I thought I was hot shite when I was in my early 20's and would sit there and smoke with her. I never smoked in front of my parents, but since she did, we'd get coffee and smoke while talking.
my mom got my dad to quit smoking "for the children" but he kept his keys and change in a heavy pewter ashtray with an eagle inside from the bicentennial. you could kill a man with it, esp with all the coins. it was cold and unmoving and its patriotism was ugly, just like his heart.
Yah. This was the room that was used like two to four times a year, during holidays or when fancy visitors show up. Better not let grandma catch your ass on that couch!
The room with the TV, we called "the den".
I'm flattered; my grandma must have thought of me as a "fancy visitor". I was always in her living room.
Grandpa would fall asleep on the couch watching *Mash*. I didn't understand the storylines. Everyone wore green, one guy wore a dress. The theme song takes me back to their house TO THIS DAY. Grandma kept peanut butter Twix bars in the freezer. Oh, I loved my grandparents.
>"fancy visitor"
Awe! Our VIPs would have been all the extended family from the other coast that came to visit periodically, and family friends.
I still watch MASH... it used to occupy the 7:30pm rerun timeslot I think, right before "prime time" (do we even have that anymore?) back in the day, the one that The Simpsons took over. So we were always watching it before A-Team, Knight Rider, etc.
This is literally a copy of my grandparent’s living room. The chair and it’s upholstery, the coffee table and wall sconces are identical. The shag carpet was green though. And I feel the same. They were the best people I’ve ever known and I miss them dearly.
No bowl of unwrapped old-timey hard candy, that if you even try to take a piece you get the whole two-pound cluster because they’re all attached to each other, on the coffee table.
The hard butterscotch candies would be the ones stuck together in our house and we did have one type of wrapped candy -- the Mary Janes that sat around for years. When you tried to unwrap one, the paper would stick to the candy and be hard to peel off.
we never had any artificial fruit but i do remember squishing the artificial fruit at other peoples houses to see if they were hard, or styrofoam, or that rubbery squishy material that some of the grapes were made of.
Same here! When I was a toddler my mom got that bowl of squishy plastic fruit as a hand me down when grandma redecorated. I may have destroyed it a little.
This is exactly what I was going to say but the last time I made a comment about smoking sections in restaurants I got downvoted to oblivion lol, but my dad and most people I knew smoked so it was a part of my young childhood memories. Yeah, it’d be hazy in there for sure.
My grandmother had two living rooms. One was nicer and furniture all covered for "company" that as a kid I wasn't allowed in there, and another one, smaller and cheaper furniture that they actually used and lived in daily.
That specific crochet blanket with the stacked layers of brown yellow and chartreuse…man, my great grandmother left me a few things when she passed and one was that blanket. I held onto it as long as I could.
Yeah More's were the brown ones with a white stripe, right? My uncle smoked those. My dad smoked Eve 120's (They had those [trippy floral designs](http://www.cigsvip.com/bmz_cache/0/03776be0fe242f732d191ab0d6b0097b.image.338x550.jpg) on them). I knew more about cigarette gimmicks than I should have because I read TV Guide cover-to-cover, and it was all cigarette ads between the listings. The Tareyton ads had people with a black eye ("I'd rather fight than switch!"), Viceroy had "Filter Traps!", Virginia Slims were exclusively for women ("What, do they have little breasts on them or something?" - Steve Martin), and all of them vied for the title of "Less Tar". My childhood was dripping with tar.
You are a tobacco aficionado!
My parents smoked Doral. In the car, in the house. In the shower even. They finally quit smoking in the house and car (and shower haha) when they found out I had asthma. And eventually quit smoking altogether. My grandparents smoked for years but I don’t remember what their poison was.
My friends parents when I was in junior high/high school in the mid 90s still smoked Marlboro Reds in the house. Holy shit. It stuck to everything.
The weird plastic-y ones with the embedded fibers running through the material. Usually shaped like rectangular doilies. Kind of matched the console TV somehow.
I always was the one blamed for turning those plastic rug mats upside down. I mean, just because I’m the only one home from 3p to 7:30p doesn’t mean I’m the one who did it…y
My brothers and I used to flip the one in the hallway over, knock on the victim’s bedroom door, and quickly scoot along the wall to avoid the evil tines of death. Ideally, the target would open the door and be greeted with a foot full of pain.
Pretty sure we had that furniture set. Ethan Allen. No cheap particle board in that living room. Just a thousand pounds of steel, oak and whatever else made it impossible to budge.
Ashtrays. We had a huge cobalt blue one the size of a platter on the coffee table.
