20 Things Your Parents Definitely Did in The 1970s

[@kristenp5835]

When I was a kid we would hang up blankets and sheets and make living room forts. We had so much fun doing simple things. 😊

[@gertibell]

My brother & I did that but my mom would make us take it down before dad got home from work. The house had to be neat when he walked in. We had a huge roll-top desk that was a great base to start a fort with.

[@mangot589]

Aw! We still do that with the grandkids! When they come over, every other weekend. We do watch tv in the morning (we’re tired lol) and at night with popcorn and a movie before bed (we’re REALLY tired lol), but we do backyard hanging, a lot of times by themselves, board games, card games, they LOVE these, a box of craft stuff, playing with the dog! Nothing that involves a phone or pad. Can’t say NEVER, but 90% of the time. Kids really DO still like doing things that don’t involve electronics, but they need to be exposed to it, you know? What parents now give them sheets to make a fort? Oh no! They’ll get dirty and germy😱 And what a mess!🙄 And we watch some of the game shows together and you know what? The kids like it! 🤷‍♀️

[@jimmyday9536]

And in the seventies, we didn't have robot voices narrating videos. LOL.

[@lisanidog8178]

Mom and I into my high school years in the mid 70’s would make chocolate chip cookies from scratch using the back of a bag of chocolate chips for the recipe. We had everything we needed. We’d make brownies and I’d take those back to school(boarding high school) for night snack. And before there was ever packaged hamburger, mom would get meat from the butcher, it was wrapped in white paper, mom would get out her grinder she’d attach to the table and grind her own ground beef. With other strips of meat mom got out her bumpy mallet and you’d hear her pound away. Then packaged meat came. No metal grinder no pounding. Mom got a wok and had a great time trying out things in it. Dad changed from a charcoal grill to an electric one. Mom taught me how to make cakes. She’d not do it, she’d tell me what to do as she watched. And the best part was licking the bowl and beaters that had frosting. There’s nothing like home made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. No such thing in our house as cookie dough you cut and bake and call it home made. All from scratch. Mom had her ring of metal measuring spoons and glass measuring cup and baking pans. It was fun. And I used to watch on TV the Galloping Gourmet who was an Englishman and when he made radishes cut like roses I did that as I was the official dinner salad maker.

[@EllyWoman777]

I wish it was the 60's and 70's. There was never a happier time in this country. We had the best styles and weren't afraid to use colors. Everything was so Groovy...except the early American furniture styles. They didn't appeal to me. Bring back groovy colors...shag carpets...wild wallpaper...avacodo green and harvest gold kitchens...and all the other Boss stuff. But leave the cigarettes out of the picture. I found out years after using Tupperware...it was very toxic. I got rid of it all. I wasn't into the Jello salads. I never made them. I had a bunch of 8 track tapes...until a fire set by druggies burned my totally vintage 1965 trailer down. I miss it. Cant replace an orange velvet couch or the green shag carpeting and paneling with gold and orange drapes on the windows...or the multicolored plastic beaded curtains. Just to name a few of my memories. I also had a white dial princess phone. All gone.😢

[@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer]

I hate that cars today are white, black or gray. I see pictures of lots in the 70s and every color was available. I’m a fan of color. lol my dad says I was born in the wrong time. I do love vintage 70s decor. I find nice pieces on eBay. Love it ❤

[@adventuretrailsdogcamp2605]

Remember we were under the constant and real threat of nuclear warfare.

[@KennethWedin]

@@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer Yeah, when I went to Japan in 1986, I couldn’t figure out why all the cars were either white or red because my dad’s cars had always been various shades of burgundy or blue, and we had so much luxurious space inside but were cooped up with cigarette smoke that really exacerbated my bronchitis (he feels guilty about that now). The neighbourhood was filled with green, yellow, brown, orange, and many other coloured cars. When I finally returned to Canada in 2002, I was looking forward to seeing some variety in car colours, but I found that white, grey, and black had taken over here as well. I wasn’t sure whether that was because I was living in a city populated almost entirely by Chinese and Indian (Sikh) immigrants who might have been more conservative than European Canadians, but your comment suggests that that drudgery of lack of colour seems to have taken over all of North America. Maybe the exception is Mazda cars, which have the best colours I’ve ever seen, year after year. As for vintage ’70s decor, I’ve been dreaming and day-dreaming (for reasons I can’t fathom) about the green and gold colour themes of our home, except for the kitchen, which featured orange, brown, and yellow.

