A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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Just been reading the brilliant and nostalgic threads about all the things parents did then that would be massively judged now so thought it would be fun to start a 70s/80s AIBU

Want to join me..?

Here goes,

AIBU to not want to have the whole of the street come and watch a football match on our new black and white TV?

Aibu to fill my baby's bottle with tea? She seems to really like it.

AIBU to buy my oldest daughter Star Trek: The Voyage Home on video for Christmas even though we don't actually own a video recorder? After all we might get one in the future and until then it will be a nice decorative item.

Aibu to let my ds play upstairs on his trike, it has to be upstairs because I can't abide toys downstairs where people can see them.

Yes there was a glass door at the bottom of the stairs and yes my db did go through it.

Aibu to let DH replace the toilet? After all, we don't want to have to pay a plumber. We won't have access to a loo for a few days, but we can use a bucket for wees and just tell the dcs they're not allowed to poo.

To think we were posh getting the neighbours good hand me downs, mum and dad had a black and white portable in their bedroom with a dial to tune it in and a telephone upstairs as well.
Oh and my gran used to give me warnicks advocat when I was around 5/6. Only realised it had alcohol in it when I went to buy some a few years ago.

Oh yes the bucket in the kitchen to pee into in case toilet was busy.

AIBU to sow a big flounce onto the end of DD's good dress so it will be long enough for her and do for another year?

AIBU to leave newspaper on the bathroom floor for several days, when I 'forget' to buy loo roll for several days running?

And to tell my DD that most of her teeth have been filled by the age of nine because 'some people just have weak teeth.' The school dentist is okay really. No need for anaesthetic with the drill.

AIBU to send my 5 year old by herself down the road (crossing 2 London roads) to buy my fags (with a note giving my permission so the newsagent can see it's all legit) because I am too pregnant to go myself?

Needless to say, I thought that was very exciting and grown up at the time...

AIBU as a Guide Captain to sit all the Guides on the bedding rolls and kit bags in the back of a removal van when we go off to camp. The ones who feel sick can stick their heads over the back and inhale the exhaust fumes.

Oh dear this thread I started has unleashed a bit of a monster...

I'm enjoying it but agree that some people seem to have misunderstood the light hearted, fondly nostalgic,intention behind the thread.
But amongst those who did get it, there have been some brilliant posts.

janesthickerknickers! we were quite poor actually, four of us kids. We got one about 74 ish. But i live in the south, In Surrey, where most people have got a lot of munny! By the time I was a mum myself with a kid I was back to portable black and white. .

I had those crummy thicker knickers too! I never got a video til the 90's!

To object to my DD wearing 6" high green platform shoes to school then to run after her screaming like a banshee because she's taken them in her bag to change into?

AIBU to remove the front passenger seat in my mini so I can wedge the carrycot with my baby in it on the floor. The toddler can bounce around behind the driver's seat, can't she?

To let my daughter go to a school where they do PE in thick brown knickers and wear brown pudding bowl hats! Oh and cut both ds and dds hair with a pudding basin upturned on their heads?

AIBU to dress my four year old daughter up in a bikini and have her jump out of a tissue paper cake for my cousin in law's 40th?

Every once in a while I have to check with my cousin ( the cake person's daughter) this really really did happen to me.

it is V>V>V>U to take your 11 year old daughter in 1988 to the hair dresser for what she thought was a perm_ and then threaten to give her something to cry for, when upon first chance of coming across a mirror she breaks down in tears because you in fact had her lovely long hair cut into......... a Bloody MULLET.....

I was this child, I am still upset about it [disclaimer-my hair is better now]

I'm enjoying it but agree that some people seem to have misunderstood the light hearted, fondly nostalgic,intention behind the thread.
But amongst those who did get it, there have been some brilliant posts.

I don't know what you are talking about vintagejazz I think it has all been very funny! Also very true to my memories.

Bold fail for some reason

AIBU to think it is preferable to catch pneumonia than wear a brown, itchy duffle coat to school?

AIBU to wonder why our next door neighbour leaves 10p beside the phone when she uses it every Wed?

AIBU to think it's fine to send a 7-yr-old down four flights of stone stairs with a bag full of empty glass bottles when the 'ginger lorry' comes?

AIBU to not notice that 8yr old DD & her friend have sneaked towels & swimsuits out of the house & aren't out for the full day playing out in the local fields & woods as usual - instead they used her pocket money to take a bus 10 miles to a town & go swimming in the weir (that was me, gawd my poor mum

AIBU to let 9 yr old DD go off on a trip with her Jazz Band club, so that DD & said club can do a show & not realise that parents were meant to go too - DD did enjoy wandering around Jarrow on her own & she had money for, ice cream lunch & a picnic too & she found her way back to the coach okay, so Im sure IANBU

AIBU to let 8 yr old DD & 4 YR old DS camp out in the fields at the back of our house on their own - they didn't want to camp in the garden as we have an underground stream & it gets a bit damp & they didn't want me cramping their style - they did have 2 other friends with them too

AIBU to send 3,1/2 yr old DD to the shop with a note to buy bread & milk, the snow tips not that deep & it's only across a fields & 2 streets, the road is quiet & she is very bright for her age, besides DS is only a tiny baby & I can't take such a tiny baby out in the snow can I and I won't ask DM for help even if she does only live across the street