Aye. As you’ll recall, you used to be able to buy ciggies from vending machines in stations and outside newsagents. Think most of these got converted to selling boxes of poppet sweets.
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Hopefully not Arsenal!
Next fad…chopper bikes
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Flares.
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Now just stop it… I’d love one!
Gosh, this thread takes me back - I remember when I was 11, my 17 year old brother used to send me to the shops for 10 Embassy, a packet of Keiller butterscotch and a Daily Telegraph Newspaper.
We came from a family that read The Mirror, so just buying the DT was a bit of a teenage rebellion! 
I loved sitting beside my bro, sucking butterscotch and trying to help him solve the DT Cryptic Crossword, while he smoked his cigarettes, with his feet up on the mantle shelf - I felt so grown up if I managed to solve a few clues! 
Happy Days!
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Punk rock , glam rock , cereal that tasted like cereal and not cardboard, woolworths, FS1E’s
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Pachouli oiled leathers
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Green Shield stamps? I still use tools that I got with those stamps they used to come with particular brands of cigarettes as well as general shopping.
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Didn’t Green Shield become Argos?
I had a Davy Crockett hat like all my mates.
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Coloured vinyl and picture discs became popular at the end of the 70s. I had The Stranglers four track ep in pink and Abbey Road in green.
I think that The Police released Message in a Bottle in a dark blue if I remember correctly, it certainly had a picture cover.
I love Pachouli oil.
What about peacock feathers in your house as decoration? I remember that being a huge thing in the 70’s, vases of them in peoples houses. I thought they were so exotic as a kid, and wanted them so badly.
Patchouli oil works pretty well in the little burners that people use for wax melts, just add water and few drops of oil, a little goes a long way although I do enjoy that distinctly earthy aroma.
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Yeah, I haven’t used it like that…its an idea! :thinking I had it in incense. I did put a couple of drops on my skin once as a scent, and my daughter said I smelled like mud…
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Ha! It’s not to everyone’s taste.
We used to rub it into our leather bike jackets as Jaded has already mentioned , the air used to get very hot and sweaty in the mosh pits but the patchouli always won through. 
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Oh the days of moshing… 
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Indeed although I wouldn’t attempt it now!
I’m really not an impulse buyer but I couldn’t resist ordering a bottle of patchouli oil, I simply had to, just under £3.50 and arriving tomorrow…far out 
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SAME!! omg, too funny
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Space dust - the sweet powder you put on your tongue and it crackled away
Spangles - square boiled sweets with dimples either side that you sucked until the dimples joined and made a hole through the middle
Adidas Samba trainers
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greenshield stamps! We had a lovely dinner service courtesy of greenshields stamps from Tesco
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