Odd things - do you remember your mum doing these in the 60s?

[Waltons]

Putting a drop of water on a tin can before opening it, because if an air bubble came up through the water, the can might be blown? (I think that was the reason?)

The only bottle of olive oil in the house was absolutely TINY, and labelled "Olive Oil. BP". I think it cost a fortune, and was kept in the first aid cupboard. For earaches, perhaps?

I still have an old type phone!
Sadly, I haven't had it converted to make outgoing calls, but I can receive them.

Oh my Goodness - yes, I remember Sunny Smiles - I had forgotten alll about that!

Crispbutty - I am so glad that someone else's mum did that. I still don't really understand why you would care if the neighbours even noticed what time you opened your curtains!

I have also just remembered that my sister (who was a lot older than me and smoked) used to make these dogs from cut up and woven bits of cigarette packet.
I was so happy when I found a picture of them by Googling!

Anyone else remember these?...

PigletJohn you should get together with my dad - he could talk for hours on what oven temp and how
much nutmeg produces the best skin!

I remember Sunny Smiles too. We used to get them from Sunday School. I think the proceeds went to the National Children's Home. I remember being quite sad when it was decided that selling pictures of children wasn't an appropriate method of fundraising. Of course now I wonder how anyone ever thought it was.

Pez sweets and the different dispensers for them. Parma violets that I ate until I was sick. Sweet shops where you could buy "a quarter" in a bag - was that really a quarter of a pound of sugary, highly coloured, licorice-y type stuff?

I can remember being newly married in the early 1970s and having a coil fitted at the FPC. My husband had to sign a consent form to agree to it.....

Loopy zoo. I loved making those.

Condensed I was given that hair dryer for a present in late 70s - Pifco?

Yes Woodhill !

Oh this is now in Classics! So pleased, it's a wonderful thread

Yes, I remember Sunny Smiles and Sing Something Simple - they really are a blast from the past.

I'd forgotten that we had one of those washing machines with a card you had to push in for different programmes. It seemed very state of the art at the time.

Lambbone my mother used to spend ages trying to make my pageboy cut behave, but my hair is fine & dead straight and there was no way it'd curl under as it was supposed to!

My dad smoked a lot, but my mum had one cigarette a day, it was her little treat after dinner.

Remember the cig-packet-doggie!

Going to the bank on a Friday to get the out the cash needed for the next week. I think my dad was paid monthly by and it went into the bank - no little brown envelopes by then for him!!

Something else I found after my parents died was a handwritten document for the purchase of the house I grew up in. I think it was less than about £1K for a 3-bed semi in a naice bit of Glasgow in the 1960s.

Boiling up the used hankies in a big pot.

And going to the launderette on a Sunday afternoon.

No central heating - so ice on the windows in the morning. And I kept a sleeping bag in my room and got inside it when i was doing school work. It was Baltic, man.

Oh no, that should be boak not boke.I can spell really well usually!

Does anyone remember the milk given out at school. It was in glass bottles and was always very warm. I hated it that way but the bottles were cute.

I used to look forward to the milk break at school. It'd be brought into the classroom in a crate and we'd drink it through straws. If someone was off school or didn't like milk and there was a bottle left over I'd always hope I'd be the lucky one who'd get a second bottle. I didn't mind it warm, I just loved milk.

I got a present of one of those mini milk bottles recently, it's very cute.

Atheistmantis can you please come back and clarify the business men in your parents' bed. And the bitter little red pills you were given. Could they have been given to put you into a very deep sleep?

I remember a set of place mats with ancient cars on them, my sisters and i fighting over who got the Rolls Royce....think they were from collecting tokens from cigarette packets.

Turning a dial on the windowsill to change the tv channel, Redifusion.

Dressing table sets, mirror, comb and glass pot, complete with little nylon mats underneath each object.

Camay soap with the pretty lady on the paper wrapper.

The insurance man coming round for his money each week.

Little orange glass bambi ornaments with two baby bambis attached with tiny chains, next to the horrid pottery shire horse pulling a plastic wagon with plastic barrels.

Having my hair tied up in rags overnight, hurt like hell and couldn't sleep.

Being sent to the beer-off for ten number 6 tipped small.

Really lovely thread, brought back loads of things I had forgotten about, thank you

'Candle wick " bedspreads.

Your mum having a set of a mirror with a handle, a hairbrush with a matching long handle , and a clothes brush on top of her dressing table.

Usually with a fake gold trim and a kind of Tyrolean embroidery design under plastic on the back .

Phone number books about the size of a small paperback with a solid plastic cover and a wee sliding switch you moved up and down to select the correct first letter of the person's surname.
You then pressed a button and it pinged open at the correct page.

Getting the belt at school

This was a staple in most folks home to, her eyes followed you!

Telly programmes Daktari, Twizzle and Sarah and Hoppity