If Mumsnet existed in the 1970s, what would be posted about?

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Following on from the 1950s thread which has been the most lovely read as that was the decade my parents grew up im wondering if we could have a 1970s one? This is the decade my parents met and got married and I would love a insight to the way people were thinking.

For me we're going on holiday to the seaside AIBU to let the children ride in the foot well of the car?

Only if you tell him you're engaged and getting married.

My teenage daughter has just started her first job and a couple of the girls she works with have persuaded her to read this magazine called Cosmopolitan. She's started getting very difficult about helping round the house now, and says it isn't fair because her dad and brother never lift a finger so why should she have to do housework when they don't. I've told her that it's just the way things are, and she has to accept a woman's place in the world, but she isn't happy.

Should I confiscate this horrid magazine or what?

Hippies at one end, punks at the other. The last year of £SD and the decade of decimalisation. The first legislation for women in the workplace. The start and development of freely available contraception. Unions with teeth and a huge rise in household ownership of electronics.

Did you see that Victoria Wood girl on New Faces? I think she's just trying to be a Northern Pam Ayres. But rather too ungainly for my taste.

I got 8 of the 12 objects on Bruce’s conveyer belt last night. My dad said I should apply to be on The Generation Game.

My kids get so bored during the power cuts, they keep playing rowdy games of hide and seek in the dark and breaking things. Has anyone got good ideas for entertaining them by candle light?

My DH says we should buy some shares in a new company called Apple - something to do with computers - AIBU to think this is too much of a risk?

My DS wants a chopper bike for Christmas but I can only afford it if I don’t get my DD the sewing machine she’s been hankering for all year. Do you think she’d be happy with a crochet set instead?

My daughter has come home from university asking me to buy an 'avocado'. Nowhere in our little Welsh valleys town sells them. Where can I buy them?

Anyone got any Heinz baked beans or tomato soup labels for the latest Blue Peter appeal? My DCs’ primary school is collecting them. Oh, and silver milk bottle tops too, for the Guide Dogs. Thanks!!

Has anyone else received their petrol rationing coupons? We don't usually need to drive very far, but I'm worried in case we can't do the shopping and visit our parents.

These things preoccupied teenage me.
Population explosion means we will all starve.
I'm never having children because all our nuclear war is inevitable.

Also
My boyfriend has long hair, plays a guitar and smells of musk oil. My dad doesn't approve.
How do you get the smell out of jeans after you've soaked them in the bath in bleach.

Do my American Tan tights and headscarf go with this outfit?

I want a shaggy dog perm but mum won’t let me.

What pop are you ordering from the milkman for Christmas? I'm getting 2 x lemonade, 1 x cola, 1 each lime, orange and cherry-ade and a bottle of cream soda for DH.

I was only a kid in the 70's but this is my take on subjects:

Power cuts
Avocado coloured bathroom sets
the 11+
the end of grammar schools is nigh
cloth or paper nappies
which should I get DH for Xmas, Brut or Old Spice?

MIL has bought the kids clackers. AIBU to hide them and go no contact before they break their wrists?

Been there, done that, on the way back from Blackpool.

With you there - we had most of those except it was from the Corona Man rather than the milkman - and only at Christmas

Did you watch Panorama last night? Apparently spaghetti grows on trees! I’m definitely not buying it now, I always thought it looked like strange stuff.

My 17 year old insists on smoking roll-ups which I think are terribly common. I’ve bought her no end of packets of Bensons and Hedges Gold Cut but she just laughs at me.

I've just spent days making bunting for our Silver Jubilee street party, only for my neighbour to tell me she's already bought a load from Woolworths! I told her I was in charge of decorations. AIBU to shove my bunting up her arse?

Are hostess trolleys worth the money? The teasmaid alarm clock hardly lived up to expectations.

Who's on the grapefruit diet?

The Crayola perfume stick brought my daughters wrists out in a rash, should I take her to the GP?