Things you remember that make you feel about 100

Credit cards being processed using carbon paper, in a machine which had a bit that slid backwards and forwards. (No idea how best to describe it)

Smoking on the Tube (or more specifically, I remember it being banned. I never travelled on the tube while it was allowed)

Milk being delivered to the front door - and birds stealing the cream off the top

Having milk at school breaktime

And it was always warm!

I'm obviously younger than quite a few of you as I can't remember a lot of these things.

Is it just me or do you not really see window cleaners much these days?

A Zip Zap machine. We still have those at the bank in case of systems failure. I've had to use one a few times. It makes me feel like I'm back in the 80s!

'Taping' songs from the charts every sunday. I remember sitting next to the tape recorder trying to hit pause before the DJ started talking.

I remember there only being 3 channels and the test card as the channels shut down overnight.

Plastic seats in cars that were freezing in winter and burning hot in summer. If you had bare legs, it felt like half your skin was left behind when you got up.....not to mention the noise.

Shops where the stock was in drawers being a counter. You asked for say a white blouse in a size and the appropriate box would be fetched.

Those stripy plastic buggies from the 70s - green and white normally.

I also remember my Dad getting one of the first hole in the wall cash cards

Humphrey - the stripy straw character from the Unigate milkman

Spangles - the sweets, not the newsreader

Rag and bone man

smoking in the pictures (and an organ rising up from the stage during the interval!!)

wizard of Oz on xmas day-every year for about 10 years

Oh yes, the rag and bone man. I'd forgotten that. Ours used a horse and cart. You'd be playing outside in the garden on a warm summers day and you'd hear the cry of "Raaaaaabooooooooone".

Black & white TV & Using a coat hanger as an arial

Not having central heating – just a real fire in the living room.

Not having an indoor toilet – I was born in 1972, so not that old, but after my mum & dad split up we went into a council house, they had not been modernised then, so the toilet was outside the backdoor. This was around 1979!

Not having a telephone at home

Paying bills in cash at the electric shop – i.e Norweb

No free banking – you paid for every cheque you used

A family with 2 cars was v posh & v rich where I lived!

Going on holiday in the back of my step - dads work van (he was a builder) 6 kids (step brothers & sisters) all sat in the back on blankets & cushions, no seatbelts as no seats for them!

Oh and when being in debt - other than your mortgage was not the norm - but almost frowned upon.

And if you weren't married, you were "living in sin"........

When I started in wedding photography I photographed many 16 year old brides.......these days the average is around 30.

Live Aid ?

Where my in-laws live they still have a rag and bone man doing the rounds every so often.

We were visiting them once when I heard a handbell ringing, they told me it was the rag and bone man coming along the street, I got all excited as I'd never seen one (my mum had told me stories of how the RAB man used to give out balloons or goldfish and you could pet his horse). I was most disappointed to see him driving along in a white Transit van with his arm out the window ringing the bell.

One thing that sticks in my mind from my childhood is Radio Rentals, going in there on a Friday to pay the rent for the TV. As we got more technologically advanced we rented a VHS recorder too. I remember being so excited when we got offered an upgraded TV, with teletext!

We had a telly that was so old you had to tune it to 405 or 625 lines when you changed channel! Or maybe it's just because I am so old....black and white telly and pre-school childrens programme on at lunchtime with about 3 more children's programmes before the 6 o'clock news.

And those little horrid bottles of milk at school. Yuck!

And old money...and having to do trigonometry with a log table or slide rule, no calculators!

Ah, those were the days! I really do feel about 100 now!

I remember when the Sainsburys in Kenton moved to where it is now. My gran used to live there and it was a moment of much excitement. I also remember visiting an open air swimming pool there somewhere when I was about 11.

Three channels on the tv, no telly during the day except schools programmes and Pebble Mill at One.

I also remember the many many power cuts we had in the 70s and my dad saving the sugar that he got at work with his tea (from the tea trolley which was brought around by a tea lady no less!) so that we had it at home because of sugar shortages (or maybe it was just expensive?).

Nothing open on Sundays. Radio One stopping broadcasting in the evenings. And trying to tune in a radio and the signal would disappear in the evenings.

I remember we had 4 adults, 3 children and a dog in a Citroen Visa when I was little. Us 3 kids were in the boot with the dog!

Did anyone used to tape the top 20 on a sunday? I used to pause it to cut out Alan Freeman and never managed to switch it back on in time..

These are fabulous, had forgotten half these things. I'm only 33, but had no idea how much has changed since I was a child!

Following the Rag & Bone man, does anyone else get a scrap metal man these days doing the rounds? H is friends with a few - £100 a ton just before Xmas, £100 a ton!

When Radio 1 was still the official home of the UK's number 1 - now there seems to be one Top 40 for each radio station and cable channel

What about petrol tokens (do they still exist ?) that you collected to get all sorts of bits and pieces - and green shield/co-op stamps ?

The Dartford Tunnel - before the bridge was built.

I used to get the bus to Thurrock every Saturday with my mate Carly and we'd go through the Dartford Tunnel. We'd be on the lookout for an Essex Boy boyfriend...Oh the fun we used to have ?

We used to have a regular bloke who came round with a handcart until last March when we moved from London!

I remember having three TV channels, I remember no remote control and no VCR (until I was 13!). Hell, I remember black and white TV. And the launch of Channel 4 and breakfast tv.

Even worse, I remember Listen with Mother on R4 ?

