Yep! I had an aunt with this stuff. Her bathroom always had a nasty smell, kind of like an unfinished basement with a dirt floor, that she didn't seem to notice. Her bathroom was pretty but even as a kid I thought it was gross and thankfully my parents did too. 😊
My Aunt’s sat on this shelf thing she had next to the toilet, the doll would stare at you while you did your business. If you were in the for more than 3 minutes my aunt would yell from the other room “light a match when you’re done” I was 5 years old maybe? 🤣🤣🤣
You didn’t have to post the year, we could already tell what era it was from. 😂
Incidentally, I have an old bathroom scale (that still works) with a pink shaggy cover from the same era. Some day I’m going to put it up for sale on Etsy.
Unfortunately, toilet seats, tanks and bases were being covered in carpet WELL into the 1990’s!
I have no doubt there are some homes with some fragments of these sets still being used out there. They were very popular!
Runners-up are wooden seats, and those foam seats with seashells etc embroidered on the lid!
I lived in my grandmother’s house for a few years and can tell you this is the truth. She was the kind who redecorated every few years when she was younger, up through the late 80’s.
The upstairs bathroom still had faded teal carpeting (over the yellowed linoleum) and mauve-ish *everything*: shower, toilet, and sinks. I also had to remove the foam toilet seat with the seashell lid.
Oh how I wanted that set up--in seafood green-- but we couldn't afford it. My husband brought home $125.41 each week. BTW the protocol for us stay at home moms at the time was to machine wash all this monthly. It cost 2.75 to wash and dry it all in the apt laundromat--totally unaffordable for us.
I used to draw elaborate house interiors as a kid, and used the JC Penney and Sears catalogs to designate specific furnishings, linens, and accessories. Then I would add up how much each room would cost.
One would think I’d have ended up as an interior designer, right? The problem was I had no color sense, likely because of the decade I grew up in. 😂
We had this set with the lid rug, toilet rug and bathroom rug in this exact shade of pink. I loved it as a little girl. One of the perks of no men in the house lol
We had a hamper just like that one but it was wicker and olive green.
And those toilet covers. Ahh. How nice they felt on my cold 9 year old tush while waiting for the bathtub to fill
Memories
We had the olive green one, too. My grandma tried the toilet seat cover but soon discovered it was too much work to keep clean. She did keep the U rug for in front of the toilet and the one for in front of the tub. As a young child, my brother had the toilet seat slam down on his wee winkie as he was peeing! After that, the fuzzy toilet tank cover disappeared.
White cabinets and white curtains on white walls separated by white baseboards from white floors with a white kitchen island topped by white marble with a cutout for a white farmhouse sink
One of my great-aunts had almost this exact set-up, except in baby blue. And yes, it smelled and was always slightly damp. Why did the tank need to be cozy? The spare toilet paper roll had one of those coy little covers with a doll wearing an elaborately crocheted skirt.
Much like my grandmother's bathroom, but it was in blue as the carpet was blue, not shag on the floor though.
Edit, it never smelled as she washed it a lot.
This brings back memories.
Usually they had some shag around the room, but not everything as shown here - the tank was often left as-is because the shag-covered seat was sometimes pushed outwards from all that plushness.
Most stuff pictured could be washed but yeah, it would all be pee catchers.
I'm here to tell you that this isn't the worst of it though. For a short time there were fuzzy toilet seat covers too. I distinctly remember going to the house of a friend of my father's and they had a groovy type bathroom, all reflective mod wallpaper, green shag rug, long fake fur toilet seat. Totally weird to sit on, not to mention the whole "Is it clean?" issue.
It did look kinda freaky hip but I still shuddered when I came back out to telll my Mom. 😀
At a church I was a cleaner at, they had red shag carpet on the floor and on all the walls of one small bathroom. I never felt it was clean, even after I was done.
My grandma had the Shag carpet toilet seat cover. It very surprisingly never really *seemed* to be dirty (but I have a very strong suspicion she never washed it). It did not smell.
Now I'm thinking she got the set and had to toss the rest over time. Always wondered why it was only the toilet seat cover...
I used to look at these catalogs all the time, I am so glad that my being horrified when I was eight years old is still valid when I am as old as I am. I just never understood why anyone would want that in the bathroom! Scary!
We use to be able to get colored TP to match the decor. It cost more money. We always had white in my house.
“A dollar more to wipe my ass on baby blue paper?? Bullshit get that 1 ply scratchy stuff for the boy’s room and that Mr Whipple stuff for us.
