What's missing here?
Posted by sicksixgamer@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 1254 comments
Posted by sicksixgamer@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 1254 comments
cahaba-naturist@reddit
Avocado color ashtray
whysobloo75@reddit
Stacks of newspapers, Foil tv antenna, and ashe trays.
RubyRed8787@reddit
Cigarettes, cigarettes and more cigarettes
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
A 4000 pound wood-encased tv with elaborate carvings that takes up a whole wall and has a built-in record player.
WintersDoomsday@reddit
And it was only a 19 inch TV too that weighed more that what most people bench.
Hyack57@reddit
Like this one?
HamboneBanjo@reddit
Head-Change-7681@reddit
Don’t forget the TV Guide. Miss the fall editions announcing what new shows were coming and what current shows were returning.
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
Bigger. My grandparents’ had a solid three feet of decorative wood on either side and literally took up an entire wall.
Anyone-9451@reddit
With at least one figurine collection on it, depending on the relative it was basically the whole nativity all year round or like those Hummel figurines
Key-Airline204@reddit
That black panther.
Oracle82@reddit
Some blue and white Delph ceramics from when some relative travelled to Europe back in the 70s and spent some time in the Netherlands....
BIRDsnoozer@reddit
My grandma had a really cool porcelain panther on top of the tv.
SirDigbyChickenC-Zer@reddit
Or, perhaps depending on your upbringing, Precious Moments
Content_Talk_6581@reddit
The “glass” grapes in a big ceramic bowl was on ours for years.
Icy-Kale-7071@reddit
Yes!
GlitterBombFallout@reddit
Those things were so freaking creepy. My best friend had them and ugh.
The_Mouse_That_Jumps@reddit
Three stuffed quail in our case.
CardsAndDiscs@reddit
Nativity - nailed it.
Evee862@reddit
Oh god it has been so long I totally forgot this
EternalNY1@reddit
eastmemphisguy@reddit
That is legit a beautiful piece of furniture
stillthesame_OG@reddit
Now that is closer to what we had, more like my cousins lol
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
Yes. Basically this!
frowawaid@reddit
One of them fancy Curtis Mathis ones
Strict-Farmer904@reddit
There it is I also feel like there’s a another room somewhere with fake wood paneling for the walls
MegsList@reddit
Ugh, I hated being the remote control for this.
ihearthorror1@reddit
I loved it. It meant I got to sit super close to the tv when I otherwise wasn't allowed 🤭
dcsail81@reddit
The smell of the static!
ih4teme@reddit
I still recall the feeling of wiping the static off the screen.
kyraeus@reddit
That hits sooo much different at age 45 when you realize there was a capacitor about three or four inches from your hand wiping that static that could literally kill an adult man.
ihearthorror1@reddit
Ha! And I was VERY into Poltergeist at too young of an age.
Ranch_Priebus@reddit
Haha I think that was rated PG, and when I saw it, thought, wtf? Everything in that, and then, a TREE EATING A KID! Just started watching the second Harry Potter with my 6 year old at my wife's urging and I was thinking that it might be a little much, but it's PG. Then the whomping willow appears, and Poltergeist having the same rating brought me back.
Granted, I think the rating system back then was G, PG, and R. So there wasn't really the PG13 middle ground it should have probably been assigned. It's still rated PG because movies are rated at release and they don't go back to rate them according to current standards.
Realized the second HP movie is over 20 years old, which had me thinking about how it makes sense that my parents had me watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a 5 or 6 year old cause it is probably about just as old as HP is now. Also, the child catcher scene in that really imprinted on me haha.
Biza_1970@reddit
Push button cable TV.
No_Hold2009@reddit
I used to love running my fingers over the screen when it first turned on in them morning and feel the static.
HistoryGirl23@reddit
Ooh, good sense memory.
YeahOkThisOne@reddit
Memory unlocked
eastmemphisguy@reddit
There was a huge panic around kids sitting too close to tvs. People were convinced it was harmful.
Lazy_Negotiation4133@reddit
I was told I would go blind. Oh wait, maybe I’m thinking of something else.🤔
BIRDsnoozer@reddit
"Do me a favour... Start at oh-two and work your way up until we find something good." -dad
mkwb80@reddit
Ours had a full number pad rather than dials to change channels, and I'm definitely nostalgic for the feel of that button push!
thejunkmanadv@reddit
The Magnavox "Touch Tune"
FacePalmTheater@reddit
Ours just had like six buttons, one for each channel. Meaning we couldn't go past channel six. Meanwhile all my friends had mtv. I remember the day my parents finally replaced it, I was so excited.
Funny that I'm nostalgic for a tv I hated lol
Enough-Commission165@reddit
Hated that dang TV had apparently a build up static charge when I touched the metal button to change the channel it popped really loud blew a fuse and I coulfeek my left arm for 30 minutes. I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday but I remember at 10 years old getting the shit shocked out of me.
valhallaswyrdo@reddit
Mine had big dials and they made a very satisfying THUNK when you turned them.
misterguyyy@reddit
We had one with push button presets and a little thumb dial under each one to tune to the right channel.
Reduak@reddit
And the antenna adjustment technician.
"Dammit, I said move it to the right..... Your other right.....Perfect, now stand there in that exact position, at that angle for the next 3 hours while I watch the game."
BirdmanHuginn@reddit
“Huginn don’t spin the channel dial so fast” (BRRRRRRRT CHANNEL 38 BRRRRRRRT CHANNEL 22 BRRRRRRRT CHANNEL 30 BRRRRRRRRRRT CHANNEL 40.
And now you know all the channels we could watch in Springfield MA in the early 80s. Sometimes 11 WPIX from NY via CT would come in…
Apprehensive_Map64@reddit
We had one with a dial that would turn when you changed the channel with the remote
JVM_@reddit
Our remote control was the youngest, who went to bed the earliest, so, in front of 4 other people he turned it off and went to bed.
BrightCold2747@reddit
I hated moving so much and having to haul this thing around. My dad didn't get rid of his zenith monstrosity until 2003
Ack-ey@reddit
Haha I think that’s the same tv my aunt and uncle had.
renatijd@reddit
We had one just like that. But it had a wired remote that controlled a solenoid to turn the channel knob. My grandmother thought it was black magic. You still had to get up and turn the volume knob manually. And slap it to get the tubes to work.
Mercuryshottoo@reddit
And a matching ash tray stand!
CastoffRogue@reddit
We had this exact TV growing up. Looks like our living room carpet and walls, too! Lol, someone secretly taking pics of our old farmhouse? Then we "upgraded" to that fancy projection Big Screen tv. It, too, was encased in wood, lol. Always looked like you were watching things in tunnel vision because the edges of the screen would be darker and hazy.
krieger82@reddit
Hey! You found our old TV!!!!!
Ljs204@reddit
Does it strike anyone else as weird that it used to be normal to have a TV on the floor but now if you see a TV on the floor it looks out of place.
firehawk2324@reddit
Not pictured: the remote control.
Me, I was the remote control.
bunnyspaceship@reddit
I, too, was in the Youth Remote Control business. Also, professional rabbit-ear rearranger - “no, just stand there! Don’t move!”
cloudseclipse@reddit
I was, too, until the “scary” remote showed up that actually turned the dial itself (if you recall those)…
Reduak@reddit
Oh my God.... you found a photo from my grandmother's house
javatimes@reddit
Just seeing this makes me want to watch The Facts of Life
HamboneBanjo@reddit
You take the good. You take the bad.
Warm-Celery-4117@reddit
And a doily with a vase on top…or was that just my mom?
Selmarris@reddit
A lamp that looked like the Gortons fisherman here.
Onceabanana@reddit
Oh ours had a little santo niño statue and a rosary on top of the doily.
HamboneBanjo@reddit
Definitely something on display, but the doily was kind of universal as it kept the wood from getting scratched
Ill-Bake2638@reddit
This tv
devilinblue22@reddit
My ass planted in front of that in footy jammies with a bowl of popcorn!
HumanContract@reddit
Ah, is this Amish built?
DangerBrewin@reddit
Holy hell, this was my grandpa’s TV. Haven’t thought about that behemoth in years!
JudgeJuryEx78@reddit
"Assume Fox viewing postion!"
-Al Bundy
Bloo_Orchid@reddit
with an Atari 2600
Accomplished-Mud-173@reddit
I had this TV in my childhood basement!!
UnrepentantDrunkard@reddit
Beat me to it.
andy_nony_mouse@reddit
Ha ha ha we had that exact model!
Estudiier@reddit
Yes, that’s it.
ClockwrkAngel2112@reddit
Was I the only one who DIDN'T have this??? My grandparents did, but we had an entertainment center that was like 6ft tall with the stereo cabinet, records, VHS tape drawer underneath.
I'm not trying to sound snarky, but was I better off than I thought? We had a Sony VHS player before I was born (1979), I remember my dad replacing it about 1983 for Christmas. We had cable TV as far back as I can remember because we watched MTV from day one.
Seriously, I'm sorry if this sounds "braggy", but it was just normal for me.
vag69blast@reddit
You need a second wood encased TV sitting on top of the old broken wood encased TV.
SlapHappyDude@reddit
Yeah, I assume that is unseen on the right of the photo. Although some older people had a living room without a TV and banished it to the basement. So no one ever used the living room and always went to the basement.
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
We didn’t have basements in Texas but my grandparents had the “living room” that looked just like this, and a second “formal living room” that no one ever went in for any reason ever.
smibrandon@reddit
Yep! Living room vs. family room
smibrandon@reddit
With a working, smaller TV on top.
itsjustbadtiming@reddit
With a dial that required significant wrist strength to turn, and only 3 (sometimes 4, if the weather was right) channels came through.
LangdonAlg3r@reddit
Oh, but that satisfy clicky-thunk feeling/sound when the channel changed. Definitely do not miss moving rabbit ears around though.
electraglideinblue@reddit
Clicky thunk, my favorite white stripes song!
dubcity81@reddit
We lost the knob and had pliers on top of the TV at all times.
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
Wrist strength far beyond what possessed at four years old as everyone yelled at me for being a shitty remote.
Sullymyname333@reddit
But it doesn't work so now a smaller TV sits on top.
round_a_squared@reddit
...that stopped working last year and now has a smaller TV on top of it
122784@reddit
I love how we all knew the answer to this.
pawned79@reddit
I maintain that Xennials are the only generation that could crawl inside of a television. We were small enough to fit inside these gigantic wooden TVs with the big air hole in the back. No TV before this was large enough, and no TV after was designed as such. It is a unique experience.
BickNlinko@reddit
This was going to be my answer, plus some ashtrays and a big brown glass bowl of those terrible strawberry hard candies.
vegaslocal46582@reddit
And the antenna was screwed in the back and you had to unscrew it with a butter knife to install the Atari
javatimes@reddit
The antenna had foil wrapped around it too
K3lto@reddit
Oh yes the butter knife for a screwdriver just sent me back in time!
amoneyshot34@reddit
And take 15mins moving it away from the wall to unscrew the antana to put the end in a mason jar DURING A LIGHTING STORM!!!!
gio10gic@reddit
The 4000 pound wood tv that’s broken with a plastic newer tv on top of it! Come on! You know you had one.
Santos_L_Halper_II@reddit
No I guess my family was fancy. The picture was shit but it worked.
knewleefe@reddit
I'm guessing this is actually the Good Room - no TV, no kids allowed. China/liquor cabinet in that corner we can't quite see.
Enough-Commission165@reddit
Hated that dang TV had apparently a build up static charge when I touched the metal button to change the channel it popped really loud blew a fuse and I coulfeek my left arm for 30 minutes. I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday but I remember at 10 years old getting the shit shocked out of me.
ravendarklord76@reddit
Nailed it, you won the internet today.
IExpectedThatComment@reddit
I expected this comment.
OwieMustDie@reddit
How else do you know what to point your furniture at?
random9212@reddit
Yours had a record player too? Fancy. Our record player was in a separate cabinet.
GrungeCheap56119@reddit
yes! and dad and grandpa knew how to fix the TV by hand. and yes to the rabbit ears antenna!
johnvalley86@reddit
And you had to hammer fist the top of it a few times every time the picture got screwy
GonnaTry2BeNice@reddit
I wonder if other people had etageres? We had this big wooden shelf thing that we called the etagere. Pronounced etta-jair with a soft j. Just now realizing I’ve never heard that word outside of my own childhood home.
tranquileyesme@reddit
Yes!!!
Sasquatch_Sensei@reddit
Ashtrays and the ever present foggy look from constant smoking.
Wonderful_Judge115@reddit
ThoroughlyWet@reddit
It's crazy my grandma has that exact one
81toog@reddit
Filled with those strawberry wrapped candies. Miss you grandma
Wonderful_Judge115@reddit
My grandma also included butterscotch and peppermint candies
Distinct_Pangolin785@reddit
So did mine!
ObviousOrca@reddit
Classy grandmas unite!
Highplowp@reddit
Werthers and occasionally reisens
mackelnuts@reddit
The candies wrapped with strawberry printed foil.
Distinct_Pangolin785@reddit
And bit o' honeys!!