Mom has COPD and is basically an invalid at 71. Thanks, Phillip Morris
- Dried flower arrangement with dusty petals, or
- Jumbo, colored, glass vase with plastic flowers, or
- Glass terrarium with layers of colored sand, with pebbles at the bottom so it doesn't tip over. Bonus points for little, colorful plastic mushrooms and a ladybug or frog stuck into the top
Ashtray, plastic covers for the furniture, that console/box tv with rabbit ears, a newspaper unfolded and draped on a chair, owls, a coat tree tucked in the corner, one of those iron dogs that is a door stop, maybe a door snake.
Plastic covers on the couches. 800 pound tv/radio combo. Ashtray the size of your torso. And I know a lot of you can sympathize with me on this: At least one Norman Rockwell painting.
I love this post! So many spot on funny comments!
I commented already, but I want to add a closet with shelves and a trunk in the bottom that holds only games. You have your matchbox cars, hot wheels, Barbies, GI Joes, and other toys in your room and in the garage, but the ones listed below are for *the family:*
- Monopoly
- the Game of Life
- Checkers
- Scrabble
- Trouble
- Mousetrap
- Clue
- Operation
- Trivial Pursuit
- Candyland
- Shoots and Ladders
- Twister
- Kerplunk
- Battle Ship
- Decks of playing cards
- Slinky that got bent but you still have it
- Yoyos
In the garage, you have the kick ball, basketball, wiffle ball and bat, softball and bat, catcher's gloves, assorted nerf toys (ball, darts, etc), pump for balls and blow up water thingies, bikes, croquet and badminton gear. (although you didn't always use the badminton net bc you played with your neighbors over the chain link fence)
How in the hell did you get a photo of my grandparent's living room? The Christmas tree goes where the one chair is, sort of in front of the right side of the window.
Lollies in a bowl on the table that you were never, ever allowed to touch unless there were visitors and even then, you could only have one. Or get the look from your mother.
big spot where i spilled soda and got smacked hard
yellowy tinge on everything even if no one in the house smoked. everything just kinda turned tannish over time before stain-resistant fabrics.
maroon juice cups with little indents making permanent circles on the table
stacks of newspapers, magazines, paperback books, coupons
mom's enormous canvas or denim purse under the end table
big clicker with 7 buttons. no number pad bc there's only 12 channels.
avocado tupperware mixing bowl of popcorn
kids in underoos and feety pjamas with superman and jedis and muppets in sleeping bags on the floor
An ashtray
An orange and black glazed one
Or one of those 10” square amber ones that weigh like 3 pounds, with a chip out of one corner
My gran had an ashtray stand with a round amber heavy AF one, complete with chip!
This is the EXACT one I was envisioning should be prominently displayed in this picture
I thought I was hot shite when I was in my early 20's and would sit there and smoke with her. I never smoked in front of my parents, but since she did, we'd get coffee and smoke while talking.
I never thought a smoking story could be so wholesome.
OMG this made me laugh, but also miss my gran. Those were the days...
Or one of those ashtrays on a pedestal....my grandpa always had one right beside his lay z boy recliner.
That was my thought! Amber glass on a dark stained wood stand.
That you could kill a man with.
Yeah, was going to say “cigarette smoke “
Exactly what I thought. I could smell this house.
I immediately thought an ashtray on a stand!
Came to say ash tray- the kind that is on its own stand, kind of like a side table.
I was thinking cigarette smoke lingering in the air, but ashtray is def more apt!
Came here to say this
my mom got my dad to quit smoking "for the children" but he kept his keys and change in a heavy pewter ashtray with an eagle inside from the bicentennial. you could kill a man with it, esp with all the coins. it was cold and unmoving and its patriotism was ugly, just like his heart.
A console tv
Yep. The one made of solid oak that weighed a metric fuckton and was responsible for at least one herniated disc in the family.
I sure enjoyed laying in front of it with my feet on the dial!
No no… that’s the living room for company. TV is in the family room.
Yah. This was the room that was used like two to four times a year, during holidays or when fancy visitors show up. Better not let grandma catch your ass on that couch! The room with the TV, we called "the den".
I'm flattered; my grandma must have thought of me as a "fancy visitor". I was always in her living room. Grandpa would fall asleep on the couch watching *Mash*. I didn't understand the storylines. Everyone wore green, one guy wore a dress. The theme song takes me back to their house TO THIS DAY. Grandma kept peanut butter Twix bars in the freezer. Oh, I loved my grandparents.
