OMFG
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
chillwave cover art needed this discovery
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
To work out the prices today taking into account inflation, multiply the price by 2.3
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
p225 - ZX Spectrum was £119, how on earth did we have one?xp cheers!
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Today's Argos: Xbox with Kinect + game = £250, so cheaper in real terms...
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Casio keyboards: back then - starting at £70, now - £5 at a car boot sale / £70 on eBay (circuit bending hipster dollar at work)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember looking at my nes games and seeing that some of them were £49.99, and we were fairly poor.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
They still sell those faux art deco table lamps.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
1985/1986 is really when they went from 'crummy little catalogue store' to 'crummy big catalogue store', right?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah just thinking that - there are loads more toys and toy brands in the 1986 one.
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the year they started selling Yamaha keyboards alongside Casio, including the mighty SK-1 - only £99.00! wait WTF?!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Matt through. Fuck...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
YES YES YESY YESY EYESY YESY ESY YYESY YESYY YES!!!!WAND OUT!!!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 30 July 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― djh, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
argoooos
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link