Good Old Fashioned ????? and Moneysaving - bedspreads

luxor4t

Lily-Lu wrote: »

Wasn't that like a 'cream' perfume that came in a little brown bottle that had a sort of stick attached to the inside of the lid, which you used to dab it on? I loved that one.
Cachet was also another of my favourites during the 70s, early 80s

I think that was Tweed by Lentheric. My mum had a bottle on her dressing table next to the cut glass dressing table set - it was a 'mum' sort of perfume & very popular this time of year!

I remember Cachet & wore it throughout Uni - I think it was advertised as being unique to each wearer, reacting & smelling differently on skin. Anyway, somebody told me it smelled like Chanel no5 when I wore it so I was hooked

Carolyntia

Has anyone else got a feather duster? I inherited mine from my dad and it's great for getting cobwebs and dusting light fittings.

Eenymeeny

Wow! Coty L'Aimant, haven't seen that in ages. How about Pagan, Aqua Manda and Brut? (Yes the mans after shave!) We used to carry round those little green bottles so that we could dab frequently :eek: This could be a whole new thread, thanks for the link Olliebeak, I'll have a look at that later. (A bit worried that this thread is making us SPEND money )
I've just rescued one of those cut glass dressing table sets from Dad. He asked me to throw it out as it was a dust collector!:j

luxor4t

Aqua Manda ...mmmmmmmmmmmm my nice niece had a teenage perfume recently that took Little Sis & I right back to our Aqua Manda days. I lived the design cut into the bottle top Aqua Citra (lemon variety) wasn't quite so warm or sweet.

I wore Brut too: it smelled better on me than it did on the then boyfriend In the mid 70s all the boys wore Brut & then Denim & Hai Karate took over. Old men wore Old Spice

My original dressing table set disappeared (to a jumble sale in 1975:o:o), and I inherited a beauty in the late 1980s - but baby DD smashed the candle sticks etc etc so I am just left with the tray. I have found 2 china sets & a blue glass set in CSs so when the little Luxors are away at college I strip their beds and dust the rooms then cover the beds with my candlewick bedspreads & set out the dressing table sets ....and suddenly it is 1950 in my house

Eenymeeny

I have found 2 china sets & a blue glass set in CSs so when the little Luxors are away at college I strip their beds and dust the rooms then cover the beds with my candlewick bedspreads & set out the dressing table sets ....and suddenly it is 1950 in my house [/QUOTE]

Love that idea! Sounds cosy, now if you could just get 1950s prices...:rotfl:

boultdj

Has any one else got a pan trivet? i use mine a lot,saves my wrist and my worksurface. i got a glass tray as well,it use to be my gran's.

Justamum

boultdj wrote: »

Has any one else got a pan trivet? i use mine a lot,saves my wrist and my worksurface. i got a glass tray as well,it use to be my gran's.

I've got a couple of cork mats to put hot pans on. I used to have a metal trivet, but found pans could slide around on it. I've found the cork much better.

BitterAndTwisted

What I think I really want is one of those metal thingys (I always thought it was called a trivet but now I'm not so sure) it sits on the burner on top of the stove so you can put things on a really slow simmer without burning the contents of the pan. Could someone put me out of my misery and tell what this is called so I can try and find one, please?

Lentheric's Tweed perfume! That's bringing back a fond memory. It was my mother's favourite scent when I was a child. There was little money to be had in our house but for a special treat my Dad used to buy her a tablet of the soap once in a blue moon. It was, of course, kept under lock and key and only used very rarely.

Carbolic soap!

oldMcDonald

Carbolic soap!

I love the smell of that stuff (DH thinks I'm rather odd over this!).

When I was pregnant with my youngest I used to carry a bar of carbolic soap around with me so I could take long, deep sniffs

Pitlanepiglet

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

What I think I really want is one of those metal thingys (I always thought it was called a trivet but now I'm not so sure) it sits on the burner on top of the stove so you can put things on a really slow simmer without burning the contents of the pan. Could someone put me out of my misery and tell what this is called so I can try and find one, please?

I think it's a diffuser?