Old fashioned items in your house?

[jennymanara]

I have realised from another thread that I have lots of old fashioned items in my house. These include -

net curtains
curtains
a nest of tables
a landline
a magazine/newspaper rack
a dining table and chairs

What about you?

I really want a rolltop bureau. My friend had one in her playroom when we were kids, and we used to play post offices. I have seen some beautiful ones but have no room at the moment.

I have a landline, a sideboard, a hifi with cassette player, and a fax machine

Lots of people have dual fuel cookers or inbuilt hobs, EggysMom.

What's your contribution to the thread?

Oh! I have a lava lamp too!

Bureau
Laundry baskets actually baskets
Wooden pegs
Tea towels
Hifi turntable and speakers from the 1970s
Lots of vintage knitting and sewing kit and tools
Net curtains, necessary as look straight onto street
1960s kenwood chef.
Balance scales.

Apart from that we've all gone a bit ikea.

I have an ottoman that was my Grans, it was her Mothers before that.

please will someone explain what is old fashioned about a dining table?

Thank you, Francis. I know fireside companion as fire irons.

Log basket, cut glass vases, shoe horn, teapot, loose tea, umbrella stand , linen napkins, table cloths, starch spray, lavender bags in my underwear drawers. Iron trivet by my hob. Bars of soap. Feather dusters. Parquet floors.

Fire side companion and a coal thingimybob to keep coal in
A Nelson clock above fireplace
A siphon for cocktails/whiskey
Lots and lots of books (didn't realise they count as old fashioned!)
Landline

A nest of tables, but un-nested
A chiming mantle clock that needs winding regularly
A barometer
Lava lamp
Clock on the wall
Calendar on the wall

Why are net curtains old fashioned? I have them because I don't like feeling like I live in a goldfish bowl.

Other things I have are:
Landline
Books, hundreds of them
Cd's
Dvd's
LP's
A proper ticking clock in the living room. I love hearing it tick!
Feather duster
Lava lamp
Nest of tables
Magazine rack

I also have a tv (not one of the huge ones) on a tv unit as I really can't stand tv's on walls

My parents house:

Carpet in the bathroom
Wind up clocks in every room, sometimes more than one
Original floor plan of house, including coal bunker. Every other house of the street has been extended, knocked through lounge or conservatory added
No dropped kerb, a proper front garden, with lawn and plants. Again, the only house on the street
Floral sofas
Coffee table that my sister scribbled on the underside of. She is now 37
Original 1930s internal doors, with about 10 layers of paint!

1940s upright piano and wireless cabinet. (Didn’t have a wireless in when I bought it from British Heart Foundation but our TV stands on it).

Landline

1930s wardrobe

No central heating

Stuff we use in (fairly frequent) power cuts - coffee pot and kettle for the wood burning stove. Trivets. Fireguard. Lanterns etc.

And Bakelite light switches.

We found a lovely cake slice in a charity shop at the weekend
I was so excited. Then we had to buy a cake to try it out on - eaten with cake forks on vintage orange lustre ware plates. TV is modernish, sky box and fire stick new. My turntable is about 20 years old. We keep buying books so some of those are new although I also collect early girls stories and annuals. Most of the rest of our furnishings are old fashioned. They suit the house. The people we bought from had modern cream and light oak furniture and it all looked a bit lost in a dramatic house with dark beams. Also brown furniture is very unfashionable so you can pick up beautiful pieces for very little. I love my old fashioned home and reusing items someone else once loved. Nearly forgot my pride and joy: my gorgeous and utterly ridiculous sandwich tongs. I would love a muffin warmer for my birthday....although I don't like English muffins so it would have to be a crumpet warmer.

God our house must be really old fashioned, we have most of these things so I guess the mahogany side table and granny's bookcase that's probably about 100 years old, filled with actual books would make us positively archaic

Landline (complete with working bakelite candlestick phone!)
DVDs and player
Cocktail/hostess trolley
Wind up chiming clock
A 1978 portable colour TV that still worked until they switched off analog - you found the channel by pressing a button on the back and a red line went across the screen til it found a channel; didn't fancy my chances of rigging it up with a freeview box, but can't bring myself to get rid of it. It was cutting edge in 1978.
A blanket box
Writing bureau
'Best' cutlery in a canteen
Calendar AND paper diary
Scented drawer lining paper

Wondering if I should just open my house as a living museum....

We have this thing called a nightshade which is like a copper lampshade that let’s barely any light through.... not sure what the point of it is but it sits on or window sill and looks pretty!

Oh, and photo albums! Full of photos taken on rolls of 36 Exp film, developed by Bonusprint!

Piano & stool
Jam pan
Fish kettle
Cast iron cookware (was my parents)
Sewing box with cotton thread
Bars of soap
Linen scrim & vinegar
Mantel clock (was my GPs)
Afternoon tea service (wedding gift)
Wedding china for high days & holidays
Sideboard for wedding china
Dining room
Lots of analogue clocks
Landline
Chess board & set

scoobyd2 I have a portable colour TV in the attic that is from the 80s. No longer worked when they switched analogue off but can't bring myself to throw it away. I might even have an even older black and white portable still in the loft.

Lots of photo albums and cds of family (transferred from video)
Proper clocks
Calender on the wall
Baxi Burmuda gas boiler and gas fire, ancient but, touch wood,still works a treat.
Finally, following on from another thread, vertical blinds, a total no no on MN but they work perfectly in our south facing property with huge picture windows on a corner plot.
Me and DH!

jennymanara my B&W was from the '80's as that was the first one I bought when I went to uni - my parents used it until into the 2000's in their spare room. Guess its long gone now. My grandpa bought the colour one when he moved in with us in '78, was a couple of hundred new back then. It's unique selling point (because I still have the manual!) was you got an instant picture, no waiting for the tube to warm up. You just had to do the red line scanny thing to actually find a picture....

90% of things already listed plus:

A cocktail cabinet
Taxidermy
Tilley lamp
'Mrs Beeton's Household Managment'
A trunk
Picture rails with pictures hanging from them
A Dutch oven
Pelmets
A clothes horse
A carpet sweeper (Bex Bissel)
A globe
Blanket Box
Pantry
Paraffin Stove

I think I live in the 1800s!! It's from a mixture from living in an old period house, being an antique dealer hobbyist and an interest in Bushcraft!!