Did you use to flip through the Argos catalogue for hours?

Annel

This reminded me of the Mothercare catalogue in the early 70's. My toddler daughter used to spend ages 'reading' it. It was much smaller and lighter than the Argos catalogue and she liked pointing to the things we already had - before graduating to the Argos catalogue and the things she would like!

Syl

I still have my parsley pig, he's grown all sorts of things over the years but he's still going strong

bluelass

I loved looking at toys when I was a kid. And yeah the index by littlewoods.

bluelass

RuthnJasper wrote: »

I always wanted a Mr. Frosty ice slushie-maker! Never got one though. Gutted.

I might buy one now!

My brother had one but its long gone. Do they still make them.

bluelass

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

My family always had the Argos catalogue but weirdly no-one ever actually wanted anything in it, or if they did, they bought it from elsewhere.

Is Argos still going or does everyone buy from Amazon now?

Of course argos is still going you wally.

Bellisima

I looked at the 1974 one. The jewellery is fabulous! A ring with a 1 carat diamond in white gold for £1025. The quality of their jewellery has certainly fallen. A ring of this quality wouldn't even feature in their current catalogue!

bluelass

Bellisima wrote: »

I looked at the 1974 one. The jewellery is fabulous! A ring with a 1 carat diamond in white gold for £1025. The quality of their jewellery has certainly fallen. A ring of this quality wouldn't even feature in their current catalogue!

Argos do sell diamond rings in 18 carat gold. But I wouldn't have any argos jewellery it looks low quality. I hear their diamonds aren't very good and cloudy.

Sparklytori

Aww I used to work for index too.. Poor mans Argos as everything was like 50p cheaper!!! Brings back memories!!

dinglefoot

Petra_70 wrote: »

I also remember INDEX. They also had a catalogue, and a shop. They closed down in 2005. It was very similar to Argos, so one or the other had to go I think. And it was Index. It was owned by Littlewoods. Remember them?

I vaguely remember that

I remember going through the Argos catalogue as a kid in the 90s and making a list of the item names, codes and prices of things I'd like for Christmas I spent hours making those lists and found it great fun I'd look in the kids jewellery bit first, then move onto technology, then move onto toys