Without Saying Your Age ....

[saintpeter48]

What is it that you remember from your childhood that a younger person would not understand!
There are so many, but i'll start it off with .. A rag n bone man.

[B00]

The connection between a pen/pencil and a cassette tape :-)

[saintpeter48]

having to get up from the sofa to change the TV channel.

[Tilly2]

The hokey pokey man selling his wares.

[Calibax]

Getting a refund on empty Corona bottles

[Eve]

Waiting by the radio with your finger on the record button to try and record your favourite songs on to a cassette.

Making sure you have change for a payphone to ring home if you were going to be late/needed picking up.

[pastafreak]

The milkman

[Mamyalynne]

Donkey stones.

[Tilly2]

....and the breadman...

[Tilly2]

Reckitt's washing blue

[Calibax]

...and the coalman

[Prudie]

Not being able to buy anything on a Sunday, Wednesday afternoons were difficult too.

[nailit]

Getting a blackboard rubber bouncing of my head in class.

[losgigs]

Looking things up in an encyclopedia instead of 'googling it'

[Tilly2]

Bathing once a week

[Tilly2]

Blackboard and chalk at school

[fiction-factory]

When i mentioned to pupils that I once worked in a record shop they fell about laughing- well half did (picturing something from Victorian era) and the other half didn't have a clue what I meant.
Most kids will know what RagnBone Man is- he has just had a top 2 single

[nailit]

Having a board game for xmas.

[Prudie]

Dancing to the test card.

[ummmm]

Street vending machines.

[nailit]

Buying a single cigarette for 5p from the newsagents even though you were wearing your school uniform.