IfeedI@reddit
Those chalky pillow things.
Distinct_Pangolin785@reddit
Haha no, but i know what your referring to... these are individually wrapped honey/peanut chews that basically give you tmj if you try to eat them instead of sucking them... similar to now &laters but even harder and get stuck in your teeth! Imagine stale salt water taffy, and multiply that by ten for the chew factor!
Highplowp@reddit
The dentists’ prime target, known for destroying retainers all over the world.
Distinct_Pangolin785@reddit
Lol...yep, I don't think I've come across any candy that can compare!
Raynstormm@reddit
Did we have the same grandma
kyraeus@reddit
Root beer barrels for my pap.
WillDupage@reddit
My grandparents’ bowl had picture candy (hard rolled candy). Grandma would say “Take ONE!” And my thought was “HOW?!?” because it had all fused into one solid lump on a modestly humid day in June of 1974 and sat there taunting us since.
MadLucy@reddit
Stale-ass pastel butter mints, sometimes, or a pile of old-fashioned millefiore-style hard candies that are stuck together in one lump.
Most of these little “candy dishes” that my grandma had started life as Avon powder containers.
errantqi@reddit
And rootbeer barrels if G'ma knows im coming, cuz G'ma loves me
spderweb@reddit
Naw. Filled with random hard candies that are all stuck together.
No-Football-4387@reddit
it took less than a minute to find this, the photo is missing that little pop of red
purdueAces@reddit
Core memory unlocked. I need to find those.
Aggressive-Store7462@reddit
Dollar tree!
81toog@reddit
I gotchu
ih4teme@reddit
They were always stale and a bit soft on the outside. Could scrape the soft bits and then eventually reached the hard candy. Then that gooey center. Shit, come to think of it, it was a damn hard candy gusher.
akm1111@reddit
Ours was full of red hots.
protossaccount@reddit
It’s so weird to know that pretty much our entire grandparents generation is gone. Losing a generation is more dramatic than I thought. My grandpas were jerks tbh (old WW2 drunk dudes) but I still miss their generation.
Distinct_Pangolin785@reddit
I absolutely miss this generation...I had three good ones, one of those a supper WWII vet, and one wwii jerk. Just thankful I witnessed each moment that I did because the skills i learned from them far outweigh anything my parents generation taught me!
therealtaddymason@reddit
That or unwrapped candies that have long since fused into a single mass.
MungoJennie@reddit
My grandma had the same one. It’s sitting on my end table now.
mayonnaisejane@reddit
I am glad I didn't have to scroll far to find this. It was my first thought. "The dish of strawberry candies."
AbsintheAGoGo@reddit
Those crazy, hard candies with little flowers or fruits designed into the rolled candy
-DementedAvenger-@reddit
I still do this. They’re my favorite candy
Own-Natural3266@reddit
You can still find these candies and put them in a crystal dish for the memories.
HopelesslyHuman@reddit
100%.
superpaqman@reddit
Big_Chooch@reddit
Filled with candied ginger!
Wild_Bill1226@reddit
Is that what it’s called. I got a cabinet full of it my mom collected
ONROSREPUS@reddit
My mom still has hers out. It has black jelly beans in it.
Pearl-2017@reddit
My grandma filled it with those square caramel blobs. So good 😋
Parisian_Nightsuit@reddit
It’s a candy dish, Ned. $90!
15pH@reddit
You could put all sorts of things in there!
highesttiptoes@reddit
Yes! Came here for this.
Agitated-Resolve-920@reddit
I have one of those in my house, and I'm 38. Lpl
akadebso@reddit
Bingo
AllTheStars07@reddit
Yess I have a few of those in my house, one for coins.
ThoroughlyWet@reddit
No plastic on any of the furniture
misagale@reddit
Ashtrays
Icy-Pop2944@reddit
Huge ashtray and a Capodimonte porcelain objet d’art.
RedHawk451@reddit
People's, Reader's Digest, and five old National Geographic magazines in stacks of twelve sitting beneath the glass and wood.
Petunia_pig@reddit
Also TV Guide, don’t forget the TV Guide books.
uns0licited_advice@reddit
Definitely thought of TV Guide immediately.
ObviousOrca@reddit
readers digest too
8Deer-JaguarClaw@reddit
And a cleverly hidden Playboy or two that your grandad stashed
KazulsPrincess@reddit
That was in the bathroom.
LaRoseDuRoi@reddit
My grandma had Cat Fancy instead of People, but otherwise, this is spot on!
Dawnzarelli@reddit
The entire hardcover Brittanica Encyclopedia collection sitting in its custom shelf that the books perfectly fit in. Gold embossed spine.
2Twice@reddit
Now you've got me thinking about where my grandfather's collection went. It was likely half a century of them. I'm sure my brother or uncles know.
hi984390@reddit
I read so much readers digest as a kid at my grandparents house. Oh and all the checkout line gossip mags like star, etc.
ferfocsake@reddit
Four TV trays in a rack at the end of the couch.
IHAVENOIDEA0980@reddit
I got the TV trays when my grandmother passed away. I have fond memories of eating dinner with her and watching the Olympics together.
jlspartz@reddit
At least you got to watch Olympics. I was always stuck watching jeopardy and wheel of fortune.
ObviousOrca@reddit
+ murder she wrote, Dallas, Falcon crest if lucky enough to stay up that late.
also…miss america…
lynypixie@reddit
Brown with some sort of orange drawing on it. We called them card tables back then.
VotingRightsLawyer@reddit
I carry on this tradition proudly. Though I sadly traded in my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tray for a boring wooden one.
Stunning_Radio3160@reddit
Lmao this comment had me laughing !! Definitely at many relatives houses.
Hyack57@reddit
Like this one?
Objective_Quiet3065@reddit
The tall ashtray
1lapulapu@reddit
Ash trays
yurinator71@reddit
Plastic furniture covers
Streamliner85@reddit
Argos black ash nest of tables.
PomegranateOld3528@reddit
Big wooden bowl of mixed nuts, still in the shells, with a metal nutcracker tool across the top
Reasonable_Cloud3492@reddit
Floor magazine rack
Ctendall@reddit
The un-steal-able TV
lellywest@reddit
A phone book on the lower shelf of the coffee table
lynypixie@reddit
A phone book used to level a furniture
Yarn_Mouse@reddit
Ours was in the kitchen. The "main phone" in our house was the kitchen phone. I just now realize that we had a "main phone" at all but it's true. That's where all the serious calls had to be made. Calling school from the living room phone would be like buying a car online with your cell phone.
Main-Drag-4975@reddit
Plastic on the furniture. Big telephone on the end table.
lynypixie@reddit
I remember plastic being more of a mid 90s thing. On really hard sofas that has some kind of Versailles prints on them.
KidneyThief8@reddit
I had to scroll too far to find this. Fuck, I hated that plastic. It made everything so uncomfortable.
CardsAndDiscs@reddit
Can you still hear in your head the sound of flesh teeeaarrrring off the cover, when you went to stand up? (mostly for the purpose of going over to change the channel)
KidneyThief8@reddit
Omg, yes!
OkTemperature8080@reddit
Can’t believe I had to go 4 comments to find plastic on the furniture. And that THICK plastic, like a clear tarp
2Twice@reddit
I think only one my friends had plastic on the cushions/couch. Then I remembered them having a fancy party and still not taking them off. If not then, when?
Lost-Meeting-9477@reddit
Those plastic covers were there for protection. You don't wear a condom when you're not having sex.
2Twice@reddit
Hold on! What!? My cousin was in a really rough neighborhood, he told me when we were outside we'd need protection. This had nothing to do with sex, but he was pretty adamant about it so when we walked to the gas station I wore a condom. We didn't get jumped; so it worked!
Zeke688@reddit
Party is when they need the most protection. 😆
ArchitectVandelay@reddit
Reminds me of people who buy mattress protectors. Like there’s any resale value on a used mattress.
anemptycardboardbox@reddit
Those aren’t for resale value, they’re literally to protect the mattress, mainly from any sort of liquid. Once it gets in there, you cannot clean it
CordeCosumnes@reddit
Not everyone had their furniture covered, but anyone with decor this coordinated, almost certainly did.
RevolutionaryHead7@reddit
Always fun when wearing shorts on a hot day
ET_Sailor@reddit
calbearlupe@reddit
How is this not the top comment!!!!
CaptainGreyBeard72@reddit
No, telephones were not used in the living room, kitchen and bedroom /office
FriedBack@reddit
Yes they were. We just needed the super long cord.
-okily-dokily-@reddit
Yep, my grandparents' rotary phone was hung on the wall at the entrance to the living room so that it could also wrap around to the kitchen.
misterguyyy@reddit
If you’re wearing shorts you hear a little crrrrrack as you get up. Especially in South Florida with a window shaker.
GlitterBombFallout@reddit
I can feel it even now 😵
eternal_refrigerator@reddit
I still have vivid memories of taking naps on my grandma’s plastic wrapped couch and having to peel myself off of it.
GoodwitchofthePNW@reddit
One set of my grandparents had a “front room” that I literally set foot in one time, in my whole life. It had all the “fancy” furniture encased in plastic. I asked my dad one time what they used it for (because it wasn’t holidays), and he said “when the minister comes over”. That was it. Even my grandmothers sewing circle ladies sat in the “back room” (aka the normal living room).
MediumAwkwardly@reddit
Came to say that!!!
unseeliefae_@reddit
YES, this was my immediate answer. 😂
Own-Natural3266@reddit
I'm glad so many others experienced this too.
benza13@reddit
This and cigarette smoke were the 2 main things I expected to see
sirbenedictofTX@reddit
yup, came here for the plastic on the furniture.
nvmls@reddit
Ashtray that is its own table.
kledd17@reddit
Yeah, the big ashtray on a stand next to grandpa's chair.
LimpSwan6136@reddit
I agree. No living room is complete without it unless you want ashes on your floor and furniture.
Resident-Syrup7615@reddit
My first thought was a huge console TV, but then I noticed there weren’t any ashtrays and their should be at least two. AT LEAST!
Sonzie@reddit
Overflowing with ash since the 60s
Environmental-Car481@reddit
I was helping my mom clear some things out from a shelf in her basement recently. There was a box of ashtrays. Of course those are garbage or are they? I was working on plants that week and saw some great succulent planters. My mom was over last week and I showed her 2 that were in use.
quinzilla555@reddit
Made of glass
pburydoughgirl@reddit
Amber colored glass
emotyofform2020@reddit
Elle3786@reddit
The color of your energy
philipito@reddit
bcentsale@reddit
Yetta!
javatimes@reddit
Whoooooa
Practical_Theme_6400@reddit
Shades of gold displayed naturally
EvandeReyer@reddit
It was clear but…nicotine.
Evee862@reddit
Oh yeah. I wonder where my dads ever ended up
xanmoth@reddit
Looking like a mini version of Sauron
Skerrydude@reddit
I actually own one that has it's own holder. Was my great grandfather's. One day, I'll live where I can enjoy a cigar and it's gonna be glorious.
Badfish1060@reddit
This
philipito@reddit
What? What about the one made of clay that your kid made for you? What about family values?
warm_sweater@reddit
Or the kind that had a beanbag as the base.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
Dad had those in his work semi.
SpaceNegative9638@reddit
Those were for the old Chevy truck!
Happyseaturtle994@reddit
Brown or orange glass.
alwaus@reddit
Or green.
JamesSFordESQ@reddit
Exact same, hahaha. My first thought: "A 17 pound ashtray."
emotyofform2020@reddit
With a matching 12 pound glass lighter
OffThread@reddit
That bitch had it's own pedestal like it was a work of art filled with 5 pounds of ash waiting to destroy that shag rug.
HairballSox@reddit
I heard this in a trashy Italian accent
RevolutionaryHead7@reddit
I think your parents stole that from a hotel lobby
Bibblegead1412@reddit
I still have my granny's from the 50's. On a brass pedestal, with that awesome orangish glass. My most prized possession!
dad_sparky_engineer@reddit
Plinth.
HairballSox@reddit
I heard your voice in a trashy Italian accent
Johnnywarhero@reddit
That’s where my brain went.
drawgs@reddit
My parents didn’t smoke but there was still an ashtray on the table and there was a giant orb full of matchbooks.
jadesix@reddit
This is the answer.
yarnhooksbooks@reddit
And the cloud of smoke lingering in the upper few feet of the room.
SaltyAir-StarrySkies@reddit
Yeah my first thought was that the cloud of smoke is missing... I can see everything far too well
Eli-fant@reddit
💯 I can smell this room.
Danbarber82@reddit
Smells just like Grandpa and Nana rippin' Marlboro Reds while they ask about how school is going.
Aanaren@reddit
I have my grandmother's ashtray table. Its the one thing I requested from her stuff. It sits in our garage "smoking lounge" (i.e. the spot we all go smoke & toke when its too cold to sit in the backyard).
Available_Actuary977@reddit
this was my first thought.
Hahaguymandude@reddit
Fauuuuuckkkk. Memory unlocked.
