20 things your child will never do or understand

[Colwyn]

[echogirl1]

Sorry Colwyn don't know what that is either!!

[echogirl1]

Skip that comment, just read the page before and am now enlightened, though I haven't seen it before.  

[mercury]

Dont know how we survived at all....... :-) :-)

[Rimms]

Putting money in the meter on the back of the TV.

Walking from school to the Dinner Centre at lunch time (maybe this was just my infant school, we used an old church hall that was shared with another school)

Stacking 8 records onto the dansette centre spindle and still listening when anything after the second record started to slip.

Loading wet washing onto the clothes horse in the kitchen then hoisting them up to the ceiling on the pulleys.

Gathering around the TV with the whole family to watch the Eurovision Song Contest or the Royal variety performance.

Dashing home from school all excited because it was either Beano or Dandy day.

Making a rope swing on the cast iron arms that were at the top of every lamppost

[Lotty]

Haven't seen one of those for years! Nor those sticky hanging fly papers, yuk, horrible looking things.

Another thing our kids wouldn't understand is how we would make arrangements and plans to meet folk somewhere and (have to) stick to them! No mobile phones then or even landlines in any homes where I lived!

No sitting under enormous hair driers in the salons anymore, or sleeping very still with a pillow under your neck so that your big hair would stay 'set'. No rock hard hair lacquer which was a job to wash out.

[kevin3]

I used to have to go to the greengrocers and ask for loose cabbage leaves for the rabbit,we hadn't got one.!
I used to have to ask for offcuts of cheese for the mouse traps.we didn't have mice.!
Broken biscuits and cracked eggs cause' they were cheaper (one of my sisters worked there and made sure there were some)
Fetch one 7oclock razor blade and five woodbine fags for me dad.
Push a set of pram wheels two miles to fetch a bag of coal when we couldn't afford a coal delivery.
Cutting newspapers into squares and threading them on a string to hang up for toilet paper. (always gave you a black a##e)

Hard times, happy times, still had time to be kids and have fun.
But i'll NEVER forget being poor.
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[Jacqui Harvey]

Re the flit spray.  I remember in the Cinema they used to have a brass spray that was very similar and it sprayed out air freshener.   Probably because people smoked.   There was an ashtray on the back of all the seats.  I also remember the binoculars that where on the seat in the theatre, you put in sixpence and took out the binoculars and then replaced them after the show.  So, you were renting them.   Imagine doing that now!  I suspect there would be very few put back.

[Colwyn]

always gave you a black a##e

How could you tell? Did you use a mirror or was it "ask a friend"? I remember using the same when visiting my grandparents in South Wales. And their gas lights in the bedroom and severe warnings about never to touch the mantle.

[grahamturner09]

I remember going to bed at ten o'clock after the national anthem and the TV finished