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

Lots of people change certain details to avoid being identified i do it often. Why are you trolling the op?

Mr Benn

77 here. 2p bus fair to school or town

10p mix

Half pennies

Glass bottles of pop that you cleaned out and returned for a refund

Going to school in the snow and making epic skiddy patches of black ice to slide on

French skipping, handstands, cartwheeling, imaginative play

Care bears, transformers, real ghostbusters, thundercats, mysterious cities of gold. TV theme tunes!

Golden girls, fresh Prince, wonder years, neighbours and home and away

Lego that wasn't gendered

Atari, nes and Sega that weren't gendered

Planning phone calls so when the phone rings at a certain time, you can shout "it's for me!"

The fear of skinning your knees and elbows in the playground made you really good at risk assessment and you really honed your skills

Playing out, knocking on for your friends

Wakaday with timmy mallet

Although hiding in changing rooms doesn’t seem so good nowadays🧐

Shame. Mine was in Birmingham. Must have been a common thing. We used to go into the boys playground to deliberately annoy them!

Smash Hits magazine! Fast Forward magazine!
Just 17!

UK Marvel comics!

Cartwheels up against the wall and skipping was all girls could do at primary playtime🤨

Oooh scratch and sniff stickers!! I had a coconut pudding the other day that smelled just like one 😆

Was out shopping with my Dad the other day and saw Ski fruit mousses. Haven't laid eyes on them in decades, and when I last did, they came in a waxed paper churn shaped pot with a foil lid. Had a wistful sigh, and dear old Dad offered to buy me some. I declined, because I know from the Wagon Wheel debacle when my kids were young that it just WON'T BE THE SAME. No full fat creaminess and no sugar 😭 ......I won't get fooled again.

See also the latest iteration of Toast Toppers 🤢

I was born in 1974. Army brat so moved a lot. Music for me was Adam and the Ants and Madness in primary school. Goth and synth pop early teens then Madchester/indie and rave. Smash hits was the best.

I vaguely remember cute little mini glass bottles of warm milk at break time. Playing out for hours even in foreign countries we had only just moved to. Every time we moved house being told to ‘go outside and make some friends’.

Kids have really lost out on free play and over protective parenting but I’m glad there is more MH awareness. I was so unhappy (in my room listening to goth). I hid it by getting smashed from 15 onwards which was completely normal at the time.

Had to Google those ball hoppers for their name, they're called rock n hopper. We had them too. Looked like Saturn. Also got skateboards with wings.

Sunday night I always think Spitting Image. So many times I stayed up late watching that with school the next morning.

How do you get to be proper Gen X? And what is improper Gen X

i think I might be improper Gen X 🙈

Some lip gloss we used to buy that you painted on with a brush attacked to the lid and it stung like hell. I cannot remember its name, it was clear with red writing I think. Lipstick would then take around 3 days to remove!

YY to Twilight teaser, lace Madonna gloves and girls / boys playgrounds, frozen mousse and embarrassing braces on jeans.

Pierrot figurine with matching bedding
ISpy books
Scented erasers (I had a huge collection!)
Metal Mickey
Also dancing around the playground to that song 'Hey Mickey'
Velour pedal pushers at the school Christmas disco.
Space dust
Cabanas
Hollie Hobbie
Pods
RaRa skirts
Ski pants
Satin shorts and Vests sets bought in Spain
Perms
Grolsch bottle tops on my DMs
Ripped jeans the first time round
Care bears
Pound puppies
Cabbage patch dolls
Ghettoblasters
Black and white portable TVs
Soda stream
Vesta curry
Original My Little Pony
Sindy
Granny shoes? (with a wedgy wooden heel)
Camping outside in the garden
Being outdoors all day every day in the summer hols.
Fame!
Legwarmers (see above)
That's Life!
Auf Weidersehen Pet
Wooden desks at school
Pac Man
The Bionic Man
Kojak
Wonder Woman
Blondie
The Love Boat
Laverne and Shirley
The Sullivans
Lets Pretend
Happy Days

Lipcote I think it was. I reckon it was basically nail varnish!

It was lipcote and can actually still buy it I was surprised to see

Bat wing jumper with a frog or other animal on the front. Some had a bit you pressed so it squeaked.
Clingfilm on the inside of the windows stuck on with blue tac.
Trip to harrods and would sometimes see the lion cubs ( awful).
Jelly bags.
Pixie boots,large elastic belts.
Eating lots of stewed rhubarb and gooseberries from the garden.
Roller skating around the village.
Kick the can and British bulldog played up the green.

My room was completely decked out in Pierrot - including the bin 🤦🏻‍♀️

OMG that's it - I see wow still for sale! Wonder if it is made of the same stuff...?

I did not know he is called Nigel until now. I can see why he went with John, Nigel does not have the same street-cred!

Jackie and Just 17 magazines, or if you were more edgy Smash Hits.
Always listened to the Top 40 and taped the songs I liked, and never ever missed TOTP!

Heather Shimmer lippie by Rimmel

Half a can of hairspray on the brushed up section of hair on the side of your head.

Tubs of bright green hair gel

Black & White films on BBC2

Best music in the early to mid 80s and taping the charts on a sunday

Proper cooked from scratch meals, no crappy UPFs until Findus crispy pancakes came along (still have internal scarring from them taking the inside of my mouth off!! 😆)

Black Beauty on Sunday

Roller boots

No central heating til 1986!

I still use it, and have done since I was 15. I’m probably keeping the company afloat!

A Jackie magazine and putting the poster all over my bedroom walls.

buying singles in woolies and playing them on my nans grammaphone thing
(singing along to my ding a ling- still wonder what that was all about)

Little pots of tiny sequin stars or glitter suspended in gel to swipe on your cheekbones for the school disco. Teamed with all in one skin tight brightly coloured leotard catsuit things like the green goddess on breakfast TV.
Anne French Cleansing milk or Bonne Bell 10 0 6 cleanser followed by Clearasil or Oxy 10!
Prize yogurts, Hippopotamousse.
Mum spending all Sunday making a roast and dessert from scratch, including Yorkshires, while dad sat on his arse watching telly.