20 things your child will never do or understand

[mercury]

The best age group in my opinion..but you have a long way to go yet. xx

[mary62]

I remember the Co-op stamps. My mum used to save them up in the stamp book and used them at Christmas for money off the groceries. Only full books could be redeemed.

We never had shop bought cakes or bread, mum baked her own. Left over mashed potato was made in to potato cakes for Sunday night supper. food was never thrown away in our house and we would have 'fry ups' on Monday with left over meat and veg from Sunday dinner, fried up in the big frying pan with beaten egg mixed in...delicious.

[mary62]

Many thanks to Rimms for starting this topic, So many wonderful memories have come flooding back.

[Highlander]

Smoke filled offices, restaurants, trains etc., etc, etc...........................

[bewva]

Even I don't understand 'traings' H. They must have disappeared before my time.  

[Lotty]

Yes H, smoke filled cinemas, pubs, trains and buses. Not to mention smoking on airplanes! My boss started me smoking by asking me to light her cigarettes for her when she was busy, then urging me to have one too. Luckily I only smoked for a couple if years. My mother was recommended smoking by her doctor as a sedative because she suffered with her nerves. True! . . really - but they didn't know all the harmful effects in those days.

[echogirl1]

The post about the Co-op stamps reminded me of something that everyone was involved in at the time, Green Shield Stamps, however I cant remember how we used to redeem them, was there a Green shield shop or did we redeem them at other shops? Help please with this?

[Lotty]

I seem to remember it was a shop similar to Argos is today. You took your full books and exchanged them for goods.  

[kevin3]

Co-op number 161972.
Our co-op milk and bread came on horse drawn floats, as did the  coal.
Every morning before school I had to walk up our road with a galvanised bucket and
a shovel and collect the horse s##t for the garden.
A hot topic at the moment is slaves. Meet the original.     

[Rimms]

Paying for things in the co-op by us (park road Liverpool) was an experience, your purchases were listed on a piece of paper which was then put inside a sort of tin can which was attached to a pulley system, the shop assistant then pulled the string until the tin reached the cashiers office, there the value of the purchases was added up and the paper returned back to she shop assistant by the same pulley system (hope your following this, we're not there yet) you then handed over your money, which the shop assistant put into the tin, this was sent back to the cash office where your change was placed into the tin and sent back to the shop assistant. PHEW !

You almost had to write off a whole morning just to buy a quarter of mantuna tea!

In later years the co-op went all posh and replaced the pulleys and string with a space age vacuum system.