Argos = love

They do not = love.

I quite like Argos, really. When they got the computerised queuing system with the TV screens in I new we were entering a brave new world. Of course the last thing I bought from them (headphones) fell apart after a week, but that's my fault for not buying the cheapest (= sturdiest) headphones they have as usual.

They also do those ACE adverts with loads of bright colours and OK, so it's the Quo but the adverts ACE.

Argos sells clothes now. If they start selling food as well then I'M NEVER SHOPPING ANYWHERE ELSE.

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. (rifle past Action Man pages) Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Pass catalogue to mother. No need to write to Santa. Hey presto!

a man after my own heart. i have never succeeded either though :(
i never buy anything, just be a nuisance and play with them things.

Even in the kitchen afterwards, I had no remorse. My attitude was, fuck it. What goes around comes around. It got his just rewards. It fucked me over and my attitude is an eye for an eye

OK boys & girls, it's the laminated book of dreams from your childhood:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619206330728/with/3593461754/

OMFG

chillwave cover art needed this discovery

To work out the prices today taking into account inflation, multiply the price by 2.3

p225 - ZX Spectrum was £119, how on earth did we have one?
xp cheers!

Today's Argos: Xbox with Kinect + game = £250, so cheaper in real terms...

Casio keyboards: back then - starting at £70, now - £5 at a car boot sale / £70 on eBay (circuit bending hipster dollar at work)

i remember looking at my nes games and seeing that some of them were £49.99, and we were fairly poor.

They still sell those faux art deco table lamps.

i think some SNES games were up to £60, i think my mum musta been running a crack den out of that little cupboard in the kitchen no one ever went in to.

Surprised that you could still buy those sun ray wall clocks new in 1985. There's not a lot in this catalogue is there? Not surprisingly, the electronics section is very empty compared to today.

The 1976 catalogue looks really utilitarian. It's amazing how much stuff we're surrounded by now. Also I remember the black cover of the 1986 catalogue - remember thinking back then that it was very swanky!

1985/1986 is really when they went from 'crummy little catalogue store' to 'crummy big catalogue store', right?

yeah just thinking that - there are loads more toys and toy brands in the 1986 one.

It's the year they started selling Yamaha keyboards alongside Casio, including the mighty SK-1 - only £99.00! wait WTF?!

Matt through. Fuck...

YES YES YESY YESY EYESY YESY ESY YYESY YESYY YES!!!!
WAND OUT!!!

lol wrong thread sorry...

Argos catalogue: Life lessons from the 'book of dreams'

That's how millennials and boomers have been lamenting the loss of the Argos catalogue. One Twitter user even wrote that it was his entire childhood.

^^^ I guess us Gen-Xers don't give a fu... oh that's right we don't.

Weird. I knew that Habitat had kind of merged into Argos but hadn't quite expected the Habitat website to suddenly basically be selling Argos stuff.

argoooos