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

[learthebear]

for me
a mini football goal

Hi fi
Video player
Teas Maid
Record Player
Chiming clock
Flower Power curtains
Bidet
Wallpaper made of little bubbles you could press in
Corduroy covered furniture
Glo Worms
Corded telephone
Hot water tank / the ability to use all the hot water
A fluffy mat around the base of the loo 🤢

Grandfather clocks. Two. In a 3 bed sixties semi.

Yes, our surname was Bucket.

A heater on the wall in the bathroon
Chip pan
Ashtrays
2nd toilet
Swings in the garden
Bunkbeds
A dining room

A printer
A landline phone

Open coal fire
Chip pan
Outside toilet

An outside loo. We did have an indoor one too, though.
The house was built pre WW2 so the outdoor one would have been intended for the skivvy that so many people had then.

A music centre!
Black & white telly.

Kays Catalogue
Viennetta ice cream for a special treat
Ice Magic

A stand alone radio
a record player
a larder/pantry - it was between the kitchen and back hallway and had a small window to keep stuff cool with a fly screen over the window to stop anything getting inside.
recliner chairs
real open fire
bidet
black and white tv

Brown swirly patterned carpet.
Telephone table.
Bed blankets.
Whistling kettle on the gas oven.
Chip pan.
Coal bunker

Lino
An immersion heater
Spin dryer
Bry-nylon sheets
Redifusion telly
Redifusion wireless
creosote for the shed

A piano

Ours is a gateleg table. We’ve had it since we lived in a smaller home. It’s useful as is big enough for 8 if fully up. We would replace it with similar if we needed a new one

A TV without a remote control. You had to physically get up and press the numbered buttons.

A wall mounted manual tin opener.

100 watt light bulbs that got super hot to the touch as anyone who had to change one that went while it was on found out.

A shower hose attachment set up you had to attach to the sink or bath taps. They always used to be in Argos catalogues.

A huge entertainment system in brown that looked like a low side board. Whenever you switched it on or off you could hear the radio warm up and quietly fade for a few seconds. None of this instant sound malarkey.

A cupboard under the stairs.

A paraffin heater.

A hot water tank with emersion heater.

An airing cupboard the aforementioned tank lived in that held all the bedding and towels.

A physical Argos catalogue.

A set of china golliwogs playing musical instruments. You saved up coupons from Robinson's marmalade and sent them off for a free golliwog. It took quite a long time to collect the whole band.

Chip pan. Filled with lard.

Damp

Radiogram
Dining table
Sideboard

A ZX81 where I learnt to code a bit
A telephone table

A dart board

A sick bowl

Holy crap - not this but triggered a memory: piggy banks from one of the banks??? Was that real?

Tallboy
Sideboard record player
Writing bureau

Teasmade
Pouffe (with fluffy cover)
Onyx side table
Manual meat mincer
Rubber shower tap attachment
Hood hairdryer

Green Shield stamps.