We made stilts from tin cans and string, hopscotch, skipping, and coming home when the streetlight came on (that is, if you had a street light)

Topping/tailing through lack of beds/floor space.

Favourite TV shows, Rin Tin Tin; Fury; Captain Fortune; Mouseketeers; Spin & Marty; Lassie.

Cotton nappies on the prop clothesline

played outside in the street, rode bikes without helmets, parents never worried where we were, hotels closed at 6pm. no sunday shopping, most shops closed at 12 noon on a saturday.

Kids never bored, played hop skotch, marbles, pickup stix knucklebones and skipping............all outside

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@purple_haize wrote:

We had our milk in a billy can, the milkman use to come every day.

 

In Adelaide the rubbish men use to come to the back of the house to empty the bins.

 

The baker, the bottle man (collected old bottles) the milkman all had horse drawn carts.

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Ah, the bottlo.  Wish I still had some of those bottles, be worth a motza now.

I think childhood obesity began when the TV remote was invented.  Dad used get us to turn the dial. 

Cream on top of the milk, and a special gadget to syphon it off to use for whipping cream. 

remember everything same as you spot, but not rental TV's with coin boxes?? I do remember we had a colour tv before colour was actually in australia, dad did a fair bit of ducking and diving so that could have had something to do with it.

Hi kengillard,

I still have my grandmothers (who was born in 1879) stirring stick and use it to poke the hand washing clothes into the water.

My mum used to use it for the copper,  and I rescued it when she died..My dad made it for his mother but it is considerably shorter now - only about 18 inches long.

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We had toilet paper rolls, but some of our neighbours had the cut up magazine pages/newspaper.. didn't like that one bit.

We had a copper in the laundry, in my time, it was just used every now and then to boil stuff up (what I don't know, bed linen, towels?). There was an agitator machine as well, and concrete tubs.

Rural mailman delivered the mail and fresh bread.

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Detergent for the kitchen, laundry, hair washing, etc wasn't in Australia until 1961 or later.

 

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My mother use to wash my hair with johnsons shampoo back in the late 40's.

 

For the laundry she used sunlight soap.

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I wonder what was in the shampoo.  Because detergent wasn't here until the 60s. Our hair was washed with bar soap, and I think there was vinegar in the rinse to remove the soap residue.

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Beck's shampoo since 1930. Johnson's shampoo since about 1936. Johnson's Baby shampoo since 1954.

And never to forget  for heavy soiled clothes  the  old kerosene soap also used mixed with sugar & hotwater into a paste to draw the heads of boils or splinters and such.

For gentle washing there was lux flakes & their soaps for bathing.

I can rember my mother trying a liquid washing soap in 1956.