FOR THIRTY SOMETHINGS..THINGS YOU REMEMBER FROM CHILDHOOD PLEASE ADD....

[almostanangel]

JUBBLYS....PYAMID ICE LOLLIES
SWEET TOBBACO AND CIGS
RAINBOW AND BLUE PETER
ROBERTS ROBOTS
MAGPIE
RENTA GHOST
THE ID LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING COKE AD
PLAY SCHOOL..BIG TED ,HUMPTY,JEMMIMA,LITTLE TED
PIPKINS ..MONKEY AND OCTAVIA.AND PIG
SCOOTERS WITH THE BRAKE ON THE BACK ...SO YOU HIT WALLS WHEN YOU TRIED TO STOP!!
A BALL IN A SOCK THAT YOU BANGED AGAINST A WALL ,,HOPE OTHER PEOPLE KNOW THAT ONE OR I AM GONNA LOOK WEIRD..LOL.......GETTING A COMIC AND SWEETS FOR LESS THAN 50P
MAGIC COMIC
YOUR TURN,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Pacers chewy mints - anyone remember them? They were yummy and spelled gorgeous too.

Here comes Bod - my favourite for years, closely followed by The Flumps.

Being able to play out in the street - that just doesn't happen these days does it?

Flying saucer sweets - 10p mix... ahhhh life was so simple

we called that elastic jumping game ching chang.
the Crackajoke book.
being a member of the Puffin book club.
Some TV drama with a blind girl in a nightie standing on a white chalk horse (so many people seem to remember this, but no one can remember what it was called).
Polyester nighties with 'I am seven' printed on them.
Space Dust and Curlywurlies
Pitching over the fork handlebars of my Chopper and having to get my chin stitched

Winfield was Woolies' brand name!

Don't you remember that on Marks' carrier bags? It might have been "The sell-by date means that St Michael foods are fresh. And sinking into the ground when my mum kicked up a fuss in there because she had to pay for a carrier bag after spending what must have seemed like a small fortune.

And Argos catalogues when they read like a hardware catalogue ...

The dustman's strike.

Being off school and having to light candles at home - couldn't work out why at the time!

The bread strike ...

school trips before lunch boxes lunchon meat sandwiches..in foil ..we called the elastic thing triangles

Trolls - that had nothing to do with MN! Remember this sparked off a huge debate at work - the Troll v. Gonk brigade!

carla ,thank you thought you was on wrong thread then lol..my first ever duvet no more pastel checkered flannelette sheets and blankets...

Being offered a starting salary of £3,000 for my first job! Thank God my mum didn't let me take it!

ok am off to colchester in the rain see if i can buy a pack of elastic bands and a deely bopper and a white t shirt with choose life on{wham}
maybe some sherbet dipdabs and a pair of jelly shoes ,,,catch you later please carry on..i will read when i come back..

Eating chicken Kiev was the height of sophistication.

The first ever McDonalds over here (now eating that truly was the height of sophistication!

I was a member of the Puffin Book Club too - my Mum got me membership for my Bday - I was so pleased! - how sad was I?
Remember going away to boarding school in '76 - 3 weeks till the first w/e home was soooo long!
Nylon quilted dressing gowns
Knickerbockers (or maybe there were in the early 80s - can't remember)
The Wombles
My Mum had a yougart maker which she was so proud of - it was disgusting! Put me of yougart for years!
Blue eyeshadow!! and cake mascara!
American tan tights!!!
I could go on and on and on!

ooh sorry gotta add this before i go....collecting ng pulls..for charity..bottle tops and foil for guides...and .....ok..ok..i will go..oh and them dolls head held on with a spike!! and the crying boy paintings...gone

ring pull!!!!!! sorry goneeeeeeeeee

The nit nurse
Taking back empty lemonade bottles for 10p!
Roller skates
Major Morgan

Yuk!! The yoghurt maker. My mum had one of those, followed in the early 80's by the waffle maker. In between there was the electric carving knife. All now gathering dust in the back of her cupboards, muttering mutinously to themselves and planning a comeback tour.
Bumps on your birthday is probably now banned on health and safety grounds and yes Hellsy , I remember being able to play in the street when I was about 7 even roaming around the block sometimes. Slack parents or a different time do you think?

The Buttoneer.
The Ronston Rhinestone and Stud setter.

Now who wouldn't have wanted one of those for Christmas?

People smoking in houses, on trains, buses, in the cinema, while serving food in shops...

The Bay City Rollers, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy...

Saving pocket money to buy a single (33p)

Old money when I was little. Choosing a quarter of sweets for 3d from an array of colourful jars.

Having a go the 'the poke' in the newsagents...anyone else remember that?

Going to prize bingo in a scouts hut with my mum on Saturday nights.

Mum buying a brick of ice-cream from the ice-cream van and cutting it into slices.

Next-door-neighbour growing artificial gourds in his garden.

Half pences and half penny sweets
5p bags of crisps
Newsagents selling big jars of sweets - choc lick & multi coloured sherbert stuff and you could buy 10p worth
Wimpy's burger bars
Power cuts - lasted for ages in those days
Traveling in cars with no seat belts just handles on the roof to hold on to
Holidays in a caravan park
Orville - I wish I could fly
Paul Daniels - he was cool then

LOL Lockets at playing out the front! I did that or 'out the back'!

"I-Spy" books in the days when there really was a Big Chief I Spy .......

Bunty comic

Bazooka Joe bubble gum

wearing platform shoes to school

going to bed with hair in rollers

listening to radio luxemburg or caroline with a transistor under the bed covers

having salads with hard boiled eggs on and salad cream

covering school books in leftover wallpaper

running to corner shop for mum's cigarettes

alias smith and jones

Ooooh yes anorak! My mum's heated Carmen rollers!

And my mum had a hairdryer with a big hood that puffed up when it was switched on.

C'B radios - what was your handle?!
Taping Top of the pops on your crappy little tape recorder, and if your Mum talked you got really cross!
Boys doing robotic dancing, and spinning around on plastic sheets