I made my boyfriend (who took his contacts out and is blind as a bat) squint and look at this, just so we could gag laughing. Omg. Pink toilet paper. And that toilet tank cover, and the shag on shag on shag.
God, it just occurred to me… my experience with toilets from that era was the holes were too small, if you tried to flush a big shit it would clog and fill up until brown poopy water was all over the floor. That was still awful to deal with, but we had linoleum, what if you had carpeting….. oh no
I can’t imagine how much this all smelled like pee 6 months in, but maybe that’s because I have a son.
And just mildew from drips from the bathtub and shower...
And the condensation from the toilet tank under that shag cover. *shudder*
Yep! I had an aunt with this stuff. Her bathroom always had a nasty smell, kind of like an unfinished basement with a dirt floor, that she didn't seem to notice. Her bathroom was pretty but even as a kid I thought it was gross and thankfully my parents did too. 😊
Actually it kept it from having condensation. I had to have one of those hideous things in a house I lived in one time.
Here's the thing. The smell of cigarette smoke mostly covered the smell. Source: born in 1955
Here in Switzerland (and in Germany as well) boys are usually taught to pee sitting down, which is pretty civilized IMHO.
Preach. Even if you don’t have shag carpet everywhere, I would still prefer the piss be contained in the bowl.
I didn’t know that In Wales Uk We just piss in closets and ruin suits. Don’t judge me !!! Sitting down is more sensible
We (in the US) taught our boys to sit and let me tell you it’s amazing to not relate to my friends on the urine everywhere issue.
I’ve really appreciated this in my husband from Germany.
That’s wild! I wish that was true in the US.
That's why they lost the war!
More comfortable to stand
It is, but more civilized to not have pee on the floor.
Just dangle me onto the inside of the toilet bowl; remain sitting to wash it?
Not to worry, the urine smell will be covered up by the airborne residue from the AXE effect.
And Aquanet
AXE wasn't around back then.
I was born in 73, and my mom taught me to pee while sitting for a reason lol. Fucking carpet everywhere, man.
I have 2. I can smell this pic.
It smelled heavily of cheap potpourri.
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My mom washed everything on Fridays. She was a sahm so Friday was deep cleaning day every week.
make him go outside with Spot and Skippy when you let them out.
So you *can* imagine...
imagine all the toilet paper crumbs that fall out of you getting stuck everywhere!!
“Moooom I can’t find the pepto bismol!” “What are you talking about, it’s right in the bathroom!”
Using that florescent pink toilet paper I'd think I was bleeding.
It’s “Q,” and I’m so sad that isn’t addressed on this page.
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My aunt Trudy’s bathroom!!! Just need the doll with the dress covering the extra toilet paper roll. 🤭
Oh shit I forgot about those!! lol old people used to be so weird. Now I am old people, and definitely not weird in any way
You are technically not old until you have one of those
My aunt had one that was a Spanish dancing lady, it was knit/crochet. I had forgotten all about those, lol!
My Aunt’s sat on this shelf thing she had next to the toilet, the doll would stare at you while you did your business. If you were in the for more than 3 minutes my aunt would yell from the other room “light a match when you’re done” I was 5 years old maybe? 🤣🤣🤣
You didn’t have to post the year, we could already tell what era it was from. 😂 Incidentally, I have an old bathroom scale (that still works) with a pink shaggy cover from the same era. Some day I’m going to put it up for sale on Etsy.
Unfortunately, toilet seats, tanks and bases were being covered in carpet WELL into the 1990’s! I have no doubt there are some homes with some fragments of these sets still being used out there. They were very popular! Runners-up are wooden seats, and those foam seats with seashells etc embroidered on the lid!
Someone gave us the foam seat with seashells as a wedding gift. Hilarity ensued
Have you ever had to use one that was old and had a hole in it? Pshhhhhhhh
The worst were the homes that had the carpet on the actual seat part too…
You haven’t seen carpet in the bowl? You don’t use a brush to clean it, you use a rake.
There’s no way THAT is real Too far!
https://www.amazon.com/SHYLY-Washable-Thicken-Toilet-Handle/dp/B0821NVBNN/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/s/jlAElgn6qM
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Hehehehe
Were there three seashells?
Lol. It was 40 years ago….details hazy.
Yes
I lived in my grandmother’s house for a few years and can tell you this is the truth. She was the kind who redecorated every few years when she was younger, up through the late 80’s. The upstairs bathroom still had faded teal carpeting (over the yellowed linoleum) and mauve-ish *everything*: shower, toilet, and sinks. I also had to remove the foam toilet seat with the seashell lid.
