In every 70s UK home ever

• television set made in the UK
• only three TV channels
• trimphone
• Mastermind

• cassettes of Des O'Connor
• box of candles underneath kitchen sink

• Vesta curry
• phone book and Yellow Pages that are as thick as a telephone directory oh wait...

• stainless steel floor standing lamp (if my parents had kept this it might be worth a bit now)

* interior decor featuring a lot of brown

• vinyl wallpaper in the bathroom that looks like tiles

(that require sticking down at the edges every six months for the next 15 years)

A bowl of polished stones

Avocado green bathroom suite.

* electrically unsafe and potentially lethal white goods (we had a twin tub washing machine where the whole body would become intermittently live)

Still had a b+w valve television with 4 channel buttons (going up to ITV2) right up to the late 80's!

Box of Quality Street chocolates brought out only when guests arrived
45 rpm of Royal Scots Dragoon Guard’s “Amazing Grace”
Souvenir teacup from some royal wedding, probably Princess Anne
Subbuteo

televisions broadcasting images of child abusers masquerading as light entertainment presenters

A cactus

Wade Whimsies

- accumulation of pg tips cards / greenshield stamps / cigarette tokens at the back of a kitchen drawer

- at least one doily lurking somewhere in the house, possibly under a fruit bowl or bedside lamp

- ashtrays

- racist marmalade (in the cupboard not the fridge)

this all just sounds like my dad's house in the 2010s

Candles and a torch to find the matches.

Lurking Doily is my new band name

Graham Kerr 'The Galloping Gourmet' cookbook.

Kenwood Chef

knock-off 'Tupperware'

racist marmalade

Racist keyrings obtained by sending off tokens from jars of racist marmalade.

xxp see also recipe cards

those plastic rolodex-type holders for recipe cards collected from a magazine partwork, yep

magazine partworks
space hopper in garden

swingball

sodastream
pop bottles with a deposit

Giles cartoon book

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

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.

Saccharine tablets for when the Tate & Lyle runs out

TV's were prone to break down a lot, in fact electrical goods in general were pretty ropey. Which brings me to the fact that I don't think I've changed a fuse in decades, I don't know if that's down to the electricity supply being more stable or what.

In the era of RCBOs your breaker will trip out on the slightest imbalance on a circuit or fault current. In the old days people used to put tack nails in those cartridge fuses!

If they didn't have any fuse wire those good old bs 3036 fuses would still work with a nail!

artworks made from coloured thread looped round pins on a board covered with black velvet. there was probably a name for it. also vintage cars etc made from clock parts.

Thelwell cartoons.

Spirograph set

Willow pattern plates.
As I was reminded when taken for a curry last week and that was the Delph being used.

Was the reliance on repairmen for electrical goods prior to the proprietary nature of later electronic goods or part of the same process.

Spirograph set

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.