Refrigerator, stove, and (if you were lucky) a dishwasher.

Avocado, brown, and baby shit gold were the ‘70s in a nutshell.

My first place after college was a 10 x 50 mobile home with TURQUOISE appliances, sinks, and bathtub. Yikes, that was weird. I think that was more a ‘60s or even late ‘50s travesty, though. I suppose that could be why the ‘70s went the opposite direction.

Water Bed

I’ve had a full-motion waterbed for eons. My cats support me in the fact it’s the best sleep ever—especially with cool weather coming, though I think last winter was the only time in the last couple decades I've had the heat on for more than two weeks (Florida).

and orange shag carpeting in the upstairs bedrooms and hallway. Needless to say, those things are gone now. Never had any macrame. We did have a hanging spider plant for awhile in the '70s but that was because if we hadn't hung it up the cat would have eaten it.

We can fill this up real fast

My Dad smoked 4 packs of Viceroy cigs a day. Mom didn't smoke. (He died at 72 she died at 89.)

Wallpaper with BIG FLOWERS! It would match either the gold or avacado green appliances. I remember that in our kitchen, with those puke gold appliances.

An 18" version.
It's modern so it doesn't have the toxic carbon tetrachloride in it.

I didn't test the fluid. I had read that the old composition can't be sold in the US. For quite a long time.
So, I looked up the new formula.
Way less dangerous than they used to be.

I never took it when I got married, so my sister kept it.
It got knocked off the dresser & the odor was bad.
So, my parents called me.
I went over there (about a half hour drive). I walked in and knew instantly it was either chloroform or carbon tet.
I told my sister to stay a out of her room.
Went to work, (my labs were inside of a large manufacturing facility), talked to the off-shift safety gut and he gave me a spill kit and a respirator. Went back and soaked everything up with activated carbon & silica gel. Jarred it, took it back to work, and put it in the hazardous disposal overpack.
What a hassle over a lava lamp.
BTW: My new & improved one is on about 5 feet from where I'm sitting right now!
talked to

Our kitchen appliances were brown instead of avocado green.

Also had a sphere-shaped Panasonic transistor radio. That was avocado green.

My wife still has her old avocado green sphere transistor radio, and it works

The couch would have wooden accents and the pattern would have been some type of gaudy print fabric

My grandmother made it for me - along with several others. It's not on the couch anymore. I've stored them in a cedar chest. They'll probably stay there until I die and my son can do whatever he wants with them. (I expect he'll just throw them away.)

My husband was into macrame in the 70's (we were in high school and college that decade). He made several plant hangers and a hanging table with a glass top. I still have the plant hangers and am using one now for a spider plant.

at the resale shop back room. i should have saved both. carrot man at the farmer's market grabbed my sleeve w/ a smile. i save granny afghans at estate sales. ebayed a few.

I really wish they would make a comeback. How many times can I post? This is fun.

Go to Etsy & search for peace signs. I bought a pack of peace sign buttons. Ebay probably has them, too.

Now, oh, the horror.

They were everywhere.

And....


Egg/pod/globe chairs!

or that crap green color. Ugh.

I always hated those. They're ugly & not comfortable.

My mother made me a stark white macrame hanging table with a glass top & was hurt when I rejected it. I hated but I told her my landlord would never let me put a hook in the ceiling & that was true, but she was still hurt.

To this day my kids hate that color.

Harvest Gold

Lined with shag carpeting, and usually with throw pillows all around. Bonus points if you also had one of those funnel-shaped fireplace-and-chimney combos.

had sectional sofas all the way around. No orgy pit for him. Thank you Aristus.

Them shag rugs don't arrange theyselfs, y'know!

then. Thanks electric_blue68.

..."artsy-crapsy."

Yes I still have my avocado fondue pot. The grandkids love having chocolate fondue Christmas Eve.

My niece cut her teeth on the wooden fruit in the bowl. Too cute!

Macrame, framed crewel and pillows, counted cross-stitch thingies.

... also maybe "shocking pink" bath towels and a shag toilet seat cover.

Oh, and tinted toilet paper.

...a house from another Air Force family that was leaving for a new assignment. They had purchased the house when mortgage rates were 18%, and had not been able to do anything to update the then-18 yr old house. The kitchen had appliances in all 3 of the autumn colors - one harvest gold, one avocado green and one in whatever the coppery color was called. I no longer remember which appliance was which color, just how awful it was. We replaced them all with plain old white as soon as we could.

Our current next-door neighbors have been in their house for at least almost 3 years. They are the 3rd owners. They have a semicircular window in the first floor en suite bathroom, which we can see from the side window in our primary bedroom. It is covered with a bright orange and yellow afghan knitted in that common zigzag pattern. It's really ugly, and to make matters worse, it appears to be held up just by thumbtacks or the like, so it hangs in a very droopy, uneven, scalloped fashion that makes it look extra fugly. I see it every time I pull into our driveway, or go to the backyard to fill the bird feeder, or walk down the driveway to the mailbox. It's really annoying.

I've resisted the temptation to anonymously leave one of those fan-type paper window shades on their front door step, mostly because I'm sure they'd know it was me, seeing as it's only from our house that this tacky, makeshift window covering can be seen.

ROTARY PHONE! i have a rotary phone.

using it in the kitchen. but it didn't work w/ the new digital land line. : (

the princess touchtone died

...I thought of beanbag chairs.

missing. So I threw it out and the next day it was gone. Did you have one?

Probably around '75 so she was about 8. (She's nearly 11 years younger than me)
She was a little bitty thing, so for her, it was more like a beanbag bed.
My parents threw it out when it started leaking.

That was better known as the Atari 2600, but it didn't get that name until 1982.

The 2600 had the cartridges with different games, and that console ran from 1979-1992. The earlier Atari was Home Pong which played only the one game and was released in 1975. I played that at a neighbor's house a few times, it was cool at the time. There is retro interest in the 2600, but only the really hardcore retro gamers will have any interest in pong. We had a whole TV devoted to Atari in the basement, but that was the early 80s by then.

When I was in college it was popular to use an old wooden electrical spool as a coffee table. I think telephone companies used them to wrap cable.

Also this poster

of a large pizza.

Lots of hanging 🪴’s

I always thought it was fugly... LOL

bongs.

So you could just swing it to the next person and not have to go through the trouble of walking it over