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When I was a kid........................................................

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waterfalls · 16/06/2006 15:03

My mum often put my hair up with elastic bands and it hurt like hell getting them out....................and awful cheap plasters that became part of your skin, could only be forced of after a long soak in the bath while painfully peeling them off with a knife.

anyone elseGrin

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Esmummy · 16/06/2006 17:47

Ahhh god who mentioned Fruit Salad's and Black Jacks...... Why can you not buy them anymore ???
Absolutely love em

Posey · 16/06/2006 17:49

we never had a video recorder but we did eventually get a music centre Grin
i took 10p to the shop on a Saturday morning and got my comic and a bag of sweets, then came home to watch Swap Shop.

SaintGeorge · 16/06/2006 17:50

Esmummy - you can still get them, but like everything else they are not the same. They have shrunk.

Or alternatively you can get the stretched but wafer thin version.

Esmummy · 16/06/2006 17:53

Where StG ? For years the only place I could get them was in my local Toys R Us (No idea why), but now not even they sell them. It used to be my highlight of the Toys R Us trip

Gem13 · 16/06/2006 18:29

My dad didn't stop once we had set off on holiday (i.e. hours!). I can remember (aged 3?) weeing in a potty in the footwell of the back seat while my brother and sister groaned. That was probably just my family though Wink

Everyone's parents were called Mr and Mrs. xxxxx none of this first name business.

Penguins had letters inside the wrapper A, B, C - a for ace, b for brilliant, c for ... It wasn't the one to get. We used to fight and check them before we ate them.

peachyClair · 16/06/2006 18:41

\link{http://www.feelsweet.com/search.asp?numRecordPosition=1&strKeywords=black\ black jack sweets and other luvverly things}

just got my latest swap from here , yummy!

lorina · 16/06/2006 18:42

Emsmummy you can get a big bag of balckjacks and fruit salads in tesco for about a quid. I get them for dh to take into work so that five fourty year old men in suits can go into a complete frenzy for five minutes ! Grin

SaintGeorge · 16/06/2006 18:44

There you go Esmummy, two places to get them before I got a chance to reply Smile

Any shop that sells sweets around here seems to stock them. I must just be lucky to live in the town dubbed one of the obesity centres of the UK. LOTS of sweet shops Grin

Axolotl · 16/06/2006 19:05

My freckly pale skin FRIED on a regular basis. Sun cream? Pah. Now I am absolutely paranoid about skin cancer. I frequently stayed up late playing with my dollies while wildly unsuitable television programmes were on. Anyone old enough to remember Bouquet of Barbed Wire? That had father/daughter shagging, would you believe. I swear I was about seven.

SaintGeorge · 16/06/2006 19:08

We didn't use suncream either.

More like lashings of coconut butter, bought from the chemist in whichever jar you took along to have refilled.

Esmummy · 16/06/2006 19:13

Why O Why did i look at that link. DP is going to go mad when he gets home and realises what I have ordered

marthamoo · 16/06/2006 19:15

Curly Wurlys were as long as your arm.

Esmummy · 16/06/2006 19:21

Curly Wurly's used to be 12p

psychomum5 · 16/06/2006 19:23

I remember bying mojos....sweeties that were 1/2p each.

Pacers....spearmint chews like in a pack like opal fruits that were white and green striped.

Moondust....crackle on your tongueGrin

Going to the shops on my own about 1/2mile away at 6Shock

walking home from school on my own from 8, that was at least 1 miles away [horror]!

huge gob stoppers, jaw breakers I think? (maybe they are still about now ??)

The womblesGrin

Saturday night high,ight being a bag of chicken flavour crisps while watching the A-team

and more...lots more...but I am getting old so my memory isn't as good as it was when I were t'lassWinkGrin

notanotter · 16/06/2006 19:27

double agents

notanotter · 16/06/2006 19:27

blobs

SoupDragon · 16/06/2006 19:31

Policemen were older. Now they're all about 12.

roisin · 16/06/2006 19:53

No central heating.
When it was really cold - depths of winter - we would have paraffin heaters in the bedrooms Shock
One of my jobs was to go and buy the paraffin on a Saturday morning ... I must have been at least 7!

ShowOfHands · 16/06/2006 19:56

Watching Flying Doctors, The A Team and Perfect Strangers whilst eating gingerbread on a Saturday.

Driving all night to go on holiday to Devon.

Still believing that if you sit really still your parents won't see you and won't send you to bed.

Being 12 and wearing mickey mouse hats, luminous t-shirts and polka dot cullotes. Fashion for children just did not exist. Nor did we care.

Deriving enormous amounts of pleasure from digging a hole and sitting in it.

Having a bath in the sink.

Playing in half-built houses.

Wanting to go on Knightmare.

SaintGeorge · 16/06/2006 20:02

Curly Wurlys were bigger, cheaper but most importantly stretchier. It was fun to try to stretch one across the room, now they snap straight away. Far to soft and gooey and no fun at all.

tallmummy · 16/06/2006 20:06

Watching Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman.

Playing Famous Five with sisters and cousins and always having to be Julian!!

Long walk to junior school across open fields and woodlands, just my sisters and me.

Gem13 · 16/06/2006 20:10

Watching 'The Sullivans' during lunch (I was the only child in my primary school allowed to go home for lunch because I refused to eat school dinners Grin). They didn't do packed lunches then.

2shoes · 16/06/2006 22:06

my mum used to listen to wagnors walk(think that was it) used to love to listen to it.
and follyfoot loved that

JanH · 16/06/2006 22:22

A loaf of white sliced bread cost 10d (4p).

The sweet shop had a Cadburys choc machine and if you bought one (for 6d, or 2½p to you lot) on a boiling hot day when they were soft, and didn't push the drawer all the way back in, you could lever out as many more as you wanted. And then eat them. And then throw up.

Kids could buy fags.

When I was ill at primary school not only wasn't there any telly, apart from Listen with Mother there was nothing on the wireless either.

Paraffin heaters in the bedrooms, roisin? You big softies. We had one, in the hall! Grin (Was your paraffin blue or pink?)

Riding 6 miles to school on my bike at 11.

JanH · 16/06/2006 22:24

Forgot gobstoppers - can you still get them? Layers of different colours?