Obsolete things

[FourEyesGood]

Please can you help me? I’m trying to compile a list of things that are now obselete, like fax machines and VHS tapes. (They don’t have to be technology-based, though.) This is for an amateur film I’m loosely involved in planning.
Thanks!

Just thought of another one: cheque books!

You can still get lion bars

Sanitary towel incinerators in women’s toilets
Phone cards
Radios with a built in cassette player

My children's schools all have blackboards as does the classroom I teach in. I also use fax machines, cheque books and video rental stores!

• men's sock suspenders
• spats
• phone cards for public payphone
• ink wells
• umbrella repair shops
• ceramic hot water bottles
• carpet sweepers

Red traffic lights that have STOP written on them in black

I still use Tippex.

What about darning mushrooms, Tilley lamps and fondue sets?

Cheque books and faxes aren't obsolete. Obsolescent maybe, but still plenty around.

I wonder what the demise of directories such as yellow pages will do to the genealogists of the future? I've loved finding ancestors in old directories.

Hostess trolleys
Anti-macassars

Thermometers with mercury which go under ones tongue. We’ve still got one with degrees in Fahrenheit

Christmas - I used a darning mushroom the other day to mend some cashmere bedsocks. They are too warm and unitchy to throw away.

Wind up clocks. Hall telephone tables. Wall mounted can openers.

Cinefilm
Dictaphones
Typewriters

Glass inners in thermos flasks

Floppy disks for computers. 3 inch and 5 inch floppies. Also zip disks never really caught on.

Sony mini disks.

Bookplates

My parents have a coal fire and an emersion heater! Defo not obsolete in older houses!

I don't know anyone other than my Grannie who still writes cheques!

Annoyance - my work computer still takes floppy disks!

ChristmaspArti I long for my mum’s darning mushroom... I have to use a plastic bottle or something when darning socks 😢

We also have (and use!) a fondue set.

Obsolete things I can think of include cine cameras...

Re the plastic rain hoods they were called Rain-mates sold in hairdressers.

Cagoules still exist my LO had one for days out in sunmer with out of school care.

Manual indicator flags instead of lights on a car.

Encyclopedias
Stove top chip pans

Not really obsolete but not as common - vests and petticoat. I never used to wear a skirt without one.

Micesqueekcatsmeaow, we had those single glazed lead windows painted in peeling white paint until December! They were the original ones from the house being built (1950’s). We can’t get over how warm the newly glazed house is or how smart and clean it looks!

Anyway here is my list:
Paper diaries (Photobox are stopping them as there is no market for them apparently. Apart from DH and my mum)
VHS and Cassette
Talcum powder
DVD’s and CD’s (almost)
Watches
Pocket camera / disposable camera

White dog poo...

Tvs on trolleys we used to have in schools

Overhead projectors

Answer phones

Pagers

Monorail at chessington

Watches