I remember crying my eye's out that santa didn't bring me a rope petticoat on Christmas morning. Funnily enough santa misplaced it and left in my Brothers bedroom :^O

Margo, wow that's expensive, but when you think about it it's only 2 good bottles of wine :^O

Purple Haize the broken biscuits were soo much cheaper than the unbroken ones.  Mum would always buy the broken ones too.

I remember ironing the full circle skirts on sheets on the floor. (before the ironing boards) 

"The thing i am remembering the most today is that you could go to the movies for one shilling and buy a heap to eat for another shilling.

Today I took one little grandaughter to see I bought A Zoo

and it cost $60 for seniors ticket kids ticket 2 choc tops and 2 waters."

I remember my mother telling me, when she went to the pictures it's was 1 penny each way on the tram, 3 pence to get in and 1 penny for a battered sav.

My treat was a halfpenny of broken biscuits in a brown paper bag from the local corner shop on my way to school. Those biscuits would probably last a week 😄

Darki I honestly don't remember which argonaut I was.What a shame. 

Purple I think the broken biscuits were cheaper than the others. 

Oh yes loved those petticoats, weren't they a pain to wash, and iron though?

And speaking of Elvis and rock n' roll do you remember the Bodgies and the Widgies?  My twin brother went around in fluorescent socks and that thong tie thing, and stovepipe pants. 

Remember 6 O"clock closing

Gee Margo, I used to get into the 'flicks' on the northern beaches for threepence downstairs in the stalls, and sixpence upstairs.

And for that you got three serials (you know the ones where the hero disappeared in the quicksand and the next week he was miraculously rescued),  a B grade movie, then after interval 4 cartoons and then the main feature, hopefully a Tarzan movie or Hopalong Cassidy.

Another thing I recalll....I had never heard of the word asthma  and there was not one overweight kid at school or with my gang.

I remember 6 o'clock closing vividly as my dad would come home early from the pub lol.

I also remember overweight children were uncommon.

I remember what being hot thirsty and hungry meant.

I think we should set up a retreat and teach our children about life lol, I'm not 50 yet!

Bluepanda.  I remember the Bodgies & Widgies the clothes they wore and the hair on the Bodgies & they use to go around hanging out car windows (no seat belts then).

My dad use to come home when the pubs closed at 6.00pm, he would walk in the door with his brown leather kit bag.

I remember most people walked to the shops and you never saw many women driving & there was only one car per family.

When I first went to school we had a slate to write on.

Every one sat at the table to eat & you had to eat everything that was on your plate.

Remember my Dad taking me to school on his push bike.