SkibidiBlender@reddit
Yellow glass
72scott72@reddit
My first thought as well. And it was yellow glass.
angrybirdseller@reddit
😆tobacco flakes or paint chips lol.
TheIadyAmalthea@reddit
I had one fall on my face as a toddler. You can still see the scar 40 years later. Surprised it didn’t crack my skull.
DagnyTheSpencer@reddit
I'm obsessed with them. Huge ugly ridiculous ashtrays are absolutely my bag
Stampede_the_Hippos@reddit
I can smell this picture lol
RAWainwright@reddit
Came to say the exact same thing. And like a big ass green glass ashtray.
santana0987@reddit
Came here to say this but you saved me the trouble 😆😆😆
Capn26@reddit
Came to say exactly this. And a smoky haze.
Kfaircloth41@reddit
Glass. GLASS ashtray. Preferably in green or brown.
bytvity2@reddit
I knew in my heart that “ashtray” would be the top answer.
randomthrowaway8993@reddit
With a burn mark or two on the shag carpet surrounding it
oflimiteduse@reddit
I would get so grossed out by the huge ashtray on the table in the morning from the night before. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢
stavago@reddit
In that opaque green or brown glass
Desperate-Cost6827@reddit
The ashtray with the blue fabric bottom. Y'all know what I'm talking about right? It's like blue corduroy
Violet_Walls@reddit
Ashtray was my literal first thought before I came to comments. I’m happy to see it as the top comment 🤣
Boundless-Owl327@reddit
I have my dad’s old one in my garage. Entirely wood, except for the red tray… made of glass.
Moofabulousss@reddit
Along with a few burn holes in each armrest.
totsplease@reddit
Mrs. Roper.
burls087@reddit
Thick clouds of cigarette smoke.
Zippingalong20@reddit
Huge Ash Trays.
Superdonkey78@reddit
There are no ashtrays.
PyropePhronesis@reddit
The plastic over the couches
Difficult-Republic57@reddit
Phone, tv, ash tray
Stang1776@reddit
Grandma smoking and using an ashtray that one of her grandkids made in 3rd grade art class.
kg4cna@reddit
BIG console TV or console stereo system.
CapWV@reddit
Cigarette smoke and a wooden bowl of wooden fruit on the coffee table.
bedublam@reddit
A haze of cigarette smoke
Chaosinmotion1@reddit
Ashtray atop a wooden stand.
tevalerejubeo@reddit
Rob_Bligidy@reddit
The multi color afghan
Rare-Sock-7155@reddit
Had to scroll way too far to find this!
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
And the colors are brown, tan, and orange.
nerdburgger84@reddit
Don't forget that mustard drab color.
CardsAndDiscs@reddit
This is so scarily accurate...right along with the rest of this page.
Is reliving this stuff a good thing?
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
I feel like all of our grandparents went to sears and bought the same living room.
Huge_Station2173@reddit
How is this not the top comment?
Outside-Ad5508@reddit
I was looking for this! An afghan folded over the back of the couch, and in summer, a standing oscillating fan by the standing lamp.
AbsintheAGoGo@reddit
Crocheted granny squares 😂
javatimes@reddit
Like the Roseanne couch
nevernotworryingx@reddit
This is what I came looking for (and a wood paneled television)
AceOfStace27@reddit
Home Interiors crap on the wall. Likely children in western apparel or some metal depictions of birds or butterflies.
gevander2@reddit
That's the "living room", where nothing was allowed to "live". It was just for (adult) guests to inhabit for socializing with the parents. No children allowed. There is nothing missing from the picture.
jahozer1@reddit
A rooster statue that was your granma's
pintofendlesssummer@reddit
A few overfilled ashtrays
mamba-mentality2424@reddit
An oil fountain lamp hanging in the corner.
Blah-B7ah_Bloop@reddit
Ashtrays
0ldEnough2KnowBe77er@reddit
400 pound television and a console hi-fi. Also, not enough ashtrays or doilies.
ResponsiblePaint988@reddit
The hanging rain lamp in the corner!
johnlocklives@reddit
The wooden stand with the golden or avocado green glass ashtray in it.
Key-Airline204@reddit
Small dark wood bookcase holding the family encyclopedias.
25Bam_vixx@reddit
Plastic cover
Itchy-Size6793@reddit
Amber ash trays and empty PBRs
DGAFADRC@reddit
Grandma chain smoking on the sofa.
PDub466@reddit
A giant console television and at least 8 adults smoking cigarettes.
Rude-Associate2283@reddit
Plastic sheeting for the furniture
DirtyDeana_@reddit
I’ve now scrolled too far to not see anybody say where the plastic covers lol my foster family from Long Island in 1972 had that exact same furniture, but it was covered in plastic
CaptDinkles@reddit
That weird light thing with the female Greek statue and the wires that drops run down.
CaptDinkles@reddit
Knitted afgan
Living_Camp6030@reddit
A China cabinet that no child may even think about touching.
kryptonitemind@reddit
TV although that answer seems too obvious. 😂
Xdfghijujsw@reddit
Lit cigarettes
Opposite-Debate2793@reddit
Beanbag ash tray?
Prestigious-Iron5371@reddit
7 or 8 ashtrays, several smoll glasses filled with vermut and Vat 69, vinyl records along with tv programme magazines on the floor. Maybe some cassetes too. Oh! the lost rubik's cube is under the big chair, and some of the matchbox cars under the sofa. And a 'wall thermometer'.
VerticalSplitSalami@reddit
Pipe -cleaner Christmas tree in front of the window
dumpster_kitty@reddit
Ashtray
dg1138@reddit
Meauxjezzy@reddit
The plastic on the couch and chairs
SoBadit_Hurts@reddit
Bowl of mixed, uncracked nuts with tools
BaldHeadedLiar@reddit
Ashtrays
Resident-Syrup7615@reddit
There should be at least 2 in this picture.
Own-Cartographer5201@reddit
This....
FLAMBIBULA@reddit
Fighting parents
Resident-Syrup7615@reddit
My sister and I — more than once — ran into my parents’ bedroom to tell them to stop fighting. We probably should have told them to just divorce and get it over with a few years earlier.
Dawnzarelli@reddit
I can hear my granny yelling at my papa, sleeping in his recliner, after his VFW meeting in his Navy cap VFW commander’s flair - “Biiiiillll! Bill?! BILL.”
Hoboliftingaroma@reddit
Exactly. It's too quiet. Someone should be throwing something.
WoodpeckerWest7744@reddit
Ashtrays, hassock.
HardKori73@reddit
Ashtray on a stand.
Any-Celebration-2582@reddit
A bucket of Lego blocks spilled on the shag.
FinalConversation348@reddit
A Norman Rockwell painting.
Esmereldathebrave@reddit
Ugly (goes without saying) wooden or macrame wall art of an owl.
LordOfEltingville@reddit
Ashtrays
I have that Stiffel lamp in my den. My mom bought it in the mid-70s.
Sonzie@reddit
Only one carpet? Need at least 3 overlapping
gfunkrider78@reddit
The smell of cigarette smoke embedded in all that gd fabric.
Peas_Are_Upsidedown@reddit
Ash trays and giant console tv
shaygurl22@reddit
Sharp edged HARD coffee table
33celticsun@reddit
A string art of a sail boat on the wall.
ThrowawayRedditStory@reddit
I don't see an ashtray
anonstarcity@reddit
National Geographic’s on the coffee table
Imaginary_Builder_56@reddit
The console record player
Proper-Woman@reddit
The matching coffee table with the cushions in it
Equal_Newt_9044@reddit
The door bell chimes
BrineWR71@reddit
random9212@reddit
These get brought up constantly on posts like these and I have absolutely zero recollection of anyone I know having one.
LazarusDark@reddit
Must have been a regional thing, I've never seen or heard of this one either.
Fearless_Mirror_4975@reddit
I lived in Florida when we had one of these. I don’t remember seeing them when we moved to Michigan.
bloodectomy@reddit
My grandma had one of these! Hers was a topless woman bathing by a stream. I remember being a kid and thinking it was kind of weird, but also sort of neat.
chihuahua2023@reddit
I knew three separate houses with this lamp- I begged my mom to get one but she was more into the ducks with bows
TheIcemanPebbleth@reddit
There it is...
Visiting the Grandparent's place in the 80s is complete.
judasmitchell@reddit
I have never seen one of these before. Was it a regional thing?
javatimes@reddit
My grams definitely had one. Did it like circulate oil or something?
BrineWR71@reddit
Yes. Ok dripping down fishing line was my assumption
Sandfleas1@reddit
this is exactly what i pictured in my head
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
The photo looks so much like my grandmothers living room and she had this exact lamp.
Merzbenzmike@reddit
Missing the rack of readers digest, National Enquirer, and Time magazines. Old news papers with partially done crossword puzzles. Definitely missing the rack of TV trays. Hell, Dan, Rosie, Becky, Darlene, and DJ are probably having pizza in the kitchen right now.
Small chance there could be plastic on some of the furniture.
Lets-B-Lets-B-Jolly@reddit
Bowls of potpouri everywhere. My mom also made the embroidery hoops with lace and ribbons that had potpouri inside.
Merzbenzmike@reddit
Oh my gosh yes! Remember how everything was crocheted? They’d put a lamp on it to keep it from scratching the end table or nightstand…
heethersmeether@reddit
In the South, one of these giant family bibles was usually on the coffee table
TinHeartWarriors@reddit
A tall wooden 4 or 5 tiered shelf with the funk and wagnalls encyclopedia set, mom's didney vhs collection, ornate glass bowl, and a cardboard box on the top shelf that is open and hasn't moved in years
JonnyMansport@reddit
A Sears catalog.
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
Children today will never know the joy of helpfully dog earring the sears catalog to give their parents hints for Christmas.
Lets-B-Lets-B-Jolly@reddit
If I was driving my mom crazy, she would hand me a pair of scissors, some glue and paper and tell me to cut out what I wanted for Christmas. I'd have pages by Christmas, even knowing I'd be lucky to get one thing from it :P
JonnyMansport@reddit
Truth.
MelodicMasterpiece81@reddit
That was under my bed…
YarnBunny@reddit
The smell of cigarette smoke
Lets-B-Lets-B-Jolly@reddit
Cherry pipe tabacco in my house growing up. My daddy was old-school :P
Equivalent_Grab_511@reddit
Ashtrays! Yes!
hopfenbauerKAD@reddit
Velvet elvis!
FTMat42hooooooboy@reddit
Ashtrays
Plastic_Flan_2529@reddit
Lava lamp
mhylas@reddit
Plastic on couch
Awkward_Dig8690@reddit
A random snow globe
katetwenty2@reddit
An ashtray!
Clean_Task5172@reddit
Cuckoo clock
shawnofnc@reddit
A dish with some cough drops, Werther's Originals, a key to a 1986 VW Scirrocco, a single stick of Feedent gum, and a receipt from Ace Hardware.
Practical-Giraffe-84@reddit
Clear vinyl. The furniture would be encased in it. And NO one was allowed to sit in this room.
CenterOTMultiverse@reddit
Tv trays.
Helorugger@reddit
Ashtrays
Novel_Structure_8795@reddit
A pedestal ash tray.
MattandFriendsDTU@reddit
Rotary phone on an end table.
JaimePfe17@reddit
A big crocheted afghan over the back of the couch.
flotusspunkmeyer@reddit
Brach’s Chocolate candies in a fancy dish. Old people smell. Noise of dishes happening in the next room. The sounds of Wheel of Fortune.
No-Standard9405@reddit
The plastic
Nole_in_ATX@reddit
Large wooden fork and spoon hanging on the wall
JessKeyLess@reddit
Cigarette smoke so thick you can’t fully see
Totally_Botanical@reddit
My dad hitting me while my mom cries
ladyliferules@reddit
Ooofff, that sucks
PickleFlavordPopcorn@reddit
Cigarette smoke
letseditthesadparts@reddit
Individuallynvralone@reddit
I can’t tell but is there plastic on the sofa?
bgva@reddit
A coffee table with a bowl of fake fruit, specifically plastic grapes (one of which is deflated).
theladyroy@reddit
There it is. I always used the banana as a fake phone.
BravoLimaDelta@reddit
I used to chew on those as a kid. I think I swallowed one once by accident.
pinksparklybluebird@reddit
That I wanted to chew on so bad. That and Barbie sneakers.
_--_Osiris_--_@reddit
I definitely chewed on the plastic grapes! You could make them stoik to your tounge by squeezing the air out of them and then letting them reshape while sticking the little opening end on your tongue. Good times!
MungoJennie@reddit
I did. I got in so much trouble!
Im_Ashe_Man@reddit
The smell of cigarette smoke saturated in everything.
Rgoodrich10@reddit
Plastic covers, and an oil lamp.
