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70s hamper help!
heretolearn_2
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Hi
I'm making someone a '70s childhood hamper' for Xmas and I'm stuck. I've got a Morecombe and Wise annual, some 70s sweets (like flying saucers)..but that's it. Anyone got any good (and cheap) ideas for some more contents?
I'm making someone a '70s childhood hamper' for Xmas and I'm stuck. I've got a Morecombe and Wise annual, some 70s sweets (like flying saucers)..but that's it. Anyone got any good (and cheap) ideas for some more contents?
Cash not ash from January 2nd 2011: £2565.:j
OU student: A103 , A215 , A316 all done. Currently A230 all leading to an English Literature degree.
Any advice given is as an individual, not as a representative of my firm.
OU student: A103 , A215 , A316 all done. Currently A230 all leading to an English Literature degree.
Any advice given is as an individual, not as a representative of my firm.
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I'd add a rubik's cube or on of them snake things that you fold into a square, although I might be remembering the snake thing wrong."Who’s that tripping over my bridge?" roared the Troll.
"Oh, it’s only me, the littlest Billy-goat Gruff and I’m going off to the hills to make myself fat"0 -
yoyo, marbles, sherbet fountain, white mice, cola cubes, skipping rope,
Showawaddywaddy/Bay City Rollers/David Cassidy CD - (unless you want the authentic vinyl or casette)A minute at the till, a lifetime on the bill.
Nothing tastes as good as being slim feels.
one life, live it!0 -
How about making a vinyl bowl? buy a single or lp and melt to make into a bowl?
Download music and make your own cd.0 -
Button badges.
Copy of the Beano.
Lucky bag.
Keyrings. (We used to collect them and keep them all clipped together, the bigger bunch the better.)
Dinky toy car (of seventies style model??)
Waggon Wheel (wrapped biscuit)
Jubbly http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/product.asp?id=11234 or Tip Tops for freezing.
Dominoes or card games like Old Maid, Happy Families or Donkey. Frustration game with the popomatic dice!
Two rubber balls (for playing "2 balls" against the wall)
A pound note http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OLD-BANK-ENGLAND-ONE-POUND-NOTE-/170578789263?pt=UK_Coins_Banknotes_GL&hash=item27b749c38f
Bottle of cream soda or dandelion and burdock pop
Salt and Shake crisps with the little blue bag
Dolly beads candy necklace
Cowboy hat, sherrifs badge and a Milky Bar.
Anglo bubble gum for the biggest and best bubbles
Matey Bubble Bath
Picture/Poster of favourite football team in their very short seventies shorts and seventies hairstyles!
Starsky and Hutch0 -
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a snake draft excluder!What matters most is how well you walk through the fire0
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What about a Slinky0
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pop rocks/space dust
disco ball
lava lamp
pet rock (I loved mine!! and so easy to make)
magic 8 ball
sea monkeys
tartan scarf (shang-a-lang!)
mini etch-a-sketch
smurfs
Jackie magazine/annual
:DI want one!!
:rotfl: 0 -
what about a space hopper? how about a 70s film or tv series? Starsky and Hutch or The Sweeney or maybe the recent series of Life on Mars which was set in the 70s?0
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Creamola foam, bagpuss/clanger/womble toy, plasticine, puffin annual, trifle mix,evil knievel toy,slinky, tank top.0
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