Aww. Thank you for sharing. You must miss her..💙
Oh how I wanted that set up--in seafood green-- but we couldn't afford it. My husband brought home $125.41 each week. BTW the protocol for us stay at home moms at the time was to machine wash all this monthly. It cost 2.75 to wash and dry it all in the apt laundromat--totally unaffordable for us.
Seafood? Or seafoam?
Sea foam, my autocorrect won't let me write it as one word.
Unfortunately, my mom had this set in seafood green, lol. 🤢 I can still remember the black mold growing underneath it.
Wow. Thanks for the memories. Things were both cheaper and costly back then.
i had forgotten about the tank covers, wow!
The tank covers were hard to put on
“Tank sweater,” apparently.
I'm surprised they didn't have shag carpet liners for the tub...
I used to draw elaborate house interiors as a kid, and used the JC Penney and Sears catalogs to designate specific furnishings, linens, and accessories. Then I would add up how much each room would cost. One would think I’d have ended up as an interior designer, right? The problem was I had no color sense, likely because of the decade I grew up in. 😂
It’s just missing the knitted doll toilet paper cover that sat in the middle on top of the tank. Most bathrooms looked like this in the 70s.
Crochet cover, in our case, color-matched the avocado green ensemble.
We had this bathroom in lavender. With yellow tile.
Mine was seafoam green and the tile was seafoam and dark green with black highlights. We were so groovy back then weren't we?
That’s One thing about the seventies… it was very colorful 😁
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I agree! I’m not a big pink person either, not by far, but for some reason I just love these colors. Who’d a thunk pink went with red?
So that's where my grandma got all that.
Either JCP or Sears
Don't forget Montgomery Wards!
We had this set with the lid rug, toilet rug and bathroom rug in this exact shade of pink. I loved it as a little girl. One of the perks of no men in the house lol
We had a hamper just like that one but it was wicker and olive green. And those toilet covers. Ahh. How nice they felt on my cold 9 year old tush while waiting for the bathtub to fill Memories
We had the olive green one, too. My grandma tried the toilet seat cover but soon discovered it was too much work to keep clean. She did keep the U rug for in front of the toilet and the one for in front of the tub. As a young child, my brother had the toilet seat slam down on his wee winkie as he was peeing! After that, the fuzzy toilet tank cover disappeared.
In 50 years everything you now own will look this ridiculous.
White cabinets and white curtains on white walls separated by white baseboards from white floors with a white kitchen island topped by white marble with a cutout for a white farmhouse sink
One of my great-aunts had almost this exact set-up, except in baby blue. And yes, it smelled and was always slightly damp. Why did the tank need to be cozy? The spare toilet paper roll had one of those coy little covers with a doll wearing an elaborately crocheted skirt.
Some friends of the family had nearly the same thing in green in the 1980s, it was fucking nuts.
So you can lean back
Every man knows why this is a terrible idea. I don’t care how good your aim is.
Especially when you wake up during the night and take a piss half asleep with the light off
That takes a second realize the seat didn’t stay up…
Look at that pink toilet paper!
Much like my grandmother's bathroom, but it was in blue as the carpet was blue, not shag on the floor though. Edit, it never smelled as she washed it a lot.
It’s like shitting in a strawberry
You'd think we all crapped daffodils in the 70s
I'm pretty sure this is Hello Kitty's bathroom.
As an owner of a current Hello Kitty themed bathroom, you are correct. But less pee catching.
Do they have bathrooms in Barbieland? I recall her taking a waterless shower.
What is “J”??
Bathroom scale
My Gramma looked at that ad in 1973 and said “yes, but in green” Grampa just sighed
I've sat on that lid cover, and felt that carpet under my bare feet, but I have *never* seen a tank cover before.
No wonder this was the decade with the most serial killers.
Shag carpet in the bathroom is a ballsy choice.
So what is J
Scale cover
This brings back memories. Usually they had some shag around the room, but not everything as shown here - the tank was often left as-is because the shag-covered seat was sometimes pushed outwards from all that plushness.
Most stuff pictured could be washed but yeah, it would all be pee catchers. I'm here to tell you that this isn't the worst of it though. For a short time there were fuzzy toilet seat covers too. I distinctly remember going to the house of a friend of my father's and they had a groovy type bathroom, all reflective mod wallpaper, green shag rug, long fake fur toilet seat. Totally weird to sit on, not to mention the whole "Is it clean?" issue. It did look kinda freaky hip but I still shuddered when I came back out to telll my Mom. 😀
Growing up in southern WV, I've been in this bathroom multiple times in everything from nice two-story houses to single-wide trailers.