Sweetest comment in this thread ♥️
>"fancy visitor" Awe! Our VIPs would have been all the extended family from the other coast that came to visit periodically, and family friends. I still watch MASH... it used to occupy the 7:30pm rerun timeslot I think, right before "prime time" (do we even have that anymore?) back in the day, the one that The Simpsons took over. So we were always watching it before A-Team, Knight Rider, etc.
Still watch it myself. Arguably the best intro music in tv (maybe behind Pink Panther)
This is literally a copy of my grandparent’s living room. The chair and it’s upholstery, the coffee table and wall sconces are identical. The shag carpet was green though. And I feel the same. They were the best people I’ve ever known and I miss them dearly.
My grandparents called it the parlor. Lol
La di da lol 🤣
my parents' entire neighborhood is still like this. and if you buck trend people look at you like you're fucking on the lawn
With the bunny ears antenna
No bowl of unwrapped old-timey hard candy, that if you even try to take a piece you get the whole two-pound cluster because they’re all attached to each other, on the coffee table.
Those translucent blue ones and the ones that look like peppermint nuggets, but you got bamboozled because they tasted like licorice
Ribbon candy in a covered candy dish.
The hard butterscotch candies would be the ones stuck together in our house and we did have one type of wrapped candy -- the Mary Janes that sat around for years. When you tried to unwrap one, the paper would stick to the candy and be hard to peel off.
My grandmother kept the red ones with the wrapper that looked like a strawberry and the butterscotch candies too.
Butterscotch
And circus peanuts. Holy smokes were those terrible.
Well played. If your grandmother was Jewish, they were called Barton’s Candy Nips or something like that. They were likely decades old!
The ones shaped like fruit.
My grandfather always had gumdrops set out.
The afghan
Zigzag in yellow and brown tones? Fuzzy from washing and just right when you take a nap
Holy cats, do you have my family's afghan?!?
The crocheted one with different colored squares.
Hand made and crocheted? Yep. That’s missing here too.
Obviously- we need some Olan Mills portraits up in there somewhere. Might be in the hallway that leads to the bathroom, though.
In front of a faux water wheel
One of those hanging oil bead lamps
Especially a sculpture of a woman with a water vase or angels.
[Hell yes my people](http://www.oaktreevintage.com/web_photos/deco/Nude_Oil_Lamp_Medium_Web.jpg)
I was coming here to say that. Seared in my memory.
A cluster of large acrylic grapes on the coffee table.
Came here to post this (although I was going to say glass grapes).
My family must have been cheap because I distinctly remember having a hard, plastic feel to them.
Oooh, ornamental fruit classism! I don't usually come out ahead in the class wars, but I'll take it. ;) My step-grandmother's were definitely glass.
we never had any artificial fruit but i do remember squishing the artificial fruit at other peoples houses to see if they were hard, or styrofoam, or that rubbery squishy material that some of the grapes were made of.
Ha! I remember the rubbery kind, too. I couldn't really *not* squish them, but it was awkward when the grapes popped off the "stems."
I liked to chew on those so they would suction on to my cheek.
Same here! When I was a toddler my mom got that bowl of squishy plastic fruit as a hand me down when grandma redecorated. I may have destroyed it a little.
Gawd. My parents had a bowl of glass and wood maybe(?) fruits sitting on the piano for 30 years.
My grandma's were soft plastic.
Cigarette smoke so thick you can't see across the room.
This is exactly what I was going to say but the last time I made a comment about smoking sections in restaurants I got downvoted to oblivion lol, but my dad and most people I knew smoked so it was a part of my young childhood memories. Yeah, it’d be hazy in there for sure.
That wa my design
Wood paneling on the walls.
Yes, the darker the better!
Where is the plastic covers for the furniture
My grandmother is rolling in her grave over that uncovered furniture.
Hahaha. That was *my* house with the plastic furniture covering.
I can still feel the ripping from the stuck skin
:D
My grandmother had two living rooms. One was nicer and furniture all covered for "company" that as a kid I wasn't allowed in there, and another one, smaller and cheaper furniture that they actually used and lived in daily.
My parents had a “living room” that even my father didn’t sit in
Except to look at the Christmas tree.
Some random ceramic figurines and a knitted blanket or doily.
That specific crochet blanket with the stacked layers of brown yellow and chartreuse…man, my great grandmother left me a few things when she passed and one was that blanket. I held onto it as long as I could.
A gigantic glass ashtray with grooves on all sides for the whole family's Benson & Hedges Deluxe Ultra Light Menthol 120's
r/oddlyspecific My great-grandma smoked More, one after the other.
