Do you remember? household items

What a lovely post, it rekindles lots of memories. I love aprons, or pinafores too (pinnies) we called them and still use them for cooking.

Acid batteries for the radio brought back memories and having to get them recharged.
As for gas mantles, I remember standing on my granny's bed and poking my finger in and watching it crumble , it was of course unlit, I must have been a curious child lol.

My granny's house had an outside toilet, with cut newspaper hanging on a string on the door.
She used to heat a metal flat iron on the fire and it was put on a little stand. think she used soap to make it glide easy. Her washing was done in the dolly tub and with the old scrubbing board, she always used the cubes of blue on her whites.

The old tin bath also comes to mind, she had no bathroom, water had to be boiled to fill it up!

I remember when Nylon bed sheets were all the thing , except they slithered about and ended up in a heap at the bottom of the bed . We were very proud to have a teasmade as a wedding present except that you had to remember to take the milk up when you went to bed , we never did so could never stay in bed and have a cuppa.As a teenager- suspender belts which were so uncomfortable and when the popper thing snapped off my Mum discovered that an asprin was exactly the right size as a replacement. Cutting up registered envelopes to line your shoes when you got a hole , we were very hard up ! Bread dipped in beaten egg and fried for tea which we loved and didn`t feel hard done by .

Oooh! f77ms. Eggy bread was a real treat wasn't it. I still love it .

I was 6 before we moved into a house with a bathroom. Remember prefabs?
Before that mum used to stand me up in the Belfast sink and wash me down.
Apparently those sinks are back in fashion now but I wonder how many people wash the kids in it?

boobysgirl Yes I do too , don`t think my four would have been happy getting it for a main meal though!!

Sorry bobbysgirl

Why registered enevelopes f77ms? (boobysgirl !! that really made me smile )

My auntie used a threepenny bit for a suspender belt button.

Was that a polygonal threepenny bit or a silver joey?

Blimey, it couldn't have been one of those polygonal ones, far too big! And even if you could get it through the loopy thing, it would be far too lumpy...

The corners could be a bit uncomfortable too.

A colleague of mine used the aspirin solution. Thank God for tights.

It was the polygonal one, you`re right, it must have been uncomfortable, but I can remember her once or twice asking if anyone had a threepenny bit when her suspender broke.

In the seventies and eighties we had a Soda Stream for the children. They really loved it. I had a plastic item from Tupperware which was great. You put sponge fingers in it and filled the middle with a filling of your choice and it turned out as a wonderful looking desert. We also had some jelly moulds shaped like rabbits. Happy memories of children's parties.

Going back in time, I remember the mincer which you clipped onto the side of a table. I was using one in the 80s.

I remember the heavy metal mincer too. Also, the ceiling airer in the kitchen, it was on a kind of rope pulley system. When I was very small we had a washing tub for the clothes which 'operated' with a wooden handled 'posher' as we called it. I remember it being too heavy to manoeuvre. Later on we upgraded to a drum machine with rubber rollers which I think was called a mangle.

The old (Spong?) mincer - clamped to the kitchen table for mincing up the remains of the roast for shepherd's pie!

Wringer or mangle depending where you live, lethal for small fingers, remember them going electric too. Our first washing machine had a rotor thing at the back not a central one.
Does anyone remember the awful sanitary belts and towels, like being in harness.

Still got my gran's mincer- and use it often. It gives a much nicer texture than a mixer which mashes it all up.

Never mind Granny''s I had my mother's mincer until it disappeared in a house move. So DH bought us the mincer attachment for my big Kenwood
Brilliant. Chopping in a processor is a different process altogether.

You ladies are making me feel I must live in a museum.
1) the Spong mincer -see above
2) the "clothes airer"
Of course I have a pulley my utility room. Double duvet cover drying on it as I write and I wouldn't be without it, so less of the "remembering" please!!

Blinds for the front door to protect it from blistering in the summer sun.

Chopping in a food processor is just not the same. I must look for a mincing attachment for mine.

Clothes airer - yes - not everything can be tumble dried (nor is it eco friendly) but I don't have a pulley but wish I did have.