― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:31 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:33 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:36 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:37 (five years ago)
* interior decor featuring a lot of brown
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:52 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 11:54 (five years ago)
(that require sticking down at the edges every six months for the next 15 years)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:02 (five years ago)
A bowl of polished stones
― Alba, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:40 (five years ago)
Avocado green bathroom suite.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:44 (five years ago)
* electrically unsafe and potentially lethal white goods (we had a twin tub washing machine where the whole body would become intermittently live)
Still had a b+w valve television with 4 channel buttons (going up to ITV2) right up to the late 80's!
― calzino, Saturday, 28 December 2019 12:53 (five years ago)
Box of Quality Street chocolates brought out only when guests arrived45 rpm of Royal Scots Dragoon Guard’s “Amazing Grace”Souvenir teacup from some royal wedding, probably Princess AnneSubbuteo
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:32 (five years ago)
televisions broadcasting images of child abusers masquerading as light entertainment presenters
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:34 (five years ago)
A cactus
― or something, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:41 (five years ago)
Wade Whimsies
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:42 (five years ago)
- accumulation of pg tips cards / greenshield stamps / cigarette tokens at the back of a kitchen drawer
- at least one doily lurking somewhere in the house, possibly under a fruit bowl or bedside lamp
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 14:24 (five years ago)
- ashtrays
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 14:27 (five years ago)
- racist marmalade (in the cupboard not the fridge)
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 14:33 (five years ago)
this all just sounds like my dad's house in the 2010s
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Saturday, 28 December 2019 14:37 (five years ago)
Candles and a torch to find the matches.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:16 (five years ago)
Lurking Doily is my new band name
― flowers for trinitron (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:17 (five years ago)
Graham Kerr 'The Galloping Gourmet' cookbook.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:21 (five years ago)
Kenwood Chef
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:22 (five years ago)
knock-off 'Tupperware'
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:23 (five years ago)
racist marmalade
Racist keyrings obtained by sending off tokens from jars of racist marmalade.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:24 (five years ago)
xxp see also recipe cards
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:24 (five years ago)
those plastic rolodex-type holders for recipe cards collected from a magazine partwork, yep
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:26 (five years ago)
magazine partworksspace hopper in garden
swingball
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:27 (five years ago)
sodastreampop bottles with a deposit
Giles cartoon book
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:28 (five years ago)
Plastic ruler that clips on to a milk bottle to tell you how much milk is left in the bottle. Because people apparently really needed to know how much milk was in a milk bottle to a far greater degree of accuracy than we do today.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:30 (five years ago)
T-shirts with iron-on transfers already cracked to semi-legibilityfun patches sewn on kids' clothes
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:30 (five years ago)
a lot of corduroy
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:32 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:34 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:36 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:38 (five years ago)
*50p slot gas meter that my dad used to put a strong magnet on to cheat it. I don't think I've seen any documentary evidence that this method actually worked.
― calzino, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:39 (five years ago)
Beatles' red albumFindus crispy pancakesLook-In
― fetter, Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:57 (five years ago)
not quite 70's but I think I had Look-In '81 annual with Buck Rogers and Metal Mickey on the cover.
― calzino, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:01 (five years ago)
- toby jugs, tankards, horse brasses or similar 18th cent tavern culture trinkets
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:07 (five years ago)
did we say sideboards yet? if not, sideboards
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:09 (five years ago)
These plateshttps://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/253526227472_/Vintage-1970s-Kiln-Craft-Bacchus-25cm-Dinner-Plates.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:10 (five years ago)
these mugshttps://1stopretroshop.com/item-photos/retro-soup-mugs-set-recipe-print-bowls-cup-handles-70s-vintage-1stopretroshop-k11267-4.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:12 (five years ago)
stereos that lived in a cabinet that looked like a sideboard
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:23 (five years ago)
- a chip pan
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:26 (five years ago)
Those fake silk polyester scarves printed with Bay City Rollers/T. Rex/Leeds Utd./etc
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:27 (five years ago)
if i wasn't so lazy i could audit how much of this stuff is still in my mom's house. not as much as there was 2 years ago tbf
― Bojo Rabid (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:28 (five years ago)
Had those mugs mfktz
― Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:29 (five years ago)
Did anyone else’s family radio have those little diamond shaped stickers on it so you could see where r1, r2 etc were?
― the woefullest shirker (NickB), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:34 (five years ago)
yes
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 December 2019 16:35 (five years ago)
a drunk driver.
― mark e, Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:49 (five years ago)
Smokers who smoke when there are children in the room.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 December 2019 21:58 (five years ago)
thats still a thing in many homes.not specific to the 70s.(well, in my family anyway)
― mark e, Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:01 (five years ago)
Smokers who light up without asking if it's okay to do so first.
― AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:03 (five years ago)
as i said ...