[@KennethWedin]

Hmm, that’s an interesting perspective. As someone born in 1965, I think the ’50s were the happiest time in North America. I wasn’t a fan of the earthy tones, though as I mentioned below, I’ve been dreaming nightly for weeks about our green and gold home with the orange, brown, and yellow kitchen. I didn’t like the clothing fashions even at the time, and didn’t like the white music, though Soul was awesome. Well, I suppose I should admit [only here and never in person] that I loved Captain & Tennille as well as Barbra Streisand. To me, the ’80s had the best hairstyles, clothing fashions, interior design, music, and teen-oriented movies by John Hughes. I guess we all have our different preferences.

[@inkey2]

@@adventuretrailsdogcamp2605 """""" WERE ???? """"""". The threat of nuclear war is greater today than ever. Far more countries have nukes now then back then,

[@PoesRaven73]

In 1976, I was stationed at a NATO base in Naples, Italy. Nearby was a Naval Air Station. So whenever I needed new bell bottoms, I would go to their clothing store and buy regular Navy dungarees! They were much cheaper than the civilian ones, and looked the same. Except, that is, they had pouch pockets on the front.

[@nahkohese555]

I use a crockpot quite often and do 90% of my cooking from scratch. As for a waterbed, I still use my waterbed frame, although it has a regular mattress in it these days - but only because when mine finally gave out (about 10 years ago) I couldn't find a replacement. I also collect and restore old phones. But I don't miss jello salads at all.

[@monmixer]

They sure did make good products in the 70's. Everything has a life span these days. Works for so many hrs and dies like clock work.

[@lambornpeter3922]

😂😂😂😂

[@lindakrumenauer1099]

I did the same with the waterbed. When we moved, we dismantled the whole thing, and had a lovely cabinet made out of the six drawers!😊

[@maryk4815]

We would get up early and take our bikes, stay out all day, return when the alarm sounded for curfew!

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

Unfortunately my parents didn't do any of these things but I did. I'm of the baby boomer generation. So by the 1970's I was a kid for the first part and a teenager in the 2nd half. I love growing up in the 70's it was fun.

[@Tomatohater64]

We had a 1971 Chevrolet Greenbriar stationwagon. Gold exterior with black interior. No A/C, no FM radio, no power brakes, no power windows. One night In 1978, the wiring under the hood caught on fire and essentially totaled the car.

[@kat35lulu88]

Sounds scary!!!!!😮

[@Tomatohater64]

@@kat35lulu88 When we woke up at 4 AM, the car was in flames and two city firetrucks were starting to spray down the car. Total loss.

[@pattyheitzman8635]

There was a grocery store that I knew had generic brands. It was Pantry Pride. My late parents had Crock pot, and Tupperware.

[@suehart919]

Crock pot meals & Tupperware were definitely in my childhood home. Other relatives had shag carpeting, big console tvs & the avocado green(yuck!) & harvest gold. We had copper tone, which I loved.

[@cjhoward409]

My mom’s kitchen was avocado green but it was so pretty because she also had lots of plants, many hanging from the corners and by windows. It was very earthy in the kitchen. I loved it

[@carolyncook3611]

My old Crock Pot is on my kitchen counter cooking our dinner right now. It’s not fancy, only a high and low setting, but it’s still going strong after 30 years. Made a whole lot better than the lousy appliances of today. Our huge Colony Park station wagon left everybody in the dust on the Interstates.

[@thechloechronicles9688]

Ours is in the garage

[@itravisoni]

Even kids back in the day wore bell bottoms occasionally. Tupperware was used mostly for food

[@Dani92670]

Absolutely! I don't really recall parents wearing bell bottoms and platforms as much as younger people.

[@cjhoward409]

@@Dani92670 My parents didn’t wear bell bottoms. My mom had some flared pants but not like tight jeans and only flared at the bottom.

[@inkey2]

@@Dani92670 my parents in the 70s were from the WW2 generation........bell bottoms and platform shoes? I don't think so.

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

I owned and drove a 1964 Dodge Dart but I do remember our Rambler station wagon and I remember my dad letting me drive it. I was only 12 at the time so I couldn't get my driver's license. But it was fun to have a preview of coming attentions. I got my first driver's license at the age of 25, in 1986.

