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What sort of home did you have growing up

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

When you were growing up, was your house a bit grim with an outside loo

Looking back to when i was little the sardine house’s,with outside loos, it is still something I look back at fondly. Modern times are great, but the simpler times were also a lot of fun. Our telephone was in a red box 6 streets away, tv had 3 channels, there was no way of listening to our favourite songs on demand, we just waited for the radio to play them. And if we were arranging to meet friends, we'd do it in person, not via txt or email.

I'm not bashing modern times, I love the convenience of it all I'm typing this on my laptop, but the simplicity was also good. No ready meals, it was whatever mom put on the table, and you'd be glad for it.

A tin bath in front of the coal fire

Going to the outside lav next to coalhouse on an ice cold night.

Ice on the inside of windows on cold mornings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had the luxury of an indoor loo and bathroom, but no running hot water. Immersion heater had to be used (very infrequent as expensive). Ice on inside of windows was an everyday occurance in the winter, had to scrape it to see what weather was like outside.

I love the film The Boat that Rocked, as I remember fondly listening to all the pirate radio stations as a teenager, anything was better than the crackly Radio Luxemberg which was the only station that played half decent music at the time.

But have to agree, look back very fondly to those days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes! I remember we had an outside loo down by the stables, near the lake.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was raised by wolves and monkies in the woods...the whole world was my loo!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

No central heating, coal fire, no such thing as fitted carpets. Bath night sunday night.

However, when i got married in 1990 i lived in a house that had an outside toilet. It was a terraced house and the landlord had only just recently bought it, it had central heating and everything but the toilet was outside. We always used my grandmas outside toilet rather than going upstairs and they still used it up until my grandad died which was about 12 years ago..

Oh the kids of today dont know they are born.

I didnt even have a phone conected when i moved into this house 17 years ago as i couldnt afford one.

Think ive told the story before about my grandparents being first in the village to have a television as my grandad worked for the main farm and theres got the side smoked damaged so gave it to my grandad. All the kids in the village would go round my mums after sunday school to watch lone ranger

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

We had an inside loo, lino, ice on the windows and I was 11 the first time I tried spaghetti bolognaise. It was just normal to us we just, same as mobiles, central heating and lap tops are normal to our kids

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grew up in a big cold pub. to a five year old it was the worlds biggest playground

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

A large house with central heating. It was, however, a cold and grim place to grow up in.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

bungalow

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Indoor bathroom and later a downstairs looking and shower, bigish garden, detached house - but cheapish area. It was a brand new build so we were the first to live there.

We had central heating but many of the radiators were never on - bedrooms and dining room were always cold. Open fire in the living room.

We always had a tv but the phone arrived when i was 8 and was in the hall - two tone green supplied by bt.

The street was a dead end and full of families so we played out constantly and had to rotate whose house we went to for drinks (and if you were really lucky snacks). There were (still are) open fields at the end of the street so we ran free when we could making swings and dens and eval kineval ramps.

Mum didn't work when we were little and everything was home cooked, often including bread. I was jealous when i went to friends for tea and had fish fingers and chips and vienetta and they wanted to live off my mums home cooked meat and four veg and home made puddings and custard.

Oh, and it was and still is a cricket and wi village - i may never understand cricket but i can bake almost anything , jam or preserve the rest and if need be sew or make something artistic from found objects. And i can blow eggs.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Hey bitch librarian, you can blow me

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield


"Hey bitch librarian, you can blow me "

Well first i take a sharpened darning needle and insert at the end, swirling it around to scramble the insides...

Want me to carry on?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Hey bitch librarian, you can blow me

Well first i take a sharpened darning needle and insert at the end, swirling it around to scramble the insides...

Want me to carry on? "

Actually, I've changed my mind.....

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Hey bitch librarian, you can blow me

Well first i take a sharpened darning needle and insert at the end, swirling it around to scramble the insides...

Want me to carry on? "

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield


"Hey bitch librarian, you can blow me

Well first i take a sharpened darning needle and insert at the end, swirling it around to scramble the insides...

Want me to carry on? "

Im not phased by dead poultry hanging in the garage either. In fact i was always quite pleased when it was a goose cos they're nasty little f*ckers!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My parents bought our 3 bed in London in the early 80s for £15k, it was basically a hole, little by little they did it up, knocked through, sometimes us all living in 2 rooms. They decided to move out of London in 2007 and sold it for £450k

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A standard 3 bed semi, central heating and inside plumbing.

We always had a TV and as phone ( in the hall way, with a little phone table to sit at while you spoke on it lol), but when i was VERY young i remember the video player that had a remote controll that was attached to the machine by a wire!! lol.

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By *hole Lotta RosieWoman
over a year ago

Deviant City

I grew up in the 80's. We lived in a 2 bed terraced, myself and 4 sisters in one room, my brother in parents room and 2 brothers slept in the lounge.

We had no central heating, had an immertian heater, which was rarely on.

Bath nights was on a Sunday, remember shivering on winter mornings when having a full wash at the bathroom sink. Dad used to threaten us with 'bog brush & bleach' if we didn't wash or brush our teeth properly!

As there were so many of us, we would use the outside loo with newspaper to wipe ourselves!

We had a 50p electric meter, that was always my job, to go to the shop to change £1 coins for 50p's!

