I was born mid 50's.
There were 5 of us in a 3 bed house. My brother and I, parents and grandfather who owned the house (he was a widower)
We had no central heating. In the winter there was ice on the windows.
On weekdays my dad got dressed by a 1 bar electric fire then went down and lit the coal fire in the back room. Later my mother got dressed and then brought the electric fire into my room while she went down, got my dad's breakfast and he went to work. After I got dressed I took the fire into my brother's room so he could get dressed. I don't know when my grandfather got up.
After I'd had breakfast I walked down the road and called on a girl who was a bit older than me and we walked to school together. At 3.30 my grandfather met us from school.
Monday was washday and we had a 'boiler' in the outhouse and all the sheets got boiled (with a 'bluebag') then put through a mangle before going out on the line. If it was bad weather we took them to a Chinese laundry about a mile away, in the pram.
The 'smalls' got washed in the kitchen sink. My mother used to scrub my dad's collars with a nailbrush and a big block of green soap.
When my mother was expecting my sister, we moved to a 4 bed house but still had no central heating, fridge, car or TV. I passed the 11+ to go to the local grammar school and was bought an old second-hand bike so I could bike there.
We had a bigger garden at the next house and my dad grew potatoes, cauli, beans and peas. He bought a coldframe and grew cucumbers and lettuce.
When I was 14 my mother got a job in a factory working the "twilight shift" (6-10pm)
When I was 15 I was told to get a Saturday job and I worked in a cake-shop. My mother took my first week's pay off me as 'lodge money'. I was earning 10/6d (about 50p in today's money)
When I was 16 my grandfather died and left us enough money to have partial central heating put in. It paid for a boiler and 4 radiators. (we still needed a paraffin stove to heat the hall and it didn't half pong !)
We also had enough money to rent a TV and buy a fridge.
My mother was a competent seamstress and made all my clothes. I also got hand-me-downs from other parents which she adjusted. I never went out apart from church because I was so embarrassed at not being fashionable.
At 18 I got a grant and went to Uni.
I still did my cakeshop job in the hols to help pay my way.
At 21 another grandparent died and left me £300, so I bought a mini that cost £250.
I got married in the 70's and the first house we bought cost £6,800. The mortgage was £68 a month which I paid because my husband didn't have a bank account, he got his money in a wage-packet and earned less than I did.
I was earning £120 a month and I did get a petrol allowance for running the car and a lunch allowance.
He went to work on his bike.
Inflation was running at 16% so we had nothing spare.
We set up home with old furniture donated to us. It was 3 years before got central heating put in. The kitchen had a belfast sink and a red formica topped table. We bought a reconditioned gas stove from the Gas Board.
IMO young people nowadays don't know they're born !