Neuro_Dragon@reddit
My drunk father beating my mother
slyfox2884@reddit
Candy dish filled with circus peanuts
Conspiracy__@reddit
Fiber optic spinning rose/flower/starburst in a case
Large amoeba shaped ashtray
A glass candy or nut dish
Tomorrow_Wendy_13@reddit
Crochet afghan on the back of the couch in eye-searing colors that don't go together and don't match the furniture
Ogmrtz@reddit
Ogmrtz@reddit
unclebea@reddit
I would say childhood trauma but I’ll bring mine with me and I have enough to share
MireLight@reddit
Lets put our traumas together and make em fight like pokemon.
unclebea@reddit
Gotta catch ‘em all
ClockwrkAngel2112@reddit
Ok... 1979 here... This looks like my grandparents' houses. My parents bought our house 5 weeks after I was born, almost all the carpets got replaced, my mom did a ton of "modern" decorating. This just feels mid-70s to me and not the early to mid-80s I remember? Most of my neighbors' houses didn't look like this either, and if they did my grade-school brain thought it looked dated. Am I the weird one?
kombucha711@reddit
plastic covers on sofa
Unable_Eye_7108@reddit
Newspapers and magazines.
RoughCute7016@reddit
The plastic dust covers for the furniture
not-sure-what-to-put@reddit
Ribbon candy
opinionatedhugger@reddit
A haze of cigarette smoke
CaliAv8rix@reddit
I can smell this photo
Big_Boysenberry4408@reddit
Does it smell like stale cigarettes?
CaliAv8rix@reddit
100% and occasionally a faint whiff of pot roast cooking from the kitchen
Annual_Tangelo8427@reddit
I can feel the texture of that furniture. It's also missing one of those weird ladies in a cage oil lamp hanging from the corner ceiling, and some Home Interiors pictures.
Kacey-R@reddit
I can feel/smell the dust.
HumanContract@reddit
Scratch and sniff 80s life
SecretRecipe@reddit
I don't see anywhere near enough ashtrays
Extreme-Wasabi-147@reddit
Plastic furniture covering.
Knotty-Bob@reddit
Magazines, phone, phone book, coasters
reddiculed@reddit
Plastic wrapping on the couch.
Chinola4Me@reddit
Oh yeah, and a wall mounted a/c unit for that room only. 😛
Repulsive_Werewolf34@reddit
Ashtrays and one heavy tv
Chinola4Me@reddit
Needs a glass dish of “Werther’s Originals” or some other grandma hard candies.
ritmoon@reddit
An ashtray
sodangshedonger@reddit
Giant, amber-colored, glass ashtray.
Opening-Restaurant83@reddit
The plastic shipping covers
sassypants450@reddit
This image makes me want to recreate this room in my current apartment and them gleefully invite my friends in their 20s over to visit
Also its missing a glass table with corners so small children can gouge their foreheads on it while jumping on the couches when the parents are not in the room.
Oomlotte99@reddit
Cigarettes
_Internet_Hugs_@reddit
Cigarette smoke and a pile of Readers Digests.
BabyLetsRide@reddit
Plastic covers. Haha
Mountain_Chemist_419@reddit
Freestanding ashtray
jackie_bristol@reddit
LOvED that coffee table!!
Ben_Drinkin_Coffee@reddit
The Stomper trucks that I always left laying around
AlissonHarlan@reddit
A cloud of smoke
OpiumPhrogg@reddit
Plastic covering the seating that isn't used unless guests are over for dinner.
Ellen6723@reddit
Tv guide - well thumbed with a coffee ring on the cover
drawgs@reddit
A piano
No-Purchase-5930@reddit
Dad telling me to get him another beer while watching Arcie Bunker.
deadmallsanita@reddit
The TV Guide on the table.
sicksixgamer@reddit (OP)
I say a glass bowl of hard candies. Grandma always had the Werthers Originals.
drawgs@reddit
We also had horehound. And I have no idea of that’s how it is spelled.
whistleridge@reddit
These things:
Everyone’s grandma had a bowl full of them, no one actually liked them, and to this day no one knows what they’re called.
KazulsPrincess@reddit
My grandma always had Starburst in hers.
fourtwentyonepm@reddit
speak for yourself this is basically an 8 year old's first crack hit
K3lto@reddit
Seriously these candies were my favorite part of grandma’s house!
Miss-Indie-Cisive@reddit
I loved them too! Mmm the gooey centre!
BlacksmithThink9494@reddit
Yep. My grandpa always had some of those or werthers in his pockets. I told him the strawberry ones were my favorite and every time he would come over he would put one on the table in front of me. Miss him so much.
agentmkultra666@reddit
Oh no i always looooved these
amertune@reddit
I loved them, but didn't know what they were called and could never find them in a store.
They're called strawberry bon-bons.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
I liked them! When you cracked them open there was a gooey center.
Kade7596@reddit
I always wondered if it was supposed to be gooey inside or if they were just so old
Global-Jury8810@reddit
Nah. Solid hard candy doesn’t really go gooey or chewy but it takes on a weird hard texture. I’m pretty sure they’re just made that way.
Kade7596@reddit
oh, i mean when I was enjoying them as a kid from many various sources. 😄
Altruistic-Tank4585@reddit
I loved them, if I see them out in a dish I am taking some
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
What?! I loved those and still do!
random9212@reddit
I know you don't speak for everyone. I love these. I call them bonspiel (curling turnament) strawberries. There was always a box of candies at the end of the rink with a mix of wrapped hard candies and these were always my favorite of the mix. Though the mint and chocolate ones were pretty good too.
sicksixgamer@reddit (OP)
Yes!
Habanero_In_My_Eyes@reddit
Strawberries
besttobyfromtheshire@reddit
They’re called Bon Bons!
Kellzy1212@reddit
Orange slices.
Allaplgy@reddit
Werther's, those strawberries someone else posted, root beer barrels, or those pillow mint things that smell like Palo Santo wood.
One_Rope2511@reddit
My grandma always had Krimpets & a stash of Coca Cola cans in the fridge. A Xennial child’s idea of a sugar crash!
HottKarl79@reddit
You forgot to mention they're all stuck together.
morally_bankrupt80@reddit
"Baby, get you a lick of peppermint mountain"
_Ethel_Beavers@reddit
Nah, werthers are individually wrapped. This (hand blown glass) candy dish has those weird hard candy ribbons that have been stuck together for years.
whiskeytango40@reddit
A haze of cigarette smoke.
Pretend-Menu-8660@reddit
A 12 inch round, 300 lb green smokey glass ashtray full of used up Virginia Slims and ashes
bansheeonthemoor42@reddit
Rotary phone.
stilettopanda@reddit
Ashtray and a magazine holder
hjfleet1@reddit
A glass bowl on the coffee table with hard candy, usually butterscotch.
ViewAdditional7400@reddit
Encyclopedias from Brittanica... Missing at least two volumes.
wilhammer069@reddit
Entertainment Center
Tasia528@reddit
Wood paneling on the walls
Schulz70j@reddit
This is 1970s
ImOnlyHereForTheCoC@reddit
A sweet grandma, because this decor was old people-coded even back then
RelationshipNo9336@reddit
Ashtray
PamPooveyPacmanJones@reddit
ashtrays and cigarette smell
Difficult_Program_15@reddit
Plastic covers pn the couch
Strange_Vermicelli@reddit
Ash trays
Apprehensive_Foot813@reddit
We're going to need more plastic !
kjbanks@reddit
Tension
CardsAndDiscs@reddit
Gold Star for this.
captainstormy@reddit
Glass fruit on top of that white platter on that coffee table.
Toilet_Reading_@reddit
Cigarette smell.
greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit
Cigarette Smoke in the air
eury13@reddit
I can smell this picture.
DrulefromSeattle@reddit
Ashtray on some kind of table, Extra-large Zenith TV, and wow never saw that kind of furniture with the plastic wrap removed.
NoConnection5785@reddit
Ashtrays
elpintor91@reddit
Gold God hands 🙏🏼 and a book shelf with encyclopedia
-okily-dokily-@reddit
Oh, the encyclopedias!!! Yes!!! My grandparents had them, plus a checkerboard, photo albums, a bucket of broken crayons and colouring books. Those, plus tv, knitting and sliced apples was pretty much my childhood entertainment at Grandma and Grandpa's.
elpintor91@reddit
Sounds like a treasure trove.
DJ_MedeK8@reddit
Or ceramic
pinksparklybluebird@reddit
Don’t forget that picture of a beach at sunset with the footprints bible passage
DeadHead2002@reddit
Big glass ashtray filled with butts.
Neat-Ladder8987@reddit
Good taste?
Glum_Cheesecake9859@reddit
Corded phone. Bunch of magazines.
Forever_Forgotten@reddit
Reader’s Digest
Glum_Cheesecake9859@reddit
yesssss. Quintessential 80's reading :)
upsidedown-funnel@reddit
National Geographic’s
Glum_Cheesecake9859@reddit
kosher titties.
thirddownloud@reddit
Ashtrays
Successful_Boat_5921@reddit
As far as I can tell, the only thing missing from this picture of my grandmother's living room is my grandmother herself, God rest her soul
KtotheBHN@reddit
An afghan blanket over the back of the couch!!
Repulsive-Tennis7341@reddit
A dense fog of cigarette smoke
Tasty_Needleworker13@reddit
Crochet lace doilies under everything
S3TXCheesehead@reddit
Plastic floor runner
Connect-Penalty-1887@reddit
The Spanish speaking family who owns it
Alia_Oxen_Free@reddit
Ashtrays
ThrowyMcThrowaway04@reddit
Plastic wrap on the furniture.
Forever_Forgotten@reddit
The milk glass Anchor Hocking candy dish with the grape leaf design that grandma put out on the coffee table when company came over, full of butter mints.
JDNB82@reddit
candy dish
PhobicWitty@reddit
A porcelain white cat on the ground near a wall somewhere.
roastedandflipped@reddit
This thing
mgentry999@reddit
Not as many ashtrays on the tables.
Grand_Salamander9992@reddit
I don't see an ugly ashtray handmade by a kid at school.
cowfishing@reddit
The matching Afgan draped over the couch.
CaptainNinjaX@reddit
Godzilla Statue
ModernDay_RandyMarsh@reddit
Overflowing ashtrays.
Asinine47@reddit
That giant wooden octagonal side table/ coffee table that was always a danger to shins everywhere.
folksongcat@reddit
Those plastic runners for the floor.
Greyhaven7@reddit
Oh god, I’d forgotten those! So weird.
pit_of_despair666@reddit
Me too. I can picture it like it was yesterday still though. I remember the ones my family had looked like this. *
Greyhaven7@reddit
That’s the ones!!! Thin and kinda sticky.
pit_of_despair666@reddit
I remember my grandparents had one or two but I don't think my parents had them in our home.
Greyhaven7@reddit
Oh yeah no, not my parents, other people’s grandparents had them.
dontkillmepleaselol@reddit
Ashtray
No-Independence-6842@reddit
TV
LastCallKillIt@reddit
Ashtray on the coffee table
DeeRexBox@reddit
Ash tray with a bunch of cigarette butts.
StonePoncho@reddit
I think every one of my extended family has one of these.
mysticalfruit@reddit
A tin of Danish cookies... but when you open it, it's full of knitting supplies..
Bakingsquared80@reddit
One of these things
shiny_nickel@reddit
I was fascinated by these!!
cartoonchris1@reddit
The elegant, freestanding iron pedestal stand that holds a jade glass ashtray
MiserableAdeptness81@reddit
Plastic seat covers
Yerrusr@reddit
Ashtray
emmadonelsense@reddit
The room isn’t filled with cigarette smoke. 😂
-HollyGolightly@reddit
Macramé plant holder hanging in the corner
evolutionxtinct@reddit
grandmas candy bowl?
KitsuneRouge@reddit
A wooden bowl full of nuts in the shell that you have to crack yourself (or get your dad to help you with). And a set of nutcrackers and picks that have ornate handles.
Banjo-Hellpuppy@reddit
The 20lb brown glass ashtray.
rtlg@reddit
The floor is lava!
ScrumptiousPrincess@reddit
Several ashtrays
General_Departure583@reddit
Wood cases TV and Peppermints in a glass bowl.
Oddman80@reddit
The plastic on top of the furniture...
mandathenurse@reddit
Several orange or brown glass ash trays, and the lingering smell of cigarettes.
ejrhonda79@reddit
plastic to encase each sofa
MiseryEngine@reddit
If Italian or Jewish, plastic furniture covers.
LadyBawdyButt@reddit
Solid wood hexagonal side tables to stash the afghan!
SnooObjections3103@reddit
My grandparents. And a grandfather clock.
RoboJ1M@reddit
All your houses looked like this?
ylimeenimsaj@reddit
Those owl pictures.
squinkythebuddy@reddit
Plastic on the furniture.
Davidedwards1973@reddit
The family credenza with the 78 speed record player and black and white tv
SnooMemesjellies7469@reddit
One big-assed TV set built into the furniture.
DragonCat88@reddit
Ash Trays.
samwild@reddit
Where's the plastic wrap??
PuzzledKumquat@reddit
The overwhelming cloud of cigarette smoke.
ChainSawJenkins_666@reddit
The ashtray and clouds of cigarette smoke floating midair,not a fan in sight.
ChaoticForkingGood@reddit
A hot oil lamp, a dish full of strawberry candies or circus peanuts, and a giant bunch of purple glass grapes.
