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DanniRae Mon 13-Jul-20 12:14:46

This thread is about things that you hardly see /use/wear any more.
So.......
Motor bikes and side cars
Petticoats
Cravats
Spin dryers

Over to you ..........

Kate1949 Tue 14-Jul-20 10:10:46

Gajahgran Around Christmas time, some of the supermatkets sell packs with a small bottle of Babycham and the cute glass for about £5.
I have bought them as gifts. My glass is one I bought I'm the 1970s.

CherryCezzy Tue 14-Jul-20 10:17:30

Clock on/off machines
Detachable real fox fur collars (thank goodness)
Frozen individual cartons of mousse desserts (can't remember brand name)
Dolly pegs
Hazlet

Urmstongran Tue 14-Jul-20 10:40:31

Fruit salad sweets and mojos 4 for a penny.

Marmight Tue 14-Jul-20 11:57:16

chewbacca. I keep my loo rolls stacked on an old ‘posser’!
I still buy Instant Whip & Angel Delight for the GC

Machine in railway station where for a penny you could stamp out your name on a flimsy piece of metal (?why)

Quink ink in green/turquoise/red/blue

‘Whizzer’ which you cut out from back of a cereal packet and threaded onto string (and whizzed ?)

French knitting with 4 nails in a wooden cotton reel (I never knew what to do with resulting snake)

Roller skates which grew with you with the aid of a key
Same with dental plate to make gaps for the new teeth grin

Pogo stick

Clothes roller clamped onto the wooden draining board

Chewbacca Tue 14-Jul-20 12:00:36

Fruit salad sweets and mojos 4 for a penny.

And Black Jacks, also 4 for 1d. And Flying Saucers. And those little wooden sticks of liquorice root that you chewed into a slimy stringy mess until all the flavour had gone.

Chewing gum dispensing machines outside shops. I think they were Wrigley's?

jenpax Tue 14-Jul-20 12:01:21

Thanks Chewbacca I have never heard of it before

Chewbacca Tue 14-Jul-20 12:02:35

Those cut out dolls on the back of Bunty comics and their various outfits that had little tabs at the top to hang onto the doll.

Grannybags Tue 14-Jul-20 12:07:57

Marmight My granddaughter had a pogo stick for Christmas!

Marmight Tue 14-Jul-20 12:47:04

I threw our old one away when I moved. It was positively dangerous grin