Don’t you wish you’d kept …?

[callmemadam]

© eBay seller

When I was at school I loved to read Honey magazine to drool over all the Mary Quant clothes I couldn’t afford to buy. Nostalgia for the era seems to know no limits. This copy of Honey from 1965 has just sold on eBay for £78.99. Blimey!

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[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

For young teenagers, it was madly aspirational.

Of course, I kept all my Young Elizabethans, which nobody wants, but I do like to have them.

Don't you wish you'd kept...?

[(Anonymous)]

Blimey O'Riley indeed. To think I just threw all my copies away (not so hot on recycling in those days). The thing I remember most about Honey apart from the fashion was the elephant jokes. eg Q. How many elephants can you get in a mini? A. 4. Two in the front seats and two in the back. These were always accompanied by lovely pen drawings.
Wee sister

Re: Don't you wish you'd kept...?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Yes! I'd forgotten those jokes until you mentioned them.

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

My mother kept all hers - boxes and boxes of them - and then took them to the dump when they moved house 5 years ago. I can't bear to think about it!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Oh no! They'd have been useful for the Fashion Student, apart from their value.

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly - it was when Rosie was first showing an interest that I asked. I think that Mother just had a rush of blood to the head when they were going to move - the house was so full of books and everything. Such a shame, though ...

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

What kind of kid leaves the toy on a comic? Weird kids, that's who.

Edit: I've just looked up issue #1 of School Fun on eBay, as I know I had that, and it's offered for £1.50 with no bids. So no regrets except I wouldn't mind reading it again.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

There's a Calvin & Hobbes strip in which Hobbes asks Calvin how his collection will ever be valuable if every kid in America is buying two copies and storing them away in bags. Calvin explains that they're all relying on the other guy's mom to throw them away.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ha! Remember Bill Bryson and the bubblegum cards?

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

No! Never even heard of it.

[gghost.livejournal.com]

I always jars me a bit when I hear my daughter describing things from the 'sixties and 'seventies (and sometimes the 'eighties) as "vintage." In my day, that was how we described things from the first half of the nineteenth century. Just another sign that I'm getting old, I guess.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Join the club!

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I can only hope that amongst all my junk there is one of those!!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately they're not all worth that much! I think this one had some particularly iconic photos: Patti Boyd, frex.

Honey

[(Anonymous)]

My parents had a newsagent's shop in the 1950s and 1960s (well, up to 1962) and I remember the launch of Honey which I absolutely loved! I also had Young Elizabethan and I only wish I had those copies now (I managed to buy three on Abe but they were £10 each and that was a few years ago!) I also loved Nova when that was launched in the early 1960s. I would love to have the early copies of Honey today, but at £78, no way!
Margaret P

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[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Fear not, they don't all fetch £78.00! I'd love to have some, I must say.
There were lots of Young Elizabethan mags offered on eBay just recently and nobody bought them! They were mostly ones I already had, or I'd have been snapping them up.
You must have seen the launches of lots of new comics. I remember my sister had the very first issue of Princess.