― mark e, Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:05 (five years ago)
kitchen hatchesRadio Times'C' batteriesa half used tin of Creamola Foam in the back of the cupboard
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:50 (five years ago)
tea towels with traditional Welsh/Scots recipes onMousetrap with bits missingdimple pint glasses
― fetter, Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:57 (five years ago)
Unread James Clavell novels.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 29 December 2019 07:50 (five years ago)
Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts book.
― calzino, Sunday, 29 December 2019 08:55 (five years ago)
http://www.greatwhatsit.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/jack%201.jpgcan remember reading about spring-heeled jack, the Reichstag fire and the disappearance (probable murder by the KGB) of Lionel "Buster" Crabb. Intriguing stuff when you are a little kid and there are only 3 tv channels!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 December 2019 09:02 (five years ago)
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 16:55 (five years ago)
Packets of Angel DelightCasdon SoccerFab 208 annualClackers
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:00 (five years ago)
Winfield (Woolworths) own brand products
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:03 (five years ago)
Were the green lady paintings '70s or '60s?
― emil.y, Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:04 (five years ago)
John Noakes: "This could happen to your clackers!" *explosion*
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:04 (five years ago)
xp late 50s early 60s but very common in the 70s
xxp including Winfield branded lightbulbs
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:06 (five years ago)
Butterick sewing patternsKays catalouguesRented furniture and TV sets
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:09 (five years ago)
TV repairmen
See also: renting your TV.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:12 (five years ago)
... I just said that!
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:12 (five years ago)
I don't remember the 70s (I was only alive for 3 and a bit years of it) but pretty much everything in this thread also fits in my experience of 80s UK homes. this may be because I grew up in a place that time forgot
Kays catalogue was based in Worcester, my mum and my granny both worked there at some point in the 70s/80s
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:13 (five years ago)
xp The argument for renting being that if your telly broke and it was rented, they'd swap it out for another one. If you'd bought outright it you'd save money in the long run but only if it never broke down. My parents had bought ours and one time the repair person was there for over an hour to fix a problem with the power button. Cost a fortune.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:15 (five years ago)
Saccharine tablets for when the Tate & Lyle runs out
― AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:17 (five years ago)
TV's were prone to break down a lot, in fact electrical goods in general were pretty ropey. Which brings me to the fact that I don't think I've changed a fuse in decades, I don't know if that's down to the electricity supply being more stable or what.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:18 (five years ago)
In the era of RCBOs your breaker will trip out on the slightest imbalance on a circuit or fault current. In the old days people used to put tack nails in those cartridge fuses!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:23 (five years ago)
If they didn't have any fuse wire those good old bs 3036 fuses would still work with a nail!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:25 (five years ago)
artworks made from coloured thread looped round pins on a board covered with black velvet. there was probably a name for it. also vintage cars etc made from clock parts.
Thelwell cartoons.
― fetter, Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:27 (five years ago)
Spirograph set
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 December 2019 17:32 (five years ago)
Willow pattern plates. As I was reminded when taken for a curry last week and that was the Delph being used.
Was the reliance on repairmen for electrical goods prior to the proprietary nature of later electronic goods or part of the same process.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:13 (five years ago)
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:21 (five years ago)
though the majority of items posted otherwise seem quite different
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:22 (five years ago)
xxp neither - electronic items got more reliable. The proprietary unfixableness came later.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:28 (five years ago)
Also it doesn't make sense to pay someone to come over and fix a 28" TV that cost £150.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:29 (five years ago)
Sven Hassel paperbacks.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:38 (five years ago)
Don't remember him but on the paperback fiction front I'd offer Dick Francis, Alistair Maclean, Agatha Christie, James Herriot and John Fowles.
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:53 (five years ago)
Tom Sharpe. Guinness Book of Records. Pears Cyclopedia.
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:55 (five years ago)
A corn dolly.
― Alba, Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:15 (five years ago)
At least two packs of playing cards.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:36 (five years ago)
Louvre doors. A loft hatch.
A heartache.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:45 (five years ago)
cork floor tilesrush matswoodchip on the walls
― fetter, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:20 (five years ago)
Pears Cyclopedia.
haha holy shit was just thinking about this the other day
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:42 (five years ago)
African ornaments
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:43 (five years ago)
Yukka plants
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:47 (five years ago)
Rodney Matthews and Roger Dean booksashtrays stolen from local pub
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:48 (five years ago)
'things' generally stolen from the local pub
Specifically, that strange hand drum thing that featured in the Karate Kid part 2
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:50 (five years ago)
(it might not be African)
Eddie, asleep on the couch from last nights party
― Ste, Monday, 30 December 2019 10:51 (five years ago)
Okay I'll stop projecting now
I made a reference to clackers at work recently and a colleague who is in their late 20s knew exactly what I was talking about because there was a clacker revival in the late 00s.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:31 (five years ago)