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mardatha

The one thing I would NEVER go back to is a twintub :eek: all that standing about with an aching back and water all over the floor.
I love automatics and was delirious when I got my first one

savingqueen

wotnext wrote: »

Yes, how true! It was the cure for all earaches as far as I remember.

We never had fancy bite/sting sprays either - simple vinegar was put on the sting followed by mummy's kiss to make it all better.

Who remembers the sawdust on the butcher's floor?

And I know it's not food, but I remember us getting our first duvets. It was a huge leap for mankind that day - no more layers of sheets and blankets and hours to make a bed each morning!

Yes I remember the sawdust and also when we got duvets - I still find it hard to sleep without some weight to my bedcovers so unless its too warm, I add a heavy dressing gown on top of duvet on my side of bed!

sq:)

rosie383

I am more aware of what goes in my trolley nowadays after spending a lot of time in North Africa where all of the 'convenience' things that we take for granted just aren't available. Makes me appreciate things so much more.

westcoastscot

Mar I just don't think it gets stuff as clean - you can't just pop things in for a wee wash, the low water level and hi-tech powders make us itchy if we aren't really careful, and I feel like i'm washing non-stop. I used to wash my hubby's fishing clothes in the sink and scrub them on the drainer - and I still do occasionally for my son's stuff - it just doesn't get as clean in a modern machine - think its the low water levels. What i'd really like is an american-style top loader!!!

WCS

westcoastscot

Have to say a lot of stuff folks buy aren't available up here - or if they are they're really expensive.

Need2bthrifty

westcoastscot wrote: »

Never even occurred to me we were poor - we all lived the same way. We had a family next door once who we loved, but thought were so posh!! they only had two kids, a boy and a girl, and the girl used to wear her hair in a bun - so sophisticated!! we were only young and me and my sisters were in plaits. Their mum used to give them a vitamin each morning - and if I was there to walk to school with them I got one too!!! WCS

We must have been like your posh neighbours, although my mother watched the pennies one thing she did insist on during the winter months was a daily halib0range (vitamin C tablet) she also had a huge jar of Malt Extract with cod liver oil, we got a dessert spoonful every morning and licked it like a lollipop :rotfl:, I loved it. Tried it again a few years ago - but it just didn't taste the same .

SailorSam

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

We must have been like your posh neighbours, although my mother watched the pennies one thing she did insist on during the winter months was a daily halib0range (vitamin C tablet) she also had a huge jar of Malt Extract with cod liver oil, we got a dessert spoonful every morning and licked it like a lollipop :rotfl:, I loved it. Tried it again a few years ago - but it just didn't taste the same .

I remember those Haliborange tablets, and them tiny bottles of orange juice when we were taken to the clinic for a check-up. Do they still have that, it was lovely.

anguk

WeegieWumman wrote: »

When you bought a television, it was delivered with two men carrying it. They plugged it in, secured the cable to the skirting board, plugged in the aerial, adjusted the picture to perfection and showed you 'how to work it'.

My telly is still like that, when it finally dies I'm going to have to find two strong men to remove it because it's so heavy.

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At school we were given doses of cod liver oil capsules every day along with the little bottle of milk.Kids would fight over who was to be 'milk monitor' as they got to swipe an extra bottle and blame the milkman for not delivering all of it
I once made the mistake of biting into the capsule ,never again, everything tasted fishy for several days afterwards.

We also had to line up for a spoon of malt extract.There was one spoon per class and we lined up in alphabetical order, which was good for me as my surname started with a 'B'
If you name was Smith you were tail-end-charlie and had to have your spoonful after it had been through about 38-42 other childrens mouths.Bit grotty if someone had a cold or the kid next you you had a runny nose or catarrh.I was usually second dose so I was o.k. but I think I would have hurled if I had been at the end of the line of children.Why there was only one spoon per class I don't know why, and after we had all had our 'Virol' teacher used to wipe the spoon with a cloth which often doubled as a blackboard duster But we were a hardy lot in those days and no one seemed to be too damaged by it .God knows what H&S would make of it today:)
My local Tesco increased in size last year and its huge .I honestly can't see why there has to be 10 different brands of beans or rows of detergents .As a previous poster said it was Rinso or Oxydol with Dreft or Lux soap flakes for woolies. Vim was the universal cleaner it cleaned almost everything from the cooker to the loo along with the tin of Brasso (I always had to clean my Mum's brasses on a Saturday, and swore I'd never have any in my own house and I never have)She also had a tin I think it was called Zebra which was the blacking stuff for the kitchen range.A 'donkey stoned step ' at the front door was essential to most housewives and God help the child who put a mark on her pristine white step.Her nets were washed weekly and starched with Robin starch All of the washing was done on Monday and the ironing on Tuesday.Monday night's tea was always left over from Sunday lunch.Meals were almost always meat and two veg with the emphasis on veg to make the meat go further.Being a canny little Scots woman we either had soup for starters but no pud, or pud and no starters.It helped to fill up empty tummies that way I still do this over 60 years later as do my chidren.
As child I seemed to spend a lot of time queueing often I didn't know what I was in line for, but if my Mum saw a queue she would shove me in it whilst she went to get whatever she needed at the other shop.

I wonder what she would have made of the shopping habits of today's Mum's, and whether she would have wanted to try the different stuff available .
I think maybe not, as she would have said there was far too much food on folks plates today.

I saw a few weeks ago in a cafe where I was having a coffee a family come in,Mum and two children, and the kids picked what they fancied to eat and the loaded tray came to about £24.00. a good third of which was left when the kids had decided it was time to get down and tear around the cafe.
I don't think I would have sat down for a week if I'd tried that on with my Mum, empty plates were the rule unless you were ill then you were put to bed and stayed there until better and gived boiled egg and a bit of bread and butter perhaps.

Every now and then on special days birthdays etc Mum would take me out for afternoon tea and a nice place in Blackheath ,London called Jobbins.It had smart waitresses with black frocks on and white pinny's. Tea would arrive in a proper silver pot along with milk and sugar in lumps in a bowl The sandwiches would be very small and really lovely ,sort of stuff you never had at home salmon ,cucumber or potted crab ,and also on to the table would come a large three tiered cake stand which I was allowed to choose one cake of it.Only one mind as they were not cheap, and I always chose the chocolate eclair which was filled with fresh cream (none of your synthetic muck here )and I felt so grown-up and grand .We always dressed up to go there as well as it was a special treat so Sunday best clothes and you had to mind your Ps & Qs and manners and remember to say please and thank you to the waitresses.a different era to tadys children who don't seem to get so excited to go out for a meal now .My youngest DDs children do though as she onl;y lets them have a 'fast food' meal as a 'treat' I don't think a McD's as a treat though but its a faster pace of life today

Molly41

Does anyone remember the welfare orange juice/syrup type stuff? You got it from the clinic and it was yum.

I remember going to Tesco in the early to mid 70's but it was qyite a cheap shop. My treat for the week was a pack of Magic Roundabout biscuits that came with a small character figure. I think the equivilant of Malted Milk today.

If anyone wants a trip down memory lane go to the Robert Opie Museum of packaging Fabulous place:T:T:T