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

[Username19781209]

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?

AIBU to listen to the woman on the party line instead of putting the receiver down?

My mums Scholls are causing her terrible callouses should I tell her

I can't find a babysitter for my 12m old baby. Aibu to bung her in the boot in her carrycot and drive to the dinner party and home again paralytic and without seatbelts?

My dd wants to try brown bread. My dh says over his dead body will he eat bloody sawdust and that the next thing we know she’ll be buying the Cranks cookbook and eating quiches. Who do I defer to here?

Oh yes, the Panorama spaghetti harvest !

My daughter has announced she's a feminist and is taking woodwork and metalwork classes at school instead of cookery and sewing. What should I do?

(True story, 1977/8 was the first year my high school allowed girls to take woodwork and metalwork classes. The older male teachers highly disapproved of my presence in their classes.)

Oh 😞. I was a student and lived in West Yorkshire during this time and it was truly terrifying. It's really hard to describe what it felt like. I've never forgotten it.

My mum married my dad in 1973 and she was "advised to leave" her job at the GPO. So those attitudes still existed (in the West Midlands, anyway).

"I don't want to leave my telephone operator job after I get married, but my boss is expecting my resignation. I don't want to rely on my husband's electrician's wage. We've just bought a house and money is very tight, what with the wedding and everything. I've had to make my own wedding dress and Mam and Dad are doing sandwiches. Why can't I stay on and contribute to the household finances?"

Has anyone found any success with SlimFast? I need to lose a stone by summer.

My mum does not like my bright blue mascara, and that i pluck my eyebrows in to a thin line, how can i explain this to her

We are in the process of buying a house. My husband has just had a heart attack and is in hospital. I am a woman and I earn more that him, why won't you (bank, building society etc.) let me take out the mortgage in my name, as my husband can't, to complete the sale on the house we are buying?

Someone in our road is getting divorced. And a foreign couple have moved in next door. AIBU to want to move?

My daughter has added £25 to our quarterly BT phone bill by spending hours on end ringing dial-a-disc.

I'm thinking of saving up to take my husband out for a meal for our special anniversary. The Berni Inns look nice - has anybody been? My husband loves steak, but I'm confused by their new chicken dish - how do they keep the gravy in the basket?

I prefer Limmits biscuits. I alternate between a week of those and a week of PLJ before meals.

Me too, and you're quite right. 🌷

Oh yeah PLJ! That was foul! 😆

My mum ate “aids” toffee which turned out to be laced with. Speed.

My kids are addicted to Pipkins but I have a really bad feeling about Hartley Hair.

AIBU to order filet o fish, and root beer from Maccies for tea?

Really??? 🤣🤣🤣

My DD keeps using the hallway phone before 6pm to chat to her boyfriend. She knows she’s not allowed to use it then unless it’s an emergency. I’ve also caught her younger brother eavesdropping in on her calls on the extension in our room. AIBU to put a padlock on it??

I've lost the key to the telephone lock and can only dial 1111111. A friend told me I should just press the plungers down the amount of times corresponding to the numbers I'm trying to dial, and that still works, has anyone tried this?

Really interesting as I was 4 when the decade ended. Does anyone have a link to the 1950s thread, I’d love to see what we would have been chatting about then?

my mil stole my fondue set. im so upset and its half day closing in town so i cant even buy another.
my dh is buying smutty lager cans . i dont even think he drinkks it-he just likes to perv in the fridge
whats all the nonsense we might get a female prime minister!!! hell will freeze over first