[@lorettamoore6345]

I was a young mother in the 70s, so I can relate to all of these. An aspect of Tupperware parties you missed is how it was a social event. Many women didn’t work at that time and it was a great way to talk to another adult woman.

[@lisanidog8178]

When we used to drive in the 60’s to Pennsylvania to visit mom’s folks my brother and I had either coloring books or we’d play a card game or Go Fish or Old Maid the latter I can’t remember how to play. Then we both discovered we got nauseous playing in a moving car have no idea why, so we would listen to mom and dad talk or yes, another baseball game. But in the 70’s, we’d just look out the window while listening to the folks talk or the baseball game or sleep.

[@johnehlert4366]

I was always interested in the countryside and other cars on the road when I went on trips with my parents. I've been in every state west of the Mississippi river. Always have lived in Nebraska.

[@lisanidog8178]

@@johnehlert4366 Interesting. We would visit relatives in Pennsylvania, mom’s parents, and we’d visit cousins on dad’s side in Boston. We did go to Florida twice, San Diego California once, Toronto Canada once and Tijuana once. My brother lives in New Hampshire.

[@LesterMoore]

Did any of you have cheese fondu meals? Or engage in macrame to hold pot filled plants? Sangria pitchers filled with fresh fruit in the summer. Or Bartle and James wine coolers? Boone's Farm anyone?🤪 The Exorcist was way before the hockey face Michael Myers and Freddie Krueger. Mode rings might still be found in an old shoebox right next to a pet rock. 😊 Some times eh?😉

[@Eric-qo8vv]

I remember all of this. Gone are these days for our generation we had experiences kids today will never know freedom in a way kids today can’t understand and never will ….too bad simpler easier times

[@gertibell]

I asked my mom what she would've done if we couldn't go outside unless she came with us. She said we never would've played outside & she would've gone crazy & got zero work done. Plus, I believe 90% of the mental & physical issues kids have today is due to too much supervision & no outside time WITHOUT PARENTS. Kids play differently without adults there. They use more imagination.

[@Ccdurko]

Many happy memories, but I hated the smoking. I would complain and was told to go outside. And we always made ashtrays for parents' presents. Did anyone else?

[@debbieschmidling8158]

Yes, and my parents didn’t even smoke!

[@johnehlert4366]

When I was little, in the 50's, I liked the smell of cigarette smoke unil they started putting preservatives in tobacco, then they took on a different odor.

[@gertibell]

Station wagons were best at the drive-in. We would throw a foam mattress in the back. The kids would always try to stay up for the 2nd movie which was usually R-rated, but we always passed out & would wake up at home wondering how we missed the "naughty" movie again.

[@Katherine-p8l]

I still got a Tupperware problem lol I love it

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤

[@elle_lovesgizmo]

What fun watching this. All those memories, some good others yuck. The one I got the best smiles is the rotary phone. My kids were born in the '80's so those phones were gone. I took my kids antique shopping in the early '90's when one of my daughters saw a rotary phone. She pointed & asked what's that mom? Couldn't hold in the laughter. 😅

[@MG-ot2yr]

Yea, I remember the 70s, not so safety conscious....leaving kids in cars, not wearing seat belts, drinking and driving (literally), smoking anywhere, and people frequently littered. We also did catalog shopping, Sears, JC Penney, Spiegel, etc.

[@LanceMan]

You dont think people use crock pots today?

[@barbaraparker6996]

I have 3 crock pots of different sizes l use regularly. They are still sold at Wal-Mart, Target, etc. They call them slow cookers now though. Same thing. They are a life saver for large family dinners.

[@cjhoward409]

I’m using one right now. Making chili

[@LanceMan]

@@cjhoward409 I use mine all the time as does my daughter.

[@3PR07]

I was born in 1976. I have one and use it at least once a week. I love it!

[@leward7788]

they showed many photos that definitely weren't the '70s, more like earlier decades. and those wide pants weren't bell bottoms, they were called elephant bells. born in 1956 to a typical middle class family, i've lived it, shag carpeting came out in the '60s in my life. my mother loved them

[@colettesintuatives9256]

We built a 1969 Impala wagon in late 90's for our kids to experience the 70's. 9 seat wagon, 3rd seat faced backwards, to tour hwy1 up coast & down into mexico. Big block 427, tow package to pass new cars on freeways with laughter. sterio loud so kids could spit on cars behind us, throw things. Great!

