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Me and my cousin had matching ones. They cost TWELVE POUNDS EACH in 1991!! They were rainbow stripes. Magnificent.

Yes. I have a group of girlfriends from grade school. We are in touch most days. I love them

Absolutely not but I thought I’d get slated if I said I would chuck it in the bin immediately without a second thought.

They go immediately to a charity shop.

Learnt the atlas. Literally. We would drive from London to Rome, cross crossing Europe as we went - so we learned all the routes. The direct ones, where we put the car on the train straight off the ferry to Calais and work up in the south of France… and the indirect where we went via Belgium, France, Andorra, Luxembourg, Spain. We would play I-spy, read until we get we would throw up, nap, do colouring, sticker books if we had the money (we rarely did). My parents were so adventurous. I was very lucky.

My vet replaced my cat by accident. We checked the cat into the vet for a health check prior to moving 8hrs away. Picked cat up from vets en route to our new home. I was 8yrs old. I immediately tell my parents that this is not my cat. Yes, it’s a white cat but it’s not MY cat. I am ignored as it’s a busy day, it’s the eighties SO obvs some people we are saying goodbye to for the last time (harder to keep in touch pre internet). We dive for 8hrs. During this drive I explain to my parents that this cat is not pure white. Looks old. Doesn’t sound like my car and doesn’t look like my cat. Again, I am dismissed. We arrive at new house and unload the trucks. My parents open the car basket and see the cat. ‘That’s not our cat’. My dad has to call directory enquiries (uk) to get vets phone number. Vet is OVERJOYED as he realised his mistake after some 30 mins. My dad has to drive 90 mins that night to a train station where the cat exchange takes place. It’s 3hrs each way. The vet hands my dad £120 for his trouble.

I feel like this is a suggestion we read a lot and I just wanted to share my experience. I am 45, (UK) similar situation (husband been job hunting for 13mth now) & we recently reached out to our lender (HSBC) for a mortgage ‘holiday’. We were offered 3-4mth break in payments & upon reading the small print this would have almost DOUBLED what we owe (£86k). I wish I’d photographed it to share it. We were stunned. We have never defaulted on a loan and have excellent credit score.

My parents didn’t allow gaming and we didn’t get a TV until 1994. I once played a few minutes of Goldeneye on my brothers N64 once we were a bit older. It was just okay.

Cars are just more aerodynamic I general these days. Those upright windscreens are vanishingly rare in a commercial family car. No big mystery.

When my grandad died, we all got to choose a little something. I took some of his old baccy tins (golden Virginia) and they all have different things in. My fave are the incandescent Christmas tree bulbs.

Blockbuster. I can still smell it.

Oh we had that. Did no harm.

Core memory unlocked right there

My early childhood was spent in one of the most affluent suburbs of London - in a 4 storey grace and favour house that came with a gardener, driver etc. All perks of my dad’s job. My father worked for the government in a non-glamorous niche area. By the end of the Eighties we were living rurally in the north of England, with almost no disposable income after the economic crash. Things were very, very difficult and I would say financially things didn’t really ever recover for my parents until the early 2000’s. So from the age of 8 we lived with food insecurity etc. It was very difficult. In retrospect, it marred my childhood - to go from one extreme to the other. I look back on those very early years and honestly if my parents didn’t also remember what a golden time it was, I’d think I dreamed it.

My US high school did. You got a Saturday after 10 tardys or 3 actual detentions after school. Brutal!!

I’m 45 (F) and hitchhiked a lot in my late teens/early twenties.

2003

1980 and totally Gen X. Sometimes I think Xennial but if I had to pick it’s an easy C

Agreed. Did we grow up in the good old days and just not know it was the good old days?