Absolute_Peril@reddit
brass wire tree with the brass leafs
Ok-Satisfaction-3100@reddit
Brown glass ashtray
AskTheAdmin@reddit
Plastic wrap on the couches
Own_Abbreviations784@reddit
thereverendpuck@reddit
The visible smoke ring from smoking inside.
Worldly_Possible2925@reddit
The TV
theonlyhonez@reddit
Plastic cover on the couch?
elohde1@reddit
Humongous wooden tv
lickmybrian@reddit
A bowl of hard candies
6ynnad@reddit
And trauma
thelastest@reddit
Ashtrays.
1911_fiend@reddit
Grandma & Grandpa
thebarbalag@reddit
Cigarette smoke.
24links24@reddit
Brass spinning clock encased in glass with 4 little balls at the bottom that are the thing that spin
Black_Aquarian82@reddit
The gigantic TV with the knobs
The tall cabinet with the good china
Pinkxel@reddit
A cloud of cigarette smoke?
foshi22le@reddit
My grandmother
Fuzz1981@reddit
Ash trays everywhere
steamboat28@reddit
A cloud of cigarette smoke.
905cougarhunter@reddit
Macreme
dezisauruswrex@reddit
An ash tray
erosmoker@reddit
A thick haze of cigarette smoke
dried_cranberries@reddit
Cigarettes
Moist_Rutabaga_5098@reddit
Plastic covering on the furniture
hogfish79@reddit
Ash tray
Ijustgotlucki@reddit
Plastic on couches
leviQuinn@reddit
Ashtrays, and one large Ashtray stand
hodinker@reddit
Alf
shortmanda1012@reddit
An ashtray with overflowing ciggerette butts!
folic_riboflavin@reddit
Electric organ
thewhitecascade@reddit
Silverfish
xx_deleted_x@reddit
an oil lamp with the drops running down
Orgasmic_interlude@reddit
Furniture covered in plastic.
Thatguynoah@reddit
Plastic covers
GenWRXr@reddit
Plastic furniture covers
blawblablaw@reddit
Thick haze of smoke
Sesmanilla@reddit
Plastic coverings.
blue_suavitel@reddit
Ashtrays
tessellation__@reddit
Cigarette smoke? A kerosene heater?
shaulive@reddit
An ashtray stand
Particular-Village91@reddit
Ashtray-as-furniture
Simple_Act5928@reddit
Alf.
Systamatik7@reddit
Ashtrays
spuldup@reddit
Not an ashtray in sight.
Good_Grief_CB@reddit
Cigarettes in an ashtray and an empty Narragansett beer can.
ordermann@reddit
A big, heavy rotary phone with a 20-foot cord.
dragon_fiesta@reddit
The cigarette smoke
bloodectomy@reddit
One of those blue cookie tins (Dansk?) that always contained sewing supplies
WillDupage@reddit
My grandmother had a green Marshall Field’s tin that originally held a fruitcake, filled with buttons. I have it now, with the buttons, and it STILL smells like fruitcake. Said Grandma passed in 1988, after moving out of the Chicago area back to Minnesota in 1969… that fruitcake was truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Kade7596@reddit
Grr, whenever there was anything but shortbread cookies in them... 😒
bloodectomy@reddit
No cookies!! Just a blue box of LIES
random9212@reddit
Or knitting, crochet or possibly cross stitch.
PhilDemptee@reddit
But when it was cookies 🍪 🥰😍😘🤯
InsideReflection8238@reddit
Or sometimes your Mom's weed.
Accomplished-Mud-173@reddit
Ahhh...my Babcia's tin
Intrepid_Pitch_3320@reddit
More afghans and a cat. Ashtrays. Giant box TV.
higglesworth@reddit
Big ass amber ash tray on the coffee table
Chrisman614@reddit
Mirror wall
moonchild-731@reddit
TV dinner trays
LeilLikeNeil@reddit
The corded tv remote with the clicky buttons
catsareniceDEATH@reddit
The drunk aunt/uncle (who is actually just a random family friend who always seems to be at your parents shouse instead of their own) cackling or crying over a mug of 'tea/coffee' (gin, vodka or wine) with a huge ashtray, filled to the brim with soggy fag butts.
The plastic carpet stuff (the one with the sharp spikes on the bottom) running the edge of the living room, generally after running the whole hall, that people still somehow manage to not notice and still leave mud/shoes elsewhere.
ll-phuture-ll@reddit
A candy dish
medusa63@reddit
A big green glass ashtray in the middle of the coffee table
DieselBones_13@reddit
Half a dozen ashtrays!
neccos-1@reddit
Plastic seat covers.
Brisby604@reddit
Bowl of worthers originals.
sanfranbunny@reddit
My jaw dropped when I was scrolling through reddit. I just bought this couch couch last week. It makes me so happy. I'm gonna pick up a velvet painting of a marsh with ducks at an antique store tomorrow to put on the wall above it. Our living room is a work in progress, but I appreciate you posting an inspo pic for me, OP. :)
agentmkultra666@reddit
I love it!!
SchmeedsMcSchmeeds@reddit
I love that couch BTW! I have sat in many of couches that looked exactly like this. So nostalgic!
sanfranbunny@reddit
Comfortable_Area3910@reddit
A 30” screen tv the size of a Buick.
Benjo221@reddit
Ash trays, plastic cover on the couch, a record player inside some kind of dark wood furniture piece.
OkLychee8545@reddit
The thick fog of cigarette smoke
Equivalent-Pride-460@reddit
My grandmother running across the living room her hand cupped under her Salem with an ash as long as her cigarette.
pepesilvia2625@reddit
A random large bowl of chestnuts.
Odd_Soil_8998@reddit
ashtray
unnccaassoo@reddit
This
Otherwise-Winner9643@reddit
Big marble ashtray
BirdmanHuginn@reddit
Can’t tell if there are clear plastic seat covers…
state_of_confusion19@reddit
Ashtray
ADearthOfAudacity@reddit
Plastic covers on the furniture
Tiraloparatras25@reddit
The wrappers…
BrandyBunch805@reddit
a big old ash tray…
Apprehensive_Put1578@reddit
Ash trays, cigarette smoke, a TV guide on the table.
VixenRoss@reddit
The orange glow of fagnolia…
Ok-Menu-8709@reddit
The forbidden room! Nobody allowed to enter
Difficult-Camp1195@reddit
Ashtrays … glass candy
OwlWrite@reddit
A plastic ficus plant?
Mammoth-Cod6951@reddit
Plastic covering the couch. Was a lot of fun to sit on, in the summer.
Just-Lettuce2493@reddit
An old school wooden “ice box” that was ment to hold ice (prior to refrigeration) but holds your parents records and record player
New-Mix-5281@reddit
A little Jesus corner
djgi@reddit
Atari
elizable9@reddit
Brass magazine rack
greenerbeansheen@reddit
The smell. I can't smell it.
morebeer4all@reddit
Candy dish with nothing but licorice flavored ribbon candy from last Christmas. The heavy amber colored one.
Cynnissa@reddit
YakiVegas@reddit
A giant tv remote and a dish of hard candy. Fake plants, too.
Gonna_do_this_again@reddit
One of those awkward hexagon shaped wood tables
Available_Actuary977@reddit
god, I hate those things
robkillian@reddit
In college I saw one that had a 6 chambered, vacuum powered bong all contained inside it.
K3lto@reddit
Best spot for hide and seek!
NotOnYerNelly@reddit
An ash tray with a mountain a fag ends in it.
zipper1919@reddit
A rotary phone with a suuuuper long curly cord.
A ginormous five thousand pound tv in a wood box with a lid that opens up to a record player.
jamescockroft@reddit
A bowl of candied orange slices that may or may not have been set out for a party in 1977.
amandajh8@reddit
Dense, cigarette smoke.
elsapels@reddit
Yes!!! Came to say/like this
Pseudorealizm@reddit
And sticky surfaces from said cigarette smoke
PhilDemptee@reddit
Tf kind of Tromaville ass house you live in?
Pseudorealizm@reddit
The kind where when you take pictures down from the walls you see how yellow the walls around the white paint under the picture frame.
PhilDemptee@reddit
Sure I had that too. Happens in windows across from the sun too.
But sticky?
Shiiit.
Get a soap.and bucket ffs.
UniTheWah@reddit
I can still smell it in the photo.
jmshub@reddit
A console television
graveybrains@reddit
With a clock on it that looked something like this:
random9212@reddit
Or this. Probably both.
chainmailler2001@reddit
Ours ended with the phrase "This is why we can't have nice things..."
HistoryGirl23@reddit
My parents have two of these, still working. I always thought they were cool.
rekt_ralf@reddit
We had both!
amertune@reddit
This was the one my grandpa had, plus a couple of fiber optic lamps.
The_Stolarchos@reddit
I feel like that was more 1987 than it was 1985. A lot happened fast, ya know.
-DementedAvenger-@reddit
I have that exact clock. Was my grgrma’s anniversary gift that I inherited.
Evee862@reddit
Hahaha now that I still have
AbsintheAGoGo@reddit
Mine had the barometer and a separate, tall, grandfather clock
justinchina@reddit
With hee haw or Lawrence Welk playing
shaggydog97@reddit
With the smaller, but working tv on top!
ES_Legman@reddit
Those orange glass ashtrays
Weak_Examination_533@reddit
Durries
DDChristi@reddit
A small stack of TV Guides
PropertyTime9336@reddit
Too sterile. The dog lying on the sofa, and toys scattered all over the floor.
Historical_Way6639@reddit
Don't see crocheted afghan or the ashtrays
Puzzled_Caregiver_46@reddit
Magazine rack down the side of the armchair.
Laulena3@reddit
Some glass grapes on the table
TheOrangeSloth@reddit
The bowl of candies that have all stuck together and have a thin layer of dust in them.
HiredDaOpps@reddit
Us
Penandsword2021@reddit
Ashtray(s)!
HistoryGirl23@reddit
A few ashtrays
Hot-Ad930@reddit
A hassock
moviesNdrawingsGuy@reddit
A bowl of some sort of candies like the gummy candy fruit slices.
https://candylandstore.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CandyLand_20030514_0144.jpg
brawnburgundy@reddit
SmoulderingStyx@reddit
Ugly rug
LastEconPoet@reddit
Oil drippy lamp
Joseph_Jean_Frax@reddit
A souvenir (African mask, Asian elephant statue, South American talisman, etc) brought back from an exotic country by that aunt who never married and always goes on vacation with her best "lady friend".
the-mehsigher@reddit
Definitely the smell
scoobydoosmj@reddit
Ash Trays
sjp1980@reddit
Ashtrays
duetmasaki@reddit
The brown ashtray.
Kellzy1212@reddit
My tacky aunt.
IHAVENOIDEA0980@reddit
Plastic on the couches and chairs.
nicotineapache@reddit
My Grandad and a book 😕
dexterw1n@reddit
An ashtray stand.
effitalll@reddit
A haze of cigarette smoke and 10 cousins.
jackblack0828@reddit
Unwrapped hard candies that are stuck together…. You gotta have a chisel, if you want one.
astrid28@reddit
Owl theme art. Bonus points if it's macramay(sp?) with beads.
ellecon@reddit
Ashtrays with burning cigarettes in them
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
This is the 70’s. If you flip the image 180 degrees, it’s my grandmother’s living room. And it’s missing the rain lamp.
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
Also, this painting of Jesus in the entryway
apresmoiputas@reddit
I don't know if you're black but it was always a portrait of Jesus next to a portrait of MLK Jr.
Wactout@reddit
Plastic.
apresmoiputas@reddit
Thick plastic that made your skin stick to it. Candy jar. Danish cookie jar with no cookies in it
LukeQatwalker@reddit
ashtray and a giant wooden tv playing gilligan's island reruns
CrazyMomof3teens@reddit
Ash trays… plastic covers for the furniture and those stupid plastic rugs
Hahaguymandude@reddit
CIGARETTES
Reckless_Waifu@reddit
Grandma
drummerboy-98012@reddit
The weird giant amber glass chandelier ball hanging from the ceiling.
Selmarris@reddit
Floor standing ashtray shaped like a horse head.
Selmarris@reddit
Apparently they’re worth money now. My grandfather would be furious that we threw his out.
Both-Leading3407@reddit
TV, TV Guide, Telephone
redstapler4@reddit
Gold sun burst wall clock! ☀️
redstapler4@reddit
Fiber optic color changing flower in a box
sealawyersays@reddit
Plastic over the couch, duh.
Grizzlyadamsbrother@reddit
Cigarette Smoke
Queen-Butterfly@reddit
The plastic cover for those couches
kumara_republic@reddit
Colour TV, VCR, and 8-bit game console.
chihuahua2023@reddit
The glass grapes on a wooden stem, the venus statue in the dripping oil lamp, & the guant wood tv
ApartmentLow5701@reddit
VHS tape cases made to look like books
Pale-Weather-2328@reddit
needs more ashtrays
marc962@reddit
Ash trays
clan23@reddit
My Grandma sitting in the armchair, binge-smoking, asking us children getting this and that from the kitchen. Bonus: Whole family also hanging around, smoking.
special-k-flo@reddit
Glass grapes, my favorite 🍇💜💜💜
StolenRage@reddit
Ashtrays on the coffee and end tables.
