What were you impressed with as a child that your DGC would laugh it now ?

My aunt & uncle got a fridge, I think it must have been about 1953. My first glass of water with ice cubes in it was a revelation!

I can remember my mother coming home from the Co-op with a packet of frozen fish fingers for the first time. Oh the excitement!

Avocados.
Dad brought one back from a trip to London.

I was amazed when a friend's father had a cassette system in his car to play music tapes. The tapes were the size of Video Tapes!

One of my dad's family members in South Wales had a work-surface in the kitchen that slid off to reveal the bath.

Another in North Wales had a "modern" kitchen but with no waste plumbing. You had to empty the bucket which was under the sink to catch the dregs etc.
They had a 2-seater earth closet behind the house in the next field.

Fizzy pop,yoghurt,being allowed to stay up past 7 pm,the days we skipped Church,a cassette recorder, a baby sitting job that paid 50 p.

We were staying in Wales in 1967 and they had colour television - what a revelation it was. They asked us if we had electricity in Scotland!

Cousins who had a Wendy House in their garden - a proper, brick-built one. And they went on holiday to e.g. Italy in the 1950s. Needless to say, their parents were a lot better off than mine.

My father's first car. He was in the army and we had been posteed somewhere in Yorkshire with three buses a week. So he bought a car.

It was a 1938 Austin, so only 14 years old when he bought it.

On the outskirts of the same village was a mushroom farm. I had never eaten mushrooms before - they were an unimaginable luxury. We use to go down the farm on Saturday afternoon and buy either a quarter pound of mushrooms for 1 shilling and 6 pence, or we could have half a pound of stalks for the same price. We ate them with a cooked breakfast on Sunday.

Kate1949

I can remember my mother coming home from the Co-op with a packet of frozen fish fingers for the first time. Oh the excitement!

My mother worked in the grocery under our flat at the weekend, and used to bring wee things she had been given by one of the ‘traveller’s ( sales reps). How well I remember the fish fingers, though my mother was less than impressed!

I remember having my first bag of flavoured crisps, salt and vinegar. The flavour has been my fav ever since.

Not me - but I can remember my Mum coming back from a visit to someone and being extremely impressed by their battery-operated bread knife. (Do they still exist!).

I was extremely impressed aged about 7, by a friend's BOAC shoulder bag, airline travel had the air of sophistication back then, zoo class conditions were not part of my consciousness. I was ecstatic when I was 10 and we first flew as a family, long before I was to decide after many far flung flights I actually hate flying. . So impressed by air hostesses hats at the time, I joined the girl guides, I was a Brownie already, simply because their hats resembled those worn by BEA stewardesses pathetic really! I can't imagine my grandchildren being impressed by an airline bag! if airlines do such things these days, probably not.

My friend had a hatch between kitchen and dining room. I thought it very posh

Ski yogurts - oh, and Vesta ready meals! They both seemed very exotic to me at the time.

I was asked if I would like butter in my jacket potato by a friend’s mother. I was nonplussed, nothing like that had ever graced my plate at home (jacket potato 😁)

Ski yoghurts! Did I remember right that there was a pear yoghurt in their range and a mandarin one?

And BOAC shoulder bags.

Being invited to supper by missionary neighbours -I was thrilled that they had a toaster and after toasting their bread they put jam or Vegemite on it .
There was cake as well .
And on a different scale : being invited to tea at my schoolfriend's house and listening to him playing Chopin on his grand piano .
Only Liberace had a grand piano !

The absolute astonishment when my Grandparents got some kind of Converter that attached to the television and lo and behold, there was a 2nd channel!

(We didn't even have a TV at home so this was the equivalent of Netflix for me )

My aunt and uncle had television with the first adverts I had ever seen. We only had BBC. About 1958.
I can remember the words to so many and the tunes.The Esso sign means happy motoring. You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent. I could go on.....

television.

Never had one when I lived at home (until age 19).

An electric wall heater in the bathroom.

Up to then, we were just cold having our (weekly) bath in the winter.

My friend had one of those jewellery boxes which opened to reveal a ballerina turning round as music played. I was so envious and longed for one for years after.

The opening of a SELF SERVICE Woolworths in our town. You took a wire basket at the entrance and helped yourself from the counters! I assume there were tills at some point but I only remember the baskets.