The small things you miss from days gone by ...

thecolourbox

I've not looked much into it and I'm sadly not very business minded, but we have a milkman and it costs us 75p per pint bottle. Tuesdays & Thursdays we have one bottle, Saturday we have two. So £3 for the week. How on earth do they make money delivering it by hand on trucks that keep getting stolen (three in the last couple of months apparently). I think he goes to one other house on our little estate (where we got the company's details from). How can the cows be sustained, the milking process, skimming it, delivering to depot, then 10 miles to my house? I get that it's not just 10 miles to serve me, they'll have other customers on the round etc who probably drink more milk than we do, but still. Seems cheap (albeit still expensive compared to plastic bottle supermarket milk)

FX_Munkee

Seeing as everyone and their dog has mentioned Spangles.

Tang powdered orange juice. It was a treat on camping holidays.

Jalapeno

EricTheWeary said:

prowla said:

Old Jamaica rum & raisin chocolate bars.

They are reissuing that this year. 

<explodes> !

Jalapeno

guitars4you said:

Looking at the Green Shields stamp catalogue and working out what you couldn't get

LastMantra

I do miss going to the cinema with my dad on a Saturday afternoon. 
Leaving after watching a film and it was still daylight. 

I had one of those James bond Astons. I put it in my school bag and forgot about it then one day after school we decided for some reason to have a competition to see who could throw their school bag up into the air the furthest. Later that night I found the car, totally mangled! Can still remember feeling rotten about it.

Going to the shops with my mum and gran before the days of big supermarkets and going into the city bakery (or whatever it was) and getting a glass of pop.

Sassafras

A proper dignified Royal Family.

DB1

Blokes with comb overs

Sassafras

Gold Top Milk in a glass bottle.

Philly_Q

boogieman said:

robgilmo said:

Did anyone have a lemonade man? Like a milkman only delivering bottles of fizzy pop? We had one for a while when I was very young.

Already mentioned in previous posts. We had the Corona man where I lived. 

Yeah, we had the Corona man for years, then they were briefly replaced by Alpine - who weren't as good, IMO, but had some unusual flavours, like strawberry.

stimpsonslostson

European Union membership 




Runs and hides

thecolourbox

Sassafras said:

A proper dignified Royal Family.

Or at least a Royal Family given more space by a lack of 24 hour news coverage of them, to hide the undignified stuff?

Danny1969

The pools man coming every week and promising you will pay him next week. Hiding from the provie lady cos you didn't have that weeks vig payment. Looking through the Freemans catalogue on the womens underwear pages because you couldn't afford to buy porn ... making rollups out of butts left in ashtrays, nicking alcohol from your parents and then topping the bottles back up with water

DavidRees

Caramac ...

munckee

Danny1969 said:

The pools man coming every week and promising you will pay him next week. Hiding from the provie lady cos you didn't have that weeks vig payment. Looking through the Freemans catalogue on the womens underwear pages because you couldn't afford to buy porn ... making rollups out of butts left in ashtrays, nicking alcohol from your parents and then topping the bottles back up with water

My wife's grandad used to tell the various people knocking the door for money that their name hadn't been drawn out of the hat that week.  If they complained he would tell them they would not even make it into the hat the next week.

scrumhalf

Being able to stay awake during Match Of The Day.

Match Of The Day when it showed football, not half an hour of ex-pros saying basically the same thing every week.

The potato man and the egg man (we weren't allowed things like Corona, we could only dream of it).

A tennis ball, a small back garden, and hours of fun.

Spending hours in the second hand record shops around Notting Hill when I should have been in the library reading up on contract law.

sinbaadi

Trying to remember that actor's name, you know... the one in that film with the big floppy eared dog..... Come on you know who I mean!   It was out last year some time, it was huge..... He's in this new thing...... What's it called, there was a trailer before Jumanji!  Come on!  Anyway, it looks really good.

YES THAT'S HIM!!!  
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

Steffo

Having grown up in Italy, riding a moped to the beach every day from mid June to September, whole day sun sea and bikinis, light lunch, not a care in the world. Pure heaven and I didn't even think much of it. Young people sometimes have it too good and don't even know it.

guitars4you

DB1 said:

Blokes with comb overs

I was talking about this the other day in the pub and asked 'I bet no one carries a comb anymore in their back pocket' - 2 guys over 65 both pulled out a comb - I bet I've not brushed/combed my hair for 15 years or so

Jonathangus

Taping the Top 40 off the radio every Sunday so you could listen to it on your personal stereo.

Our Price.

Sweet cigarettes.

bodhi

Airwolf.

Listening to boxing matches on the radio with my grandad.

When you could only take 12 pictures with your camera and then had to wait a week or so to get the pics back before you knew if any would be any good.