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

GIRL MAGAZINE !!!!!!!!!!

Blue jeans magazine I loved that. Also smash hits magazine that published song lyrics

YES !

Littlewoods actual stores and their lovely cafes !

Ananya? Dewberry was the be all and end all!

I worked part time in Littlewoods on Oxford Street whilst studying A Levels!

Yes!!!

So easy to bunk off school.
I remember going with friends to bunk off school for the afternoon and watch a film in the cinema or catch a train to London. No one gave you a second look.

I loved Picturebox. It was one of my absolute favourites.
Does anyone remember watching You and Me and Magic Pencil?

Days off school when the coal for the heating wasn't delivered in the 70s
Proper snow
Tukka boots
Ziggy Stardust
Walking to my friend's farm 3 miles along a road with no pavement, then helping bring the cows in for milking and fishing for minnows in the burn with jam jars, the water up past our waists.
Girls and boys playgrounds, doors and stairs in primary school
Girls doing home economics and secretarial studies in secondary school, boys doing woodwork, metal work and techy drawing.
Learning to knit in P4, embroidery in P5 and see in P6, no idea what the boys did while we were doing that.
The rag and bone man
So much more freedom than kids have now.

Patrick Tomlinson for me and most of the girls in the class.

My mum passed her driving test in 1985. She failed 5 times and several were extremely minor mistakes. I never thought before that she was ahead of the times, or that maybe the examiners were just sexist.

I did not know that 😂

Vesta boil in the bag Chow Mein or Curry and rice when settling down for the Brookie' Omnibus.
Even though you taped and watched it in the week already.

Not at my school. It was absolutely feral. Behaviour was horrific and tolerance of bullying was extraordinary.

I remember one teacher seeing what a little scrote had done to another child and saying to him, "You really are full of shit," but there was no follow up and no management of said scrote who made my life miserable for years.

Jackie magazine advising to 'Practice kissing on the back of your hand' 🥴

I remember when I went from having the Beano delivered to changing to Look-In.
I felt so grown up!!
My friend had My Guy and we spent hours looking at the photo stories.

The pop man coming round.
Lathering on Twilight Teaser lippy for school photos
Bunking off school to watch the lunchtime Neighbours when Scott and Charlene got married.
Youth club tuck shop..mojo chews 2 for a penny

I am literally eating a Vesta Chow Mien as I type. They've done something weird to the crispy noodles though.

Anyone remember the Trio bar?
Also the Tiny Tears doll and Girls World, with the suspicious "tress" which extended from the centre. She also came with make up in alarming colours which I unfortunately used as my teenage inspiration

Sitting on the stairs in the hall, talking to my friends on the phone while doodling all over the cover of the Yellow Pages, trying to ignore how cold it was and hoping my dad wouldn't come along and start moaning about the phone bill. Can anyone else still remember their friends' phone numbers from 40 years ago? This was the phone we had:

Ah had a similar one !

The diary of Adrian Mole

When the wind blows and threat of nuclear war, Threads

Rainbow brite , Strawberry shortcake, Sindy.

When we walk teenagers my mum used to unplug the phone and take it to work with her in the school holidays because we ran up horrific bills!

Scratch and sniff stickers!
Garbage pail kids!
Boglins

We didn't have a telephone at home until the 80s, it was a walk to the phone box.

He was absolutely gorgeous! looked like a young Jackson Browne.
I used to walk past his house on purpose- when visiting Mum, I walk past his house still 😆 His parents long moved, I expect, just for the wallow of nostalgia.

He was the image of this : {we were teenagers}