Round_Car_29@reddit
An ash tray
TutorNo8896@reddit
Ashtrays
Sigma_Siren@reddit
The plastic that’s supposed to be covered over it 🤣
DellieCurtis@reddit
Some kind of taxidermied animal head with antlers hanging on the wall and one of those tall fancy ashtrays.
J__513__B@reddit
Leg lamp. It’s a prestigious award.
BobEvansBirthdayClub@reddit
A box of Snackwell cookies.
AlexxRawwrr@reddit
I don’t see any plastic on those seats.
Tre_fidde@reddit
Plastic on the couch
Free-Cherry-4254@reddit
Massive ashtrays EVERYWHERE
PainterSpiritual3439@reddit
Dish of hard candy. And plastic on the couch and chair.
Jouleswatt@reddit
Blue tin of those butter cookies with large sugar crystals
spazilator@reddit
An ashtray the size of a dinner plate and one of those crystal lighters that were like a huge paperweight.
CottaBird@reddit
A bowl of black olives.
justinchina@reddit
Your grandma?
Anaxamenes@reddit
That wall is way too beige, where is the wood paneling?
danksalotbuddy@reddit
Kerosene heater
sedatedforlife@reddit
Wood paneling
WhatLittleDollar@reddit
Ashtrays.
Ancient-Carob6092@reddit
ashtrays
WeirdcoolWilson@reddit
The overwhelming reek of stale cigarette smoke
Umberlee168@reddit
Afghans made by your grandma fo sho
lesadams82@reddit
The heavy scent of cigarettes
Ok-Phrase-6115@reddit
Plastic and the smell of cigarettes
spderweb@reddit
Where's the wood paneling on at least one wall? Or... I guess it's not the basement.
Bear_Salary6976@reddit
No plastic on the furniture. No ashtrays.
BTW, I'm sure that I'm not the only one here that can't smell the cigarette smoke in this photo.
jaezii@reddit
A TV tray and a TV dinner.
jdallen1222@reddit
A large glass ashtray in the middle of the coffee table. And smaller ones for the single seats.
Dueterated_Skies@reddit
Yall are forgetting: •Hastily wired Bose surround sound and track lighting!
And If it was the grandparents house: •Plastic over the furniture •Knick knacks (Precious Moments, Lladro, Beanie Babies, those god-awful taxidermy-esque critters that were always like the rattiest mice and rabbit dolls) in acrylic display towers and on every single surface. •A model train diorama setup in the basement a la Gomez Addams •The habitual smell of potpourri and Naphtha soap mixed with nicotine 😂
DullPiglet4754@reddit
Ashtray and cigs
ItsbeenBroughton@reddit
My grandmother would have snacked me for just looking at that without a plastic covering. And where the hell is her ashtray.
frontdeskninja@reddit
Plastic covers
jfletcher72@reddit
The domestic violence.
broblackheim@reddit
donotlookatmeee@reddit
Slipcovers!
Prestigious_Run1098@reddit
Lamps and an ash tray shaped like owls.
Kcc_crojo@reddit
Wood paneling for sure
Novitiatum_Aeternum@reddit
Plastic coverings on all the furniture. Perhaps plastic floor runners.
dickhertzfromholdn@reddit
That is more 70's than the 80s.
Immediate-Agency6101@reddit
big azz tv
pizzahulk43@reddit
No plastic on the furniture.. whatever..
duhboof@reddit
The smell
CaptianBrasiliano@reddit
This thing. The "remote control," that's about 2/3 phone book sized with the little punch out card channel guide and the 20 ft. cord that reached across the living room. That was a satisfying button press too. You press the button for the channel you want and it goes way down in there cachunk No incongruity on weather the button had been pressed.
This is when having cable was a big deal. And having HBO practically made you 1%. material. So I guess people who had it didn't mind this ugly big old box sat out. lt was a social signifyer that you were winning at life.
idonotwannapickaname@reddit
macrame plant hanger suspended from a large metal hook in the ceiling and a Spider plant.
seaphpdev@reddit
Grandma in her house coat, a cig dangling from her lips, and a colored glass ashtray on the coffee table.
plazola@reddit
ash tray
pit_of_despair666@reddit
Little mint candies or Werthers and a phone hanging on the wall that looks like this. https://ebay.us/m/5yZD9W.
Lanky-Talk-1188@reddit
Wood paneling on at least one of the walls
goawasho@reddit
I'm pretty sure the wood paneling is the only thing that didn't immediately make me think this was actually my grandparents living room.
Evee862@reddit
Good lord did everyone on this thread live in my house and I was unaware of it?
JudgeJuryEx78@reddit
Roght?
cordelaine@reddit
My immediate thought—just before a console TV.
Accomplished_Book382@reddit
The haze of cigarette smoke
gracefularthur314@reddit
Glass grapes
Fyrefrog25@reddit
I scrolled wwaaaaayyy too far to find this.
lordhumongous40@reddit
Yeah. The only way to play Nintendo. Don't forget to periodically blow on the game cartridge.
Avasia1717@reddit
it needs my grandma and crystal dish of candy no one wants
Maccabee907@reddit
jokerfest@reddit
Smoke. Ashtrays. Smoke.
sabbic1@reddit
A bowl of 15 year old mixed nuts with a cracker and pick
Bart_1980@reddit
Going by my family you are missing a haze of cigarette smoke.
azurdee@reddit
Ashtrays
SchmeedsMcSchmeeds@reddit
Impressive-Buffalo20@reddit
Plastic on the furniture
Trbochckn@reddit
Magazine holder by the "reading chair'
According_Leader1917@reddit
Plastic covering on the furniture. One of those octagonal wooden end tables and a Folgers coffee can filled with crayons.
Global_Tea@reddit
In a typical British home: , a telephone book and yellow pages Doilies A record player A plastic crt colour tv (if lucky) Gurgling fish Chinese dog statues facing each other on the mantle A fireplace A cut glass ashtray (if a smoker)
Cheezslap@reddit
The octagonal storage side table thing.
sarahbobeara87@reddit
Had to scroll way too far down to see this comment!
ImpossibleAffect8663@reddit
Cigarette smoke.
Elethuir@reddit
The plastic on the furniture
Sad-Mouse-9498@reddit
An ashtray
gaarkat@reddit
A hand-knitted throw over the back of the couch.
Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit
Plastic on the couch haha
hillbillybajingowash@reddit
My grandpa and grandma. I swear this is their living room!
Juicy-Lemon@reddit
A cluster of glass grapes
StevieAM@reddit
An ash tray
MissItalyBarbie@reddit
Yellow walls from all the cigarette smoke.
SenoritaBonitaa@reddit
Boxed encyclopedia set in a bookcase
clevergirl8@reddit
A gentle haze of cigarette smoke.
blacfd@reddit
Ash trays
Ramblinrambles@reddit
Plastic on the sofa and chairs
Useful-Recover4710@reddit
Wood paneling, cigarette smell
anncnative@reddit
Ashtray on a pedestal stand
SenoritaBonitaa@reddit
Plastic runner on the carpet
Unlucky_Ad_9776@reddit
The adults smoking cigarettes inside having a drink at 3 in the afternoon while the children play.
Agreeable-Board8508@reddit
Cigarette smoke
Mitch1musPrime@reddit
The Marlboro branded ashtray on the side table…
Onetwentyonegigawat@reddit
A glass jar of hard candy (probably lemon drops) that humidity has turned into a single super glob
racecardriver203@reddit
A glass bowl of gum drops.
manicmechanic209@reddit
partame@reddit
A few giant pedestal ashtrays
Dazzling_Barnacle_85@reddit
Ashtrays and that cog smoke. I can smell it just looking at the picture
ScottishKnifemaker@reddit
I can't tell if those are ashtrays, but ashtray is in a lot of smoke, why do you think everything was brown and yellow
VeronicaSpeedwell@reddit
A clock and/or table made of a varnished log slice.
Aggressive-Store7462@reddit
Ashtrays
Flaming_Youth76@reddit
An ashtray.
Single-Pin-369@reddit
cheap scotch
Mai_Tiger@reddit
Acrylic bunch of grapes
PhilDemptee@reddit
The big glass ashtray on the coffee table that would bust your foot if you accidentally dropped it on the way to mom or dad in the other room
Accomplished_Pen980@reddit
My mother, asleep on the couch with the olive green rotary dial telephone handset in her hand and 20 feet of over stretched cream telephone cord.
taradactyl904@reddit
Bowl of peppermints and those candies in the yellow wrappers
steauengeglase@reddit
Cigarettes. The answer is always cigarettes.
inabighat@reddit
The reek of cigarettes
Fairisolde@reddit
A wooden or lacquered bowl of mixed nuts and a cheese ball with crackers.
Intermittent_chaos86@reddit
Plastic floor liner and an ash tray
StupendousMalice@reddit
There needs to be a phone on that side table.
tearlock@reddit
Needs a layer of smoke near the ceiling.
YoshiandAims@reddit
250 lb wooden cased TV, an ashtray,
a loose crochet blanket in random colors, or a granny square blanket with multi colors.
A kind of flat linen throw pillow with a ruffle.
BlueProcess@reddit
I'm not sure why, but this room vaguely creeps me out.
HereThereOtherwhere@reddit
Uncanny valley like with "almost" real looking robots freak people out way more than totally alien robots.
The from is almost but not quite real due to mind sensing something is missing and tons of detail is missing.
Evee862@reddit
Makes me miss my family. I’m the only one Left
Sierra_Baker@reddit
Side table/shelf right by the window with succulent plants. A potted ivy in a crochet harness hanging from the ceiling. A basket till of yarn and knitting needles next to the recliner.
Andress_Jade@reddit
A stand alone ashtray.
jcamp088@reddit
Lingered into the 90s. I can smell the cigarette smoke and feel the itchy ass uncomfortable carpet.
Blaaaarghhh@reddit
A serial killer?
VonBrewskie@reddit
Plastic on on the couches and the "chair for sitting."
javatimes@reddit
The smoke of 1000 Virginia Slims
stlredbird@reddit
My dads coke mirror
HereThereOtherwhere@reddit
That was the 80s.
therealcaptainusopp@reddit
Can't tell what's missing. I was never allowed in this room.
HereThereOtherwhere@reddit
"I hear you! I'll kill you if you are playing in the living room. That's just for guests!"
"But Mom, we never have guests."
icanmakepopcorn@reddit
Porcelin figuerines
Eighth_Eve@reddit
Ashtrays
RevolutionaryHead7@reddit
Not seeing plants hanging from some macrame shit
Jrmelancon@reddit
A bookcase with every single issue of National Geographic
fangirlengineer@reddit
Some sort of coffee table picture book on the British Royals.
ObviousCommentGuy@reddit
My grandmother
eternal_refrigerator@reddit
Ash trays
FLLpauly2x@reddit
The entire mirrored wall
HereThereOtherwhere@reddit
Bought a house with a bowling alley long living room with huge floor to ceiling mirrors on either side of fireplace so room looked huge but ... walls were deathly dark wood panel glued to sheetrock underneath.
The "sitting room" was pepto-pink, dining room decorated in Early Mortician style dark, dark blue wallpaper but the kicker.
In the upstairs "kids" bathroom?
Dark blue wall-to-wall shag carpet.
Teen boys? Shag carpet?
"Eeeugh!"
And 1980s shoddy construction.
Big bedrooms, though.
It was the 1990s that gave us Huge Wasteful Ostentatious Entrance Halls so upstairs bedrooms were barely bigger than the beds!
LifelsG00d@reddit
Plastic covers on sofa set. Candy dish with ribbon candy
PicklesDillyPickles-@reddit
One of those colour block afghans
timthemajestic@reddit
At least 3 ashtrays.
these2boots2@reddit
THEDrDra1981@reddit
My grandparents had a bunch of large gold plates and matching smaller gold plates attached to lengths of wood. The plates were metal and there were people "pounded" into them (I don't know the proper term).
That is all I remember about looks. They had a ton of them and would hang them all up on one wall, so I would lay in that couch shown above while staring at those.
Smartestwaters@reddit
A carved wooden bowl filled with chestnuts
Tsunamiis@reddit
Cigarette stand with a thousand burnt reds
teriKatty@reddit
If it was my parents or another family member there would be a glass ashtray with a lit cigarette in it.
lizzocakes@reddit
GTFO my Grammies living room 🤌
1cem4n82@reddit
At least five people smoking.
Enxer@reddit
Plastic covers on the furniture
orezybedivid@reddit
A thick coating of tar on everything and a smoke layer
FreshGravity@reddit
Isn’t that Elvis living room?
Mediocre-Team1715@reddit
TV trays
zeroc00ol@reddit
Cigarette smoke and cans of Budweiser
one-small-plant@reddit
The haze of smoke
wasiwasabi@reddit
Ashtrays
Alice_600@reddit
The dried up crusty remains of the slime that came with the He-man castle in the carpet that's now stiff and you can't see till you step on it.
