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

[learthebear]

for me
a mini football goal

Hostess trolley (although my mum still has hers and I borrow it if I'm hosting Christmas!)

Coal fires, one of which heated the hot water
Burco boiler
Dining table
Twin tub
Outside toilet
Stables
Orchard
Stairs
A pantry
A cellar
Pull chain toilet

Yup, it was NatWest!

To add to the list here already....
A wooden television
A TV aerial on the roof
Pc desk with multiple pull out drawers
Floppy disks

Artexed ceilings

The Belt

which was used to whack me with😡

Brentford nylons bright orange bedspreads. It was bloody awful if you caught a snagged bit of toenail on it, because if you moved your foot, the toenail would stick and be ripped off.

Landline
PC
Biscuit Barrel
Ornaments
Printed photos
Hi Fi

My intensely annoying golden child kid brother.

A radiogram
A twin tub
A black and white tv
A record player
A cassette player
A coal fire
A fire guard
A poker
A carpet sweeper
A settle
A tall boy
A larder
A chip pan
A pressure cooker
A trike (mine)
The downstairs toilet was outside

So much.

An entrance hallway
An upstairs bathroom
A utility room
A pantry
A tumble dryer
An airing cupboard
A spare loo
A landline
A video player

But we didn’t have a boiler and central heating growing up, so on balance it’s just about better.

A three piece suite with wooden bits on the arms.
Letter racks.
Marley floor tiles.
Sticky back plastic.
Formica topped kitchen table.
Ribbon fly screens on the back door.
A giant whiskey bottle used for saving spare change.
A BexBissell carpet sweeper.
Cardboard containers of AJAX on the bathroom shelf.
An ashtray on the side of the bath.
Everything decorated with sea shells and a lamp made from a sea urchin.
Fag coupons.
A shelf full of miniature drinks bottle bought back from holidays (never opened).
Novelty cigarette lighter in the form of a gun.
Paintings on velvet (often of Elvis).
Printed mirrors (also Elvis, but often Coca cola).
Wall art etched on copper set against a hessian background.
No hand basin in the bathroom and a dad who shaved at the kitchen sink.
Dripping.
The constant smell of Butcher's Tripe dog food.

Electric knife
Chiming clocks
Brown and orange walls
Swirly carpets
Black and white TV
Video recorder

All of these things still exist in my childhood home

Electric carving knife :)

A record player. I’d love one now

An oil lamp
An single electric hob
A primus stove
A valve radio
A metal dust bin
A gramophone

Pink fluffy toilet/sink/bath mats.
A knitted doll cover for toilet roll.
Blue shag carpet in bathroom.
Wall mounted telephone
Flowery wall paper
Polystyrene ceiling tiles.
Stripey flannelette sheets.
A gramophone.

Nylon sheets
Men

Antimacassars on the living room furniture

Orange furniture! I was a 70s child and there is a photo of me and my siblings sitting on an orange chair inntge living room. Everything in the 70s seened to be orange, mustard or brown coloured! Clothing and decor.
I still do have a record player (modern) and a folding flap table which is really useful.

A pantry
A coal shed
An outside loo (second toilet)

Record player
Tape deck

A plastic wall mounted dispenser of loose leaf tea (why the fuck?)

Plug in 2 bar heaters that smelt of burning dust

Parrafin heater in hall

Nylon sheets (terrible for giving elbow burn)

Ice on the inside of windows in winter

Chimney sweeps

Mangles

Rickets

Landline phone
Radio
Video recorder
Ashtrays
Fire guard
Calor gas fire (moved around to warm up rooms pre central heating)
Condensation
A mat in the bathroom that went round the toilet basin
Record player or Hifi system
Chip pan
Foil concertina christmas decorations to hang from the ceiling
Artex ceilings

Littlewoods catalogue
An old orange washing up bowl that was the sick bowl
Serving hatch from the kitchen to dining room
Video player

Puke-making religious art. Dropping the Sacred Heart print from an upper floor window into a skip was the cathartic highlight of clearing my mother's house.