To wonder if it was as bad as people say in the 70s?

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I am quite curious about it.

What caused the poverty? I thought the 80s were a poor decade - am I wrong?

When was the last time you saw someone give up their seat for an elderly person or pregnant woman on public transport

It happened to me the last time I went to London on the train, so about 2 or 3 years ago.

I was a bit mortified, tbh. I was 60 but often told I look 20 years younger, so when a 40-something man offered me his seat I realised that people must have been lying.

I gave up a seat to someone last week and do is pretty good too.

The fireguards around the only source of heat in the front room for the whole ground floor.

Condensation freezing into leafy patterns in winter.

Mum bringing in the clothes on a winters evening and not only had they not dried, they had frozen. They could stand up.

Hot water bottles for the bedrooms.

Oh God, yes, the cold. I remember lying motionless in bed in the mornings because the only warm patch was where my body has been lying and moving a leg would be horrible and cold. Getting up would be even worse as my bare feet would have to touch the floor.

Occasionally I'd get frost on the inside of my bedroom window.

Oh yes ice on the inside of the windows!! And the frozen washing off the line, I used to find that hilarious! Getting dressed in front of the coal fire, a tad dangerous with all the polyester flares!

Getting dressed in bed. My mom knitted us bed socks. hunching over a two bar electric fire or fan heater