In every 70s US home ever

We used to have Desiderata framed on the back of the actual toilet door. As a kid I was richly amused by the opening line, “Go placidly amid the noise and haste.”

Born in '63 so the 70s were totally my decade, and we had almost none of this stuff.

Marimekko prints and bedding

one of the things from the '70s that is still popular!

Almost all of these presuppose a middle income household that has at least one filled bookshelf.

And on that bookshelf: Passages by Gail Sheehy.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was popular in the early 70s but even as a kid it seemed banal to me

You could always tell who had the hip parents by seeing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on the bookshelf. (Spoiler Alert: we didn't have it on our bookshelf.)

forgot about that book

Jonathan Livingston Seagull was popular in the early 70s but even as a kid it seemed banal to me

it was Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City in the late 70s that made me want to move to San Francisco

A Shel Silverstein book (this may have just been a New York / Cali thing)

Nope, it was a Midwest thing, too. We had Where The Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, and The Missing Piece.

Erica Jong's Fear of Flying?

Erma Bombeck

Judy Blume

read about Ram Dass's death last week. his Be Here Now was the defining book of the 70s for me

Loved that book, though I wouldn’t discover it until the eighties.

catholic homes had ‘good news for modern man’

ours disappeared in the early 80s and was found rotting in the wet grass up the side of the house, it wasn’t me but i was a suspect

a lot of these are reminding of my childhood home that was mostly furnished in the mid 70s that I lived in for the 80s!

wood burning stove with huge hearth, shag carpeting, smaller television on a two level “entertainment center” that had a top middle space for tv, and two open areas on the bottom sides for 70s wood speakers with a thatch pattern in the front. audio receiver with that bluish lighting

rotating armchair (not reclining) with a shiny velvet texture. living room furniture with gold/green/brown/orange color scheme. vinyl kitchen floor with pattern that looks like square tiles. medium brown wooden cabinets in the kitchen. bronze/gold table lamps with a bulbous shape and large lampshade (I might have one of these stashed somewhere). side tables with double doors for storage

I’ve lost the original lampshade, but behold:

https://i.imgur.com/NBy1DoT_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

audio receiver with that bluish lighting
is there any other circumstance in which that blue light appears?

catholic homes had ‘good news for modern man’

hahahahaha YES we had that lamp

An ashtray the size of a dinner plate

Journey to Ixtlan

A box of Wheaties with Mark Spitz on the front

^good one

which reminds me:
Quisp AND Quake

the Grease soundtrack album

Bicentennial detritus

Tab in fridge

<i>Jaws</i> paperback

Jaws even

The Spirograph mention in the UK thread made me think of this one:

If the household has any connection to children whatsoever there is a Lite-Brite set somewhere

two nations separated by mostly but not always completely different household bric-a-brac

Lite Brite was another item not allowed in my particular house but yeah

Shrinky Dinks

Bicentennial detritus

Nothing he's got he really needs

TV Magic Cards

Props to Marshall Brodein!

Ha, good thing I left his name out of my post, probably would have spelled it wrong

Underoos that have shrunk
Simon Says
Connect Four
That electronic football game with the red LEDs

unprotected sex

Bicentennial detritus

my parents’ marriage innit

Simon Says

That electronic football game with the red LEDs

TV Guide

speaking of TV, All In the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Lite Brite was another item not allowed in my particular house but yeah

― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs)

Do you come from Amish? What was the objection to Lite-Brite?

No, just Outerborough German-Irish Catholic. Think perhaps somebody was concerned about us swallowing the pieces.