What do you miss from your childhood?

Albermarle

Abbafan1972 said:

There are lots of things I miss from my childhood, but just to choose a couple:-

Being able to play out and not worry about anyone lurking about. My daughters are older now, but they never played out unless in the back garden, or at a friends house, where I knew they were safe. 

Christmas is the other. It used to be such a magical time and now has turned into a big commercial competition and starts earlier every year that passes. 

Christmas dinner no longer interests me and now I look forward to the whole thing being over with. 

In 1971 the police launched a campaign called ‘ Stranger Danger’ to alert parents of the danger of child abduction, following the Moors Murders and the Cannock chase murder.
I think nowadays parents have just got more risk aware/anxious than parents were then to what is a very rare occurrence.

I agree with you about Xmas but I lost interest once I was a teenager !

Abbafan1972

Sticking with the subject of Christmas, I used to eagerly await the delivery of the Autumn/Winter catalogues that my Mom did (Kays, Grattan etc). I think she had 3 on the go at one point. My auntie used to be the one that ordered the most, as she was always skint and I think couldn’t get credit anywhere (before the days of Brighthouse and that). The Argos / Index catalogue were others I looked forward to as well. Argos haven’t done a catalogue for sometime now. 

Dizee123

Taking the greaseproof paper from loaves of bread (can't remember if it was plain or pan) and polishing slides until you went down them at 100 mph and flew off the bottom landing half way across the play park on concrete!

Also borrowing the bread trays from behind the bakers and sliding down the concrete and grass slopes around the housing estate.  Trying not to get holes in your trousers or shorts from the same activity as your mum would give you a clip round the ear as she couldn't afford to keep buying new ones.

Proper snow that lasted for weeks and walking to school between bulldozed banks of it that were higher than you were.  Praying that the teachers cars wouldn't make it up the hill to school so we would get a day off.

Texan bars, Tudor crisps and Frys 5-centre chocolate bars.

Not missing - my granny painting my knees with neat iodine lotion when grazed from above activities.  It stung 

Abbafan1972

Yes, fry’s 5 centre chocolate bars, just lovely. 

mummytummy

What a lovely thread this is, bringing back such lovely and not so lovely memories 😊😂

A couple of mine are getting comics on a Saturday when mum got home from shopping, Sundays dad would buy us some sweets/chocolate for the evening and we’d hire a video from the video shop to watch. 

Sunday roast dinners, which we continue to do even though it’s mainly the 2 of us now.

Sarahspangles

I also don’t remember much freedom as it was the time of the Yorkshire Ripper.

I liked Elephant’s foot cream cakes. I suspect they had an alternative French name. There were two piped halves, in a heart shape, but not a short pastry like Viennese whirls, with a blob of raspberry jam and whipped cream. I was always more into the sat fats than sugar.

Obviously I miss people long gone like my grandparents.

There was a point in my teens where I could do my Saturday job (till girl) and go home and not have any loose ends on my mind from work, just the same queue to come next Saturday. And I could do all my school homework and know it was to a good standard and put away my books and essays in my bag and know there was nothing else I ought to be doing. Once you’re an adult and ‘professional’ there is always something on your mind you should have done faster or better.

Floss

Sarahspangles said:

I also don’t remember much freedom as it was the time of the Yorkshire Ripper..

All the female staff & pupils at my high school were given self defence training every year from 1976, we were also told that if we were out after dark & someone was following us, to go to any house with lights on and ask to phone our parents. Obviously in the late 1970s there was thought to be less risk in doing that than potentially being dragged into bushes.

Organgrinder

So last night I had something I've not had in a long  time. Pie and chips. Winter stodge as it has felt quite chilly of late. Lovely. :-)

cfw1994

I guess I miss a few things….the Corona Van delivering cream soda, mucking around from lunchtime to dusk with mates, but the thing I miss most about my childhood is not aching all the time 🤣

Jellynailer

The newsagents in my street;  and the corner shop round the corner (although not its owner who used to put his hand up my skirt ) = early1950s;  saturday morning children's cinema; playing hopscotch on the pavement so adults walked in the road rather than mess up our chalk markings.