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Ha Ha Laughing bags !! - CHiPs set....only need a Harley motorbike now.......;-)
saw a Tidy Dry on old 'On the Buses' episode recently , and wondered what it was called- mystery solved, Thanks!
Pens with clocks...Peter Barnes football on a string trainer, matchbox racers, Airfix Pontoon bridge.....excellent stuff.
Why did they ALL have paddling pools, this is the UK...BRRRRRRR! ;-)
This topic/thread has really really makes think of yesteryear and being younger indeed. I used to really like saving the old Argos/Index Catalogue's when I was younger - I guess I even saved a fair few as recently as say 1998 or something.
It was great to compare thing's in them to note what had changed etcd. I guess though sadly they just got too heavy to bring home and they were too large to save, but to think about them, a few of my friends used to collect them and save say 3 editions in a row and would marvel at them and what there was in them to purchase. which gave a great unique insight to the following they gave people I feel.
I guess in a way, as this was before the Internet they truly were something to mmarvel at in there own unique way. What fond memories of the 1980s and 1990s I have of these type of catalogues It is amazing really I think when thinking about them years later - thinking about them in such way's as what was there to order just like that by going to any catalogue shop.
Great thread. Always looked forward to the winter catalogue as the summer ones only had a few toy pages hehe
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My Transformers Scorponok cost me about £70 second hand from a retro shop a while back....look at the orignal rrp - £26.95...still, even back then the orignal price was a LOT of money, plastic or week/2 wks food shop? No contest, parents always went with food shop...
Seeing that white Addis soft plastic laundry basket, we had a brown one of it for many, many years....
Funny how you have no concept of money as a child. Everything comes free from Father Christmas!
So true. I had a Tomahawk bike for Xmas in the 70s as my parents couldn't afford a Chopper, I think my mum got if off her Freemans catalogue and was probably paying a weekly amount for it for the best part of a year. It was a big investment for them and there I was out getting it as muddy as possible.
I can't believe the price of the Texas 'Speak & Spell' £29.95, and that was discounted! No wonder I never got one at that price eek! I did however get a 'Little Professor', which was priced at £9.95 a little more affordable back then.
That'll be why I didn't get one either! Funny how you have no concept of money as a child. Everything comes free from Father Christmas!
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