I remember working in a shop with old fashioned tills where you had to work the amount of change back yourself rather than having it flashed up onsecreen (and I still think it's better, reduces the chance of miscounting change). The same shop had only a few items that weren't behind a counter, everything over about a £1 the customer had to ask to see - such a low rate of shoplifting and fab customer service. We used to wrap up the goods using paper taken from a big roll and tie them up with string and only gave out carrier bags if the customer really whinged. We had to take credit card imprints and i used to hold my breath every time in case the card shifted and I broke it in two ?

Anyone else remember Rumbletum bowls from Kellogs that you bought through the milkman? Or getting a Swapshop scarf from the milkman? Or the Cream Boy?

SOmeone shoot the old zebra in the corner!

I remember trying to tape tunes from the Top 40 on a Sunday evening which was on when we were having our tea. In the background, you could hear the clink of knives and forks as we ate our spaghetti hoops on toast

Didn't the Top 40 come out at something like quarter to one on a Thursday when they played the new top 5? I remember my friends and I huddled round a portable radio hoping the teacher would be late for lessons so we'd know the new number one

The summer holiday morning TV programmes - White Horses/Robinson Crusoe/Belle and Sebastian, Herge's Adventures of Tin Tin

The 5 minute children's programmes at twenty to six - Captain Pugwash, The Clangers, The Magic Roundabout

I remember the Schools stuff on the BBC - Come and Praise as a radio programme and another music one, which had different themes each term. Hosted by Giles somebody, I think. (I also remember going up to London for a Come and Praise event with lots of schools together)

Julz - we still have a local butcher that sells sugar mice with string tails. Sadly, only at Christmas

The days when a single computer took up an entire room ....

When crisp packets came with bags of salt

Brownie box cameras (my mum had one)

Mobile phones the size of bricks

Sit-up-and-beg typewriters, carbon paper, stencils and bright pink correction fluid

Hot metal (ie used in the printing industyr)

Having a street party for the queen`s silver jubilee in 1977, and another street party for charles and Di`s wedding. I remember prince william being born like it was yesterday too and now he`s bald-how depressing!!

Oh yes, and writing to Jim`ll fix it every week, asking him to fix it for me to meet Abba!

I remember the corner shop where I'd go with a list from my mum and you asked the shopkeeper for each individual item, there was absolutely nothing that was self-service. I worked there from when I was 12 and was still working there when the new owners changed it to a sort of mini mart- the end of an era!!

I remember sixpences- when I was counting out my pennies I had to always pair them with a 1/2 to "round them up" as they were worth 2 1/2p.

Do you remember when remote controls first came out and they were attached to the telly with a wire?! I also remember an early one we had that worked by an inaudible sound- you could switch the telly over by dropping a coin in the glass ashtray as it must have replicated that sound.

My stepson thinks I'm old because there was no such thing as "trick or treat" when I was a kid.

Ooh, can someone clarify this one for me too?

Whenever there are programmes about toys from the 70s they always mention Barbie. Now I don't remember ever hearing about Barbie when I was a child. There was Sindy (which I had) and Pippa but I didn't know about Barbie until much later when I was in my mid or late teens. None of my friends had Barbies but we all had Sindys.

Following on from the (horrible warm) milk at school - the paper straws we had to drink the stuff though. Mine always went soggy & fell apart before I could finish my milk

I remember the M25 officially 'opening'

Ordering fizzy pop (usually cherry or lime flavour) from the milkman at Christmas for a treat.

I used to think my Walkman was state of the art as well - it could reverse the cassette at a flick of a switch!

I had a Sindy and a Barbie, this was early 80s though if that helps...

Goint to the corner shop (just like the one in open all hours) Buying cooked meat (spam, chopped ham etc) by the quarter, sliced there and then by an evil looking slicer, wrapped in crispy clear sellphane and then foldes in a paper bag. Cheese (the same, choice of cheddar, or cheddar!) cut with the metal wire cutter) Then, whatever you'd bought was totted up using a biro on one of the bags that the food was wrapped in!

Grandstand games. No PC's for a while. And when they did come in did anyone else spend hours proudly "creating" a programme to make your name appear on the screen or a smily face using BASIC?

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Black and white portable tvs. You switched them off and the picture disappeared into a dot in the centre of the screen, but took ages to disappear!

3 channels, no videos. Then when videos did come in, they cost a fortune to rent. You had either phillips or betamax. When remote controls came in they had a lead to the video that everyone tripped over?

Buying food from more than one shop. Fruit and veg from the greengrocers etc. And, the choice was so much less, but, in alot of ways less complicated. Red or green apples (not like choosing from a menu!) Icecream was vanilla, strawberry or chocloate (Or all 3, neoplolitan if you were lucky) oh, and raspberry ripple!)

Days before microwaves (when we had beans/fried egg/spaghetti hoops on toast instead of micro meals) Then taken over in preference of Breville toasties.

The only curries in the shops were vesta? Who had pizza? Pasta was in tins, normally hooped.

Watching the first ever Grange Hill.

Coronation street was the only night time soap. Emmerdale was still a farm and on whilst we were at school, Aussie soaps had yet to conqure Britan (although i still remember the arrival of Sons and Daughters and Young Doctors) and Eastenders and Brookside (RIP) were far from being "born"

Comics and kids mags.....Twinkle, Mandie, Judy, Misty, Whizzer and Chips, Topper, Beezer, Jackie, My Guy, Look In, Smash Hits.

Being affraid of the police, even when you'd done nothing wrong

Cassettes getting wound into the cassette player.

How many other people had a (computer) turtle at school - that you could programme to draw picures on a bit of paper ?

ETA: And singles going into the charts and climbing up to number 1. None of this 'in at number one' business.