Remember when...

[roofman]

Your Mams shopping bag always had dried onioun skins,2 empty brown paper bags,half packet of woodbines and a box of Pilot matches and potato muck off the skins in the bottom of it...These days you will find an iphone,£50,s worth of expensive make-up,a vapour smoking kit and a bunch of keys to the car. I miss the 60,s and 70,s

 

[Wallace]

Remember when... Your Mum took you all the way up the high street checking prices then went back down buying stuff and only your Dad could buy potatoes cos they came in a brown bag and weighed 56lb?

 

[mike 109444]

Remember when ... You had to put the boards back up in the "coal shed" cos the coal man was delivering. Then thinking how on earth does he carry that massive sack of coal !

 

[mfletch]

Remember when.... you could play football in the street because there was only one car in the street

 

[mike 109444]

Remember when... (just watching time team on TV) Tony Robinson came to our school, he was <20 AND HAD HAIR !!
Now look.....

 

[mike 109444]

Remember when.... There use to be a little white dot on the tv when yo turned it off. Where has the white dot gone now.... Same place as all those European tv manufactures (inc British!)

 

[Robotstar5]

Remember when.... There use to be a little white dot on the tv when yo turned it off....

Once you'd listened to the national anthem

 

[CRB]

Once you'd listened to the national anthem

....and at the pictures/cinema

 

[roofman]

Remember when every sunday afternoon it was your turn to cut the newspaper into squares and thread it onto a piece of string to hang inside the outside toiletand the same night it was pineaple chunks and carnation milk...just because it was sunday.

 

[cumbriasteve]

Being the oldest meant you had the first go in the bath on Sunday night
Sharing a bottle of pop with 4 mates and none of you died from some strange disease
Lucky bags: Always great anticipation, always the same junk
Chips in newspapers mmmmmm
There was no white scum when frying bacon
Scraping the frost off the INSIDE of the bedroom window to see if it had snowed and school was off.

I won't go on because half of the members won't have a clue what I am on about

 

[rtbcomp]

......... the bin men came into your back garden, lifted the bin on their shoulder, carried it to the wagon, tipped it and the returned it to where it came from.

 

[roofman]

Being the oldest meant you had the first go in the bath on Sunday night
Sharing a bottle of pop with 4 mates and none of you died from some strange disease
Lucky bags: Always great anticipation, always the same junk
Chips in newspapers mmmmmm
There was no white scum when frying bacon
Scraping the frost off the INSIDE of the bedroom window to see if it had snowed and school was off.

I won't go on because half of the members won't have a clue what I am on about

yep i know all the above..Talking of ice on the inside of glass,old furniture only ever went through the front door once,when it was knacked it went up the chimney as smoke (cheaper than coal) including old shoes too..

 

[steviec_lj]

Scraping the frost off the INSIDE of the bedroom window

I still do this!

 

[Fazerruss]

......... the bin men came into your back garden, lifted the bin on their shoulder, carried it to the wagon, tipped it and the returned it to where it came from.

And it was full of ash not rubbish.

 

[roofman]

And it was full of ash not rubbish.

so true.

 

[oddbob]

Being the oldest meant you had the first go in the bath on Sunday night
Sharing a bottle of pop with 4 mates and none of you died from some strange disease
Lucky bags: Always great anticipation, always the same junk
Chips in newspapers mmmmmm
There was no white scum when frying bacon
Scraping the frost off the INSIDE of the bedroom window to see if it had snowed and school was off.

I won't go on because half of the members won't have a clue what I am on about

Oh I remember ...but Lucky Bags? They must be the same as Jamboree Bags I suspect. A Jamboree Bag and a Jubbly and not a care in the world

 

[brightspark]

i miss the 70 s skinheads mods and rockers even brolly boys

 

[bash'it]

Being the oldest meant you had the first go in the bath on Sunday night
Sharing a bottle of pop with 4 mates and none of you died from some strange disease
Lucky bags: Always great anticipation, always the same junk
Chips in newspapers mmmmmm
There was no white scum when frying bacon
Scraping the frost off the INSIDE of the bedroom window to see if it had snowed and school was off.

I won't go on because half of the members won't have a clue what I am on about

I remember getting dressed under the blankets cos it was too cold, and watching my breath when I exhaled

 

[BoatBuilderDave]

* You were the remote control for the TV.
* A Penny Sweet was Penny.
* Milk came in Glass bottles.
* The library (bus) came to you
* You could walk to the village alone at 10 or 12 years old, and if you were gone for an extra hour or two, no-one panicked.
* the sweet shop selling 1/4 oz of sherbet lemons was not "retro"

 

[bash'it]

I remember when it was that foggy you couldn't see your hand in front of you