In every 70s UK home ever

Plastic ruler that clips on to a milk bottle to tell you how much milk is left in the bottle. Because people apparently really needed to know how much milk was in a milk bottle to a far greater degree of accuracy than we do today.

T-shirts with iron-on transfers already cracked to semi-legibility
fun patches sewn on kids' clothes

a lot of corduroy

• ice bucket that is never used
• soda syphon that is used maybe once a year to appear fancy for certain guests
• ashtray that is always overflowing

• Pyrex plates etc. that are doomed to destruction as soon as a microwave is acquired sometime in the mid 80s.

• Goodies annual
• electronic 'Pong' game made by some company that usually manufacturer transistor radios

*50p slot gas meter that my dad used to put a strong magnet on to cheat it. I don't think I've seen any documentary evidence that this method actually worked.

Beatles' red album
Findus crispy pancakes
Look-In

not quite 70's but I think I had Look-In '81 annual with Buck Rogers and Metal Mickey on the cover.

- toby jugs, tankards, horse brasses or similar 18th cent tavern culture trinkets

did we say sideboards yet? if not, sideboards

These plates

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/253526227472_/Vintage-1970s-Kiln-Craft-Bacchus-25cm-Dinner-Plates.jpg

these mugs

https://1stopretroshop.com/item-photos/retro-soup-mugs-set-recipe-print-bowls-cup-handles-70s-vintage-1stopretroshop-k11267-4.jpg

stereos that lived in a cabinet that looked like a sideboard

- a chip pan

Those fake silk polyester scarves printed with Bay City Rollers/T. Rex/Leeds Utd./etc

if i wasn't so lazy i could audit how much of this stuff is still in my mom's house. not as much as there was 2 years ago tbf

Had those mugs mfktz

Did anyone else’s family radio have those little diamond shaped stickers on it so you could see where r1, r2 etc were?

yes

Had little plastic sliders on ours, though possibly not till the 80s when our fortunes recovered somewhat.

For me the essential 70s music experience was a Bush music centre on legs.

xxp yes

Had a brown formica 40's valve radio in our kitchen in the 70's. #shockoftheold

• Dried lunaria
• Leather pouf
• Egg timer

Presets though!

dish of pot-pourri in the toilet

capodimonte figurines

Milk crate on the front doorstep
Coffee table with incredibly sharp corners for small children to bash their heads open on when they fall over (I still have the scar from this one)
Pile of Reader's Digests on said table for guests to flick through

Cookbooks with an emphasis inside on dishes containing the word ‘Surprise’

a drunk driver.

Smokers who smoke when there are children in the room.

thats still a thing in many homes.
not specific to the 70s.
(well, in my family anyway)

Smokers who light up without asking if it's okay to do so first.

as i said ...

kitchen hatches
Radio Times
'C' batteries
a half used tin of Creamola Foam in the back of the cupboard

tea towels with traditional Welsh/Scots recipes on
Mousetrap with bits missing
dimple pint glasses

Unread James Clavell novels.

Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts book.

http://www.greatwhatsit.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/jack%201.jpg
can remember reading about spring-heeled jack, the Reichstag fire and the disappearance (probable murder by the KGB) of Lionel "Buster" Crabb. Intriguing stuff when you are a little kid and there are only 3 tv channels!

• Book club editions of books that have never been read
• Buckaroo that either won't kick or kicks so much it's unplayable

Packets of Angel Delight
Casdon Soccer
Fab 208 annual
Clackers

Winfield (Woolworths) own brand products

Were the green lady paintings '70s or '60s?

John Noakes: "This could happen to your clackers!" *explosion*

xp late 50s early 60s but very common in the 70s

xxp including Winfield branded lightbulbs

Butterick sewing patterns
Kays catalougues
Rented furniture and TV sets

TV repairmen

See also: renting your TV.

... I just said that!

I don't remember the 70s (I was only alive for 3 and a bit years of it) but pretty much everything in this thread also fits in my experience of 80s UK homes. this may be because I grew up in a place that time forgot

Kays catalogue was based in Worcester, my mum and my granny both worked there at some point in the 70s/80s

xp The argument for renting being that if your telly broke and it was rented, they'd swap it out for another one. If you'd bought outright it you'd save money in the long run but only if it never broke down. My parents had bought ours and one time the repair person was there for over an hour to fix a problem with the power button. Cost a fortune.

though the majority of items posted otherwise seem quite different

xxp neither - electronic items got more reliable. The proprietary unfixableness came later.

Also it doesn't make sense to pay someone to come over and fix a 28" TV that cost £150.

Sven Hassel paperbacks.

Don't remember him but on the paperback fiction front I'd offer Dick Francis, Alistair Maclean, Agatha Christie, James Herriot and John Fowles.

Tom Sharpe. Guinness Book of Records. Pears Cyclopedia.

A corn dolly.

At least two packs of playing cards.

Louvre doors.
A loft hatch.

A heartache.

cork floor tiles
rush mats
woodchip on the walls

Pears Cyclopedia.

haha holy shit was just thinking about this the other day

African ornaments

Yukka plants

Rodney Matthews and Roger Dean books
ashtrays stolen from local pub

'things' generally stolen from the local pub

African ornaments

Specifically, that strange hand drum thing that featured in the Karate Kid part 2

(it might not be African)

Eddie, asleep on the couch from last nights party

Okay I'll stop projecting now

I made a reference to clackers at work recently and a colleague who is in their late 20s knew exactly what I was talking about because there was a clacker revival in the late 00s.