My dad had his own business and we were quite well off, just cramped in this ridiculously small house!!!!

Loved playing out, we were never in.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up in a 2 up 2 down pit house, it had one fire to heat the whole house and water, it was fooking freezing in the winter

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield


"A standard 3 bed semi, central heating and inside plumbing.

We always had a TV and as phone ( in the hall way, with a little phone table to sit at while you spoke on it lol), but when i was VERY young i remember the video player that had a remote controll that was attached to the machine by a wire!! lol. "

Our first video (betamax, inherited from trendy younger relatives when they upgraded) didn't have a remote!

Just huge sprung buttons you had to press down about an inch.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

We used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of our street

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By *amschwingerzCouple
over a year ago

West

Interesting thread..

I grew up in a two up two down, shared with another family, unthinkable now but thats how it was back then..very poor area, lots of very hard and robust people..and a few villains, but they were 'good' villains.

No bathroom, tin bath job, outside toilet, which were shared.

But it was no big deal, Im very proud of my roots, its what forms the foundation of who and what you become and the way you lead you life.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

We lived in an attic bedsit, my sister and I in one bed, my parents in another. A curtain separating the room in half so that we had a living/dining space. The shared bathroom was two floors down and had mushrooms growing in it. I had to be really desperate to go to the toilet.

When it was condemned we lived in hostel accommodation before being given a two-bed flat on the 18th floor of a tower block. We thought it was luxury, even if the lifts were broken and we had to carry the shopping up 18 floors, the laundry down 18 floors to take it to the launderette. Bonfire night we could see the fireworks across London.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Even though I was born in '88, the kids I know now are always shocked by my upbringing. Didn't have a car until I was about 11, don't remember having a housephone until I was about 8, dial up internet that was limited to 2 hours or less if my mum wanted to call someone. Didn't have a mobile until I was 13.

Our house is a fairly big terrace, not in the posh bit of town but it's not the scummy bit either. Kids played on the street but never went round the corner out of site. My mum would take all the kids in the street on day trips to the seaside on the train and EVERYONE behaved! When I wanted to go to the park my mum took me, and I actually had a friend who said to my mum one day "I wish my mum cared enough to take me to the park" as she was always sent alone from a young age.

My mum worked in a charity shop so most of my clothes were second hand. When she went to uni, she basically starved herself to feed me and pay for things.

I know I've totally gone off the house topic but my upbringing has given me the best view on life I think. I truly understand the value of money. If I want something, I'll save for it. I'm happy I've got a roof over my head but will always put a jumper on before relying on the heating!

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

Brought up in village 3 bedroom coucil house had to share room with two brothers sister got one to herself black and white tv no car for some of the time coal fire shared bath water

hand me down clothes dad holding down two jobs dinner was usually something he had shot or fish from the sea

bit different to what my daughter now enjoys but it didnt do me any harm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two flats knocked into one, over looking a cricket club, a stadium, and the Happy Valley race course.

3 bedrooms, a study, lounge, dinning room, a games room that is also a small dinning room, a room dedicated to worshipping, utility room, and a kitchen, with 2 bathrooms.

My dad did not like the hot and humid weather, so he had air-con installed throughout the house.

We were comfortable.

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By *oulou45Woman
over a year ago

Bucks


"We lived in an attic bedsit, my sister and I in one bed, my parents in another. A curtain separating the room in half so that we had a living/dining space. The shared bathroom was two floors down and had mushrooms growing in it. I had to be really desperate to go to the toilet.

When it was condemned we lived in hostel accommodation before being given a two-bed flat on the 18th floor of a tower block. We thought it was luxury, even if the lifts were broken and we had to carry the shopping up 18 floors, the laundry down 18 floors to take it to the launderette. Bonfire night we could see the fireworks across London."
sounds like Trellick Towers lol

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By *oulou45Woman
over a year ago

Bucks

We lived in an old block of flats in London , then moved to a brand new tower block After that we moved out of London to a New 5 bedroomed town house. It was on an estate and most were ex-londoners. We used to collect the old fruit from the shops in the evening had have big fruit fights. Those were the days lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never realised how lucky I was, homewise, until after I left school and started work as all the kids I grew with had the same or similar to me: mod 3 bed semi, central heating, hot water, bathroom - AND separate loo!

The first time someone the same age as me told me that, for the first 11 years of their life, they had to share a tin bath on the kitchen floor once a week just to have a bath, I was dumb-struck! And then I was even more dumb-struck when they said that they thought they'd hit the big time when her Dad got a better job with more money and they could afford to have a bath TWICE a week...

Put me moaning that my sister had used all the hot water, and I had to wait an hour to have a shower, into perspective...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same one I got now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having only really moved to UK in the late 1980's on a permanent basis I was always astonished that a 1st world country still had 3rd world housing. Where I was born, outside loos would have lead to death as it went down to -40 in winter! Double glazing even

In the 60's and 70's was commonplace as was central heating.

Grew up all over the world mostly hot places and lived in places that were palatial but had no tv,phone of running water during the summer. Many of the places we lived had shortages of all variety of things, toilet roll, milk, bread and water being most common.

Other places were less palatial but were very luxurious. Shared a room with my brother most of the time but overwhelmingly happy.

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