Do you remember? household items

I remember Gibb's Dentrifice when I was growing up. It was a pink paste in a small tin. I hated it and all the family used the same tin. One of the first things I bought when I had a job was a tube of Mac Cleans toothpaste just for me.

You don't see Vim these days. It's handy if you want to scrub the nice shiny surface off your bath!

My mum used to put tiny paraffin lamps in the bathroom in winter, to stop the pipes from freezing.

I liked the cosy paraffin stoves too but there were often news reports of people, especially children, dying in fires caused by an accident with their paraffin stove.

My parents had a grocers shop with equipment to charge the big glass acid-filled batteries that people brought in.

My gran kept a lit candle on the toilet windowsill - there was no light in there so it was needed. She reckoned it kept the pipes from freezing, but it didn't do much for the freezing air! There was an ashtray beside the candle, and a hook on the wall, on which hung squares of newspaper.

I remember my friend's Mum putting Reckits Blue Bag on insect stings/bites. I think it must have contained soda?

I remember cheese being cut with a wire in grocer's shop and also the wooden paddles to put the butter into oblongs after you bought it. Also the birds pecking the silver foil on top of the glass milk bottles that were delivered to your home

And after the milkman's horse and cart had delivered in our road the old man next door always came out with his bucket and shovel for the manure for his roses!

Virol, I had a spoonful every day in winter and I loved it I bought it for my children but it made them heave. Also Scott's Emulsion. Now that was horrid.

I haven't seen a meat-safe lately, come to think of it.

We had to put a lit tealight under our loo cistern in Sheffield during the winter of 1978-9 so that it didn't freeze up. The bathroom (well, the bath and sink drains), which was an add-on at the back of a large old terraced house that had been made into two flats, froze up for days at one point. We had to wash in the kitchen, which we warmed by turning the cooker on.

We had a paraffin lamp in the loo which was part of the house but not accessible from inside the house; it had its own outside door which had a very large gap underneath.
Brrr

I wear an apron when I'm cooking as I tend to be very messy.

A couple of them look like butcher's aprons

BBbevan I loved Scott's Emulsion! Strange child......

At Christmas the turkey would be hung upside down, fully feathered and giblets intact, in the cellar (no fridge but it was bleddy cold down there!) until my mother plucked, drew and singed it ready for Christmas dinner. Sometimes there were eggs inside it ?. It was a messy, time consuming process. How we are spoiled today with oven ready this and that.

Re Turkeys

Recently when I was in hospitlal next door bed remembered getting a turkey for Christmas, rellies were in Ureland and dispatched the bird to scotland with a label round its neck.

Survived the journey!

Jacky, catsbum teatowel holders indeed!!! Haha!

And back on the subject of washing again- the good old clothes prop.

And the tongs and wooden prodder thing. And the horrible smell of boiling laundry!

I used to love licking the Gibbs Dentifrice.....lovely flavour!

All sorts of fur and feather used to be despatched in the guards vans of trains back in the day. No packaging, no 'elf and safety'. Tie their legs together and sling 'em in. DH's granny used to send a brace of rabbits down from Brecon once a week and he had to go and pick them up from the station and carry them home. It turned his stomach and even now I daren't cook rabbit though it is one of my favourites.

I still use a clothes prop on my washing line JackyB!
I too liked the taste of Scott's Emulsion but I don't know what it was for or what it was made of?

I use a clothes prop as well. And I used to love the smell of the washing boiling.
My step-father had his own equipment for mending shoes, and every few weeks it would all be spread about the kitchen, with sheets of leather waiting to be cut up for heeling and soling of everyone`s shoes.
And I know it`s possible to buy rug making kits, but my mother used to cut up all our old clothes into strips, and spread the canvas backing across a frame, and spend every day and some evenings making our hearthrugs, using half a clothes peg. They were lovely thick rugs, lasted ages.

My parents too made rag rugs, I had forgotten about them . Also my dad soled and heeled my school shoes. When I wore stilleto shoes you used to be able to buy the wee metal studs for the heels and he used to put them on too

Our Front room had a three piece club suite with antimacassers because men wore Brylcreem. A radiogram in the corner. One central light. One rag rug in front of the fire and a coal scuttle with tongs in it. On the arms of the chairs were flat Bakelite clip on trays to put a cup of tea on.
A mirror always over the fireplace which was dangerous because your dress could catch fire as you leaned over to put your lipstick on. No telly.
Oh and don't forget the set of three flying ducks on the wall Hilda Ogden style.
(We didn't have a 'muriel' though.

My dad had some kind of device for sharpening razor blades!
Must have been before the safety razor but I do remember that.