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?

Omg I had these mugs!! I was a goth when I got my first flat in the 90s, suited me down to the ground, everyone bought them for me when I moved in!! Might still have them in a cupboard somewhere!

Fake black ash furniture in the 80s. Plus stereo and TV units with smoked glass doors. Purse belts which were a compulsory item of our school uniform. Saveaways for rail, bus or ferry travel. Speaking of which, being able to get a straight river crossing at anytime, not just peak, instead of the bloody cruise with that bloody song playing.

What about that art that was like a black piece of stiff card and you had to scratch off the light pencil lines to reveal a piece of artwork - usually a horse in my case 🙂

Cigarette vending machines on the wall outside sweetshops. And in those days, no one tried to break into them.

Or those sweet/ bubble gum dispensers outside shops - can't imagine that now.

. Littlewoods, John Moore's, Kays, Marshall Ward.
My mum did the Littlewoods catalogue, the new one used to come in the afternoon, and it was murder waiting for her to come home to open it. We dare not open it first. I know she used to let my auntie buy from it to earn a bit of commission, all the paper spread out on the kitchen table on a Sunday night, not daring to make a noise while she was working things out.

What you could do was pull the drawers half out and a couple of pens to tease out above and so on.

@the80sweregreat that made me smile.... I treated myself to a yellow armchair in the sale (Ikea) because I've always fancied one. And the other day in bright sun noticed the grubbiness accumulating where my arms, back of legs / head etc are...bear in mind also lots of body and/or sun cream on my bare skin. And I thought - now I know why antimacassars were so useful ! I am turning into my gran (RIP) BUT what's the alternative ?!

Pierrot shit. Early 80s, maybe? My little sister went crazy for it, and those creepy little fucks were all over our shared bedroom.

That's common though isn't it? But its electronic these days. We have one at work. I remember the cardboard type ones and you would time stamp it, that was mid 90s.

Were those the weird mask black white things

@JohnBullshit oh Pierrot I definitely forgot them!. I had a lamp and a bedspread.

These were still card and hand written out not the fancy swipe cards
Oh and a siren to tell you it's tea break and another it's back to work time.

The Argos catalogue.

Subscription services to books and CD's where you could choose the first ten for free as an offer.

Choosing a film from the video shop and having to rewind it before returning it.

Shopping in town was an experience with loads of shops, choice and for different budgets. More specialist shops.

Smelly erasers.

Penpals.

Teenage magazines.

I remember having Holly Hobbie everything for a while. Pencil case, notebook, possibly even bedding? Can’t quite remember.

My gf had that ,she was 15.

@Thesuperlativesistillloveyou Yeah, with the black eye make-up and maybe a tear. Trying not to do Google images in case the buggers haunt my dreams. There were dolls mostly.

Funny what sticks in your mind...

My parents were great ones for antique looking brass plates in the 70's Vintage Decorative Brass Wall Plate, Embossed Brass Hanging Plate, Hammered Brass, Tudor Tavern Scene, Farm House Decor, Circa 1960s - Etsy UK

And china shire horse with cart and barrels Vintage Large Shire Horse & Cart 6 Barrels Brass Wheel/ Barrel Straps England | eBay UK

This was my choice of china when I married first in 1988 Johnson Brothers Summerfields | 26 lines in stock to buy now | Chinasearch Classic 80's

Mad cow disease, was reminded about that this evening.

B film at the cinema , then an ice cream lady at the front selling Icecreams in the interval before the feature film started

Pierrot. Why? I had a fair bit of it.

My auntie had the full set and also had a sodastream. I thought this was the height of sophostication!

My village market has a stall still selling these!

Remember when you dialled 16 and could listen to a random pop song? We didn’t have a phone in my house when I was little, but my sisters and I used to save 2ps up and go round to the phone box and dial 16 as a big treat.

When Netflix was a postal dvd rental service.