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Starch and other forgotten stuff

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    #152
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    This is the stuff of 'Open All Hours'!!

    Did they have fork handles?


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    #153
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,121 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No, but they did stock candles :-)


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    #154
    ttenneb
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭ttenneb


    Four?


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    #155
    ttenneb
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭ttenneb


    Ronnies? I mean Rennies.


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    #156
    ladhrann
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭ladhrann


    Seeing as this is the starch thread, does anyone know where you can get a tablecloth starched? I'm looking for the real hard glossy starch so the spray-on service wouldn't be any good.


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    #157
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    nesbitt wrote: »

    I remember that cake toothpaste, it was 'smokers' toothpaste my dad used to use it. Bless him.

    I remember Gibbs toothpaste in a little round tin, back in the 50's


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    #158
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,121 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes, I remember that, pink stuff as I recall? We used it as kids. I could not have told you it was Gibbs though :-)


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    #159
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    poppyvally wrote: »
    I remember Gibbs toothpaste in a little round tin, back in the 50's

    I have some of that somewhere it is called Eurythmol now (or something like that) Although I tend to use the tubes as they are easier to take with me when I go somewhere. But I do remember the original.


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    #160
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    poppyvally wrote: »
    I remember Gibbs toothpaste in a little round tin, back in the 50's

    Has anyone mentioned Signal toothpaste? It had hexachlorophene in the stripes so you knew it had to be great!
    And Vosene shampoo? Made your scalp burn, thereby taking your mind off your dandruff.
    And "1001 cleans a big big carpet for less that half a crown." Mammy, what's carpet?


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    #161
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That Vosene stuff took EVERYTHING off your mind!!! :D


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    #162
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I remember thinking Philosan was for oldies lol


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    #163
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭Alice1


    What's Philosan?


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    #164
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    it fortifies the over forties Alice.

    Great to see you hon, hope you are feeling better xxxx


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    #165
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    /Waves to Alice
    It's been AGES!

    /Cracks open a bottle of bubbly

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #166
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭Alice1


    *Waves back wildly*

    I'll pass on the bubbly - but thank you me dear


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    #167
    ttenneb
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭ttenneb


    What was the ITV commercial that used go: " . . . guaranteed to get the whole weekly wash cleaner than anything else you can use." Was it DREFT? Weekly???? Oh yeah, you needed clean clothes after the bath.


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    #168
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That's when we didn't have much clothes to wash! My ma would be amazed at the amount of clothes we have now. Although I remember her soaking sheets and washing by hand - soooooo glad I have a washing machine now.


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