what is an item you had in your childhood home that isn't in your current home?

[learthebear]

for me
a mini football goal

Landline
Typewriter
Fax machine
Two-way radio
Video cassette player

70s string art pictures
Glass dining table and swivel dining chairs
Light shades that used to pull right down to the table
Shared bedrooms
Sliding patio doors
Vented central heating system
Rented TV
Toilet seat covers
Dog kennel
Fishpond
Electric cooker with an overhead grill
Sandpit
Garage
Vegetable patch
Compost heap
Rockery

Coal bunker
Cellar

A huge crying boy picture,
Record player,
Posters all over my bedroom wall,
A stick to the wall pic above the chimney breast of Swedish mountains and a waterfall
A plastic donkey that when you lifted up the tail a cigarette popped out of his bum hole
A flip up plastic phone book,
Striped pillows on the bed filled with feathers,
Glass birds that rocked backwards and forwards in kitchen window,
Glass fish with colours,
Bendy glass bottles,
Brass ornaments that I had to clean!
Plastic imitation flowers that came free on a packet of soap powder
A k-Tell record cleaner.
Yes I was a 60s baby.

Rotary dial telephone
Old range cooker

So much.
A glass cabinet for the good plates/bowls/cutlery that when I was growing up never got used, the cutlery maybe a few times, Now my parents use it for Christmas and other holidays.
A dishwasher (we had one for a while, then it died and never replaced it).
A linen and a walk-in cupboard,
Now we (my partner,son, and me) have a tiny cupboard for all those things.
Basically, 2 of everything lounge rooms, dining rooms actually had 3 bathrooms 2 car garage (at my parents home).
we have a 1 car garage but can not fit any cars in it it's just so small, and for us, it's our storage space as we have no storage in our unit/flat/apartment.

They do

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Coffee percolator

Tons of Tupperware

Plastic A-Z phone book thingy

Binatone video game

Trim phone

A single tub washing machine with a folding mangle.
A Swingball set.
A fish pond.
An upright piano.
A record player, a radio, and a cassette recorder/player.
Ashtrays.

A linen and a walk-in cupboard,
Now we (my partner,son, and me) have a tiny cupboard for all those things.

My grandparents had similar for linen and blankets. No central heating so the blankets were piled high in winter. Hot water bottles too, though we still use a hot water bottle.

A record player

A landline

Electric storage heaters

Twin tub

A corgi

Chip pan

A coal fire

a teapot

Place mats.

A Toby jug. 😄
A 'maiden' (clothes airer)
A cloth that was specifically designated the 'floor cloth' (and was usually damp and dirty, ew)
A random bowl of fat in the fridge for frying.
A Pong game (showing my age now 😄) that could rarely be actually played because the TV was always on and being watched.
A chip pan.
Football pools coupons.

OMG this too. How could I have forgotten ashtrays? 😄

A bidet! And for a time, an outside toilet.

A car.
A working fireplace.
A copy of the yellow pages.
A cat.
A spare room
Care bear bedding.

Soda Stream!!!

Carpet sweeper
Mincer
A big bowl type machine that peeled potatoes
A gas fire
Big stereo unit (record player, tape machine and radio)with a smoky plastic lid.

The fact that a cigarette-shitting donkey existed in the world has made my day. I don’t smoke, but if I ever find one of these I might just take it up.

Lots of children
A cat
A swimming pool
A walk-in pantry
Free-standing wardrobes
Dressing tables

Ash trays
Coal fire, coal house
Mangle
Crittall windows
Umbrella stand
Letter rack
Larder with marble shelf

An airing cupboard.

Deep fat fryer. I miss those chips 🤔

the argos

Sorry - posted on wrong thread.

I miss the record player cabinet, with the lift up lid that never got opened.

(edited original post as it wasn’t related to the thread)