[@lisanidog8178]

Living room TV? Nope. Basement TV on a metal stand, and a TV in the Den. Now my Scranton grandparents had the TV you’re showing. But we never had that at home. We only had three channels. We had a roof arial so no need for rabbit ears. But when wind hit, you’d get a hiss of static. Yup. No remote. And a TV guide we’d get in the mail. My brother had a whole collection.

[@cjhoward409]

Our 19 inch tv sat on a metal stand and that was in the family room downstairs. Upstairs the living room had a piano and no tv

[@SayRayJ1]

Chevrolet Ad at the beginning (0:04) shows a picture of a early 1960s Ford Falcon station wagon

[@shellyscholz1256]

The doctor smoking throughout your appointment was far more normal than parents smoking indoors. They usually smoked in the garage.

[@followyourheart1366]

LOL, helicopter parents of today would have lost their minds in the 70's.

[@GS-kx1ys]

Station wagons the SUV of my day

[@christopherkloepffer9359]

Now you know why Generation X is the strongest generation ever! My parents did all of the mentioned in this video. Smoked in the house around my brother and I. Left us in a car when we were kids while they went shopping etc.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

But all windows were crank windows so kids can get air while they wait.

[@latamarapate5370]

My dad would wear his platform boots when my parents went dancing. My mom said he always jumped on her toes 😅

[@rdbwdc774]

The title of this video references the 1970s. What they show, however, are scenes from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

[@miss_naomi7377]

I noticed that too.

[@lisanidog8178]

Dad was a big movie maker. He never got the fancy movie cameras you show. He had this camera with two huge lights and he’d take home movies of our birthdays, my brother’s snowball fights. He used that same movie camera to take movies of my brother and I after we were brought home after we were born. Buck naked! How embarrassing! He used to splice and do all his movie stuff and then we’d all watch them on a double reel projector. But he stopped after my brother and I hit our teens. Dad loved taking home movies. He never got the newer movie cameras. He liked his old one with the two big lights that were blindingly bright.

[@debbieschmidling8158]

❤❤❤

[@PennyHays44]

I remember one Christmas getting a movie camera, lining up all us grandchildren and saying, "now move". We didn't know what to do. We were used to being lined up for pictures and being told to say" cheese". And freeze in place.

[@lisanidog8178]

@@PennyHays44 funny.

[@lisanidog8178]

My brother and I played outside until dark in the 60’s. In the 70’s he was out of school and I was in the early 70’s in Junior High and I loved riding my bike all over. But in the mid 70’s I was at boarding school. But when I came home on weekends I still had my bike and tooled all over until it got dark.

[@susanfreedlund289]

I was a parent in the 70’s and we had all kinds of easy meals and fast food restaurants. We also had remotes for tvs and push button phones (princess phones). I think he has a lot of things mixed up with the 50’s and 60’s. We never ate jello with veggies either lol

[@miss_naomi7377]

I think waterbeds were more of a 1980s thing, than a 1970s thing.

[@mikelundquist4596]

I've been through miles and miles of Texas in the back of a pickup truck.

[@SusanMarie3]

Same in Ohio!

[@PatrickJago]

When dialing a rotary phone we always let the finger get the free ride back

[@Eric-qo8vv]

I was young. I’d go interrupt my mothers Tupperware parties and go get attention from all the ladies. Candies gifts. I miss those damn things lol😅

[@gregohare2406]

Some of these facts are not totally accurate. In 1966 we actually had a Sony counter top black and white TV. It was around 12” high, wide and deep. Great sharp picture - no snow or rolling screen. And it worked off of a straight extendable antenna that was normally found on cars and transistor radios. We also got our first air conditioner in 1965. It was big enough to cool the living room, where we all consequently slept in the summer months. A little off topic, but around 1968 my mom bought some shares in an automobile company out of Japan, called Toyota. The broker said we should never sell it and that one day it would be as big as GM. How could he have any idea it would be that big?

[@itravisoni]

Parents or at least mine didn't leave me or my siblings in the car as they went shopping.