S7482@reddit
A corpse?
Morsmortis666@reddit
Covered up the smoke stains
Solenodont@reddit
Hanging plants in Mom's macrame plant holders.
goglamere@reddit
Ash trays
Quick_Attitude2147@reddit
Low hanging cloud of smoke with cigs chillin in the ashtray.
upsidedown-funnel@reddit
Pot bellied wood burning stove.
KatiesNotHere@reddit
Full ashtrays
eastcoastseahag@reddit
Chain smoking grandma
TrackHot1187@reddit
I can smell this room.
bigolbbb@reddit
Clouds of cigarette smoke floating by
SigintSoldier@reddit
Plastic on all the furniture
PileofTerdFarts@reddit
HASBRO Simon Says on the coffee table and Matchbox cars all over the carpet. A huge wooden framed console TV with an Atari 2600 hanging out of it by a tangle of wires... Also a large tape cassete case on the wall next to an oversized stereo unit.
ExcitingMaximum4063@reddit
The plastic covers and the fake candy jar
Ok_Shock1@reddit
A broken Hi-Fi stereo with a fish aquarium on top
Vox_Mortem@reddit
Plastic covers to keep the furniture "nice."
napalmnacey@reddit
Ashtray, big old cut glass one. Sitting on a doily.
HeidiGluck@reddit
I am sure it is there but the strong smell of cigarettes.
Bjorn_Blackmane@reddit
Ash trays
unicornshenanigator@reddit
Ashtrays
DPTDubbs@reddit
Bowl of Worthers originals and strawberry hard candy, an ash tray full of pipe ash and spent cigarettes, an old piano with some old aunt playing horribly.
Gr00mpa@reddit
Geraldo Rivera on the TV
Responsible-Test8855@reddit
Cigarette smoke until your eyes watered.
AnaiekOne@reddit
a golden retriever
a_seventh_knot@reddit
Plastic covers on the couches
Leading_Cheetah6304@reddit
A coffee table made of petrified wood.
Large_Aspect_5472@reddit
A big console tv
writtenbyrabbits_@reddit
The standing ashtray table with the giant glass ashtray built in.
Icy-Professional-204@reddit
Cigarettes and wine coolers
rockaway428@reddit
A curio cabinet full of little crystal elephants that you are absolutely never allowed to touch or else your ass will be beat six ways from Sunday
silently-enraged@reddit
The giant illegal cable box/ channel changer with the slider… channels starting at 1 and ending in z.
robkillian@reddit
Some gigantic Hummel collection.
Equivalent-View568@reddit
TV guide
Adogsbite@reddit
The ash tray stand.
Babyhal1956@reddit
Plastic sheets on the furniture
Leather-Sky8583@reddit
Plastic on the couch.
Remote-Moon@reddit
It's missing as ashtray on a stand.
Dragonswim@reddit
Wood paneling
Helpful-Bag722@reddit
At least three of these monsters
anonmygoodsir@reddit
Everyone has already said all of the things that I could think of. This is giving me some major childhood flashbacks.
mack_dd@reddit
A beanbag chair in the corner
UncagedKestrel@reddit
Thank you - I had to use search to check lol, but I wasn't disappointed.
Definitely needs a beanbag (chair) somewhere, preferably faux-leather.
Northern_Lights_2@reddit
Spoon collection!
Kade7596@reddit
...my grandpa?
roziam@reddit
Clear plastic covering all of the soft furniture
klove@reddit
Apple head dolls or the crying doll in the corner 🤣
Jecht_S3@reddit
Ashe tray and a bit of yellow tinge on the walls and ceiling
papitaquito@reddit
Clear plastic covers on the sofas
Life_Grade1900@reddit
Ash trays
East_ByGod_Kentucky@reddit
Grace
mramseyISU@reddit
My mom sucking down Marlboro lights as fast as she can.
Necessary_Primary193@reddit
A canister of planters cheese balls for snacking. A little dresser drawer of coasters for your Pepsi or iced tea.
careater@reddit
Grandma with a big poofy perm, silk paisley blouse, and a cigarette. Grandpa with a bolo tie, a chambray shirt tucked into slacks, and a cigarette. I can smell this image.
sgnfngnthng@reddit
Second hand smoke
prayingbandit@reddit
Oil painting of fall mountain nature scene
East_ByGod_Kentucky@reddit
Depression glass
callalind@reddit
The "clicker"
belugabianca@reddit
Roseanne
fox-recon@reddit
Huge brick fireplace that never gets used
Majestic-Citron7578@reddit
The haze from the cigarette smoke
HolySmokesItsHim@reddit
German wooden Coo Coo Clock on the wall and a Grandfather clock in the corner that dings hourly.
rasslinsmurf@reddit
Pedestal ashtray
Similar-Breadfruit50@reddit
The TV dinner tables and an ash tray.
NumisKing@reddit
The smell. You know the smell. They sat in these plush dens and chain smoked themselves to death.
That fucking smell.
Civil_Emergency2872@reddit
A bowl of hard candies all stuck together.
NikiTeslasPigeonWife@reddit
A heavy glass ashtray on a metal stand.
Same-Reaction7944@reddit
The ottoman/coffe table isn't in the picture. It had a table in the middle and cushions on either side.
Scrug@reddit
A bowl of mixed nuts still in their shells, and a nut cracker.
sysaphiswaits@reddit
TV.
simonisamessyboy@reddit
Plastic on the furniture
jbuzolich@reddit
Brass or bronze spittoon just for decoration.
silent_ovation@reddit
Multiple ashtrays.
AgentGnome@reddit
The smell
Bella_LaGhostly@reddit
A big ol' ashtray & a woodgrain console TV.
simonisamessyboy@reddit
The tv/stereo with the wicker speaker combo
nefarious_angel_666@reddit
Standing ashtray
cpt_jerkface@reddit
A Magic Mushroom.
bio_coop@reddit
Where is the huge ashtray that sits on its own stand?
ekidd07@reddit
Plastic furniture coverings, as this is the room no one ever sits down in.
MrDiamond_@reddit
This one is too clean, but still.
DangerBrewin@reddit
An end table that is also a lamp and a magazine rack.
Workin-progress82@reddit
Plastic on the furniture
somerandomguy376@reddit
cometgt_71@reddit
A wider tv console with record player and radio on either side. Bowling trophies on top.
GoramReaver@reddit
The smell of grandpas cologne
Shen1076@reddit
Ash trays
mkwb80@reddit
Linoleum in the adjacent kitchen.
cinellivigorelli@reddit
loud ass clock on the wall
Tubbygoose@reddit
Ash trays.
Hotspiceteahoneybee@reddit
Plastic upholstery covers over the couches.
guster-von@reddit
Grandma smoking
Glass-Guess4125@reddit
Those couches don’t have plastic on them!
Chronic_Overthink3r@reddit
I had a friend that’s parents had those. Could never sleep when I stayed over because of the noise. We were uptown rednecks cause we had 2 window units I our single wide. Now I have a heat pump in my barndo 🤣
Slaphappyfapman@reddit
A landline phone with a 40m long headset cable
Professorboxxx@reddit
Plastic on the furniture
imjustpeachy2020@reddit
One of those woman in the rain statues? The one that looks like a bird cage, and oil drips down the sides to make the lady look surrounded by a rain storm. I have no idea what you’d even call that thing.
Disastrous-Use-4955@reddit
Rain lamp. I feel like there must have been some law back in the day requiring everyone to have one.
Affectionate_Yak8519@reddit
Clouds of cigarette smoke
Maniak4126@reddit
It's not all covered in plastic.
One_Rope2511@reddit
The TV console!!!
sqquuee@reddit
Grandmas ashtray with Virgina slims.
Crans10@reddit
This looks like Grandma's house in the 80s.
thedudesmom35@reddit
A big ass ash tray.
DaringDoom@reddit
Ashtrays
senbenitoo@reddit
At least from Grandma's, those plastic fruits, especially the green grapes, that I did not have to try once every few years just to be sure they weren't real...
the_fucking_worst@reddit
THE GRAPES
ForeignCow8547@reddit
An ornate crystal dish, full of ribbon candy, and all of the cast pieces are stuck together?
Dog_Baseball@reddit
Cigarettes. And these
MyRedditUserName428@reddit
The tv clicker dragged out to the middle of the floor.
random9212@reddit
Those had an amazing sound to them
discostud1515@reddit
The smell.
volyovasrevenge@reddit
My grandparents.
neo_neanderthal@reddit
The ashtray.
Akumaka@reddit
I can smell this picture.
Strawberry_Marm_alad@reddit
An ash tray with a smoke burning
AbsintheAGoGo@reddit
Why do you have my grandparent's living room (swap the mirror for a painting)
It's missing the heavy, wooden, floor-to-ceiling curio cabinet & tchotchkes
Bacch@reddit
Clear plastic coverings on all of the furniture. And ashtrays.
1nv1s1blek1d@reddit
I'm not seeing any furniture wrapped in plastic.
TeddyAtTheReady@reddit
Pack of bare assed Pall Malls and a glass ashtray on the side table. Console TV with the pop-up VCR on top.
pnw_its_really_me@reddit
Plastic carpet runner to protect the carpet.
AdScary1757@reddit
Ashtrays full of Virginia Slims on every table.
DJ_MedeK8@reddit
At least 3 ashtrays
JiGoD@reddit
80 pounds of squeaky plastic sofa covers.
Shpadoinkall@reddit
The plastic on all the furniture
Poultry_Sashimi@reddit
Taste.
Warm-Celery-4117@reddit
A brown glass ashtray and several cigarettes off the side of it, and smoke, so so much smoke…
Borracho_Bandit@reddit
My dad with that milk.
K3lto@reddit
Any day now!
LooseleafHydrocarbon@reddit
To be fair he told your mom he was getting a pack of Pall Mall Unfiltered.
Borracho_Bandit@reddit
They were Benson and Hedges ultra light 100s, YOU JERK!
jecathree@reddit
Looks like you need plastic everywhere people sit...
karaloveskate@reddit
A glass case with precious moments figurines.
Odd-Outcome450@reddit
Ashtrays and despair
Key_Condition_2878@reddit
The 3 foot steel ashtray
cyrano3976@reddit
Ashtrays
dubcity81@reddit
Hummel statues, glass animals or a menagerie of creepy clowns
Hawxfan@reddit
Towels on the cushions.
Absurdist1981@reddit
A grandpa that fell asleep watching golf.
JustACasualFan@reddit
Plastic slipcovers
Bloo_Orchid@reddit
Ashtrays? A liquor cart.
Skywren7@reddit
An ashtray full of viceroy brand smokes
killerwhaletank@reddit
Oh... my god I can smell this picture.
QuesoTim@reddit
Conch shell ashtrays
dojarelius@reddit
Hexagon end table that had about 20 decks of pinochle cards inside
Honest-Income1696@reddit
Console TV and the huge ass cabinet radio
Misscass82@reddit
Where Is the FLIESENTISCH ?
atribecalledcorey@reddit
I'll tell you what isn't missing: children of the 80s. We weren't allowed in that room.
MOSbangtan@reddit
First thought was cigarettes
killedmygoldfish@reddit
Ashtray
1159Funkbubbles@reddit
That candy that never expired
vainglorious189@reddit
Dad's recliner
Think-Ad-5698@reddit
Ash tray
ThinkingThingsHurts@reddit
My grandparents! :(
GrungeCheap56119@reddit
a grandma that could sew anything
Smicko@reddit
A miserable old woman who complained about everything. At least that’s what my grandmother’s house had.
GrungeCheap56119@reddit
yep, haha.
thefro023@reddit
Some sort of doiley.
GrungeCheap56119@reddit
yes!!!
Green_Wyvern17@reddit
The sewing kit
GrungeCheap56119@reddit
or is it cookies!?
GrungeCheap56119@reddit
cigarette smoke (indoors!)
ihearthorror1@reddit
Plastic on the sofas
ShylockGotRobbed@reddit
A 27" square TV in a wood frame that weighs as much as a Volkswagen.
Frank_McTriumph@reddit
Macrame.
UWishUWereMiah108@reddit
Wood paneling on the walls
Interesting-Lake-430@reddit
Cookies
Gab83IMO@reddit
grandmoms home knit quilt over the back of the couch, not in any good colors tho.
One_Consequence_4754@reddit
A stand in the corner that holds the TV trays so you can eat in the living room.
IcyTransportation320@reddit
Anniversary clock
majj27@reddit
Plastic coating bags for the sofa cushions. Bonus points if one has a hole melted through it where Drunk Uncle (Drunkle?) dropped a lit cigar.
EveningRanger7735@reddit
Bowl of ribbon candy
Curious_Interview_84@reddit
I don’t see a cigarette burning
aft_skin@reddit
Plastic covers on the furniture
Unfair_Ad8912@reddit
Plastic couch covers
LBSTRdelaHOYA@reddit
Plastic over everything
Born-Agency-3922@reddit
Wood paneling on the walls that smell like an ashtray.
cheekynihlist@reddit
I immediately thought of an ottoman in the same garish and undoubtedly velvet-textured fabric of the other furniture.
