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!

Spin dryer

I still use the A-Z when in London (as a pedestrian), and have several more for more local towns and cities. I have hundreds of OS maps, so it might just be that I am a map nerd.

Queuing up at the bank to draw money out. Queuing up to pay the gas and the leccy and radio rentals. I only survived those boring Saturday mornings with my mum because i knew there'd be a wimpy cheeseburger after.

@FrancisCrawford were they things you put on the arms of a sofa?

Mountain Rescue , RNLI and Coastguard still use pagers.

Ahem - I use a number of these things

Being charged more for long-distance phone calls, but it cost less after 6pm.

Before drink cans had ring-pull tops you had to have a little hand held spanner type device to puncture two holes in the top of the can

I have one of these in my kitchen drawer. I use it for tins of condensed milk when baking

Still use cheques to pay trades people / self employed

Use paper diaries at work

We used an Internet cafe on holiday for printing off our return tickets

Emergent heater / fixed dial telephone /VHS tapes / cassette player and a lot of other things were still being used by my parents until a couple of months ago.

Most of these alibe and we’ll in the NHS- treasury tags, faxes, dictaphones with cassettes. I could go on!!

Argh auto correct alive and well...

Old metal dustbins, before the wheely bin.

Cookers with an eye level grill and a big oven door with a glass door behind it and a big storage place at the bottom for pans

Luncheon vouchers.

Crikey, I feel ancient reading that list.
I still have and use a twin tub washing machine. It will be a sad day for me when that old girl finally bows out.
I also have my grandmother's washing machine. It is a Hoover, square metal one with an electric mangle on the top, one of the first electric washing machines that was made in the 1930's I believe. I still use it for bedding.
I have coal fired central heating.

smoothes down crimpolene frock and adjusts hair net

Dolly blue for whites ( laundry )
Fancy patterned net curtains.
Austrian blinds.

Banking deposit books.
Typewriters
Shorthand
Disc cameras

"Ration books" they might be back in a couple of months.

"Rickets" nope

www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/23/poorer-children-disproportionately-need-hospital-treatment

"I felt like a time traveller." 😂

"Anti-macassars" my mum still has these and gets new ones regularly - where the fuck she gets then I don't know!

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

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"Not really obsolete but not as common - vests and petticoat. I never used to wear a skirt without one." My mum bemoans that even m&s don't do a decent range of these any more so I get her them for birthdays etc a small "private joke" gift, I forgot birthday last year & got told off!

"Manual telephone exchanges.

Still in use today, but In very specialised places ( military establishments, nuclear bunkers)" yes I was thinking similarly re treasury tags, floppy discs & fax machines. Interesting to see nhs still very much using but actually makes sense as not hackable.

Surprised to see people saying watches! Dd and her friends very into theirs, dd has 3 and they're very much a fashion "thing" for men at the moment too

"Manual sphygmomanometers" the almost automatic acceptance that an autosphygs read is correct drives me bonkers! I still don't trust them.

@FrancisCrawford.

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Manners?

Tobuyornot99

Back boilers / emergen heaters
Ration books

If you mean an immersion heater, loads of people still have these.

Husbands!

Rolladex - rotating index cards with telephone numbers.
Floppy disks.