Things your GC will never experience...

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...or even your children may never experience...
I was reminiscing yesterday and realised that there are many things we've experienced that younger people won't. For example, living in a shared flat and having to work out how to split the (landline) telephone bill! Trying to be honest about the length of the call. Was it a long or short-distance call? Before 6pm or after? All such things affected the cost!
Then the washing-up rota (pre-dishwasher days), cleaning of communal areas rota, etc...

Watching their grandmother kill and pluck a chicken (and i'm not even 50) 😀

woolworths
a job in the bank for life
the Cane
the corner shop

Top shop
smoking on the top deck of the bus
smoking compartments on trains
slam door trains

Roller blackboards in school

Queuing up outside to see a film at the cinema getting to the front and told you have to wait for the next showing as it was full.

white dog poo

1/2 p coin

Butterflies. I bet children see more butterflies in picture books than they do in the garden. They’ll be imaginary creatures like unicorns and dragons.

Pounds, shillings and pence! The family all listening to Top of the Form on radio. I was 14 before we got TV.

@Mumof3darlings yeah I'm a way off GC 😂 my children are 5 & 3!

Sitting in the car squabbling with siblings over the bottle of pop and packet of crisps while dad had a pint and mum a gin and orange in the pub we weren’t allowed into.

And Sundays with nothing, I mean NOTHING, to do, except Sunday School.

@HeddaGarbled , a wet , winter Sunday , was the absolute worst!

Carrying an a-z and trying to follow the route if the bus so you knew which stop to get off at.

Trying to repair a chewed up music tape by winding it up with a pencil.

Snow days. Either because of climate change or online learning!

LOVED that!

Minds blown when you tell them that you could actually buy a sweet with 1/2 pence!

Standing to sing God Save The Queen (or King) at the cinema or theatre.

Belle and Sebastian
Robinson Crusoe
The boy from Lapland with the funny-sounding song at the start
Why Don’t You
Casey Jones

Plenty of people don't have dishwashers op! Many houses aren't big enough for them.

A simple, traditional Christmas. It's just not the same anymore, remember circling tej Argos catalogue, delving into the tins of chocolates, bright coloured, mix matches decorations, magical late night shopping which starting December.

A good night out without everything having to be captured on camera and shared with millions of people.
No wonder kids are so paranoid about their looks nowadays.

When a Quality street tin weighed 1lb (1.1 kg in new money)

When macaroni was the only pasta around and was in the "exotic food aise

Bananacards!