[@PassingThrough-p3l]

Lucky you! Mine did, and I was always afraid.👀

[@cjhoward409]

On nice days my dad stayed in the car and sometimes us kids did too with him. But never alone

[@lisanidog8178]

White counter tops and white fridge. My parents weren’t into trends in the 70’s. They were too busy paying the bills and working. Our thrill? Whole house air conditioning to replace window air conditioners. And in 1973 my parents went ‘wild’ by getting a Den color TV. 🤣

[@roseseifert8939]

Mom and dad had the window air conditioner in their room. Us kids had fans in the windows. I didn't even know there was whole house air conditioning in the 70's

[@lisanidog8178]

@@roseseifert8939 I think it was ‘68 or ‘69 we had whole house air conditioning. Before that we had window air conditioners in our bedrooms. By the 70’s we already had whole house a/c because we had his accordion looking ‘door’ we’d pull where the kitchen led to the side door to keep the cool air in. I never had my first fan until a few years ago. I have whole house air but I put on my bedroom fan more for the sound than the air.

[@mikenuyen4441]

I was going to cook some alligator but discovered I only had a Croc-pot. I have green laminate countertop with faux brick backsplash and wood sheet paneling on one wall. For some weird reason it does not bother me.

[@lisanidog8178]

I’m traumatized over jello. My brother thought it funny to strain it through his teeth. He only liked lime and he’d do that to gross me out. It worked! So we never had anything jello again. Seeing those jello things gave me a bad flash back. 🤣

[@debbieschmidling8158]

😂😂

[@cafsixtieslover]

We had an avocado green bathroom in the seventies. Our kitchen was brown and orange. I still use a crockpot.

[@ilovecruising2024]

Never saw a waterbed until the early 90's. Same with a crockpot.

[@wilfredmorin722]

How you talk about me in my 30s! (I'm 82.)

[@juttadestiny6810]

Same here! Im 69yrs old

[@lindakrumenauer1099]

I still have my tipperware. Nostalgic , of far better times! I sold my orange beautiful couch about six years ago. Had a queen hideabed. I miss it, good for grandkids!

[@Eric-qo8vv]

My parents both passed away from complications from smoking. I’m a smoker unfortunately. My parents would rip butts everywhere. Car no windows. I remember the teachers smoking in the nurses office

[@seascape35]

Sometimes you can see doctors smoking in their offices when you view movies from those eras. 1930s to 1970s.

[@RobertHowe-zv7gs]

I am so happy that the cigarettes and dirty ashtrays are gone !

[@MyFavoriteColorIsBLUE]

Not me! 😂

[@boogaturk8363]

Kids noticed smoking. My siblings and I always complained about the smoking, both indoors and in cars. It wasn't "super common" because that phrase hadn't been invented yet. But it was considered normal. People smoked everywhere except church and the gas station. As far as kids singing along to classic songs, that's not how we handled road trips. It was a grueling event, and we coped by sleeping through it until the car stopped. Family sing-a-longs? Never heard of it until I saw this video. Some of these things like 8-track in the car and water beds are things I'd never seen in our family or our friends. They weren't common for a lot of us. We didn't worship fashion the way some of these videos portrayed. We, like many, didn't have much money and were at the mercy of whatever we could get. We didn't have huge TV consoles. Just whatever used TV happened to come our way and worked. My mother cooked a lot, and it wasn't because she loved it. It was the best we could afford. Rotary dials were cheaper than touch-tone, that's why so many of us had them. We were always jealous of those who could afford touch-tone.

[@bevmal6865]

My brothers and I grew up in this era. What a great childhood we had, and we all did not realize this kind of childhood would disappear from our society. I have been teaching now for almost 30 years. It makes me so sad because most of my children talk about video games, the ipad, and being on an iphone. They rarely talk about being outside or playing with the neighborhood kids. What kind of memories are they making that they will cherish as they grow up? Playing a video game???? I am always encouraging my students to get outdoors, play games, ride their bikes..... We have kids in our neighborhood. Where are they??? They are inside for the most part. What a shame.

[@KrownPortColborne]

I remember 6 children being in the station wagon with no seat belts and the rear window moved up and down like a a car door window.. Did they never think about exhaust? We frequently rode in the back with the window down.

[@lisanidog8178]

My parents never dressed in bell bottoms. Mom was prim pantsuits and dad did begin to wear jeans. Mom had her own fashion of once she put her apron on in cooking she didn’t take it off. Every home movie there was her famous apron. I was surprised when dad started to wear jeans with straight pant legs and went from dress shoes to what he called his white bucks. Not dress shoes not exactly tennis shoes. Hard to describe. My parents came of age in the late 40’s the 50’s.

[@Dani92670]

You're parents sound like mine!

