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Stuff My 8 Year Old Has That I Didn't In 1979

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    wotsthat wrote: »
    - colour TV! (didn't see one of those until 1981)
    - food for snacks
    - duvets
    - e-bullying

    Ahh duvet, the first time I encountered one of those was a school skiing trip on an overnight stop in Munich :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • mcja
    mcja Posts: 4,077 Forumite
    I was talking to the kids at school last week telling them we only had one computer between the whole school...they were shocked!!

    My ds (8yo) has an e reader (pressie for op yesterday), dsi (he saved up and brought himself, family laptop, family wii, ipad but its MINE!!

    He's got half the gadgets his mates have and has only asked for Lego for his birthday!!
    “Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”
  • HHarry
    HHarry Posts: 1,011 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper
    And what about the stuff that's been and gone in that time - things like CD's!
  • angrypirate
    angrypirate Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    You have 6 computers in your household? Why?
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    angrypirate wrote: »
    You have 6 computers in your household? Why?

    1 PC
    1 decommissioned PC
    1 lap top bought for Mrs Generali to work from home
    2 very cheap mini lap tops that were completely hopeless that we plan to give to the kids when they're old enough to be trusted
    1 lap top gifted to Mrs Generali by her work to enable her to work from home (local accounting rules often make it advantageous to give a lap top rather than keep it owned by the company AIUI).
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Oh and muesli..
  • MS1950
    MS1950 Posts: 325 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Generali wrote: »
    I was thinking about what my kids have in our house that I didn't when I was a kid

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQNN1VfgQDQ
  • Out,_Vile_Jelly
    Out,_Vile_Jelly Posts: 4,842 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Generali wrote: »
    Pancake maker is a flat piece of metal with an element underneath it. It was a Father's Day present and cost about $10.

    I use the ice cream maker once a month on average. It was a present for cooking a meal for 60 people, a thank you.

    So like a frying pan, but with a mini built-in cooker? I've never eaten home-made ice cream, so glad you are getting use out of it.

    I remember my friend's mum buying the first microwave of anyone in our street (some time in the 80s). A man actually came and gave her a "lesson" on how to use it, during which she took notes and everything. Come to think of it, in the 10 years I've rented in London I've never had a microwave.

    I also remember my first Body Shop gift- a little bottle of Dewberry Shower Gel. Nobody in my family had ever washed with anything other than soap before.
    They are an EYESORES!!!!
  • mcja
    mcja Posts: 4,077 Forumite
    wotsthat wrote: »
    Oh and muesli..

    A whole generation grateful for that then

    _pale
    “Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”
  • Idiophreak
    Idiophreak Posts: 12,024 Forumite
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    Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »
    So like a frying pan, but with a mini built-in cooker?

    Basically, yeah...something like this:

    breville-traditional-crepe-maker-246177.jpeg
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