We're not sure where this came from but it ended up in our inbox--pages from a 1970's JC Penny Catalogue. Mint green carpet for the toilet, wine barrel dining room set, it's all so kitsch it's hard to believe that there was a time when this appealed to the masses.
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Are you kidding? The wine barrel table is perfect for a kids room...hook me up!
view hueandtimber's profile
Hahaha, holy shit. I admit, the mint green carpet is much worse than the wine barrel chairs, but they're both pretty bad.
view mmadden's profile
Wow, my friends had those wine barrel chairs in college! I'd recognize that diamond pattern anywhere. They were actually some pretty cool chairs, at least on the front porch, not in the dining room (that was where we put the table for beer pong).
view emilu's profile
I got the same email... It was quite funny.
And my grandmother's bathroom looked just like the picture, except hers was pink...LOL
view E's profile
Ah yes, the carpet on the toilet days.
view art's profile
I saw the email. My parents had that exact wood barrel table & chairs set in our downstairs family room for years. It was bomb-proof and kitschy and my siblings and I were sad when we were back home for a family event and it had left the house...about 5 years ago!
view Patrickinchicago's profile
Yes, the wine barrel chairs were all the rage with the hip young families back in the day. I saw many a set in basement rec rooms at sleepovers.. I wonder what became of them all...
view Charlotte's profile
Nothing like the smell of urine soaked shag in the morning
view hdtex's profile
Ah, such memories....When I was a wee tot, I would stand there and urinate directly ON to the carpeted toilet lid, because it soaked right in, and I assumed that it was going right through into the toilet.
My parents caught me and corrected me on my error in physics.
view btoddster's profile
I've seen toilet-lid carpet but never tank carpet. Yoiks.
view Risako's profile
Never, never, never. Not in the 70's, not ever! Key words, JC Penny.
btoddster had the right idea. P*** on it.
view momma's profile
Here's where it came from. The 15minutelunch blog. Excellent stuff, the rest of it too...
http://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2007/10/strap-in-shut-up-and-hold-on-were-going.html
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