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".

@TooExtraImmatureCheddar

I reckon you were born in the early or mid 80s so you are slightly older than me and therefore got better music.

Lots of Katherines, Rachels and Emmas in my friendship circles.

My first crush was Noel Edmonds.

You must be late 20s or even 30 …my daughter loved her groovy chick duvet covers! She was about 6-7 when she got them.

Raver

My favourite toy was a Speak N Spell, my first crush was David Essex.

I had a space hopper, bloody loved it

and some Clackers

One summer it was really hot

Lucky Bags at the weekends, the police coming round to warn kids about throwing stones at windows, the dying fly.

Only one source of heating in the whole house.

Used to wake up in the winter to net curtains frozen to the windows.

Was able to carry on working through the three day week with a manual typewriter and a hurricane lamp. Oh,and lots of warm layers, fingerless gloves.

Interest rate on our first mortgage went from 12% to 15% in about six months. Lived on bread, eggs and baked beans but on the plus side it meant I lost a lot of weight!

@LambriniBobinIsleworth that made me laugh, as a young teen I watched grave stones sinking to the bottom of the sea. Was ''v-reg til I was 20'.

I got a soda stream for my birthday once. I had been begging my parents to get one and they wouldn't, had to ask for it for my birthday.

Travolta did a lot of dancing while wearing tight trousers.

When I was a university my flatmate came back and told me in wonder and excitement about something called ‘the internet’ that she had just learnt about.

I could not wear trousers to school in winter, but could wear leg warmers.

Suffered the humiliation of Gym pants with a tiny gym skirt.

You could individually buy little sweets for half a pence or a penny and the lady at the shop would put them in a little bag as you pointed out which you wanted.

You could also buy sweets that were weighed out in ‘quarters’. As in ‘A quarter of kola cubes please’

You hid behind the sofa during scary episodes of Dr Who.

You had a freedom unimaginable to kids today. It was great!

Champion the Wonder Horse!

Lucky bags! The dying fly! Oh memories!

And Monkey on tv!

Ditto. Did your parents confiscate your clackers as well, when it was on the news about them exploding?

My clackers were confiscated 😆

The names Louise, Claire, Sharon and Tracy were popular. I wasn't allowed a perm but my friend was and I was jealous. We used to watch my mum's exercise videos with Jane Fonda and try to copy the moves.

I reckon you were born right at the end of the 70s or early 80s.

Pre school I used to watch Watch with Mother. Later on I’d watch Multi coloured Swap Shop on a Saturday morning. Mini skirts were in fashion in school.

Oh God yes, the bruises!

I danced the Locomotion

England hadn't yet won the World Cup.
The school leaving age was 15.
The Govt. was still proud of the number of council houses built each year.

I heard this in the radio yesterday so not original but it made me proper chuckle.

We made ash trays as presents in school twice.

With clay in infants, and a metalwork version in secondary. We had run a a massive campaign the year before this to be allowed to do so called boys subjects and our school was considered progressive for allowing girls in the woodwork dept.

We made ash trays as presents in school

They are called trinket trays or bon-bon dishes now. 🤣

DM was a student when I was a baby. She used to leave me on a carrycot behind the till in the college bookshop when she went to lectures.