Ghoulie_Marie@reddit
A clock with big pointy brass things
Alum2608@reddit
Plastic covering the furniture
elusive_won@reddit
A bowl of nuts with a nut cracker
Greedy_Explanation_7@reddit
Plastic covers
Own-Economy6208@reddit
Plastic covering the sofa
Spirited_Specific_72@reddit
The smell of cigarettes
lastcallhall@reddit
An ass whooping.
Lake2two@reddit
TV guide, crochet coasters, crystal animal collection, hard candies, potpourri, photo album
Tylerdurden389@reddit
A glass bowl with werthers originals, the red and white circle candy, and those unmarked candy's.
Or if you were lucky, they had the bowl filled with mixed Hershey fun size chocolates (at least I was whenever we visited my great Aunt Anette).
iridescentrae@reddit
footstools?
Serialseb@reddit
The ashtray that is built into a stand with an arching handle over it for ease of movement
Numerous_Professor69@reddit
Stereo console.
mandalorbmf@reddit
Grandpas pipe stand
Clockwork12782@reddit
For real this looks like my childhood living room. Holy fuck.
purplecrayonadventur@reddit
Crystal cut glass ashtray
elgarraz@reddit
A set of TV trays
justletmereadtheapp@reddit
Set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
pinksparklybluebird@reddit
Y’all musta been rich
justletmereadtheapp@reddit
Ha, it was my great grandparents house. 🥹
Chronic_Overthink3r@reddit
Window A/C unit
MegsList@reddit
Possibly swamp cooler depending on your parents job?
ImAMeanBear@reddit
Crocheted afghan on the back of the couch
tossthedice511@reddit
The plastic coverings on the couch, duh
factisfiction@reddit
A hanging lamp with pillars of oil droplets going around it.
stompy1@reddit
Search Assist
Macramé hanging plants
Salty-Esq@reddit
A tin of these cookies
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
A stick, a wrench, and a belt on the table.
closhedbb80@reddit
Choose.
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
Wrench.
closhedbb80@reddit
Why the wrench, chief?
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
Because fuck him.
closhedbb80@reddit
It’s not your fault…
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
Yeah, I know that.
closhedbb80@reddit
It’s not your fault…
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
I know.
closhedbb80@reddit
It’s not your fault.
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
...I know.
closhedbb80@reddit
It’s not your fault.
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
I know.
SemicolonGuitars@reddit
Commenting on What's missing here?...
Flint-Von-Ceneac@reddit
We had a few more back and forth to hit before the hug but I think my partner bowed out.
No-Transition8014@reddit
A crocheted blanket
Moon_Noodle@reddit
Without looking at other answers: several ashtrays
seraphimcaduto@reddit
Plastic covers
Ok-Nefariousness3229@reddit
* One of these beauties that match the couch. True luxury hahaha
Kamp13@reddit
Those tin butterflies on the wall.
Q-burt@reddit
A huge ass cabinet television.
Lazy_Squash_8423@reddit
The haze of cigarette smoke and “Uncle” Jimmy handing a 7 year old a cold Budweiser
mackelnuts@reddit
Avon cologne in a bottle shaped like a car or the US capitol building.
5November1955@reddit
Wood paneling
bentripin@reddit
Angel Rain/Oil Lamp
midazolamjesus@reddit
Box TV
Latersonthemenges@reddit
My Aunt Donna smoking and watching a console tv
Beetso@reddit
Grandma and grandpa.
DontYuckMyYum@reddit
giant tv, radio, turntable combo.
necaracoles@reddit
miller high life.
drew13000@reddit
Something macrame
Sure_Tbird@reddit
Oil lamp
shayna16@reddit
Cigarette smoke hanging in the air
withinawheel@reddit
3 metal birds on the wall, each with a different wing position as if in flight
lost_soul_5150@reddit
Red Forman with a PBR in hand
Internal-Face3955@reddit
A fire🤣🤣
Burner-305322@reddit
A mother pointing at a child with a wooden spoon saying “wait til your father gets home!”
SavingsMonk158@reddit
Those weird mint things that dissolve in your mouth in a glass bowl on the coffee table. Pastel colored
Worried-Trade-6407@reddit
Cigarette smoke and Bob Barker blaring on the tube!
REO_Speed_Dragon@reddit
Atari 2600 and a console TV with the channel dialed to 3.
jwosher11@reddit
TV in a wood Cabinet.
Alclis@reddit
The plastic over the furniture
5ladyfingersofdeath@reddit
A homemade yarn afghan blanket
MegsList@reddit
Grandma in the chair with a cigarette in her hand, let’s not forget the long ash.
Kaiser-Sohze@reddit
Where is the China hutch filled with dishes and cups almost never used?
I_Dream_Of_Oranges@reddit
Metal tv trays with nature scenery on them. Bonus if they’re chipped a little.
Badfish1060@reddit
Smoking ashtray
zoiks213@reddit
Cigarette smoke, wood paneling, a china case with a mirror inside !
SpaceAdventures3D@reddit
Magazines and a Sears catalogue on the lower level of that coffee table, There is no newspaper in sight, but it might be in the kitchen. There are no toys or comic books in the scene.
GeauxFarva@reddit
The ashtray on a stand with a handle
VA1N@reddit
This picture looks like my grandmothers old house except for one thing…a raining oil lamp thing.
6thBornSOB@reddit
Med-large “newer” television on top of old gigantic TV that matched the furniture
emilybg78@reddit
Ficus tree
pinksparklybluebird@reddit
With that weird gray noodle-y moss stuff instead of dirt
ProfessorOfLies@reddit
That porcelain Christmas tree thing
marcos_MN@reddit
Console tv
KotzubueSailingClub@reddit
Lots of great answers already. I will add: A fish
Whale_Hung@reddit
A basket of fake fruit
NegotiationAble@reddit
The plastic furniture protectors
AmbraAudraDaSilva82@reddit
The BONG!
mediocreterran@reddit
I can’t see the furniture tv with roughly the mass of a thousands suns.
GardenRafters@reddit
An ashtray, a bowl of stale ribbon candy, and a cluster of glass grapes
JoeInOR@reddit
A massive brown remote control with 100+ buttons hooked by wire to the TV
stavago@reddit
One of those orange and brown chevron afghans
RuncibleFoon@reddit
10,000lb TV with the manual turn knob channel change
Bowl of lemon heads sitting open on the coffee table
Plastic on furniture
Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit
Shouldn't there be some wood paneling in here?
IndigoStef@reddit
One of the big TVs that was surrounded by an oak dresser that was literally part of the TV design and weighed 2,000 lbs
Fragrant_Ad5647@reddit
Multiple candy dishes half filled with candy no one touches.
auscadtravel@reddit
Huge tv that sat on the floor and had a doily with a vase of dried flowers on top.
bearshark84@reddit
Plastic
Firebrat1978@reddit
Plastic or bedsheets over the upholstery to “keep it n
Wrafth@reddit
I was looking for this one. Lol
jerseygunz@reddit
My grandmother
canisdirusarctos@reddit
A hi-fi stereo system in a glass box.
scottyv99@reddit
A smaller, “modern” tv sitting on top of an old, 1000 lb wood encased TV
Exciting-Flounder-85@reddit
The smell
Remote-Car-5305@reddit
A shelf of Encyclopedia.
Several-External-193@reddit
PLASTIC over the furniture
KoRaZee@reddit
The clicker
Ragtagswag@reddit
Curio cabinet overloaded with glass and porcelain figures
mistachen3000@reddit
Crokinole board under the couch
Adrasteia-One@reddit
The giant wood-paneled TV that also served as a furniture piece.
redoctoberz@reddit
Grandfather clock
MossGobbo@reddit
Ashtrays, and a tv set the size of your Uncle's torso.
wihbre80@reddit
My grandparents that died of emphysema.
GuerillaRiot@reddit
A picture of the "...that was when I carried you" footprints.
Tallowpot@reddit
Christmas
welldonecow@reddit
Franzia boxed wine
alwaus@reddit
Giant wooden console tv, magazines in a rack.
Wall phone, phone book, wall clock.
eyelinerqueen83@reddit
Full ashtray
Warring_Angel@reddit
Al Bundy with his hand in his pants.
TheChainBanger@reddit
A tin of cookies, but there's no cookies inside, only sewing supplies.
Miami_Mice2087@reddit
a 400 year old, 5 pound terrier
Suitable_Database467@reddit
The 2 feet of visibility through all the cigarette smoke
browneyedgirl1683@reddit
Photo albums.
dmanhardrock5@reddit
Plastic cover and a lap dog
lazylightning173@reddit
Simon
anythingspossible45@reddit
A tin of cookies that’s a sewing kit
TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit
Someone smoking
kimness1982@reddit
Cigarette smoke
lollette@reddit
Plastic wrap
the_D1CKENS@reddit
Ashtrays and a floor tv
Classic_Barnacle_844@reddit
One of those glass dome brass clocks with the spinning balls underneath.
Ambitious_Nomad1@reddit
Huge wood grain TV!
Stonetheflamincrows@reddit
Clouds and clouds of cigarette smoke
orangepaperlantern@reddit
Big heavy wooden console TV
TubaStallion@reddit
Multi-colored metal drinking cups.
treehugger00@reddit
those tv dinner tables that you can fold
sator-2D-rotas@reddit
Where is the afghan blanket somewhere. In scratchy nylon yarn, ugly colors, and made by someone the family knew.
smolstuffs@reddit
Swag lamp from the ceiling over the couch so you hit your head on it every time you stand up.
Nate8727@reddit
RCA console tv not shown on other wall
CAE80@reddit
Al Bundy.
Repulsive-Word-7104@reddit
Where is the telephone.
CSWorldChamp@reddit
Afghans. Earth-tone afghans.
stratusmonkey@reddit
Grandma and Grandpa
Author_Noelle_A@reddit
Beer cans and glass ashtrays.
western_style_hj@reddit
Grandfather clock
PupLondon@reddit
The constant stench of stale cigarette smoke and a thin yellow layer of nicotine on everything
ibanezer83@reddit
Bloody marys, cigarettes and ash trays.
And a console TV with an NES on the floor.
mickeltee@reddit
Definitely the ashtray packed to the gills.
boogerholes@reddit
Cookie tin with sewing supplies inside.
alirow13@reddit
The smell of cigarettes.
FahQBerrymuch@reddit
Plastic on the furniture.
whuaminow@reddit
A magazine rack full of old Time, News Week, People and TV Guide.
Megaloman-_-@reddit
My grandmother
Dense-Wing-4398@reddit
Plants hanging from the ceiling
Beginning-Respect208@reddit
Plastic on the couch
Ju-won@reddit
Plastic covers on everything, sliding door that stopped us from believing the room exists, ash tray and a tv where you physical had to get up and change the channel.
broadwayallday@reddit
leather bound (or pleather) photo albums on the bottom of that coffee table, a big metal Zenith remote
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
A hazy cloud of carcinogenic smoke.
Larztrue@reddit
Andy Griffith on the tv and me bored ASF
malaclypse@reddit
A working wooden case tv on top of a non working wooden case tv
Top_Interview9680@reddit
My entire family. My Mom, Dad, Gramma, etc.
eatdrinkdrink@reddit
A throw blanket knitted by my grandma
pburydoughgirl@reddit
That green plastic pitcher with the textured white lid
Euphoric-Proposal-42@reddit
Plastic in the furniture and the pungent smell of stale cigarette smoke
BRUISE_WILLIS@reddit
besides the obvious lack of plastic on the furniture:
- well used TV guide
- readers digest (might be in the bathroom)
- pier 1 dish with glass beads
- dusty silk plant in dark corner
- tube TV with bunny ears (likely off screen)
Background-Action-19@reddit
A glass bowl of candies that no one wants to eat.
Fydron@reddit
Ashtray and thick cigarette smoke.
tweedchemtrailblazer@reddit
Weird old drunk relative
Reference_account2@reddit
Plastic covers
suavaleesko@reddit
Plastic on them couches
twi_tch@reddit
haze of cigarette smoke and Coors cans
jacksonmills@reddit
A dusty, barely-ever used liquor cabinet with a fee half full bottles of aperitifs that reeks of cigarettes.
Abject-Twist-9260@reddit
Plastic covers
be_loved_freak@reddit
Wooden tv
Significant_Bag_2151@reddit
Plastic sofa “protectors”
akaenragedgoddess@reddit
The Bundy's.
Vanman04@reddit
A bar with a ridiculous amount of alcohol on it.
GaldonTheWarrior@reddit
This is clearly grandma's house. So plastic over the furniture
EmpireStrikes1st@reddit
A candy bowl full of mints and those strawberry candies
GSM_Biker@reddit
An ottoman that‘s 4 times as big as it needs to be in the same upholstery as the soft furniture.
RunAwayBeerTruk@reddit
Plastic covering the furniture
SpiritualUse121@reddit
Doilies.
Hossflex@reddit
A family album on the table.