Family slide night -- I enjoyed that, some fell asleep though.

The first electric irons weren't steam and dry.  

When you starched your shirt collars/cuffs, doyleys, etc. you needed to moisten them to iron.  And of course, it was change.  Some of us were not up to change.  

purple, what about Bellbirds? was that on the radio, i have a vague memory of that.

When I was little there were Bunyips in the bush. I don't think there are any left nowadays.

The postie used to ride a pushbike and blow his whistle if you had mail.

Getting a wrist watch that you had to wind up every day was a huge event.

The man at the petrol station used to pump the petrol and check your oil and wash your windscreens.

Cornflakes had neat toys in them.

My mum and my 2 older sisters doing the washing on Saturday afternoons. we had one of those washing machine with wringer attached. one would load the machine, another would run it through the wringer and the other would hang it. Viola!

Being the youngest and a bit spoilt I used to get shooed off.

Hence I grew up with no housekeeping skills much, lol.

And the good old Sunlight soap that was used for everything that needed cleaning.

While shepherds washed their socks by night,

All seated round the tub,

A bar of Sunlight soap came down,

And they began to scrub.

We lived for some years in house with no elecricity. We had gas lights which gave of a beautiful soft glow; and I remember  Mum had a box iron for ironing the clothes.. It was a triamgular metal box with a handle on top and a door that lifted up in the back. To use it, you had to heat triangular shaped iron bars in the fire, lift them out with tongs and slip them inside the iron through the little door in the back..