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

The milk tray man
The pop lorry every week
Rara skirts
Knickerbockers with a lacy blouse
Tupperware parties

Head sports bags in pink and lilac
hi tech squash trainers
Naf Naf jumpers

Pedal pushers with a matching waistcoat that my mum made, worn with frilly blouse. Thought I was the bees knees! Wearing red and white stripy leg warmers with my brownie uniform and also thinking I was cool. I still have the picture. I remember my mum telling me to take them off as they looked ridiculous... how wrong she was. She didn't understand fashion!!

Kickers, Dash, Bullseye and The Two Ronnies, everyone collecting something, neck purses, playing outside for hours, practicing the dance routines to Bucks Fizz songs, Jackie Nikki and Mandy magazines.

The bumper summer special issues of comics. I used to read the Beano summer special on the beach on holiday.

Dads fixing cars themselves. All the bonnets propped up in our street on Sundays! You can't do that now, it's too complicated. Way more old banger cars on the streets in the 70s leaking oil on the pavement.

blimey... I stand corrected! I could have sworn it was at number one

The fella that played Pigsy died recently. I was born in the early 80s but do recall alot of things mentioned here. Speaking of Monkey, there always seemed to be a far eastern (Hong Kong or Japanese) dubbed film that was on late at the weekends. Very early Jackie Chan one I recall where he jumped over attackers using a stick in very narrow streets. Wild.

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Hearing new ABBA songs and seeing them live.

Saturday afternoon US TV series:
Dukes of Hazzard
Knight Rider
The Fall Guy
The A Team
Macgyver
the one with the helicopter
the one with the motorbike
And probably loads that I can’t remember!

Findus Crispy Pancakes
Funky Belts
Jelly shoes and jelly bags
Twilight Teaser from number 17
The Adventure Game
Tree House toy (Playmobil?) God I wanted one.

Clackers (banned at school), skipping was HUGE. My dad worked on the Parks and got me a massive rope! The playground would be filled with skipping ropes. Clapping songs were also very popular. Huge excitement in Primary if the wheeled tv made an appearance! We had an unofficial boys playground and a girls playground, boys played football in theirs and we skipped in ours! Teachers asking for, "Two big, strong boys" to carry benches etc. Lots of hands would shoot up for that. Children competing to hold the teachers hand in the playground, handbell to signify playtime was over. Remember singing Lily The Pink and doing music and movement in PE.

My granny loved that Anne of Green Gables series. That was late 80s. My dad recorded it on VCR.

Another series around that time (which dad also recorded) was screened each Sunday for about 6 weeks on the BBC, the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Always loved the theme tune for it.

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Sarah Moon prints on my bedroom wall.

Crimping my hair, desperately trying to look like a New Romantic, even when I was far too young to get into any club.

Thinking my best friend was mad for being the only girl studying computers with a handful of boys who we had nothing to do with. She had the last laugh!

TOTP and recording music on tapes
Does anyone remember growing up with Hartley Hare?

OMG CLackers!

I can still remember the first time I saw a Walkman. Katie Kershaw brought it into junior school and we all gathered round her in the playground. That was around 1983 which is now more than 40 years ago.🫨

I remember Hartley Hare and Pipkins!

Oh lots of nostalgia! My mum learnt to drive in the early eighties (in a mini metro 😃) but she was definitely an anomaly among her friends. Things I look back on fondly;

Arctic roll 😋
Roller discos
Jeans with cartoon prints on them
Lace gloves a la Madonna 🤣
10p mix from the sweet shop
Body shop mulberry perfume
Heather shimmer lipstick
Jazz aftershave on the boys
Taping the charts
Taping live aid on VHS
Making up dances to 5 star
Discovering hip hop with NWA
Sun in!
Holidays to spain and eating lemon ice cream out of a frozen lemon

Can anyone remember a self tan oil that was really dark? I have a really vivid memory of my older dB and his mates covering themselves in it to try to look like George Michael and it raining and them all running back home with brown streaks down their little white shorts!

We had the same playground set up. Boys was much longer. Wonder if we went to the same school- HJS?

Those pink foam Papillon curler things that were supposed to give you a fake spiral perm but left you looking like Crystal Tips.

Oh my GOD, @MistressoftheDarkSide, I haven’t thought of these for decades but I can literally smell them now!! The bottle of spray setting lotion that came with them…

I would add:

Smash Hits magazine

Reading my mum’s Cosmopolitan in secret

Hight waisted jeans with braces and thinking I was the absolute queen of style 😆

Frozen mousses in a pack of 10 from the supermarket - mint chocolate if my sister got to pick; peach Melba if I did.

Yes !

Collecting novelty rubbers and stickers - scented felt tip pens

I put my jelly bag next to the radiator in our 'temporary' class room in secondary school and it melted during a history lesson 😂😂

@Barleycat No, i don't think so, my school was a, Catholic Primary in Liverpool.