Childhood & Sentimental memories

mary43

Just had a sudden thought...........that toothpaste in a tin.............wasn't it Gibbs ? For some reason that came into my head

LittleVoice

squiggle37 wrote: »

also my nan used to have sheets of mesh stuff that was soaked in yellow ointment was in a tin she used to cut up pieces to put on cuts and grazers, it may have been something she made up herself tho no sure.

Was this lanolin?

LittleVoice

positivelymummy wrote: »

green shield stamps ring a bell too? not sure why though, was it a co-op thing??

Green Shield stamps were issued by Tescos. Pink Shield (mentioned by another poster) were issued by Safeway IIRC.

The Co-op did issue stamps (probably blue) for a while.

Pitlanepiglet

LittleVoice wrote: »

Green Shield stamps were issued by Tescos.

Surely not? I remember Green Shield Stamps way before Tescos...I remember taking them to our local VG store?

LittleVoice

mary43 wrote: »

loo roll (before it became soft and called toilet tissue) .........like greaseproof paper with Medicated with Izal Germicide stamped across every sheet........

..... and "the property of Xyz Council . . . . Now Wash Your Hands" stamped across the rolls in the Town Hall

Beccatje

I am 40 now and grew up in the 70's 80's.

I remember our first tv. It was black and white. When friends of ours got a color tv I thought that was the bees knees!
It seemed ages before we got one. We didn't have much money.
You then had to get up and punch the button to switch channels! lol!

We had an apartment that only had a gas fireplace in the living room. There used to be iceflowers on the widows in the bathroom so my mom would put a big zink tub filled with water in front of the fireplace so I could take a bath without freezing to death!

We'd sit under a brown furry bedspread on the couch with a whole pot of tea and a packed of biscuits that we'd dunk in the tea.

I remember trying to record music onto cassete tapes from the radio and was forever mad at the dj for talking through the music!

We didn't have a car so we collected a christmas tree that was given to us by my school (it was in our classroom but had to go before the christmas hols) we carried it home riding our bikes and laughed so hard the whole way that we could barely hold on to it. We ended up with loads of bumps and scrapes.

one christmas we were really poor. didn't have ANY money and I remember my mom being really worried that she couldn't give us a nice christmas. We made decorations out of alluminum foil.
Then on christmas eve a family friend turned up with a big box full of christmas food that he gave to us. That was really special and emotional. I was only wee then but I remember it vividly.

Now when my kids complain "there's nothing good to eat in the house..." I remember we only had crisps on a weekend if lucky. Fizzy drinks came in bright orange or green color and again was reserved for weekend or birthday party.

I had a wee record player.. it was white and orange. The lid came off and turned into the speaker! lol I loved it!
In my early teens I watched "Grease" and wallpapered my bedroom with John Travolta posters! :A
Tv shows I watched were CHiPS, Battlestar Galactica, Alias Smith and Jones. While my mom was into Dynasty, and Dallas. *yuck*

Later on I thought you'd have to be really really rich to own a dishwasher, or a microwave.

If I think back on how much has changed in the 40 years I've been alive, makes me wonder what life is going to be like when I'm 80!



Becca

FROSTYFRECKLE

Hi,

Just read Becca's reply about being poor. I was born in 1970 and grew up poor but it seemed then nobody had a lot of money. I believe children of today are spoiled rotten. Okay here comes my story of growing up poor. I grew up in the East end of Glasgow - Baillieston to be precise. The railway then used to be for freight only. One night my Uncle Jimmy came up to our home late at night and his van was full of tins. A freight train had come of the lines and spilled it's cargo. Half of Baillieston was down at the tracks grabbing the spilled cargo:D Most of the tins were missing the labels so for dinner it was pot luck - tinned fruit, ham, beans etc all yum, but hidden in amongst these goodies was tinned ox-tail soup:eek: We ate like lords for months, okay we didn't know what we were about to eat but it was fun.

Beccatje

I agree FrostyFreckle. Kids are spoiled nowadays.

My kids are that is for sure!
a slice of bread with just butter???... they'd ask me if I'd lost it!
They get grumpy if there is limited choise for sandwich fillings even!

I would like to bring them back a bit, as things are getting quite difficult for us now as well, but I don't know how to get it instilled in them!
Don't want them to feel deprived either..

:eek:

sammyjig

I was born in 1970 and we were not particularly poor but we still didn't have the things my kids have today.
We always had leftovers on Mondays (and sometimes Tuesdays) after the sunday roast. We didn't have crisps or fizzy except for special occasions. Lots of stews and caseroles with the cheaper meat or sometimes no meat at all. Takeaways were unheard of exept the VERY rare fish n chip supper.
My best Christmas was when I got a Sindy doll and rather than all the expensive accesories that you get today, my dad made a wooden 4 poster bed and wardrobe for all the homemade clothes my mum had made.
I still have the wooden bed and dd has it now for her barbie.

Muppet81

Born in 1956
I remember -

• Eating exotic food most saturday nights whilst watching Bugs Bunny on TV - Vesta Chow Mein with a sachet of soy sauce and crispy noodles! I loved it.
• Frost patterns on the insides of the bedroom windows when I woke up - likely to see those again soon with the price of energy going up.
• Holidays in Falmouth, Cornwall and eating cornish pasties out of newspaper - they seemed huge!
• Bunty magazine with the cut out model and clothes on the back page - I was always cutting off the little folding tags and having to stick them back on with sellotape.
• The Ben Shaws 'pop' waggon coming round and all my friends getting a bottle or two of delights such as dandelion and burdock or cream soda. I was not allowed fizzy pop and had to drink milk or water. Child abuse!!!!
• The occasional stay at my Grandads house when I was taken to the chippy for fish, chips and peas and a breadcake AND A CAN OF CREAM SODA!! Eaten off one of those metal trays with the folding legs. Had a picture of a japanese scene.
• The rag and bone man with his horse and mum getting a donkey stone. This was a very early memory I suspect but I do remeber it very clearly.
• Going, on my own, to visit an old guy acoss the road who told lovely stories and showed me interesting things. I spent many happy hours with Jack. Nowadays you would not dare let your kids wander into a neighbours house, especially a single man. A sad loss to the childern and the lonley old people in so many cases.
• Making ginger beer from a ginger beer plant and it exploding all over the pantry on more than one occasion.
• Liver and onions, mince and cowheel stew, tripe and onions cooked in milk with dumplings - I was brought up in Oldham, Lancashire!
• Snow drifts up to the bedroom window cill.

Heavens, I thought I would struggle to come up with things but I could keep going for hours. Better get pn with the ironing though