[@lisanidog8178]

@@Dani92670 Cool! 👍

[@BubbaBigDude]

We had the station wagon but no classic rock, it was more like classic country music which is way better than modern country music... and we skipped the 8-tracks in favor of cassette tapes.

[@kathyclarke6327]

They didn’t leave babies in the car. Only older kids.

[@Dani92670]

You are so right. There was never anything sinister about it and parents didn't end up on the news or in jail.

[@Welderman007]

Does anyone remember the Tupperware popsicle molds.

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

16:35 I grew up in the VHS and DVD era but I have been learning how to use these cameras. Pretty interesting to mess with. The Canon ones make really good images 👍 There were video cameras too as I have a couple examples from the 70s (my earliest example being a 1965 Sony model) but the image quality of video cameras then was quite poor (then using a vidicon tube as opposed to the later CCD for the image sensor) compared to their film counterparts.

[@Robert-p7m6r]

My parents never embraced the fashion trends of the 70s; it was a kid thing.

[@virginialuster67]

I still have some Tupperware. Use them all the time

[@suefrancoeur9148]

A lot of what is shown is before the 70's.

[@lisanidog8178]

Oh platform shoes. When I got to high school in ‘75 they were the rage. Mom never wore those, she was a fancy sandal type with normal heels or she wore her high heels. Never saw her wear tennis shoes. I didn’t know they were called sneakers until I was an adult.

[@ilovecruising2024]

Anyone remember eating candy cigarettes?

[@SusanMarie3]

My parents did not wear platforms in the 70s 🤣🤣🤣

[@tjmiller5060]

My parents owned a Rambler station wagon all through the early 60’s. My husband and I drove a Pontiac Grand Safari station wagon in the 80’s. 😂😂

[@lisanidog8178]

Only one grandparent made it to the 70’s and she lived out of state. Who knows if grandma, mom’s mom, had Tupperware. After grandpa passed she visited once a year and not one bit of Tupperware. Now I feel deprived. 😅

[@debbieschmidling8158]

😂

[@lalajohnson7194]

Omg! I still regularly use my Rival crock pot, Tupperware and even have a jello cook book. In fact when I had first left my parents home My mom told me a crockpot is a woman's best friend.

[@Dani92670]

I use all 3 as well. Tupperware is better quality than most of what's out there today. I used my Jell-o cookbook last month! My Rival will be coming out for fall soon.

[@lindapage5721]

Color is great 👍.

[@pamelamays4186]

Earth shoes. Cake cutter Afro comb in your back pocket.

[@miss_naomi7377]

1980s

[@lisanidog8178]

We had one black rotary phone. Then we got the push button ones. Saved your fingers if you weren’t quick enough and got your finger stuck. I still have my a black rotary phone for sentimental value.

[@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer]

My grandmother had a black rotary phone that she used to bring out to the patio in order to have a photo outside while we swam in the pool. (Years before cells) There was also one in the basement, white. My grandma passed away in 2013. The phones we still I use and working. Things just lasted better back then.

[@lisanidog8178]

@@DanniTheMagicJunkDrawer That’s great!

[@lisanidog8178]

I didn’t sleep in a water bed until a guy I dated in the mid 80’s. Too used a regular mattress. Never a waterbed at home. We were old fashioned. No shag, waterbeds or 8 track tapes.

[@annrodriguez2891]

All my exposure to second hand smoke..led me to be a non smoker my whole life... except for MaryJane❤... Restaurants ..homes..cars.. cigarette smoke permeated EVERYTHING...The clincher was a trip up Pikes Peak c.1973..i was 8 ..My parents chain smoked with the windows up in that dreaded Station Wagon...Never let us get out at top of mountain...Traumatic memories❤

[@noturningbackever493]

We were hippies in the 70's; nowhere did we dance to "disco." Acid rock, pop rock, and other forms of music was our thing. And Tupperware just declared bankruptcy this year.

[@laurieberry4814]

My babysitter made T.V. dinners and rice crispy treats. Delicious.

[@lisanidog8178]

LOL! Crock pots? On a steady diet of steak, lamb and pork chops we had no crock pot. I have my uncle’s crock pot. Have no idea how to use it. It was a struggle to get mom to get let alone open a can of pork and beans.

[@Music_is_Breathing]

Free-wave water beds were like trying to sleep on Jello.

[@hairyyeti21]

has anyone died from second hand smoke?

