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Your channel has evolved as your life has evolved. It was a gardening channel whenI first started watching. I do miss that part of your videos but understand until you find adifferent place to live youwont be growing your foid. Carry on…

We had a colour tv when i was 13, they must have come into a bit of money as we had a new sofa a carpet and a rented telly. My sister had an admin job in a place called radio rentals, which was a tv rental place. Great memories, Vivi, green shield stamps yes, I wasnt very good at getting them in the book, wonky. Great fun, though 😂

Anyone can set up a charity shop. Here in Ireland....you only have to donate 200e a month to selected charity you have chosen. Charity shop here closed yesterday. They were charging 1e more for second hand, I could have bought new in penny's. They've lost the run of themselves. Personally I prefer to buy from Facebook market place. Let the people make the money. While cash is still king. If we lose cash, its game over for anyone doing a side huzzle

Dearest Vivi, That book is actually called THE SHIPPING FORECAST. It is still available from Amazon.I have read it twice. Also, this video is truly magical. I too was brought up near the sea and my experiences were very similar to yours. Here I go again tears from all the happy memories. Thanks so much. (Sue- Swansea) Will be in touch. ❤️

I fail to understand how anyone could think you are not frugal. You are a frugal wiz the way you make your money go around. I too put money away every month for yearly bills, big ticket items, and appliances replacement. Since finding your channel about 12 months ago I have learnt your tricks of eating well on very little. The tips I have picked up from your videos has allowed me to cut my shopping expense’s. I have lived frugally all my adult life and didn’t think I could cut my expenses any more but you showed me how to do it.

I am just mending my Japanese gardening case now my favourite gardening tool ❤

Great find on the linen blouse.

I loved playing marbles and elastic stretched between two chair or human legs.. In, out, over, out, etc.

Hi Vivi, i m 54. Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane. I also had the rugby ball on two strings. I knew it as zoomball. We also spent hours skipping. Inside, my favourites were cards, mousetrap and mechano 😊

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Great video Vivi, you seem to have got your bounce back ! I seem to remember there were also pink stamps which I think were from Safeway, and also blue stamps from the Co-op. Take care. xxx

This was a lovely positive video. Thanks for the break in the crazy yhay is the world and to focus on childhood fun and the more deeply mindful traditions of Japanese historical culture etc. very much a breath of fresh air to me. ❤

Another lovely trip down memory lane got me remembering some of those toys. Did you ever do what we called French Skipping? Basically we joined loads of rubber bands together to make it a big loop then 2 girls (not wishing to exclude boys but I went to all-girls schools 😃) stood facing each other with the loop round their ankles and another girl then had to do various "patterns" with the loop using their foot. Not a great explanation but basically it was like Cat's Cradle but with feet. When I think back we all went mad for a particular game or toy for a while then a new one would come along, but then we all went back to the old tried and tested ones. We did a lot of ring games ("in and out the dusty bluebells", "poor Mary sits a-weeping") and hopscotch - which was great because all you needed was some chalk and a stone. I once read about how some of these games originated many, many years ago. Oops - here I go down another research rabbit-hole!

I had the ankle around and jump over. Mine was called lemon something bc the hall at the end was shaped like a plastic lemon. Super fun. I had a pogo stick. Clackers. Chinese jumprope, regular jumprope, string to play cats cradle, marbles, jacks, skates, bike, skateboard, was fortunate to have a backyard pool bc I lived in Florida and everyone had one. Many hours in the pool and riding bikes to friends houses to swim. The pogo stick was truly epic for a balance challenge.

Love the linen top Vivi, what I call a 'little win'. My daughter went to Japan last year and fell in love with the country and culture. Another fab video , I could listen to you chat all day❤

Hey Vivi stage you lovely things on your mannikin and post in your shop. I think £30-40 is ambitious but seeing them in their full glory would be encouraging.

Lol TV rental I remember my mum had to put 50p in the back and the radio rental man used to come empty the box lol

Omg i had all of those toys....I'm googling 😂 and...i was also the one with a pogo stick...the trick was to keep it well oiled...! R x

Lady gardener 😂, innuendo bingo, I have an idiot’s sense of humour x

The background with your books and furniture is so aesthetically pleasing! 😍

Lovely visit. I was cleaning out my bookshelf-cupboard during the talk.

