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.

@cpl
Scrapbooks. You have reminded me of another thing, photo albums.

The cardboard used in ice cream packaging the past might have been waxed rather than plastic coated, but it was definitely coated.

My mum still has one those rain hoods which she still uses also I have noticed not so much phone boxes but BT public phones when out and about these last couple of days

People keeping a shovel near their front gate for when the cart horse making his rounds did a shit.

Best stuff ever is horse manure.

@cpl24805254 I did this in the 90s! I collected Victorian Scraps and absolutely loved it. I discovered a Scandinavian shop in Edinburgh selling the same style Scraps last year and started again. Never had anyone to swap with though!

Is this the lovely picture you mean?

The toffee apple man. He used to cycle around the neighbourhood in the autumn with a wooden box fixed to the front of his bike that was filled with toffee apples. Never forgotten the taste. The supermarket ones you get these days are not a patch on them.

Trebor mints. They were so lovely.

I haven’t seen a paper bus timetable in years. I always used to have one as a teenager. I suppose it’s all electronic these days.

Does anyone else remember co-op stamps/stamp books? I used to be roped into sticking the stamps into them as a child.

Phone cards

Getting on a bus/train without announcements about the next stop/destination or reminder to take your stuff with you

Powdered toothpaste

"Snake" belts

Proper quilted anoraks

Tank tops

Charity boxes chained up outside shops in the shape of a teddy/child/whatever

Tax discs in the car windscreen

Red light bulbs (for innocuous reasons)

The city nearest to me still has paper bus timetables on a stand in the main library.

out of 18 houses in my street 1 has a roller blind, 1 has curtains that get pulled in the evening and the rest of us have nets. we have a shop that sells old fashioned shiny foil wrapped chocolates and jars of sweets in our town along with a shop that sells mens suits, pants, y fronts, socks and other things to cloth a man. it has a big glass fronted unit that has sliding drawers in and each drawer has something like handkerchiefs, bow ties, white gloves and other small bits. the door into it is heavy and a bell on the door rings when its opened. we also have lots of ladies who wear thin/sheer headscarves in a variety of colours along with the plastic hood things.we have fishmongers, butchers, greengrocers and a couple of bakeries that make amazing breads and cakes. it will prob be another 30 years before things change here but i do like it.

Don’t know if it’s already been mentioned, but having loads of flies stuck to your windscreen and number plate 🦟

Do you remember when you used to weigh your own fruit and veg in the supermarket, and the scales would print out a sticky label which you attached to the bag and was scanned at the checkout? I realised that I’d not done this for years when I had to do it in a Dutch supermarket during half term.

T-shirts that changed colour when you got hot and Naf Naf sweaters.

Good list there from Rory4Leader.

Benetton colours perfume. I so miss that.

empress still have nest of tables, were from my df's old flat though, jolly useful

@squaddiemum
Naf Naf appears to still exist, I’d completely forgotten about it.

m.zalando.co.uk/womens-clothing/naf-naf/

The postman making two rounds a day. It meant I couldn't tally up my birthday cards until the afternoon

Half day closing

Time-and-a half (or if you were lucky, double time) for working extra hours

Haunted house ice lollies (purple lollies with a white design on them)

Yes, second post!!

Kay's/Grattan etc catalogues!

"Phones with dials! Was watching Killing Eve last night and she was using a dial phone, it looked so strange, and took so l o n g." I'd love to get one but they're soooooo expensive now! There is this video too

m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHNEzndgiFI

And this series of films is just genius and hilarious! Here's one to get you started. They're all called "kids react..."

m.youtube.com/watch?v=kesMOzzNBiQ

A single shoe on top of a bus shelter (that you could see from the top of the bus). Bus conductors. Radio Rentals shops where you could rent a TV and go in and pay for it weekly. Electricity Board shops where you could buy a cooker and also pay your electric bill. Whimsy - little pottery animals you could collect. Sara Lee desserts - where did they go? Same as Entemanns cakes - you still see them on American TV but you can't buy them here. Those rubber shower hoses you could attach to bath taps. Blushes beads that you swirled your brush round. I must stop now.