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Hypno's "no more boom or bust" diary

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  • Nargleblast
    Nargleblast Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    hypno06 wrote: »
    I too can join the "brown velour sofa from Granny" club......We had the full three piece suite in our very diddy studio-type starter home :p

    It is a very exclusive club don't you know :rotfl:

    Not that exclusive if it has me as a member..... I remember buying the brown velour corner seating unit in 1982! Got very tatty very quickly though.
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  • Rainy_2
    Rainy_2 Posts: 432 Forumite
    I STILL have a "retro chic", "rich chocolate" coloured sofa! In "soft to the touch" fabric! Plus matching armchair - which is an added luxury I know.

    It has no choice but to last a considerable amount of time longer yet! :D
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  • Karmacat
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    Wow! I didn't go down that route at all :o I bought my little flat in 1980 with a 10% deposit and I had to buy nearly all the furniture new - there wasn't really much to give away :o The one thing I did get was a table, which I still use - my grandad bought it for my mum and dad when they bought a house in 1952 or so. He bought it for 2/6- down Paddy's Market (and thats the name of it still!) down by Liverpool Docks :D
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  • Knitty78
    Knitty78 Posts: 213 Forumite
    I will hold my hand up in shame to getting a 100% mortgage and having to buy everything on interest free. :o Kind of explains why I'm here though...
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Rainy wrote: »
    I STILL have a "retro chic", "rich chocolate" coloured sofa! In "soft to the touch" fabric! Plus matching armchair - which is an added luxury I know.

    :D

    Do you have the pouffe though.......:confused:
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  • boredofbeingathome
    boredofbeingathome Posts: 15,657 Forumite
    OMG talk about blast from the past...i too had the corner one, with Pouffe and a corner built in table...do you know i think i miss it too!
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    Did the pouffe have a "lid" so that you could tidy away the Radio Times?
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  • boredofbeingathome
    boredofbeingathome Posts: 15,657 Forumite
    Yep and my corner bit had a handy perspex table top too.. those were the days.
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    boredofbeingathome wrote: »
    Yep and my corner bit had a handy perspex table top too.. those were the days.

    smoked glass?
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • boredofbeingathome
    boredofbeingathome Posts: 15,657 Forumite
    hypno06 wrote: »
    smoked glass?

    I am sure it was perspex( but you could be right) and the corners where it was screwed to the base always used to gather bits around it:o Murderous to clean and it was probably third hand by the time we got it:o:rotfl:
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