I grew up on a council estate – people started takeaways from their houses & my mum sent me to get her fags with a note

A WOMAN who grew up on a council estate has shared an insight into her unique upbringing.

Carly explained that whenever she tells her friends about her former home, it "absolutely bewilders" them.

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But after seeing someone else's video, she got "nostalgic" and decided to do one of her own.

In the TikTok, Carly shared some of the "niche" things about her upbringing, including her mum sending her to the shop "with a note that said, 'Please give Carly 20 Berkeley menthols', and a signature and a tenner".

She laughed that she would hand the note to the shopkeeper and she would "give me the fags for my mum".

Carly continued to share her "absolute favourite", when a "man over the road opened up a takeaway from his kitchen".

"He'd open his kitchen window and you just ask for what you want," she said.

"He'd go to Costco and buy sweets and cans and toasties and burgers and chips and donor meat!"

When it came to garden parties, Carly said that hers growing up were "elite".

"Everyone has garden parties, but it's just not like a council garden party," she insisted.

"All the adults will be sat on a wall and all the kids are in this freezing cold pool that took 8 hours to fill up with the outside tap.

"And anyone could walk past and join in.

"You'd know there was a party because mum would have 8 speakers spaced around the garden playing UB40.

"People would just walk past and join in.

"Like, someone would just be walking to the shop, see the party, join in and then not go home!"

Living on the estate meant there was a lot of "drama" to watch on a Sunday morning, after everyone "had been out drinking".

But the camaraderie between those living on the estate meant that they were often send to their neighbours to borrow things.

"And it'd be the most random things," Carly laughed.

"Have you got a Scart lead? Have you got a universal TV remote? Have you got a belt that will match this outfit?

"Tea bags, eggs, whatever. And like, Sunday morning, your mum would have no milk and the shop wasn't open yet, and you'd run over with a mug and be like, 'Hi, can I have a bit of milk for a morning coffee?'

"And they'd just take your cup in the kitchen, fill it with milk and bring it back and you be like, 'Didn't need all that, but thanks!'

"And then you did have to buy milk that day because you had a whole cup full."

Our trampoline was a 'free for all' - anyone's kid would go on it at any point"

Carly, TikTok

Carly's tale continued as she recalled the man who used to give them Penguin biscuits from his pocket, how everyone used to "feed everyone else's kids and it wasn't an issue", and how she used to get chased by dogs if she ever fell out with anyone.

"There were like one residential trampoline and we had it, and anyone's kid would just go on it at any point," she added.

"It was like a free for all.

"Now I feel like if you found random kids on a non school day on your trampoline, you'd be like 'what the f**k are you doing, get out!'

"Whereas we'd come home from a day out and there'd be like eight kids on the trampoline.

"We'd just go in the house and leave these kids to play, and then I'd go join in!

Concluding her upbringing tale, Carly remembered how coming home to "random animals" in her house was a regular occurrence for her.

"On two occasions, my mum brought random dogs home that she'd taken off of people for neglecting," she said.

One time she "crawled through a window" to rescue the dog, leaving the owner a note while doing so.

And when she heard about another dog being kept in a cupboard, she offered the owner £20, and "my mum's still got that dog to this day", she said.

"But, yeah, when I tell certain friends these stories, they're just like, Okkaaayyyy....." Carly laughed.

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