12 Brilliant Things 1960s British Homes Had That We Stupidly Threw Away

A teak sideboard worth £2,000 left in a skip. A ceiling clothes airer plastered over during a renovation. A carpet sweeper that still works today sitting in landfill somewhere. We had all of it. Every British home in the 1960s had some version of every single item in this video. And we threw it away. Not because it was broken. Because we thought something newer and cheaper was better. We were wrong about nearly all of it. 12 things. 12 decisions we made between the 1960s and the 1990s that we are still paying for — sometimes literally, at antiques fairs and reclamation yards — today.