I had a toy similar to one of the toys you described. I had to Google to figure out the name. It was called the Lemon Twist. It had a loop on one end and a plastic lemon on the other and you would put it on one leg and whip it around and jump over it. The lemon had some sort of beads inside it so it made a rattling noise. Good times!

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That beautiful work at the bottom of your top is called fagotting. It is where two pieces of fabric are joined together with fancy needlework. I love it .

Enjoyed the video today. The ad you shared was fun to watch. Hard to believe it's 13 years old.

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Oh my goodness Vivi the toy you were talking about at least in the US that you put on your foot, we called a lemon twist the ball was actually a plastic lemon. They actually have a newer version that has a wheel that lights up as it's been around. My 8-year-old granddaughter just begged for one for her birthday and absolutely loves it. I always say everything old is New again😊

Was the whistling tub a 'boomwacker'?

Great memories, Vivi. I vaguely remember the transition to color tv in our family...and the tvs were so big and bulky with no remote. They had a channel changing circle knob and a fine tuning circular knob. And some people put foil on their rabbit ears antennas to try and improve their reception. My grandparents had their color tv for years and years.. things got used and fixed and fixed... not disposable like today. And we went to an actual tv store when we wanted to buy a tv. I had a toy that I think was called a lemon drop, similar to what you describe -- it had a plastic hoop that went around your ankle and a plastic rope with a lemon on the end and you would whirl your leg and hop over it with your other leg as it turned. Do children even still play jacks, marbles, or hopscotch or sing childish songs like "Miss Mary Mack" or "London Bridges Falling Down" as they did little hand and body routines of clapping and turning.

Great memories Vivi, I'm about the same age as you, I remember playing double ball, hula hoop, skipping, rounders, yes I had that toy with the rugby ball and the D rings , I had clackers too and they did my parents head in! Board games were good but they were for rainy days when the weather was too bad to play outside! Yes it was mainly about physical activity, I think I'm the last generation before the computer game generation and I am so glad of that, I think computer games are the spawn of the devil, kids nowadays are all sat in front of screens hypnotised and inactive, no wonder they are so unhealthy x

I had a space hopper in the 70s,when young played ludo,snakes and ladders and elastics at primary school in the 70s,we had a black and white tv then colour tv 70s,good video

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Qow what a trip down memory lane of toys from my youth. I loved hula hoops. I always wanted a space hopper. Never got one, sadly 😢 I did have a walkie-talkie doll. 😊 Loved the chatty catch-up. Xx ❤😊

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ooh I remember a lot of those toys, we also had homemade stilts and a go cart made out of wood. I used to love playing with glass marbles on the metal grates on the ground. I also had the metal roller skates followed by black roller blades. Lovely memories thanks Vivi x

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I must've been privaliged growing up. I had a little black and white tv in my room when I was a teenager. Not a good idea because I was then able to stay up and watch the late, late, late shows and I did. Old movies and Don Kirshner's rock concert, the Midnight Special. I kept that tv for years, taking it with me to two duty stations when I went into the Air Force years later. I finally bought a color tv when I was stationed in Germany and the old black and white was still working great, I gave it to another airman.

Fuzzy felt, Plastersene, lego on a rainy day..

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We call them pop tubes. My son loves playing with them as a fidget.😊

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We rented our tele too, couldn't afford to buy one!! Lovely chat Vivi xxx

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Omg, this was good timing, I was only just reminiscing to my friend about the days we rented our telly from Radio Rentals 😂 and I’ll never forget the very first programme I saw in colour was Rainbow! I jumped up and down clapping my hands saying “zippy is ORANGE!” And “George is PINK!” 😂😂

I loved playing with the Jack's , throwing the little ball in the air, and picking up the as many of the Jack's before the ball comes down, also my dad used to cut groves out of a wooden cotton reel, he then threaded an elastic band through it, and a matchstick the other end , wind up the stick and it would roll along the floor, little things we all enjoyed 😊 my sister rented her telly, washing machine and dvd player right up till she died to 2 years ago ,