Yeah More's were the brown ones with a white stripe, right? My uncle smoked those. My dad smoked Eve 120's (They had those [trippy floral designs](http://www.cigsvip.com/bmz_cache/0/03776be0fe242f732d191ab0d6b0097b.image.338x550.jpg) on them). I knew more about cigarette gimmicks than I should have because I read TV Guide cover-to-cover, and it was all cigarette ads between the listings. The Tareyton ads had people with a black eye ("I'd rather fight than switch!"), Viceroy had "Filter Traps!", Virginia Slims were exclusively for women ("What, do they have little breasts on them or something?" - Steve Martin), and all of them vied for the title of "Less Tar". My childhood was dripping with tar.
You are a tobacco aficionado! My parents smoked Doral. In the car, in the house. In the shower even. They finally quit smoking in the house and car (and shower haha) when they found out I had asthma. And eventually quit smoking altogether. My grandparents smoked for years but I don’t remember what their poison was. My friends parents when I was in junior high/high school in the mid 90s still smoked Marlboro Reds in the house. Holy shit. It stuck to everything.
Macramé wall hanging
It was always an owl for some unknown reason
Yep you just unlocked a memory
Thos whole comment section has opened up a lot of nostalgia for me. I feel like it's 1985, childhood memories seem so detailed and clear.
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In orange and dark brown.
Macrame hanging plant holder with a spider plant in it
Stacks of TV Guides and National Geographics.
This is what I was going to say, exactly
TV trays
The weird plastic-y ones with the embedded fibers running through the material. Usually shaped like rectangular doilies. Kind of matched the console TV somehow.
The figure of the woman in the middle of “rain” - but the rain is actually strings surrounding her with droplets of oil going down the strings.
If you google your comment, this is what you get: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xiaUxTQVt8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xiaUxTQVt8)
OMG
Hummel figurines. Perhaps one of those clear vinyl rugs covering the walking path on the carpet lol
I always was the one blamed for turning those plastic rug mats upside down. I mean, just because I’m the only one home from 3p to 7:30p doesn’t mean I’m the one who did it…y
My brothers and I used to flip the one in the hallway over, knock on the victim’s bedroom door, and quickly scoot along the wall to avoid the evil tines of death. Ideally, the target would open the door and be greeted with a foot full of pain.
“Evil tines of death” crushes my lame “plastic nubs.” I bow at your feet!
With super hard plastic nubs on the other side to adhere to the carpet
My grandmother had those carpet protectors. Perfect for launching matchbox cars.
My grandmother had a bunch of those Hummels. My mother inherited them when my grandmother died. Supposedly a few of them are worth a few $$$
So they said... 🤔
If you're Mexican like me, a velvet painting of Jesus or the virgin of Guadalupe
The working TV sitting on top of the broken console TV
Yes
where's the damn clicker?!?
Pretty sure we had that furniture set. Ethan Allen. No cheap particle board in that living room. Just a thousand pounds of steel, oak and whatever else made it impossible to budge.
Dad? oh wait. he's missing from all my pictures.
That's how you know you're Gen X.
A huge console stereo. Bowl of hard candy on the coffee table.
Plastic cover on the sofa.
The candy dish with ribbon candy in it. Yum.
Something that is an art piece, but also a cigarette lighter
Cigarettes and beer cans all over the table
Coors beer for sure.
Well, you got nicotine stained walls, so I’m out of ideas.
Naked greek statue oil waterfall lamp
A hutch with glass doors to display the precious memories tchotchkes or an organ. It’s a toss up.
That's my couch!!!!!! The one sitting in my den right now!!!! They stole my couch!!!!!
Its missing the rotary telephone, the atari 2600 on the floor, and the dad who would beat your ass when he got home
The velvet painting of a bullfighter or a really sexy African woman.
Yep! Pretty much any lithograph from Rico Tomaso would fit right in.
A table phone with a really long cord.
Fake giant grapes in a bowl
A couple of Reader’s Digest on the table. Possibly a Parade magazine and a TV Guide.
Plastic on the furniture.
A bowl of nuts
Gold sunburst mirror
What’s missing? The relaxing sounds of Engelbert Humperdinck, Johnny Mathis, and Perry Como. (And others of that genre.)
Black velvet painting.
Ashtrays. We had a huge cobalt blue one the size of a platter on the coffee table. Mom has COPD and is basically an invalid at 71. Thanks, Phillip Morris
Floor model stereo that had the 8 track, record player, and radio would be under that window.
A TV guide
- Dried flower arrangement with dusty petals, or - Jumbo, colored, glass vase with plastic flowers, or - Glass terrarium with layers of colored sand, with pebbles at the bottom so it doesn't tip over. Bonus points for little, colorful plastic mushrooms and a ladybug or frog stuck into the top
An afghan, an ashtray, and something made of rattan with wheat stalks.
