Children of the 60s and 70s

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by KarenG

I’m also a child of the 70s but don’t recognise most of this - and also a multi pierced tattooed person.

Not sure whether to be offended to be labelled ‘old folk’ at 47 😂 but I’ll take that in the spirit I’m sure it was intended.

PS Nimbus I did use a fountain pen at school

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Aimed more at people born in 50s and 60s I think.

[megaflyer]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

Aimed more at people born in 50s and 60s I think.

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Or 40/50’s even as I dont recognise myself in any of it (except still use a fountain pen)

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by megaflyer

Or 40/50’s even as I dont recognise myself in any of it (except still use a fountain pen)

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I can't believe we are analysing it but I wonder if it's American. I remember people always carried shopping in brown paper bags in American movies, my mother grandmother etc had shopping bags. Or a trug. I loved the trug, I use it to store loo rolls now.

[KarenG]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

Aimed more at people born in 50s and 60s I think.

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I’ll get back in my box Sue though what is a Trug?

Glad to see a fellow fountain pen lover MF!

[megaflyer]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

I can't believe we are analysing it but I wonder if it's American. I remember people always carried shopping in brown paper bags in American movies, my mother grandmother etc had shopping bags. Or a trug. I loved the trug, I use it to store loo rolls now.

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My mum had a string bag she kept in her handbag but groceries were delivered by Liptons and in a cardboard box - on a Thursday afternoon (how that for memory) but our local supermarket (Fine Fare ) had an escalator in the 60/70.s. I do remember the Coop had a sting pulley thing where the counter put the bill and your money an dit went up to a cage where a cashier sorted it and returned the change by same string contraption

Never saw shopping in a brown bag this side of the pond

[Sandra & co]

Getting on a flight in the 70s meant a Air stewardess or stewards dressed up to the nines, good food even in Economy and clean planes. I am glad we have internet and computers nowadays tho as I couldn’t survive without them, couldn’t be doing with a mangle but the tumble drier is only for emergencies!

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by KarenG

I’ll get back in my box Sue though what is a Trug?

Glad to see a fellow fountain pen lover MF!

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Its like a wicker basket you see people using them for dead heading roses on something like Midsomer Murders. Very ladylike. 😂

[myaquarium]

I’m a late 60s baby and I can agree with everything.
Plus using newspaper in our outside toilet and my mum filling the tin bath in front of the fire which we all took turns in I suppose.
Rag and bone man pulled by a horse. Hand me downs.

[Tinks2014]

Originally Posted by myaquarium

I’m a late 60s baby and I can agree with everything.
Plus using newspaper in our outside toilet and my mum filling the tin bath in front of the fire which we all took turns in I suppose.
Rag and bone man pulled by a horse. Hand me downs.

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That was my life . Newspaper was always a bit damp tho 😀

[myaquarium]

Originally Posted by Tinks2014

That was my life . Newspaper was always a bit damp tho 😀

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Newspapers were.
Yesterday’s news
Today’s chip paper
Tomorrow’s toilet roll.
What an upbringing but I loved every minute.