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

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Coasters. Oh the shame!!!!

Nothing (except for paying for works of art). It's mostly the other way round in our family.

My parents have followed my lead and acquired a sheepdog, a £200 car and a racehorse. Their friends think they're having a midlife crisis. I think they're being sensible.

Antimacassars. Though in my defence they’re not lacey doily-like, they’re in the same plain linen of the new and very expensive covers I’ve just bought and don’t want to ruin!

A "good" scissors.

Garish Christmas decorations. I always swore I'd have a tasteful tree and up to this year I have, but seeing how much the DC adore my parents multicoloured, clashing, gloriously garish tree I've decided to put my principles aside and embrace the madness (in the exact fashion that my parents did when we were little- it's the circle of tat).

@Whererainfalls

A sense of shame when someone in the household puts the milk carton on the table for visitors instead of using a jug.

Dammit.

I’m simultaneously laughing my ass off and totally understanding the sense of shame!

Massive pants

Cotton nightdress

A "jop" pan.

When my eldest Dsis was little she couldn't say stew but it came out as "Jop".

It's the only recipe of my Mum's that I have from memory.

Every time I make it in her old pan it's as though her and my lovely late Dad are back in the house and I am a little girl again.

Oooh! I've just thought of something else, a sellotape dispenser.

Slippers
Big knickers
12 piece dinner service
Good china and everyday china
Eye cream
Walking shoes (mine look much more trendy than hers)

I just need a sudoku puzzle book and I will have become my mother. Or a crossword book and I will have become my gran!

Big knickers
Slippers
Fleecy dressing gown
I have paid an awful lot for a mid century G plan sideboard ( my Dad used to make them and I thought so ugly!]

A giant cheese plant.

A teasmaid. This has changed my life for the better. The joy of tea without having to get out of bed!

@thenightsky
That made me smile. My nan used to say that to us. X
"Put your vest on to keep your kidneys warm". Lol. X

Practically everything mentioned on here... did anyone say a cake stand?
And an asparagus bed, a well-stocked medicine cabinet and different wine glasses for red and white wine.

I was contemplating a tea cosy the other day...

Glass trifle dish. Dont like trifle but mums trifle dish takes pride of place in the cupboard and could tell many a happy tale of parties gone by.

sensible underwear

endless food storage containers

an electric blanket

not one, but a collection of dressing gowns

bed socks

thermal vests

a proper dining table (because eating on the sofa in front of the tv without being told off is what everyone wants to do when they grow up....right?!)

@arborea Greenwich but not free ;-)

Listening to music from when I was in my 20s rather than new releases

Using out of date flour and spices (just add an extra pinch 🤣)

Opening the curtains every day and shutting them every night

A sewing machine, and a pot of single mis-matched buttons.

An ugly angel for the Christmas tree. I used to mock it annually and have just invested in my own.

A mini hand-held hoover
Trellis
Holder for the milkman to leave milk bottles in to make it easy to carry inside
Vests
Warm woolly socks

A box of 'bits' for fixing anything (DH is so proud of avoiding needing to call an emergency plumber one Easter, because he had a bag of plumbing olives, priced in old money...)

Drawer of string, wire, and other bits of shit that I have no idea how it all gets there.

Loads of recorded TV we haven't watched in 5-10 years after recording.
At least ours is on a digibox rather than 50 VHS tapes!

Spare lightbulbs BEFORE you need them...

A love of The Archers, and a bottle of cream sherry

A toilet roll cover.

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

Ha, ha - my DD gave me his when he moved and I thought wtf and put them in the garage. One day I got them out and actually used them - they worked!!