Things you miss from the 'good old days'

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I'll start with:

1. Choosing a video or DVD from Blockbusters
2. Pic n mix from Woolworths
3. Puffy triangle snacks/crisps. I can't even remember what they were called.
4. Walkmans and mixed tapes
5. Simplicity e.g. only having 4 TV channels, not having 1001 chocolate bars to choose from etc

Postcards
personal handwritten letters

Affordability.

When singers could actually sing without voice "enhancing"

Being able to physically shop for clothes

Sugar

star bars
80s pub culture
not living under the shadow of climate change / the weirdness of what AI is about to do to everything

Cruising down Oxford St !
(albeit driving illegally at 14 in my boy friends car)

Low slung jeans and a crop top being about as daring as it got in our local night club.

Being clean, having bouncy hair and a bit of mascara and lippy was enough to be glam. No lips and arses being injected and pumped up or being perma-orange with ginormous lashes, turkish teeth and plastic nails !!

Being able to go out in the morning, ask around a bit, smile and chat nicely and have a new job by lunchtime.

Going to the pub with your colleagues on Friday lunchtimes, sinking a couple of pints and actually being able to have a laugh, a joke and a bit of banter without risking your job.

So much better than any crappy ‘team building’ course.

Men wearing denim jackets.

You can still do this..... I never send "updates" from my holidays.

Apple jacks and postman pat sweets.

If you want to watch the same TV programme and discuss it the next day @ThreeCooks keep an eye out for BlondesBroadcasts threads in Telly Addicts on Mumsnet.

Going out with my mate on a night out with nothing except a fiver and a lipstick tucked in my bra.

No phone (not invented) and no idea where i'd end up or what time i'd be back (and getting home pissed as a fart with the fiver still intact 🤪😀).

How DID we all manage without mobiles ?!? On the rare occasion i find i've gone out without mine i feel slightly panic stricken these days 🙄

Cosy traditional family Christmases, (1970s/early 1980s) with my mum and dad, my little brother, and and my grandparents, (mum's parents who lived 5 doors away from us.) And 12-13 different family members (who all lived within 1.5 miles) popping in with gifts, mince pies, quarter bottle of whiskey, and bottles of guinness, (some of them already merry and tipsy by midday.) The big streams of Christmas cards, and the glass baubles and tinsel and pickwick lights on the Christmas tree. The traditional advent calendar - no chocolates in it and a Nativity scene, the paper streamers, and the balloons. Shooting up and down the road with my friends on our new skateboards, and recording the top 10 off the radio on my new cassette recorder!

Awwww, good times. 😍

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Really just the fact that people didn’t walk around staring at phones (and yes I’m included in that!)

Gucci perfume (sobs!)

everyone watching the same things on tv

being able to work the tv without internet

Except people thought they made you infertile!! I loved them..

Top of the Pops and watching the chart show to find out who was number 1 and hoping your favourite songs would be played that week.

Proper homes that are accessible without your whole life revolving around paying it off: council homes for life and I bought my first home £41k on a part time wage in 1999

Carrying cash only. Much easier to budget.

The sound of those old style tills

Corner shop 1p sweets

Bei ng able to go to a supermarket with £20 and get some decent shopping in

Politicians who focussed on what’s happening in this country.

Also, not everything being so accessible. Wanted to listen to a song? You had to go out and find it. It was fun!

My mum’s cigs of choice. Me and my friends would pinch them and smoke them up the chimney of our coal fire that was always lit as we got our heating and hot water off it. As a teen, I moved on the Berkeley menthol, much cheaper, dinner money-friendly in fact (about 70p for a pack of 10) . Only recently found out that menthol cigs are now illegal as an entry level fag

A fiver and a lipstick 🤣 Somehow we managed to make it work back then didn't we?

Until one friend (there was always one) got kicked out of the club for being too pissed. Miraculously they always got home though and Sunday morning was spent ringing around friends asking if Louise was ok 🤣

Sadly, yes. You can buy menthol filters if you roll your own. Consulate were legendary, though.

Tell you what I don’t miss. That awful flavoured lipgloss.

This thread has brought back some cracking memories of the good old days. I was born in 1990 and this thread has really made me smile!

Christmas shopping in person. Being able to go out for the whole day, get everything you needed, have lunch out and having to wrap up warm because it would always be chilly.