Things your parents owned that you swore you wouldn't. And now you do.

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Coasters. Oh the shame!!!!

China cabinet - which is effectively what my glass-fronted cupboards have become.
Grape scissors: I have entertained the thought of getting some, since I used ordinary scissors to cut a grape cluster off, and left them in the bowl. They looked so wrong.

I'm definitely on the verge of buying an electric blanket!

A toybox for the dog's toys.

This isn't really what you're asking but I always thought my parents were really sad for watching old TV shows on repeat over and over again and for only really listening to music from 20 or 30 years prior. Totally understand it now though

@WillSantaBeComingToTown if not, they should be. Toasty warm pukka pie pjs 😁

A dog walking anorak, except I don’t just wear it to walk the dog.
An iron

I read about Hotter boots on another thread here recently and as a boot fanatic, checked them out.
They are absolutely dreadful. So bad.

A wedding dress.
A handbag. I never used to use one. Everything went into my jeans pockets and/or a back pack. Now I love my handbag with lots of sections to organise all my bits and pieces.

Generational skip: my daughter enjoys ironing as does my mother.

One is 19, the other 71.

Bloody pressure cooker.....NEVER!! My mother loved her slow cooker. I think it's a grenade waiting to go off.

A teasmade it has transformed mornings

This isn't really what you're asking but I always thought my parents were really sad for watching old TV shows on repeat over and over again and for only really listening to music from 20 or 30 years prior. Totally understand it now though

Definitely this. Especially during the pandemic those old TV shows are a source of pleasure and comfort.

I read about Hotter boots on another thread here recently and as a boot fanatic, checked them out.
They are absolutely dreadful. So bad.

Hotter are vile. Their one saving grace were the memory foam liners, really nice expensive memory foam, then they cheapened their product by replacing that with horrible cheap foam liners. The prices didn't go down though. Don't think we didn't notice Hotter. Us podiatrists see and know all and tell everyone.

Slow cooker
A Welsh dresser-she bought one,she lied over the cost to my dad-she’d knocked a zero off the price-he wasn’t happy with the lower figure and she’s never fessed up
Handbags with long straps
Those crystal’s that you hang in windows and then the sun hits they show rainbows on the walls
Thick curtains

Leaves hands, those giant green things that "supposedly" scoop up lots of leaves

Totally laughed at my mother for owning a pair and saying how "they'd changed her life".

I now have three pairs, one set is hers and love them all.

Ecco walking boots and reading glasses.

Bath salts, coffee syrup, unpainted toenails, a small bladder, fleeces, driving shoes and non-underwired bras

I used to scoff at the boring practical presents rather than run exciting ones.

In the last three years I have got a tumble dryer, a washing machine and and garage freezer for my Xmas presents from my dm, and I love them all!

Also - big knickers, sensible flat Ecco shoes, sensible waterproof coat. My mum recently has lost weight and I actually gave her my old sensible waterproof coat because I'd also lost weight and needed a new one. Frivolous past me would be shouting and swearing the this point I think.

Oh yes, clipped short unpainted nails 🤦‍♀️

7 tins of kidney beans at any given time.

Classics?

I wear hotter for work because I’m a podiatrist but they are so bloody comfy right from the first time you put them on. I wear stream in navy to match my uniform 😀.

Yy to national trust membership & picnic sets.

Slow cooker
Big pants
Gin

All this 'waterproof coat' business. The phrase 'have you got your Kagoule' used to strike fear in my heart. I never refer to it as a Kagoule but I do have several waterproof coats.

She once asked me this question as I exited the house to go to a festival in the 1990s. I was so about it.

Plus: they really were fuck ugly then. I have a vay naice one now.

A peg bag.

But, my proudest.......a shopping trolley.