What the younger generation missed! Do we?

I’m 51 (not exactly a spring chicken) and I have no idea what two of those things are!

Oh, hang on, I’ve just remembered what a blue bag is for (I think!)

The beef press and liberty bodice were never in my life so I expect no-one is likely to miss those.

Izal was horrible so I won’t miss that.

Mangle, poss tub, lemonade van, coal man, rag and bone man,
Nurses' hats. snake belts. Buttons A and B in a red phone box. That'll do..

NanaDana I was thinking of phone boxes, witj the chained up phone directories!
I can’t believe that I ever put the revolting hand set anywhere near face.
Bleurgh!

Mascara where you had to spit on the brush and mix with the mascara, yuk !

Pre sanitary towels or tampons, you had to make your own from material, even more yuk !!

No remote for the tv. Moving the aerial round to get better reception.

Fanny the blue bag was used in washing to whiten the clothes and could be used to put on wasp stings.

Toasting fork to toast bread in front of the open fire, delicious 😋

I think new generations will never understand life before the thing in your hand that allows you to do or plan anything you want to do with your time

A paraffin heater for a backup form of heating.

Going out to the roadside to the “paraffin man” with the empty container to buy a gallon of paraffin.

I have to ask, Beef Press?

Also confused about the 'Beef Pesss'.
Would it have been a Meat Press? One of those things where you cook a Tongue! then curl it into the meat press, put on the lid and screw it down. When cold, remove from press, carve and serve with salad?

Blue bag for washing also inside crisps containing the salt.

We didn’t even have tvs when I was very young. Most houses had a piano, though, including ours. We didn’t have cars, either, most of us. Most of us were slim, all that walking and running around. You could buy sweets for almost nothing and I used to go and buy my Dad’s senior service cigarettes for him in 5 s. They didn’t care that you were only 6 years old. We used to put oil on our skin so we would tan , no one knew about skin cancer.

Curly perms
Stiff petticoats
Dansette record players
Blow lamps
Lemonade crystals
Blancmange

And soon it will be: torches and alarm clocks, both being on smartphones.

Skydancer. Dansette record players! Oh yes. Blue or red? Also popping down to Woollies with my pocket money on a Saturday morning to buy the latest 45. Pick and mix with the change.

I had a liberty bodice, my doll had one too, and I have a seventy-five year old friend who regularly bemoans the lack of one; she searches regularly for adult ones in a northern market.

I have got a feeling of so whatery about this. Every generation since time immortal has not had things previous generations had, but so what?

M0nica. Groan...

A few more thoughts based around Christmas. Kaleidoscope, and for the stocking, sugar mouse, Happy Families card game, three colour torch, Jacks.

I wondered when this year's liberty bodice thread would appear.

Freedom to go out to play and wander.

Parsley3

I wondered when this year's liberty bodice thread would appear.

I bet yours didn't have suspenders as my mother had, and would wonder if the younger generation would know what suspenders were, especially men's which my father wore.
A leather shaving strap my grandfather had to sharpen the blades and the meat safe and tin bath on the yard wall or if you lived in the north east mining community in the kitchen under a lift-up table top.

FannyCornforth

Oh, hang on, I’ve just remembered what a blue bag is for (I think!)

It was also used in very small quantities by confectioners to make the icing look white. Goodness knows what we were eating.

Great cowboy film that, with James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin.. "The Man who shot Liberty Bodice"..

Mangles with big rubber rollers.
Rubber buttons on pyjamas etc so they didn’t break in the mangles.
Scrubbing boards.
Milk delivered in horse drawn carts (Scotland in the 60s).
Dad rushing out to scoop up any horse manure for the rhubarb bed.
Vesta risotto.
Milk bars.
Wedding receptions in Scotland, in a local hall, steak pie dinner, followed by Scottish country dancing - and lots of alcohol. A great time was had by all for a reasonable outlay.