Is there anything you remember you parents doing chores you no longer do?

You have a better memory than me, I will remove the topic, it's coming up to people's birthday so I am thinking about them more

beccatavender Your memory is perhaps better than you think it is - you used exactly the same wording (for topic)

It is now apparently OK to repeat a topic if there has been no action on a previous one for three months. So no harm done

It's surprising how smell can trigger a memory, my Mother in Law used to use Dove, I can't smell it without thinking of her, and even though she has been gone for 10+ years it still upsets me.

I remember the Sunday night bath, then then watching TV together as a family, we only had a coal fire, so the living room was the only room with heating. Hot water bottles as the bedrooms were so cold

pato the sink bath what a memory that is I remember my nephew getting one and he stood up and pee all over the place

beccatavender The coal fire was the business, I do miss that, we were toffs back then, hot water bottles and a couple of jackets on the bed, like the Billy Connolly joke.

Mick82 The sink bath was one thing, the problem was all your mates were still out playing and you were looking out the window while your maw washing you try doing that these days and you'd have social work at the door.

pato crazy to think how mollycoddled kids are nowadays we didn’t know about embarrassment back then everyone seemed to be in the same boat

I loved the coal fire, but my Mum was always worried that we would get too close, and our nightie , flanelett for warmth, would catch fire or we would get chilblains pato

Mick82 Mollycoddled to the extreme, most of them have never heard of things like hand me doons, yesterday's soup, burning old shoes in the fire or getting your leg stuck down the sleeve of the eiderdown, they don't know how lucky the are, and that's just my generation, the generation before them were sh!tting in a cupboard in a close

beccatavender My mother always had the coal fire on, we used to have a massive fire guard on ours when we were younger, but when we got a bit older she took it away and replaced it with a smaller one, we would sit one on either side of the hearth and watch the telly, that was once my mothers pal had left, she was in our house every day and she always hogged the fire with her ass almost on the flames.

pato I used to burn my socks laying on the floor with my feet up on the fireplace

Mick82 That's another thing they've never went without, if it was those nylon things that gave you a shock walking across the nylon carpets, you done yourself a favour

Yep.that one for me as well.

The last time I saw anyone washing outside their front door, the were using zan izal, I think she might've been nose blind

My mum had the ironing board up every Sunday while Stars on Sunday was on with Jess Yates.

MelissaLee1963 my mum always ironed on Sunday. I do little bits throughout week

Funny,my Mum used to iron on a Sunday and when I had to iron school uniforms and my husband's shirts, before he retired, I followed suit, both my sisters iron on a Sunday @Imnotcheap

beccatavender I'm ironing now trying unsuccessfully to not wait for messages

Someone in my sons class has covid if he been in close contact NHS will message me but I have no idea how long that would take. They might have made all appropriate messages by now or not

Fingers cross you don't have to isolate, my sister who lives in Wales says Covid is rife in her daughter's class, about half the class we have been effected Imnotcheap

beccatavender no news so