What things did you really enjoy but your DC will never get to experience?

[Doubledenimrocks]

Just reminiscing today and thinking about how much I enjoyed the Clothes Show magazine and actually magazines in general. I feel like these are pretty obsolete now and my teens will never have this simple experience.

Same goes for going to the video shop and choosing a film for the night or waiting for the chart show every weekend to record it.

Things are obviously completely different nowadays. What things did you really enjoy that your DC will never experience?

Getting a new album and listening to it in its entirety.

Having homework meet ups in the library with friends so you could each find some of the books needed and save time.
Having to search the encyclopedia britannica for answers to homework.
Packing some sandwiches in a back oack and going cycling to look for adventures or walk through the woods
Building a den in the local woods.
My great aunt saving the children's cartoon magazine from the Sunday paper and sending them to me in the post
Getting a book token or a 50p from relatives sellotaped in a birthday card.
Writing to my best friend and spraying the paper with 'perfume'
Making mud pies or our own perfume in the garden and selling them to our parents for a penny.
Getting 10p to spend and the local paper shop for sweets and getting loads
Collecting 1/2 pence coins.
Girls and boys clothes were much less pink and blue we all wore similar things in all different colours and everything was second hand
All the parents 'closing' our close so that the kids could learn to ride without stabilisers on the same day in the road and no one complained
Roller discos on at the local sports centre.
Looking round tammy girl and deciding what 1 item to buy with all your birthday money.

Can still remember the smell of Tammy girl, the florescent scrunches/bobbles and crop tops

Mischievous night, the night before bonfire night. Trying to steal wood from rivals bonfires, to make your own bonfire bigger.

Where we lived, us and a few neighbouring houses would have a joint bonfire. The kids collected wood for weeks and the parents would do food and buy fireworks.

One of the highlights of my childhood.

Yes clothes show live!!

There being a biggest band in the uk. I think one direction were the last. Dd1 was learning about the Beatles and is baffled!

Life without social media.

Waiting for things - weekly smash hits, photos developed.

Being at home and having no contact with anyone other than those at home.

Remembering phone numbers.

This

Letting the house phone ring 3 times to let your mum know you arrived safely

Watching The Word followed by Eurotrash and keeping the volume down just in case your parents heard

Brookside omnibus on a Saturday (we used to race around doing shopping, running errands etc so we could watch it. )

Knock-a-door-run.

Bottles of Green cream soda, Lemonade and Dandelion and Burdock for your dad from the Pop man.

Buying More! Magazine to laugh at Position of the Fortnight

Lighting your mums ciggies on the bars of the electric fire

Being sent to the shop with a written request for
ciggies and them being put 'on tick'.

Being the tv remote control

Nipping next door to Diane and borrowing tea bags/milk/cigs

Ditto 50p for the TV

St Joseph's Penny. We could never afford anything for it

Getting a new album and listening to it in its entirety.

Before the advent of the CD, it was so much faff to try to skip a track (back a bit, no too far; fast forward, no that's too much!) that you would often just leave it running - and you would sometimes hear some great songs that you would otherwise have just ignored and never got to know (as well as plenty of meh songs too!)

Proper Jelly Tots before they ruined them
and made them dome shaped.

Youth clubs

only one or two adults usually young there to supervise us

we loved it we didn’t do much just hung around that there is hardly any is a real shame teenagers don’t need constant organised activities they need a space where they can just be

Programmes on TV that EVERYONE would watch - and then you would talk about them afterwards, because you knew 1/3 of the population of the country had all watched them together - Top of the Pops, Grange Hill, The Morcombe and Wise Christmas special. The chatter in school / the office / everywhere after Boy George / Culture Club's first appearance on TotP - because everyone watched it and everyone watched it at the same time.

Politicians who were honest and passionate and really believed in what they stood for. No matter what party they belonged to, whether you agreed with them or not, there was a different culture of "This is what I believe, support me, or vote for me if you think that is right" rather than the 21st century politicians who are "What can I say that will get me the votes / go down well with the public".

Being able to have similar relationships with their grandparents like I had with mine, going there every two weeks, spending weeks at their house in the summer...
Due to distance and a larger generational gap.
It makes me really sad, my grandparents made my childhood so much better.

Gladiators and blind date with my mum in our 2 up 2 down. Not having a single branded item and not caring. Video shops and a pizza takeaway that wasn't dominoes etc. my mum bought me clothes from pool market and I was thrilled.

It's all gone hasn't it. And you realise how lovely a childhood in the 80's and 90's was.

Going out down town and not worrying about posting the perfect picture on social media!

Shared TV - you knew almost everyone had watched Neighbours or even David Attenborough.

As my relatives live abroad I only saw them occasionally, special expensive calls made at Christmas and it was so special- now the children FaceTime regularly.

Going to the video rental store on a Saturday night to rent a film and get a box of Malteasers!

Recording TV - I remember my mum crouched over the video recorder trying to get it to record Bergerac or whatever. Now it’s all there whenever you want it.

Just millions of kids everywhere playing outside. We’d be in our garden one minute, then playing a massive game of tig, then off on our bikes somewhere. Always someone ‘out’ to hang around with.

Out all day in the woods climbing trees, making dens, zip lining across a river. Scrumping apples,drinking cider in a field with your mates.
Getting excited at the arrival of a catalogue and looking at the clothes.
Top of the Pops on a Thursday evening.
Having a pack of Quavers and a Pepsi in a glass bottle in a pub garden on a Friday evening with parents. Then going for a fish supper.
Reading Jackie magazine in bed on Saturday morning.
Going Christmas shopping with Mum after school when it had got dark by 4.p.m and loving the festive lights.

Like others have said I think it will be freedom. The freedom to play out all day in the summer with friends who lived nearby. Exploring on our bikes, in and out of each others houses, exploring the woods in the park - they felt like a forest. Building a swing over the stream and swinging across it.
It makes me sad that if our children did this kind of stuff they would be labelled feral and as a parent my choices would be questioned.
We were able to explore and make mad choices and explore and be adventurous.

Yes, these days, scrumping apples just means shoplifting an iPhone

Even in the 90s I remember going to the library to get books for school assignments.

No Google or smart phones. Now you can get information at the touch of a button. I think that part of studying, researching is lost .

Climbing up huge stacks of hay bales and making dens I must have only been 5

LAN parties!

Buying CDs and the excitement of going home to listen to them.

Advent calendars with just pictures, no chocolates. For some reason I was obsessed with finding a picture of a robin!