Same here too - parents eventually bought one from Curry's in the late eighties. We had a Goodman's system before this so it was a decent upgrade in quality! I dare say I could probably find the Goodman's one in the Argos catalogue.
Argos - book of dreams.
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Same here too - parents eventually bought one from Curry's in the late eighties. We had a Goodman's system before this so it was a decent upgrade in quality! I dare say I could probably find the Goodman's one in the Argos catalogue.
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Mid 70’s crockery, MY EYES! MY EYES!
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My grandad was given an engraved one as a retirement present when he retired from being a milkman.
I can spot most of my Nan and grandads flats contents in old Argos catalogues, even the mock log effect electric fire.
Was that from the company he worked for or from all the kids he sired whilst the husbands were at work?
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He wouldn’t have got up to anything like that. My Nan would have bashed his head in with one of her Argos ornaments.
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N64 games for £55! Damn, with inflation that would be nearly £100.
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It is crazy how seeing those covers instantly brings back memories. I can remember begging my parents for the Menacer gun for the mega drive and looking at that page in the 1993 book brought it all flossing back. Amazing how one little thing can trigger a distant memory.
Firing tomatoes at Toejam and Earl!
I found mine, boxed in the loft when my parents sold their house. Was worth less than i'd hoped
Amazing! I was a sad child but something brought me joy searching through the pages. Typically i'd start from the back as that's where the cool stuff was but there was something magical about browsing through an Argos mag. Bought many of my first things from there. My first Alba CD Walkman with Anti-Skip which definitely didn't stop skipping. Then a few years later I got my first Minidisc player from there but it was one of the ones you could connect to your computer and rewrite the minidisc (poor format never stood a chance) and then my first 512Mb MP3 player.
Tend not to use them much these days but during the 90s and even early 00s they were ace.
Tend not to use them much these days but during the 90s and even early 00s they were ace.
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Don’t feel too bad, I spent a silly amount on a top of line Sony Discman in the late 1980s and it skipped like a kangaroo on speed if you even thought about moving it.
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Yes, that was a proper book of dreams. To think, grown women actually bought and wore those outfits!
Then, you grow up & get married and it's Next fluffy thick cotton 2 piece pyjamas.
It triggered me to repeat my search for some replacement china pieces from our dinnerset - but again to little avail.
This stuff:
https://www.microwavecookingforone.com/RoyalDoulton/RoyalDoultonSummerBreeze.html
It's so infuriatingly hard to find.
This stuff:
https://www.microwavecookingforone.com/RoyalDoulton/RoyalDoultonSummerBreeze.html
It's so infuriatingly hard to find.
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The prices are so expensive, how did people afford anything back in those days. £140 quid for a Hitachi trk 3d88 GHETTOBLASTER WITH super woofer. Would be around £300 nowadays.
Items were expensive but the cost of living was so bloody cheap. Now it is the other way around!
Examples of cheap cost of living?
10p Freddos