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

[learthebear]

for me
a mini football goal

So if pink fluffy bathroom mats are over what do pp use instead ...or is it all tiling ?

• I have bathroom mats and toilet mats still !

A spare room, separate dining room and a utility room
Photocopier (dad worked from home)
Fax (ditto)
Franking machine (ditto)
Sandpit dug into the garden
Treehouse
Toasted sandwich maker
Rabbit hutch
Hostess trolley

Chip pan or deep fat fryer 😂

A twin tub
A record player
Those napkin like covers over the arms of the sofa

Oh and a telephone table!

Chip pan, an oven/cooker, a piano, a guitar, tv, video recorder, tv aerial, landline, fish tank, sand pit, pond, swing.

My mum
A rabbit hutch complete with rabbit
Ashtrays.flanelette sheets, blankets & candlwmewick bedspreads (I used to like lulling the candlewick tufts out)
Airing cupboard
Larder
Chip pan
A cuckoo clock
China cabinet
Upright piano
Paraffin heater
A strawberry patch
Greenhouse full of tomatoes
Two sideboards
A coal fire
Twin tub washing machine
A music centre (radio, cassette deck & record player)

Ashtray, landline, string and nail art, a barometer.

Twin tub washing machine

Ashtrays literally EVERYWHERE. There wasn’t one in my bedroom (obviously) but if my mother was in my room for any reason she always had her fags and an ashtray - nowhere was safe. We don’t smoke and don’t allow it in our home (none of our friends smoke anyway).
Also in my childhood home was an oft used “cane” like the sort that a headmaster used and yes it was for physical punishment. I “stole” it not long after I left home and put it on the fire.

Ping pong table
Multi-gym
Exercise bike
Rowing machine
Step up machine

All in the living room.

Df liked his exercise. 🤣 Poor dm.

An airing cupboard
A stereogram
A beaded curtain at the back door
Bedspreads
A 'wall unit' in the living room with a cocktail cabinet

Lino
Magazine rack
Gas fire
Ash trays
Push bikes
A garden gate

Tumble dryer, upright freezers, fondu set, crock pot, pressure cooker.
Hot tub, collectibles, piano, pool table.

Oilcloth flooring

Cobwebs
Nicotine stains on the wall
Carpeted bathrooms

A tin bath ( no bathroom)
A margarine tub with a slot in the lid for the neighbours to put a payment in for using the phone ( this was my grandma's house - we didn't have a phone)
Party line ( see above)
A spin dryer - with a washing up bowl under the spout
A radio with radio Luxembourg on the dial

A typewriter and a bull worker exercise contraption.

a mop!

Open fire and coal shed.
taxidermy fox and squirrell in a big glass cabinet 😖