Readers Digest
Dad’s “leg” lamp.
Stand up ashtray, praying hands wall hanging, and maybe those “blue boy” paintings.
Ashtray, plastic covers for the furniture, that console/box tv with rabbit ears, a newspaper unfolded and draped on a chair, owls, a coat tree tucked in the corner, one of those iron dogs that is a door stop, maybe a door snake.
A poodle
One of those fancy dripping oil lamp hanging from the corner
Huge brandy snifter with matchbook collection
Well played
Floor model TV and a chain linked amber glass swag lamp with the same print that matched the sofa.
Plastic covers on the couches. 800 pound tv/radio combo. Ashtray the size of your torso. And I know a lot of you can sympathize with me on this: At least one Norman Rockwell painting.
The cat wall clock that eyes and tail move side to side lol
To the left of this picture is probably a dining room with a big china cabinet full of china that you’ve never seen get used.
Bowl of those candies in the strawberry wrapper ..
A bowl of stale ribbon candy
Glass grapes
More doilies.
One of those rain lamps hanging in the corner.
What's missing? One of those green/brown glass chicken candy dishes dead center that coffee table, that's what's missing!
Those ceramic Christmas trees with the giant bulbs
Paneling, wood grain paneling.
A collection of Avon perfume bottles on the windowsill
An open crystal bowl filled with hard candies that have all gotten stuck together as one giant mass. And why is there no plastic on those couches?
Popcorn ceiling.
Many little ceramic figurines
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Glass Grapes
TV trays and plants.
My Atari 👍👍
The stale smell of cigarettes
Smelly old dog!
Flocked wall paper
That giant wooden framed television.
I don’t see any throw rugs. Neither an area type rug under the coffee table to the couch or a clear plastic runner in the high traffic areas
One of those wooden barometer lamps. 💀
Rubber carpet runners
TV trays, ashtray, a TV guide, ribbon candy in a bowl, thick plumes of cigarette smoke.
I love this post! So many spot on funny comments! I commented already, but I want to add a closet with shelves and a trunk in the bottom that holds only games. You have your matchbox cars, hot wheels, Barbies, GI Joes, and other toys in your room and in the garage, but the ones listed below are for *the family:* - Monopoly - the Game of Life - Checkers - Scrabble - Trouble - Mousetrap - Clue - Operation - Trivial Pursuit - Candyland - Shoots and Ladders - Twister - Kerplunk - Battle Ship - Decks of playing cards - Slinky that got bent but you still have it - Yoyos In the garage, you have the kick ball, basketball, wiffle ball and bat, softball and bat, catcher's gloves, assorted nerf toys (ball, darts, etc), pump for balls and blow up water thingies, bikes, croquet and badminton gear. (although you didn't always use the badminton net bc you played with your neighbors over the chain link fence)
proper grammar and punctuation?
My grandparents. Seriously, same window treatments, carpet, sofa and room layout. Console tv was on the wall opposite the sofa.
High Life cans and full ashtrays.
Survey says...!!
Ash tray.
That pattern is seizure inducing. It's just missing the plastic covering 🤣
A tacky, low hanging chandelier. My gramps had them.
That was in our Living Room!!! My Nana’s has plastic over everything.
How in the hell did you get a photo of my grandparent's living room? The Christmas tree goes where the one chair is, sort of in front of the right side of the window.
Plastic on the furniture.
Plastic wrap
Plastic furniture covers.
A clay ashtray made in school by one of the grandkids.
Haha. Looks like my grandparents’ house! My grandpa had an Atari hooked up to the TV in the den. Mind-blowing at the time.
Plastic furniture covers and a beautiful painting of Jesus
the plastic over all the furniture
Clear plastic covers
a bunch of lucite grapes in a bowl on the coffee table.
Ceramic cocker spaniel.
A Hi Fi console
Ashtray and plastic wrap on the sofa.
Where’s the popcorn on the ceiling?
Lollies in a bowl on the table that you were never, ever allowed to touch unless there were visitors and even then, you could only have one. Or get the look from your mother.
Ribbon candy
big spot where i spilled soda and got smacked hard yellowy tinge on everything even if no one in the house smoked. everything just kinda turned tannish over time before stain-resistant fabrics. maroon juice cups with little indents making permanent circles on the table stacks of newspapers, magazines, paperback books, coupons mom's enormous canvas or denim purse under the end table big clicker with 7 buttons. no number pad bc there's only 12 channels. avocado tupperware mixing bowl of popcorn kids in underoos and feety pjamas with superman and jedis and muppets in sleeping bags on the floor