[@peachyb.4521]

GenX always wondered what our parents were doing since we never saw them.😂

[@happydays2300]

There were a LOT of people who thought the seventies' fashions were for the young only. There was a saying; "Never trust anyone over thirty." People over thirty, and that meant most parents, looked pretty stupid trying to wear bell bottoms and mini skirts. So, there became a second fashion wave, leisure suits with pointy collar shirts for men, and similar suits for women. It wasn't all that great; all this stuff was made of scratchy polyester. But the colors were wild, and new. "Day glo" was invented then, which was new shades of pink, green and purple that had never been seen before.

[@FREEDOM1TRUTH1BOLDNESS]

Wow, Tupperware got two spots in this vid. That's how cool it was. Today we know about nano particle plastics in everything , water, air and soil, and even in us. Plastic is now a thing we simply cannot do without in daily life but need to limit as much as possible. It will never go away, it can't. We are too dependent upon it as so much of our world is made of plastic now. I STILL WANT A WATERBED.

[@rapunzelrose68]

My Dad was a smoker in the 70s and I hated it

[@mikenuyen4441]

Ever "rake" your carpet or degauss your TV?

[@richardfisher4638]

When I grew up my dad was the only one who worked and it was a hardware store in a small town. He never made much money if it wasn't for people who liked my dad landlords renting to us cheaper than a lot of people and us working hard in the garden pulling weeds and mom canning and freezing stuff don't know how we would made it . Both my parents smoked 2- 3 packs a day or 2 in the house and the car it me and my sister sick .We never owned a phone until I was 20 yrs. Old when I went in the Army I would call collect using my sister's name then they had the number of the phone both and would call me back. I got a 19 inch black and white tv. For graduation present. When I got out of the Army my neighbor sold my mom and dad a small camper for me to live in. I had to pay rent $100 and pay to heat it which was a lot not insulated much.this was in the early 80's It wasn't bad since I was use to sharing a room with a guy and I was one of the lucky ones some had to share a bigger room with 3 guys. No phone! My black and white tv. Had shower in parents house, very small fridge.

[@lisanidog8178]

Mom for a long time was a smoker before she quit. And yes back then there was no such thing as a smoking section. My brother and I grew up around her smoking so it didn’t matter. Dad never smoked outside the home. He later had to quit. He only smoked half a pack a week but got lung cancer in 1980 and passed of it in ‘89. I didn’t smoke until I was 30. I’m a chain smoker.

[@alk3myst]

Green Kitchens

[@juttadestiny6810]

And orange counter tops! 🇦🇺

[@seascape35]

You did not mention women who stopped wearing bras. What started as a political protest (bra burning) became a social fashion among younger women.

[@thechloechronicles9688]

Except it wasn't "classic" rock back then. It was just ... rock.

[@Music_is_Breathing]

This is more like the 60's than the 70's

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

My ‘rents were early 60s babies and 70s teens so I guess some of this applies to them…

[@notme123]

And full bushes were part of the landscape.

[@celticmoon111]

My parents were squares 😂

[@lisanidog8178]

I had naturally curly hair so no perms or curlers. Any hair cuts I’d be taken to mom’s beauty parlor. I cut my own hair and it looks like someone else did it. I used to watch the beautician do it. Having naturally curly hair in a time where straight hair was in fashion in the 60’s where I am, mom would take me as a tot to neighbors. To this day don’t you dare rub your hands through my hair. When that wasn’t happening mom used to tell me which I don’t remember her taking me to a neighbor who had a German Shepherd and I’d ride it. I was that tiny. I’m still short so probably could ride a Great Dane with ease. Mom never did her own hair, it was Saturday beauty parlor day. She was a brunette naturally but liked blond so she’d get touch ups.

[@hairyyeti21]

People still cook from scratch and kids still play outside.

[@lisanidog8178]

We never had Tupperware. Tin foil put over what something was cooked. But we had few leftovers.

[@lisanidog8178]

Boy am I glad my parents didn’t wear those horrid fashions of the 70’s. But then my parents were from a different era.

[@pamelamays4186]

Daddy lighting up a cigarette with his car's cigarette lighter.

[@lisanidog8178]

Nope no shag. Just regular flat carpet. When we did get new carpet which was blue, my brother and I would rub our feet on it and touch something for the thrill of a minor shock. Dad thought that amusing. But the older the carpet got you couldn’t get any more electricity.