To say I was born in the early 70s

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So..

proper Gen X …

the thing that mark my generation out are this :

free school milk at breaks then said milk being taken away

music we were into typically Duran Duran, Wham, Culture Club

common for Dads to drive but not mums

The domestic sitcom - e.g Terry and June being popular when we were prime TV watching age

being at the cusp of the O Level/CSE / GCSE transition

SOME* Less academic kids did YTS - some of the more academic kids looked down their noses at this option

Disco Roller skates in vogue 🙌

VERY un PC language at school

if anyone’s a similar age to me, what are your memories!!

oh and we loved Swap Shop and a good annual !

Liverpool FC winning everything

Ceefax and teletext

The days before TV was 24 hours. The national anthem being played on tv at the end of the evening (was it 12pm) and then broadcasting stopped and we got that static snow screen!

Pixie Boots and Benetton jumpers.

Putting your coins into a machine on the bus and pressing a big green button, which resulted in getting a printout of the coins.

Space Dust that crackled in your mouth
Rubick's Cube
Blue Tits pecking the milk lids
Humphreys from the milkman
Free gifts in cereal boxes
Bagpuss and Mr Benn
Pixie Boots
Fame and the legwarmers craze
Jackie magazine
Adverts on glass milk bottles
Two post deliveries per day
Going carol singing at Christmas, around the neighbours
Writing notes in school to pass to my friends, during lessons
Fountain pens and Tintin Killer
Banda machine at primary school
Smelly rubbers
Abba, and The Police
CB radio.
(🥺😞 Miss it all so much.)

I loved those frozen mousses- raspberry ripple from Iceland

I still have a copy of Twinkle from 1976 (I would have been 4) - loved it!
Then when I was a bit older - Mandy

£1 notes! Half Pennies. And when 5p, 10p and 50p pieces were far bigger.

Don't think anybody has mentioned CB radios, available from the long lost Tandy shop.

I did!