Do you remember when...

[BiggyJ]

Humour me, I'm counting down the minutes until I can officially log off work for the day (don't worry, I'm SE so I'm not taking the biscuit!)

Let's play Do you remember when...

it can be about anything that pops up in your head!

So mine is -
Do you remember when it was hot and the back of your legs and thighs got stuck on hot plastic car seats (no air conditioning!) and how excruciating it was to peel them off when you had to get up 😳
I'm pretty ancient though so maybe won't get many Yeses!

How were there so many Golden Virginia tins?! We had them for word cards, string, craft things like sequins… also empty margarine tubs.

Who remember the pips on public phones and the smell of phone boxes?

Who remembers buying mojo chews and Anglo Bubbly bubblegum at the corner shop? Sometimes also Space Dust.

Did anyone else have a red Snoopy & Woodstock lì box with a chunky flask? Warm ham sandwich, Snaps or Walkers crisps, an apple and a Penguin or Club.

Who remembers raisin clubs and rum n raisin ice cream? Also - take home a Gino Ginelli…

Did anyone ever watch Albion Market? I wanted to be a scriptwriter!

When DH and I bought our flat and later our house, there was a weekly paper with nearly all the local properties listed, and open viewings twice a week. You could go into town to the main office and pick up the property schedule, or go to the individual agents to get one. Or, like us, you wouldn't bother and just drove round the two or three that matched your criteria, on the basis of listings like, "2 bed flat, X area, £Y, must be seen!"

@AllTheSuzyCreamcheeses The Golden Virginia tins! I can remember the crayons in school being kept in them, the teacher would put a couple of tins out on each table, and the crayons all smelled of tobacco.

Did anyone else have a red Snoopy & Woodstock lì box with a chunky flask? Warm ham sandwich, Snaps or Walkers crisps, an apple and a Penguin or Club.

I had the Snoopy flask, not the lunchbox though.

A bit late to the subject but I absolutely remember only 2 TV channels "The BBC" and "The Other Side" (said with disdain by my grandparents, as ITV had adverts and so was apparently therefore common!). We didn't have a telly. I remember times when watching television at my aunt's as a preschool age child and it was only on briefly (Eileen Fowler keep fit and maybe Muffin or the Woodentops) before it shut down until teatime. No continuous programming in those days. Also when BBC 2 started ("a third channel!", said the media with anticipatory interest). Also, the very first episode of Dr Who that was repeated the following Saturday for those who had missed it first time (it caused such a storm of excitement everyone wanted to see it). There was no colour TV then either.

Yes! Jubblies! They were usually Orange but I think we did have a brief era when you could get strawberry ones. Lovely Jubbly - so that is probably what inspired Del Boy with his Lovely Jubbly (unless already real Cockney rhyming slang when Del Boy hit our screens).

And you had to tear the corner (think there was a dotted guide line)

Anyone remember Sun-In?

Did anyone else always have a big plate of bread and butter on the table with their evening meal, no matter what the meal was?

I remember knitting those loopy bonnets in the late 60s for my daughter . 😃

Yes! Lots of the kids had them x

I still have a couple knocking about in a drawer. Handy for spare cash or spare fuses or drawing pins.

Yes. I didn't use it as I had very dark hair but some of my school friends used it. I used Hint of a Tint in a plum colour. Memories eh?

Yes! It turned me ginger rather than blond!

I remember the dust cart which was about as big as a transit van today and 1 metal dustbin per home. Being taken to school at 5 for the first few days then walking there and back alone. Going to the shop for my Dad's Full Strength and getting bleach in a glass bottle and carrying it home carefully. My aunt had a telephone but we didn't and I'd read the phone directory when we visited. The big freeze of 62/63 when the only concession at school was being allowed to wear our own jumpers over our uniform jumpers. So many memories and such a lovely thread @BiggyJ .

Not in our house it wasn't.

Does anyone remember the rag and bone man who came round with his horse and cart?

Oh how could I forget. My mum used it on me when I was a kid and lied about it. My hair naturally lightened a bit from brown to blonde streaks, but one summer it went much blonder than usual and I was delighted. Then dark roots started to show and I had a root line which was mortifying. Kids in school started to tease saying I'd dyed my hair. I denied of course. This went on for months and I was trying to tie it up to not show the roots. I was quite embarrassed and upset. Then about 20 years after my Mum jokes one day 'remember when you had the sun in?'

@Blackcatahotcat speaking as an adolescent boy at the time the TOTP album covers had a certain appeal..ahem..ahem.

Green Shield stamps....sticking them in the saver book and looking through the catalogue trying to decide what to swap them for...

@Savethephoto yes I do! This would have been around the early to mid 80s.

Do you remember when Bryan Adams 'Everything I Do' was No.1 for ever and ever and ever... 😁

My mum saved Kensitas cigarette coupons.
She got a Prestige set of kitchen utensils (1960s) and my younger sister still uses them !

My Gran trained me to pick up when spotted ..70s.
I re the catalogue thousands of coupons for a deep fat fryer after puffing thousands of fags..Bargain.

She kept them in bundles in the large choc picture box lid box

Do you remember the free records that used to come taped to the front of magazines? They were made of floppy plastic, like thick cellophane, you could see through them if you held them up to the light. Usually kids songs or stories. We found a Care Bears one in the back of an old encyclopedia not long back but had no record player to try it on.

(Also, remember encyclopedias??)

I had a Roland Rat lunchbox. I thought I was so cool with it. 🤣 My brother had a He-Man one which was exactly the same as mine but yellow (mine was blue) and obviously a different picture on the front. I’m sure my mum still has at least one of the flasks now.

Also just remembered that my very first school bag was an over the shoulder satchel in the shape of a school bus. I absolutely loved that bag. I think it was black or navy, and there’s a photo of me somewhere on my first day of school in my uniform and blazer with that bag. 😁