What the younger generation missed! Do we?

That was meant to be with the Mary Quant post!

Ha ha shows the difference between generations when I read what everyone else is going on about regarding "Blue Bag". I immediately thought of one of two things.
IKEA shopping bags (The big blue bag)
Or Blue Bagging the urban slang for buying your alcohol at the off licence to get drunk at home.

....especially the nail polish in those dinky, little bottles.

Going to bed with rollers in! How on earth did we sleep.

Mary Quant,

Does anyone remember toothpaste in a tin?
Also stone hot water bottles
Weekly greengrocer visits in an old converted bus
Metal hair clips to make your hair wavy
Linoleum flooring everywhere with rag rugs made from old coats and trousers etc
My favourite toy - whip and top

Random things popped into my head.
Spangles.
Homemade lemonade/gingerbeer..
Metal hair rollers .
Hair spray decanted in a squirty bottle.
Plucking chickens.
To name but a few.
Found new sweets to eat.
Nothing will beat Mums homemade pop.
Dont use any rollers now.
No sticky hairsprays for me.
Its the farm shop now for me,chicken repared and seasoned.Easy peasy.
Love to remember long forgotton things. Completly forgot about rubber buttons !

Bus conductors, scrambles ( coins thrown to kids by bride’s dad before he and the bride were leaving for Church), queuing at each side ( one side for dry goods, the other for bacon, cold meat, cheese etc ) of the Co-op, biscuits rarely in packets, instead, taken from a large box, then weighed and bagged.

We had a wash house in our tenemant building.
On a Monday, the woman in the close got together and did the washing in a big stone boler, heated with wood scavenged in back yards.

Saggi
my dad use sheet of newspaper draped over fireplace to get it going ….totally dangerous . …but worked!
I remember that too. Amazing that it never caught fire-at least I never saw that happen.
My sister says we used to plait newspaper to use when setting up a fire. I don’t remember that.

…oh. The pool coupon man coming around for his shilling for 8 draws!!

Know and used all of them , except bellows ….my dad use sheet of newspaper draped over fireplace to get it going ….totally dangerous . …but worked! Although not sure on beef press( I’m thinking mincer!)

Blue was for whitening clothes
Bellows for fire
Liberty bodice I wore ( why I’m flat chested!)
Izal toilet proper was misery!

Just remembered the pools coupons. Every week

Callistemon yum.
But, where would you go (apart from your own kitchen) to order that combo?

Callistemon21

^Berni Inns^
Prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau 🙂

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Waiting for the new Kays catalogue!

Being bombed out twice.
Machine gunned twice.
Gasmask.
Anderson Shelter.
Food rationing books.
Clothing coupons.
Evacuation.
ID card.

Muffin the Mule
Bill and Ben and Little Weed

Now it's all fast-paced cartoons and little weed doesn't have the same meaning at all!

Berni Inns
Prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau 🙂

Berni Inns
The Palais de Dance
Tiswas
Dial A Disc

Where we lived when I was a child there was a garage which serviced these peculiar little blue vehicles, bit like bubble cars, just for one person, hand clutch operated. They were for veterans who had lost their legs/had walking difficulties. They were known, without any intended cruelty, as 'cripple cars'

Caramme

Gosh, that reminds me of the horrific Dr Whites with loops on, and the uncomfortable sanitary belt that hooked into the loops. Those pads were so bulky - wads of cotton wool and tissue. Nothing like the slimmer, sticky backed pads my g’dtrs use. In my family tampons were frowned on. If you used them it was assumed you weren’t a virgin.

when there was the fashion for wearing thongs with low waist trousers, the youngsters may have thought they were at the forefront of fashion; I just thought it looked as if they were wearing a sanitary belt! I was told that you could only use tampons if you were married (the assumption being that you would be a virgin until then, I suppose)

My God yes, the party line I wonder which nut case came up with that idea?

Absolutely nothing Wyllow3. By the time I’d summoned up the courage to speak to the latest beloved on the party line only to find someone else on it already, it was easier to give up!

My goodness Nannagarra what were you up to?