Actually on reflection I think santa had it hidden in her wardrobe and forgot about it until the tears started rolling down my face, that's when the story about silly santa leaving it in my brothers room was the better option than telling me santa wasn't real :^O

OMG barn dances with sweaty men in nylon shirts puke!!

:^O

Now you have me worried freddie, did your brother try on the rope petticoat?

Freddie, did you get a wide elastic clincher belt to go with the petticoat.  A tiny waist was the fashion.

 Oh, remember the gold metal headache bands we wore around our foreheads..  We all thought we looked like Cleopatra

 My first high heels were called Baby Louis.  The heel was about an inch high.  And what about those Berlei Whirlpool bras.  OMG they were like ice cream cones.  That English 'actress', Sabrina, who visited here, made them popular. .

Darki, you mentioned learning how to cook and knit at school, I did all that, but when I went to high school one week we would do cooking & the alternate week, we learnt how to look after a home, how to clean windows, how to clean a stove, how to dust, how to starch shirts, how to iron and the list goes on........kids today would die if they had to do all that.:^O

I remember learning all the barn dances, square dances etc, this

thread is great, bringing back all the memories.

My mother took me shopping for my first lipstick, think I was 12yrs, she bought it at Coles and it was called *barely pink* ..barely is right, you could hardly see it.

I remember the bras, wouldnt be seen dead in one of them todayB-)

What about the butcher shop with all the animal carcasses hanging in the background and all the saw dust on the floor.

We sold rolled up newspapers to the butcher, he used 1 piece of butchers paper and then the newspaper to wrap the meat in for his customers 😄

He paid us by weight, we would roll it up into a log and tie it with string, many a rock slipped in between the pages:^O

OMG Freddie, I sold newspapers to the butcher too.  I used to get threepence for a bundle.  I also collected empty soft drink bottles and took them back to the shops for refund.  This was my pocket money.

Do you remember the currency......ha'penny, penny, tray, dina, florin, quid, half a quid, fiver, tenner.  Can't remember what a sixpence was called.

I reckon 1950 should qualify. I have my seniors card to prove it. Great being born in 1950, half a century so I can usually work out my age.

I used to get tuppence for each returned bottle.

I also used to dive for money from the Manly Wharf.  The tourists used to throw in coins and we would dive for them.  Dangerous when the ferry was coming in. We stored the coins in our cheeks.  I was only a kid.  If my mother had known she would have had a fit.

Can't remember what a sixpence was called.

was it a zack?

I grew up in NZ and I remember farthings, ha'pennies, pennies, thruppence, etc etc

I also remember having to learn how to multiply and divide pounds shilling and pence......and all those measurement tables like 16 oz = one lb, 14 lb = 1 stone etc etc

And then, after I had wasted several years at school learning all that stuff, along came decimals and the metric system and it was all for nothing:^O