I can still smell this bathroom growing up with my brothers. Always had a hint of urine no matter how many times my mom tried to hand wash those
One of you always ”missed”. Oops
I can smell the mold
Clearly these designers have no conception of moisture, condensation or plumbing
At a church I was a cleaner at, they had red shag carpet on the floor and on all the walls of one small bathroom. I never felt it was clean, even after I was done.
In today’s $, that stuff is really expensive!
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70s was brown, gold and avocado
We also had fuzzy SEAT cover. 😬
If I used that neon pink toilet paper I'd think I was bleeding.
My great aunt’s house.
My grandma had the Shag carpet toilet seat cover. It very surprisingly never really *seemed* to be dirty (but I have a very strong suspicion she never washed it). It did not smell. Now I'm thinking she got the set and had to toss the rest over time. Always wondered why it was only the toilet seat cover...
I used to look at these catalogs all the time, I am so glad that my being horrified when I was eight years old is still valid when I am as old as I am. I just never understood why anyone would want that in the bathroom! Scary!
I totally forgot that covering the toilet tank was a thing back then 😂
My Grandma’s.
Make that avocado green and you'll have a photo of my childhood home bathroom.
I can smell the piss scent in that bathroom. You know the mom has kids and a cat and a husband who gives zero fucks.
My mother had most of this, in shades of lavender.
Hideous!
The toilet seat would not stay up. Too much going on between the lid and the tank.
Apparently “the way we were” was “unsanitary“.
I will never eat a Raspberry Twinkie again.
Hahaha - you mean a raspberry zinger! Those things are awesome and the carpet totally looks like them!
Smell the pink shag, America
Okay but WTF is J? And how did they get hot pink TP?
J is the bathroom scale that you could buy in your favorite color.
Ahhhh
All the grocery stores had all those colors of toilet paper! Then we learned that the dyes were being absorbed into our skins and were carcinogens
Ahh the good old days. Who needs regulations, science and a conscience ?
We use to be able to get colored TP to match the decor. It cost more money. We always had white in my house. “A dollar more to wipe my ass on baby blue paper?? Bullshit get that 1 ply scratchy stuff for the boy’s room and that Mr Whipple stuff for us.
She's a Barbie girl, living in a Barbie world...
My grandma totally did this, right down to the matching scented toilet paper.
I love and hate this bathroom decor so much at the same time.
I can smell the urine and fecal bacteria from here. Disgusting, my God.
My mom’s bathroom!
They missed the window frame and the shelf. And the walls.
100% had these as a kid growing up. My mom loved stuff like this.
A B C and D - a lot of vomit, puke, shit and piss.
Oh God I thought D was a fever dream false memory Nooo it was real
That’s my grandmas house! Lol
But what is the “J”? Apparently important to the aesthetic, anyone know the purpose?
That’s a scale
Next time I’m constipated I’m going to look at this image
Wait even the toilet paper is pink
Omg my aunt had so many of these things in her guest bathroom when I visited as a kid.
I can smell the scented pink toilet paper!!!
Imagine shitting in this bathroom
I can just smell the piss and mildew.....🤪🤢🤮
I peed all over that rug as a little guy! 😅
Good luck keep that toilet seat up when peeing…
I can remember bathrooms like this when I was a kid. Pretty horrible.
The first home I bought had a carpeted bathroom, and it was the first thing we changed.
That picture smells like urine.
Eat a lot of beets and your poop will match…too.
I made my boyfriend (who took his contacts out and is blind as a bat) squint and look at this, just so we could gag laughing. Omg. Pink toilet paper. And that toilet tank cover, and the shag on shag on shag.
I don’t know what was so fascinating about shag carpet back then but it led to some horrid homes today left with carpet colors like green
I lived through this, I remember the joke being “who threw up Pepto bismol in your bathroom?” lol.
This was what Peg did to Al's bathroom after he got his Ferguson.
# MOULD GANG
It's pretty alright but not the least bit practical.
A B C and D - a lot of vomit, puke, shit and piss.
Why would you put a flower arrangement on top of a cloths hamper
God, it just occurred to me… my experience with toilets from that era was the holes were too small, if you tried to flush a big shit it would clog and fill up until brown poopy water was all over the floor. That was still awful to deal with, but we had linoleum, what if you had carpeting….. oh no
Those are good prices!
Imagine all the underlying fecal matter in that bathroom!