Things that disappeared, without you realising?

[jennymanara]

What things have disappeared in society, and you did not notice until much later?
So when I was young in every shopping street you would see old women wearing coloured polyester macs and headscarves. And then one day I suddenly realised that I had not seen a woman wearing this kind of clothing for a long time.
The same with plastic rainhoods. You used to see these for sale in newsagents, and elderly women would wear them when caught unaware by the rain. Again disappeared.

Shawls. My Nan had loads of lovely ones she would wrap me up in if the gas fire hadn’t heated the room up properly

Stone cladding

Those elephant ornaments- think there were three in a row?

Plenty of white dog poo where we live. Think it’s white from the sun bleaching it and no fucker picking up after their dogs though

Pollards. Loved pollards when leg warmers were in fashion as they had all colours under the rainbow

I'm 34 and I have a landline. I love mine. I have a mobile but I hate the bloody thing. I have a near phobia of mobiles ringing(for reasons) and though I use it occasionally I prefer to let people call my landline and keep mobiles for occasional calls, I hate being available to anyone anywhere.

@ADrabLittleCrab

My car is covered in insect corpses. Its lovely 🤢

Chocolate wafers with proper chocolate between the layers. Lovely.

Chocolate mix that you could make into hot choc or milkshakes. Was like granulated coffee. I used to sneek spoonfuls of it to eat.

I remember as a child in Scotland if someone on the street was getting married everyone came out to see the bride and kids would hover waiting for the scramble

I hate being available to anyone anywhere
You dont have to be though. I regularly put ' do not disturb ' on my mobile . It gives you an option to let certain numbers through if you want.If I'm out walking for the day I put it on but only allow calls from Ds or Dp through for example.
I regularly put it on between certain hours. It's less intrusive than a landline.
I dont see the point in paying twice for phones. If I'm paying for a mobile there mo point paying again for another phone.

Karvol capsules. They disappeared one time, went searching and was told by the pharmacist that Karvol doesn’t exist anymore. It’s quietly vanished.

Knitted dollies over the loo roll. Mats around sink and loo. Nighties that electrocuted you as you got into them. Lots of brown and orange clothes.

I know I can put do not disturb on but I hate mobiles generally. I'm grateful for them because they're incredibly useful but I hate them to the point of a near phobia and I like mine to be kept as far as possible from me. I sometimes don't look at mine for days. I prefer friends to contact me via my landline or on messengers that I used

Speaking of Perriots, these smirking masks with chalk-white skin, gaudy decorations and dead, empty eyeholes hung in every house when I was a kid - including my own. Baffling.

Food vans! We used to get a chip van and a sweet van on our estate!

Phone boxes

We used to have an ice cream can in the playground at high school every lunch time imagine the outrage these days😂

Ornaments,do people still have ornaments on shelves and mantle pieces? I don't .

Sniv....my Nan still has three of these masks on the wall.

Plus:

• Dado rail with different wallpaper below and above the rail
• Flocked wallpaper
• Swirly artexed ceilings
• Carpet in the bathrooms
• Nets
• Curtains with a fancy pelmet
• uPVC windows with 'pretend' leaded window effect and pretend stained glass flowers in the top bits
• Lots of porcelain ladies in dresses

I have ornaments but not in the same way as my parents I don't think....

I don't have a mantle but the sideboard in the same kind of place has a bronze dog and a 17th century Nepalese carving.

@Sniv

Oh god they used to scare the crap out of me. I'm fairly sure that there's a set still lurking in my parent's house. I'd managed to forget all about them.

Aldi and Morrison’s sell Ringo’s up here in the frozen North. DC1 has a bag after swimming yesterday. I don’t like them so I’m getting the kids to eat them!

Elderly people with calipers on their legs, due to contracting polio before the vaccine became wide spread.

Round here there are still hairdressers with the hooded dryers and also lots of people have vertical blinds. I wish my hairdresser would use the hooded dryers because it might stop me having to wait for ages while he blow dries someone's long hair into cascading curls. Rain mates (the plastic rain hoods) were brilliant and I wish they were fashionable again.

If you don't have vertical blinds then what do you have instead?

Horizontal blinds.

Tomorrow I shall look for vertical blinds as I go for my run and report back.

uPVC windows with 'pretend' leaded window effect and pretend stained glass flowers in the top bits

There is a house near me that has pretend stained glass dolphins in the top bit of every window in the house.

No vertical blinds on my street, either. Like PPs, they seem office-y to me. But having just had to scrub my horizontal bathroom blinds of dust that wouldn't budge with a duster, I can see the appeal!

If you don't have vertical blinds then what do you have instead?

We have a mix of horizontal blinds, curtains and a roller blinds. All the blinds are leftover from previous owners, though. I would just choose curtains myself, but it's not been a priority, and the blinds are handy. As to people not seeing in: in the street level front room I'm one of those weirdos who keeps my curtains closed 90% of the time. I like it dark and cave-like in there for some reason. The curtains are only open when we have guests. (I do open curtains and blinds in other rooms, but there's no easy, casual snooping from those)

Glass fish, think everyone I knew had these.

My nan had the cat and glass one, think the fish was missing tho

Time out bars. Can only buy the single multipack ones now

We have a corner convenience store that still them. They also sell all kinds of other "retro" things that the supermarkets don't sell such as Ringos and other less popular flavours of crisps.

Soap on a rope
TV rental shops