspapers
People who did yoga
People who regularly went to the theatre, museums, galleries
People who waited until evening to open their Christmas presents

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER think you meant to reply to @jennakong 🤣🤣🤣

I wondered what pink toilet rolls had to do with my Wimpy longings 🤣

But I do remember coloured toilet paper

I thought fax machines were amazing too! Still have noidea how they work!

Hallways. Porches. Utility rooms (although I still think they’re posh).

Avocados. Tofu.

These are still uppity foods imo but I eat them all the time now!

A telephone

Eating out

Holidays abroad, in fact any holiday apart from a few days visit to a relative

New furniture

Newish family car

Getting a taxi

Central heating

Shower (we had a rubber hose that went on the bath taps)

Grew up in the 70s and whilst we weren't poor, we didn't have any luxuries or spare money.

Clothes that weren't hand made.
Vegetables and herbs that weren't grown in the garden, like peppers, chilis, oregano.

I dreamed as a child of some way to turn off my bedroom light that didn't involve getting out from under the covers when I was finished reading and ready to go to sleep.

Also - related to that - warm feet.

And I coveted office tools like staplers, tape dispensers, staple picker outers...

Sky/cable TV.

A shell suit (eventually got bought one 2 years after everyone else stopped wearing them)

A soda stream.

Cabbage patch doll/any "it" toy.

Personal cd player.

curry or Chinese food
exotic veg like dates which we only had at xmas
flowers that weren’t grown in the garden

Jersey 2021. 😂

And it was usually luke-warm!

Yes to eating out. I don’t think we ever did this as a family in the 70s. I think we started to in the 80s but it would’ve been a big family occasion or special birthday. Same for takeaway.Maybe once or twice a year.I’m 51.

Lucozade when I was ill was very special and very restorative.

Hotdogs with all the toppings when on holiday at Butlins.

I didn't know anyone who lived in a detached house and didn't go in one until in my 20s. All my family and friends lived in council flats or council houses.

Marks & Spencer. Anything from there - clothes, food, especially clothes. Completely out of my orbit and very middle class, affluent it all seemed to me.

I have not one, but two grapefruit knives (thanks mum) and a set of grapefruit spoons with a pointy end and serrated edge. I still use them.
Going out and having a cup of tea. You can wait till you get home!
Imperial leather soap. Mum dabbing a tiny bit of Tweed behind her ears when she and dad very rarely went out.

Going to a restaurant for prawn cocktail and steak. Actually just going to a restaurant regardless

Having a curry

Being treated to a bitter lemon drink

Holidays abroad

Soda Stream

I’ve been Googling grapefruit knives and now I want one, love old fashioned kitchenalia

Going in attractions. We'd go on holiday and simply drive past attractions and never actually pay to go in. We went all the way to Lands End just to stay in the car, same thing at countless old castles, stately homes, theme parks, foresty places like Clumber Park etc. I've been to loads of places in the UK as a child, but never left the car.

What?? Why? That seems so mean, driving you to a theme park but staying in the car :(

I love this!

Usual stuff for me - Ribena, neapolitan. I remember when Dad brought home a tub of Toffee Fudge Gino Ginelli... I thought we must be moving up in the world!

Then came the late 90s when my mum started working again and we had all the trashy freezer food you can think of... baked bean pizza, instant whip...

Aapri Apricot Facial Scrub.

Owning a dishwasher was for posh people, eating at the table instead of on your lap, holidaying abroad, having an electric tin opener, all these were considered posh. Having a drive/ garage and a hallway was also for rich people.

@Benjispruce4 , AFAIK salmon was a luxury, before the advent of fish farms.