Back in my day...

I Am Nobody

We didn't have a indoor toilet until the 80's.

jmreire

I Am Nobody wrote: »

We didn't have a indoor toilet until the 80's.

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

Marhay70

jmreire wrote: »

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

Yep, the only reason you'd bring a newspaper to the jacks was to wipe your ar*e

the purple tin

jmreire wrote: »

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

The biggest spiders going always lived in there too.

jmreire

jmreire wrote: »

And rolls of toilet paper had not yet made an appearance for most of the population either !!! And they could be very draughty places too, especially in winter...not the place to overstay your time !!! :eek:

In the schools it used to be shiny, urgh!
You used to be able to use it as tracing paper.

the purple tin

Deleted User wrote: »

In the schools it used to be shiny, urgh!
You used to be able to use it as tracing paper.

John Wayne toilet paper.

the purple tin

I Am Nobody wrote: »

We didn't have a indoor toilet until the 80's.

Was it in avocado when you got thr inside bathroom? Very big in the 80's.

Ultrflat

the purple tin wrote: »

Was it in avocado when you got thr inside bathroom? Very big in the 80's.

Who didn't have an avacado bathroom

iamstop

Wallpaper in every. Single. Room.
On. Every. Single. Wall.

Poor Uncle Tom

Ultrflat wrote: »

Who didn't have an avacado bathroom

Every bungalow had a lavender room, the entire house got a migrane every time the door to that room was opened.

branie2

Not in my bungalow

Poor Uncle Tom

branie2 wrote: »

Not in my bungalow

denial is not just a river, you know!

Marhay70

iamstop wrote: »

Wallpaper in every. Single. Room.
On. Every. Single. Wall.

Jay-zuus, still gives me nightmares just thinking about it. I hated wallpapering especially at the time when you used a border and had to trim the edges off the paper. My father in law was a dab hand at it and I was expected to live up to standard but that was never going to happen. I used to come up with all sorts of excuses to put it off but eventually the Mrs would throw a wobbly and I'd have to do it.

branie2

Wallpaper was also used as covers for school books

mountai

Me Ma used to unpick the collars on me Das shirts and turn them around . Peddling like Fcuk on that auld Singer .

chooseusername

Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

A cup ' COLD tea.

Without milk or sugar.

OR tea!

In a filthy, cracked cup.

maudgonner

Recreating the Dublin Horse Show in the front garden with whatever blocks and poles could be scavenged from around the farm.


I didn't have a horse, but that was just a minor inconvenience that in no way lessened my triumph in the puissance and Aga Khan.


The poor neighbours must have thought I was daft :pac:

branie2

Rocky ice lollies
Zig and Zag crisps

branie2

chooseusername wrote: »

Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

A cup ' COLD tea.

Without milk or sugar.

OR tea!

In a filthy, cracked cup.

Ee, I'd have loved t'have cups!

chooseusername

branie2 wrote: »

Ee, I'd have loved t'have cups!

We had to suck on an old damp rag.

Sleepy

maudgonner wrote: »

Recreating the Dublin Horse Show in the front garden with whatever blocks and poles could be scavenged from around the farm.


I didn't have a horse, but that was just a minor inconvenience that in no way lessened my triumph in the puissance and Aga Khan.


The poor neighbours must have thought I was daft :pac:

Kids still play like that when they're denied access to their electronics for a few hours and turfed out the door to play. At least mine do...

Cee-Jay-Cee

iamstop wrote: »

Wallpaper in every. Single. Room.
On. Every. Single. Wall.

And the same paper was used to cover your copybooks for school...if you were posh. If not then brown paper bags were used.

branie2

RTE would sometimes show the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth

the purple tin

in weather like this you would suck and chew on an ice cube.

10pennymixup

iamstop wrote: »

We used to get '10 penny bags'. 10p and you got a little white bag with ten random sweets in it.
Jellies, chocolate mic, black jacks, apple jacks, postman pats, fruit salads, those chocolate discs with the little hundreds and thousands on then, flogs.

We called them a 10 penny mix up!

Ipso

10pennymixup wrote: »

We called them a 10 penny mix up!

I remember getting a quarter pound of hard sweets for 25p. No wonder I have a root canal and a mouth full of silver.

branie2

Hart to Hart. When they met, it was moider!

Diddley Squat

branie2 wrote: »

We had to change the TV channels on the TV itself via knob

But it took 5 minutes to heat up before the picture expanded from a small dot in the centre.



We had a Black and White portable tv with the rabbits ears ariel -

Atlantic Dawn

A pair of Doc Martens cost 15 hours minimum wage, they still do now.

Purple Mountain

Diddley Squat wrote: »

But it took 5 minutes to heat up before the picture expanded from a small dot in the centre.

I can attest to this.