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.

The green Truprint(?) envelopes we used to get in the post.

Vitalite.

Washing lines that were hung across the kitchen. My mum and my dad’s mum had these in the 80s.

Old fashioned kids parties with jelly and ice cream, cheese cubes and pickled onions on cocktail sticks - stuck in a jacket potato covered in foil like a hedgehog, party games (dead fishes, blind mans bluff, pass the parcel).

Lollipop ladies and men.

2p bubblegum machines outside shops.

I have (inherited) vertical blinds, a nest of tables and a lava lamp. 😁

My Grandma collected Pendelfin Rabbit. My cousins and I were not allowed to play with them but sometimes we could rearrange them.

After her funeral, in a slightly drunken state, we looked through them and picked out our favourites to keep. I have one playing the piano and a really ugly one eating an apple. My cousin picked all the large ones and kept sneaking more in to her bag all evening

I booked my first holiday after finding a deal on teletext.

mint cracknell chocolate with the mint sugar strands coated in milk choc. my all time favourite.
corona fizzy drink bottles being delivered locally by van and getting money back on the empties.

@Moanger can't movs for lolliepop men up here during the school run, I walk past 3 on my way to work.

Anyone seen a Happy Shopper store recently?

Typewriters in my second job, so about 31 years ago.
Followed by word processors which linked up in a very basic way although I hesitate to call them
Computers.
We had pagers in the job after that. And a fax machine!

@LivingDeadGirlUK We had 3 but 2 have been replaced by zebra crossings that cars don’t always stop at. The other has been replaced by an island in the middle of the road.

I forgot about word processors! What even were they? I had a Wang.

Friends reunited

Getting a fly covered windscreen on a motorway journey. Did 40 miles today and nothing, literally nothing went splat! 10 years ago the windscreen would have needed a few sprays to clear it.

They mentioned it on Springwatch last week so I paid attention today. The drop in insect numbers is having an impact on birds trying to feed their young.

Regarding typewriters,I was watching Jaws with my 12 yr old last summer and there was a scene with a typewriter (not even electric typewriter) he turned round to me and asked me where the delete button was ,I had to explain to him all about tippex😂😂

Milkman - I was talking to a retired milkman recently and they got a bonus if they told the local funeral directors if someone had not collected the milk for a few days and they could get in quick before any competition!

Candlewick bedspreads are back in fashion, lots of vintage ones and new online.

Bowler hats. All the city gents wore them.

jennymanara In regards to children’s gloves on strings, I had them growing up made by my nan lol, but my daughter has a coat that comes with thick waterproof mittens that actually clip onto the sleeves of the coat. Never had them come off.

Hair nets. Worn over rollers at bedtime, bright pink and blue usually, and for daytime, very fine ones in more natural shades to keep the shampoo and set in place.

darjeelingisrank My daughter got a pie of Lelli kelly shoes the other day, it came with a make up wand. The eyeshadow comes with a lip gloss kind of stick, I thought it must be lip gloss when I seen it but nope, it’s eyeshadow.

The plastic rain hood were called Rain Mates. You can still buy something similar on Amazon, but they don’t fold up like a concertina.

www.amazon.co.uk/Pack-Plastic-Waterproof-Rain-Bonnets/dp/B00AUFKH30/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_86_bs_t_1?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&refRID=H1DZBJGSKX37HX5PWE42

My neighbour has vertical blinds, and is going to get more for another window.

We have a salt/grit bin at the top of the road, quite a few round here.

I think vertical blinds are the equivalent of net curtains. So it depends how you feel about the latter.

I was only thinking the other day...what happened to rain hoods - those concertina folded plastic things with a cotton tape at each end?

I've now got adverts for vertical blinds on this page and they'll follow me for days!

Carpeted bathrooms - although my guilty secret is that my ensuite is carpeted, no cold feet in the middle of the night here. We're finally going to redo it this autumn and I couldn't actually buy a bathroom carpet, so I'll have to get used to a cold floor.

I've now got adverts for vertical blinds on this page and they'll follow me for days!
I've got them as well!!

We're finally going to redo it this autumn and I couldn't actually buy a bathroom carpet, so I'll have to get used to a cold floor
You need under floor heating.
We have it in the bathroom and I love it!

When I was small elderly aunts used to have striped canvas that used to hand from the front door frame to cover the varnished front door and stop it peeling.