I can remember that in Woolworths they used to have big tins of broken biscuits that people could buy by the lb. At Christmas they used to have counters full of chocolate decorations to put on your Christmas tree, and people used to pick out and buy just what they wanted rather than have to buy packets of them like they do now. I can remember buying Swiss Rolls for 6d (2and a half pence) in there. I still miss Woolworths. Thinking of that, I miss C & A's as well.
I remember that leading up to Guy Fawkes night, children could go into toy shops, get a little container and go round buying different fireworks from counters laid out with them. You could even buy individual sparklers there.
I just discovered a few days ago....iPod classics. I'm now treating mine like a Queen....WHY WHY WHY have the tossers discontinued their best music product
"Thank you" letters? Does anyone still get any of those? Or is it just a "cheers" via Facebook/Twitter/etc?
I think it is bad that very few people do thank-you letters now. I was always told to do them and always got my son to do them as well. If you can't be bothered to thank someone properly then why should they bother to buy and send you something. I do still receive some thank you letters.
Playing board games as a family after lunch. Went to a friends for Xmas some years and they got the board games out. Couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it.
I just discovered a few days ago....iPod classics. I'm now treating mine like a Queen....WHY WHY WHY have the tossers discontinued their best music product
I think it is bad that very few people do thank-you letters now. I was always told to do them and always got my son to do them as well. If you can't be bothered to thank someone properly then why should they bother to buy and send you something. I do still receive some thank you letters.
I'd be grateful of a "thank you" text or email these days, don't even get any of them.
When I was at school everyone had an Alsation called "Sasha".
Seeing a Father Christmas in lots of shops. Nowadays, there is only about one of two in a whole town and it costs the earth to take a child to see them. Also you used to be able to take your own photo of your child with the great man, but now they take a photo and charge you lots for it.
Being able to access your own doctor or doctor's surgery at the weekend and not having to ring up a different place where you will talk to someone you don't know.
Not read the whole thread so apologies if these are repeats:
Ice Magic (WHY was this discontinued??)
Breezers (not Bacardi but sweets looked like and wrapped similar to fruit pastilles but menthol-flavoured)
Cadburys Silk bars
Cadburys Nut Crisp
Cadburys Mint Crisp
Quattro
Wizard mousse
Pasters
Stripers
Seeing a Father Christmas in lots of shops. Nowadays, there is only about one of two in a whole town and it costs the earth to take a child to see them. Also you used to be able to take your own photo of your child with the great man, but now they take a photo and charge you lots for it.
Don't forget they need CRB checks and then the newspapers've started up a big scare about a paedoe epidemic now.
A lot of ice lollies, like Red Devil, Orange Dragon, Haunted House, and those ones with the top third covered in hundreds and thousands, and the rest divided into two, differently-coloured segments.
A lot of ice lollies, like Red Devil, Orange Dragon, Haunted House, and those ones with the top third covered in hundreds and thousands, and the rest divided into two, differently-coloured segments.
Recently when we went Christmas shopping for sweets, I remembered fondants. Does anyone else remember fondants - a type of sweets? I remember loving them as a child. They were fruit flavoured sweets - often three flavours, typically orange and lemon and either strawberry or raspberry - which were, sort of like fruit-centered chocolates, but without the chocolate covering and slightly harder, crisp at the outside. I remember they were often available in boxes from discount shops and particularly around Christmas time, as Christmas gifts. The sweets often had pretty, fancy shapes. I'd really love to be able to buy a box of fondants at Christmas. I'm not sure when I stopped noticing them for sale - the mid 80s?
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I remember that leading up to Guy Fawkes night, children could go into toy shops, get a little container and go round buying different fireworks from counters laid out with them. You could even buy individual sparklers there.
"Thank you" letters? Does anyone still get any of those? Or is it just a "cheers" via Facebook/Twitter/etc?
I think it is bad that very few people do thank-you letters now. I was always told to do them and always got my son to do them as well. If you can't be bothered to thank someone properly then why should they bother to buy and send you something. I do still receive some thank you letters.
people carrying round albums as a badge of identity........long haired bloke in a trenchcoat carrying a Led Zeppelin album........:D
Can't believe it!
I'd be grateful of a "thank you" text or email these days, don't even get any of them.
When I was at school everyone had an Alsation called "Sasha".
Yeah, decent telly.
Thank **** for Youtube!
I still do, sheets with duvet and then a cover, its easier and cleaner to change the sheets than the duvet.
Ice Magic (WHY was this discontinued??)
Breezers (not Bacardi but sweets looked like and wrapped similar to fruit pastilles but menthol-flavoured)
Cadburys Silk bars
Cadburys Nut Crisp
Cadburys Mint Crisp
Quattro
Wizard mousse
Pasters
Stripers
Those were the days.
Don't forget they need CRB checks and then the newspapers've started up a big scare about a paedoe epidemic now.
Fab!
ETA: I think that's what they were called.
http://www.myfabland.com/
Shake and Vac.
Fresh Yeast.
Butter Milk
Ox Blood Shoe Polish.
Smokers toothpaste powder.
Pearl bright Liquid.