Things you'd forgotten about

[CharliesAngles]

String art.

Remember those pictures that hung on walls in the 70s/80s (? I'm guessing)
They usually had a black background and coloured string making geometric type patterns.
I had totally forgotten (most probably for the best 😂) that they had ever existed until I looked through some photo albums at my auntie's house.

Anything else of that ilk you can recall?

Oh yes, we old uns can confirm. 🙂 And Starburst were Opal Fruits - made to make your mouth water! Plus Pacers that were like sort of green and white striped Opal mints.

Smoking everywhere! On the top deck of the bus ,workplaces on the plane ( I remember buying 200 cigerettes on the plane )

These soup bowls, free with petrol 😊

A huge orange and brown glass lightshade that was on a spring and went up and down to suit your needs. My Aunt and Uncle had one over their dining table and my cousin and I were banned from touching by my Uncle.

I remember those, my aunt had one.

Talc in metal bottles.
Toilet roll dolls

If you didn’t have another 2p, you had a couple of seconds still to gabble a quick last few words before the line went dead!

I remember when phone boxes took two pence coins. Or dialling 100 to ask the operator to ask your parents if they'd accept a reverse charge call from you because you'd run out of cash to call them. 😅

Pound notes. They were still in circulation when I started working.

I think it's so civilised to close on a Wednesday afternoon. Like a pause in the week. I wish that was a thing everywhere. In fact at university Wednesday afternoon was always sports wasn't it? So no lectures. Is that still in place?

Unless you cheaped out and took your chances with sending them to truprint. Every morning when they didn't arrive in the post we used to sing "Some day my prints will come" at the breakfast table. 😆More than once they never did arrive.

Also, come to that, setting the table for breakfast. I don't even have room for a dining table now.

I still remember the day after the Kings Cross Fire, getting on the train to school, to find that you no longer had to walk through the fug of the smokers carriage, because overnight our local rail company had banned smoking throughout all trains and indoor stations. I remember the hastily photocopied "No Smoking" paper notices taped on the windows of the erstwhile smokers carriage.

Nobody knows what im on about when I mention these pictures,so here goes

Black and white (with shades of grey) and it was sand

You flipped it and the sand would fall really slowly and create a visual effect

Like a waterfall-this would have been the 80's (?)

Im 99% sure my mothers mate had these in the 80's but I could be talking bollocks and young me is mistaken

I remember most of these on the thread

Yes, this is so true!

We had Scottish pound notes until relatively recently. Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland or Clydesdale Bank - take your pick.

My parents still gave all my Whimsies. Used to love going and buying a new one.

Broken Britain innit (lack of dining table I mean)

Ha waiting for things through the post though - Britannia Music Club CDs 😭🤣

oh yeah, we had loads of those at one point. They came in different colours - we had a purple one and a green one.

Pretty sure there was still one in my dad's lounge in 2018 😀

edit - they've gone posh https://sandarthome.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%7Bcampaignname%7D&utm_term=sandscape+sand+art&utm_content=%7Badgroupname%7D&tw_source=google&tw_adid=633880170425&tw_campaign=18849591094&tw_kwdid=kwd-824225872022&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18849591094&gbraid=0AAAAApBnhAflYIhMvyOAhhE63pP-rjLYC&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1czLBhDhARIsAIEc7uh6Xd_8DUSDCv9DvKCvNU1Ped59kR2T2wTP-TlOSK1RXu8NkAFU2acaAtVJEALw_wcB

Gosh yes! There was one at my cousins house. Used to spend hours looking at it. Simpler times!!

I remember at brownies being taught how to make paper flowers using coloured toilet paper (IIRC you sort of folded several sheets in the middle then pulled apart the layers of paper that made up each sheet to make the 'petals'. We were asked to each take in a roll and there were all sorts of shares of pink. I became rather obsessed for a while!
We also did a version of the string art thing at school, with lines of thread sewn on cardboard and the teacher called it 'curve stitching'. Another one I got obsessed with for a while. I think I may have been a rather odd child!

My mil has a million of them. I swear she'd shove a doilly under me if I sat down for more than a minute.

Trying to see magic eye pictures gave me migraines.

Just remembered Mad Magazine - my sister (12 years older than me) used to buy it as a teenager in the 60s, and I used to sneak into her bedroom to read it. The political satire and more “adult” humour used to go way over my head, obviously, but I thought it was the funniest thing ever at the time.

Those Anne Geddes photos of babies in sunflowers or dressed as bumble bees. They were everywhere: friends’ houses, the doctor’s waiting room, the dentist’s etc

La tubular bells music everywhere too. Creep central

"Frankie Says..." t shirts.

Well, it was used in The Omen, so...🤷‍♀️