Old Style Shopping list

rachbc

hair conditioner and shower gel are the only things on that list I buy

WeegieWumman

Sanitary towels had loops on them which hooked onto sanitary belts.
When the 'stick-on' sanitary towels were first sold, I gave one to an acquaintance. By mistale, she didn't stick it to her undies and needed to use scissors to cut the towel off.

bossymoo

WeegieWumman wrote: »

Sanitary towels had loops on them which hooked onto sanitary belts.
When the 'stick-on' sanitary towels were first sold, I gave one to an acquaintance. By mistale, she didn't stick it to her undies and needed to use scissors to cut the towel off.

Ouch! :eek:

bossymoo

I was born in the mid 70s and occasionally, we used to get one of those large pots of yoghurt as a treat. Ski strawberry. It was decanted into four bowls. I remember thinking we must be really rich when we eventually got the small individual pots lol.

I didn't go on a train till I was 9. I remember complaining about it. I was off school one day, I forget why, and my parents took me to Manchester on one. My brother must have been at school...

monnagran

I mostly remember the cold and sitting huddled over the one fire we had going, where your front burned and your back froze. You would see women out with red and white mottled legs where they had sat too near to the fire.
Washing day was just that, a whole day. I only remember 2 washing powders, Rinso and Oxydol and for washing up we just waved a bar of green soap about in the water. The whites were finished off with a swish in Reckitts 'blue bag' before the whole load of washing was carted down to the shed where it was put through a mangle with the most enormous wooden rollers, buttons folded to the inside in the hope that they wouldn't crack.
Doctors were to be avoided wherever possible and home made and most peculiar concoctions were our medicines. Cosmetics were Ponds cold cream and 'Vanishing Cream'.and I only remember 2 perfumes - Evening in Paris and Californinian Poppy, boy! were they pungent?

Ooh yes! the Izal toilet paper, hard and scratchy. One bath a week and hair washed every 2 weeks.
During the war we didn't go shopping we 'fetched the rations' and on the rare occasions we got something extra - some jelly crystals or a bag of broken biscuits it was worth celebrating.
Well. that's got well and truly off the subject. I'll stop now before I get on to pavement games, Liberty Bodices and the joy of wrinkly Lisle stockings.

anguk

FrugalLina wrote: »

The biggest change did happen with supermarkets, especially the really large ones that do sell just about everything. It is a very good tactic, making luxuries appear to be essentials in a way.

I watched a TV series a little while back, I think it was called The High Street or something like that, several families ran little shops in the high street and each week was a different decade. It was fascinating to watch but the big change came in the 50s when the grocers shop changed into a self-service supermarket, after that the butchers closed and the other shops struggled because they just couldn't compete.

It's strange kids now seem to have so much more and more opportunities yet they don't seem as content or as happy as kids even 30-40 years ago. It's as if everything has changed in one generation.

Edit: found the TV series, it was Turn Back Time - The High Street. I wish they would repeat it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v7p71

DundeeDoll

zepsgal wrote: »

One woman was talking about serving foreign food like spaghetti bolognese :rotfl:

What did Britain eat before we had pasta?!?

We had meat and two veg. The only time pasta was served was as macaroni pudding. Ditto rice. My mum bought for cash. If she needed cash on a saturday she'd buy something by cheque at m&s then take to returns where you could return at item, no reason given, for cash :rotfl:
We ate a lot of root veg which sh'd buy at the greengrocers with a wheeled trolley. They'd put in the spuds first, carrots, onions, oranges and cauliflower then toms, lettuce, cucumber, apples, radishes, soft fruit and sprouts in brown paper bags on top. Leeks were wrapped in old newspaper. Milk was delivered by the coop, and we'd go buy plastic coins to pay from the coop cos then you got your stamps.
We ate well and thinking back very OS. Sunday roast => monday cold meat => tuesday shepherd's pie =>wed little pies thur chops or stew, fri sausage and chips or toad (cos my dad hated fish) sat omlette or quiche or scotch eggs. Very little waste.

Nanamia

Really enjoyed reading your stories. Read food for thought :-)

DundeeDoll

I remember scraping pictures in the ice on the inside of my bedroom window brrrrrrrr i wouldnt like to do without central heating. Nor tampons (i hated those ruddy sanitary belts -psychologically scarred lol) various medical interventions have made me very grateful to live now. And i lerv the internet - google (1998), wikipedia (2001), Mse (2003), facebook (2004), youtube (2005), iplayer(2007)... (guess who's teaching eLearning lol)

FrugalFranny

I sometimes wondered if my folks were part Armish whilst growing up, but now I find I'm also tech free a lot of the time.

From the list: (mostly for 'him' lol)

Anti-bac Hand Soap
L*nx
Microwave snacks

I tend to treat the microwave like a coiled serpent, ready to strike should I dare use it lol, too many of them have gone "BANG!" near me when they first came out and people would put baking potatos wrapped in tin foil in them, eggs still in the shell or leave a bread roll cooking in it for 20 minutes (filling the kitchen with thick white smoke) :eek: But his lordship loves al-la-ping so I just glare at it suspiciously while I wash up.
He keeps nagging me to get a washing machine and has threatened several time to buy me one and get it installed when I'm out shopping, don't see why he's complaining, I'm the one beating bed linen in a river with a rock everyday