Remember when.....

[john sutton]

me too

Could see my feet without looking in the mirror. JS

[john sutton]

remember when you went into a big shop and the girl used to put the money into a metal cup on a wire and fire it across the shop to the cash desk who the fired the change back

[Braid Anderson]

#22...they had that in the Co-op in St Andrews.

[Braid Anderson]

We used to pinch potatoes, wrap them in clay, and stick them in the night watchman's brazier.

[john sutton]

cars came with a starting handle

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government paid for rosehips during ww2.we used to collect them from hedgerows

[John Pruden]

the smell of home made bread and the taste of home made jam..jp

[Dennis McGuckin]

Life was so simple then and even when times were tough we managed. I remember how we used to sit around a candle in the winter, and when it got realy cold we would light it.
We were so poor one day my mum gave me abutton and said go next door and see if they havea shirt they can sew on it.

John, we were so poor my dad took down all the mirrows in the house so we couldn't see ourselves starving to death!

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Remember my mam darning socks. Using what she called a mushroom.
Bet that's a lost skill!

[john sutton]

some of you oldies may have used a speed-weve darner which was based on the simple mushroom with a little loomthat wove a new piece into the sok.
this was invented by my ex-father in law and he sold millions of them during the war and after when clothes were still rationed

[Red Lead Ted]

#15, The irony is not lost on me Terry...An Englishman telling a Scotswoman how to save a few bob

My mother used to tie dusters to our feet and we had to slide around the wooden floors. Boy were we pleased when she finally bought fitted carpets. Now I get my 7yr old grandson to do the same....although his enthusiasm is waning....

Marian, I only ever remember lino on our floors I can honestly say I can't remember carpets in the house lino with what was known as a runner !!!!!!!!!! A rug covering the middle of the floor, Also remember the old candles when the Shilling went in the lecy meter, If it got really cold we would light them Another thing that will stay with me during my schooldays in the winter I would wear my wellies outside my trousers, Then in the summer I would wear them inside, Who said flares were invented in the 70s I was wearing them years before that LMAO Terry.

[john sutton]

remember carbide lamps on bikes and the gun you could make with a syrup tin and a piece of carbide if you spit on it and clamped the lid the pushed a lighted match through a hole in the bottom of the tin it would blow the lid off.
I,m really old