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?

I sent DD (12) to the local shop to buy tatties and chopped pork for our supper tonight. She lost the money. She came home shaking and terrified.

WIBU to slap her hard across the face and send her to her room with strict instructions not to come out, unless asking to use the toilet, and not give her anything at all to eat for the rest of the weekend.

It's her own fault for being so careless and losing the money surely?

Watch Coronation Street instead - that Elsie Tanner is such a wicked woman, it's dead exciting!

I didn’t buy my dog licence last month as I didn’t have the 7/6 needed. Will a copper show up at my door?

I left baby DD in her bouncy chair on top on the kitchen unit whilst I mixed a Victoria Sponge in the Kenwood. I only took my eyes off her for a moment but she boinged herself and the whole chair forehead first onto the lino.

There's no damage to to either the chair or the lino but she's got an unsightly swelling on her forehead and looks like The Elephant Man just in time to see MIL this weekend.

DH doesn't seem particularly worried and gave her a bit of boozy Black Forest Gâteau that he'd stolen from the kitchen at the hôtel he manages to cheer her up.

She seems perfectly happy now and is sleeping it off in front of the gas fire with the German Shepherd who DH got from Neville down the pub.

Factually correct in every detail.

I hope this isn’t from real experience but am rather afraid it probably is.

Anyone else dreading this new decimal currency that's coming in in February? It's confusing enough that the 10 shilling note has been replaced by a weird coin saying 'fifty new pence', I don't know how I'm going to cope when everything is actually priced in 'new pence'.

I need some snuff shall I send my 10year old grandaughter to buy some for me ?

There is a main road to cross and there's traffic lights but I'm not sure she waits for the lights.

@AtlasPine

Yes, it was a real experience sadly, she's an evil cow, and thankfully out of my life now.

I have two DDs of my own now, they're all the family I need.

AIBU to make my DD have her long hair cut into a bowl cut? She is 10 and too old for long hair. People will probably mistake her for a boy but I am sure it won't do her any lasting damage.

I just failed my CSEs so I'm gonna go and work in the biscuit factory. My mum got me in there as she works on the custard cream line.
I'm hoping I'll meet a nice man there, maybe one who works in the office. My mum says I need to smarten up if I want to attract a posh man.
Should I grow out my mohawk and take out the piercings in my nose I did myself with a safety pin? I don't want to compromise my punk identity but mum says it's the only way to marry a biscuit factory manager.

How often do you change your housecoat? I have two - one pink nylon one and a natty blue striped one with half sleeves. I wash them once a week and wear them alternately. I take them off for church and bingo on Fridays. I’ll probably remove it if and when I ever venture to the new ‘Tesco Supermarket’ but newer bother when it’s the corner shop.

Glad you’re happy now. Some parents deserve forgetting.

@BebbanburgIsMine What a horrible way to treat a child. I'm glad you have your own lovely family now.

This Common Market. We'll be at the mercy of the Germans all over again. Or, worse still, the French.

I can’t find my Carmen rollers anywhere! As for diets, I either eat cottage cheese, lettuce and tomato for lunch, or tinned consommé soup with ryvita , or I go on the Cambridge plan.

I have swapped my girdle and stockings for the new pantyhose but I will insist on cutting off the stocking parts when they ladder and wearing the remaining pants until they disintegrate. Waste of money otherwise.

Can has anyone tried these new Beanfeast curries? I’m a bit nervous about cooking things with beans. One of my neighbours poisoned most of the local WI when she didn’t soak the kidney beans in a chilli con carne, and I don’t want to make anyone ill.

(true story about the chilli…)

I’ll stick to my vesta chow meins thanks. That’s fancy enough for me.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned 'burning our bras yet' and the merits of doing so! My Mum always advised against it and suggested I'd go saggy!

Also, are the people who have Pampas grass in their front gardens really swingers?

Does anyone have any advice about how to stop the water wicking up your flared jeans when it rains?

A huge flappy soggy mess. I remember it well.

We had a letter about the drought this week, and how we can get water from stand pipes. Does anyone know how long this is likely to last? I haven’t got any big bottles to collect water in.

And do you know how to get rid of all these bloody ladybirds?

Those ladybirds! They were utter madness! I’d forgotten all about them.

@AtlasPine swarms of them!! That was the year I learned that they can bite.

That definitely was not a thing in the 70s!