Tell me what decade you were born in without telling me...

[WingedHermes]

Dummy dipped in liquid malt every time I spat it out.
Given liquid Phenegan to make me sleep every night from 0-5 years.
As a toddler and small child, given huge bowls of currents/sultanas to eat multiple times a day as it was "healthy".

I got a Mr Frosty for Christmas when I was 8!

I’m Australian. Those were the days when Australia was welcoming to refugees. My school was certainly not the only school with a sudden influx of Vietnamese children, I promise you!

First album I bought was the osmonds
When I was a kid I liked Mary mungo and midge , magic roundabout and Freddie and the dreamers
The year I left primary TRex were at number 1 as was the song mouldy old dough

We had free milk for one year in reception before it was stopped.

We sat on the teachers knee and fought to hold her hand in the playground.

We watched the school programme on a tv wheeled in
on a big stand while we sat cross legged in the hall.

In Primary we had unofficial boys and girls playgrounds. Boys for football, girls for skipping. You brought the rope in from home and the bigger and thicker the rope the better as you could get more people in for the skipping songs. We also played the clapping games.

We pushed the desks back on Friday afternoon to do Country Dancing!

My friends and classmates were Lucy, Lisa, Sharon, Claire and Cathy, Martin, Mark, Robert, Karl and Philip .

Benny Hill was considered prime time family viewing 😳

Aeroplane seats had ashtrays in the arm rests.

Oh, forgot to mentioned Badger Girl

My first albums (tapes) were Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.

I watched rainbow and sooty and sweep.

When I was older, I watched Byker Grove.
As school we watched Geordie Racer.

My 10th birthday present was a Paul Daniels magic kit.

I shopped at Tammy Girl if I was choosing, Laura Ashley if my DM was choosing.

In primary school, all the slightly older boys wore Big Willy/Naff Naff/Spiffy.

We carried Head bags or Adidas Predator backpacks.

In secondary school, we ate turkey twizzlers and carried Jane Norman bags as our PE kits.

Body glitter, hair mascara, boots natural collection.

Topshop, River Island, Miss Selfridge, Morgan. Shelly's Shoes, Dolcis, Ravel.

Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet was THE film for my friendship group.

Blur vs. Oasis, Cool Brittania, TFI Friday, Eurotrash. Silk cut and MD20/20

First phone was a Nokia 3310 in sixth form.

I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden...
Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me...
Where's your mama gone, where's your mama gone, where's your papa gone <repeat> far far away 🎶
Pinky and Perky
Listen with mother
Angliers junior aspirin
Polio vaccine on a sugar lump
Basil Brush
Sooty and Sweep

They used to read out long list of football results on weekend afternoons on telly and the winning score was stated in an 'up' tone of voice and loser in a down tone...
Bristol Rovers 1, (up) Celtic nil (down)
West Bromwich Albion 2, (down) Queen's Park rangers three (up)
If the scores were the same they went neither up nor down

My best friend had a Chopper bike. I had red and silver roller boots and we could be found down the park with all the local kids.
We used Fletcher maths books at school and Sky hunter was the Look and Read series we watched on the TV on wheels in the library.
Read and ing, build yourself a word, build yourself a word, reading, reading.

Watched Concorde fly over on a test flight from the chemistry lab window at school.Britain changed from £sd to decimal currency the year after I left school.

I knew JFK for just 17 days.

I am guessing you were born late 60s so were quite young in the 70s.

My first news memory is Aberfan
I remember three penny pieces and half crowns
We played being "Miss World" in the playground
A lot of pies: meat pies, fruit pies, etc.
Blancmange
Debbie, Susan, Sally, Helen, Heather, Jane, Alison, Caroline, Amanda were all popular names
The Queen, not much older than my mother, looked very middle aged.
Mary Quant
Mother wearing mini dresses with a gold chain round her waist
Itchy wool and knitted cardigans
Pullman cars on trains.
Beehives

I played outside during the hottest summers where you could smell the tarmac when it rained. We played outside for hours from the age of 4 without anyone worrying and never snacked but we did like cherryade and blackjacks / fruitsalads from the corner shop

We had flashers in the park who hid in the bushes day in day out

We just thought they were weirdos and kept out if there way abd didn't think much of them

@Clutchpearlsandgasp I am guessing you were born same decade as me, as I was about 8 or 9 when we watched Geordie Racer and Through The Dragons Eye at school.

@HardcoreLadyType the ladybird invasion was 1976, I think the hottest summer brought them out. So younger born in 70s

We just thought they were weirdos and kept out of their way and didn't think much of them

60s, if Aberfan was your very first news memory. Or possibly very late 50s depending on which age you started being aware of news events.

If we had had a TV I could have watched the moon landing.

My mum still occasionally does this 😂😂

In this decade rationing continued, family allowance was only paid for second and subsequent children, the Co-Op divi was an important element in family finances. The PM said we’d never had it so good.

Ooh, I've thought of some better ones.

Clarks strapped shoes that you could fold back so you had slip on shoes. My parents were either idiots or didn't care.

Our best Christmas presents were a giant Sindy house and car. And Keypers at some point.

Choose your own adventure and Fighting Fantasy books. Sadly DH has re-bought too many of these as an adult, so I can't complain about the cost.

Clickety - Click as they say in bingo halls.

The Carnival Is Over spent weeks at No. 1 and kept My Generation out.

50s

All of my tamagotchis died. Bastards.

My aliens never did have babies