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?

Books, Landline, cd and dvd players, turntables and old hifi set, Piano, calendar, clocks on walls, camera.
Lots of kitchen things from the 50"s inherited from parents.
Bureau and desk. Hostess trolley, fondue set, old wooden furniture.
1850's child rocking chair.
Bone China, tea sets, original ottoman c 1920
Oh, I love all my old stuff.

scoobyd2 Perhaps it will one day be an antique

Why is a landline old fashioned? I'm confused by that. I have:
A landline
An alarm clock
A manual hand held mixer/beater

And why are books old fashioned? I must be old fashioned as I genuinely don't understand some of these answers!

Well I'll add clocks on walls and a camera too but I'm still

How are curtains or a dining table and chairs old fashioned??? They are simply normal things that the majority of people have (small bedsits aside)

A tea trolley, an old working hand crank gramaphone and some chalk ware heads on the walls.

I think most of your houses sound great. I am sure I would love most of them.

I love old furniture. We have a G Plan sideboard and wall unit and a lovely G Plan small table with a tiled top!

We also have an old oak dining table with those pull out sides (not sure what they are called) and lovely carved chunky legs. Also oak dining chairs which I recovered.

Almost all our furniture is old and secondhand. Neither me nor DH particularly like new furniture as it just has no character and we also feel it better to save old stuff than buy new

A very old house with a pantry and an aga; jam pan, fish kettle and silverware, decanters, linen napkins, wind up clocks, curtains, books, piano, land lines, open fires, writing desk, bars of soap and definitely home made sloe gin (and damson).

Grandfather clock
Piano
My granny’s kenwood mixer and hand held mixer.
70s bedroom chair and ottoman set
Chaise longue
Fire guards
Loose tea
Companion sets
Video recorder
A toasting fork
Various antique chairs and tables and a large old antique sideboard .
Nest of tables
Oil lamp
I’m on the lookout for an antique desk . This one is beautiful but just slightly too deep.

Teapots and tea cosies.

We have a nest of tables we bought as newly weds over 30 years ago. We weren’t keen on it but it was cheap and ‘it would do’ until we found something we really liked. Still looking for that elusive item.

We also have my mum’s even older hostess trolley. I regularly do roast dinners for 10 or more people and it is an absolute godsend for keeping all the veg warm while I crisp up potatoes and cook the Yorkshire puddings.

Apart from those I am pretty ruthless about disposing of anything outmoded or unwanted.

A dial heating thermostat on the wall!

we have a computer in the sitting room. I'd guess it's from the 90s or early 00s

Why is a landline old fashioned? I'm confused by that.

Ditto,that and wall calendars, I have both, didn't realise they were old fashioned?

Also have net curtains, an old sewing machine (I have a proper old pedal Singer machine in my parent's garage that I don't have room for yet that was my great Nana's), sewing box, antique thimbles and knitting needles, brown furniture.

Love antique nik naks and furniture, live in a late Victorian house so it doesn't look out of place. Would like a fire companion as we currently use a crappy dust pan from B&M bargains and a rapidly shrinking piece of wood as a poker

Why is a landline old fashioned? I'm confused by that.
I’m puzzled too. You need a landline connected to get the internet through it? That’s the only reason we have one. Unless you live in an area where cable is available.

On the 'vaguely snob in interior dec magazines' side we have a pantry with proper vent windows, working original fireplaces, various (battered) antique furniture, original barn-door style door fittings, an outbuilding with a bake-house oven and rather weird casement windows with original slightly flawed glass.

On the 'shitehole' side we have original lead pipes for the bath and loo, vintage 1970s lino, anaglypta wallpaper (I actually quite like it), massive iron keys for the 1950s locks on the doors, and Ye Olde 1950s/60s fireplace surround in fearsome shades of ugly peach.

Oh, and I have loads of 'old' kitchen stuff. Balance scales (necessary as am dyslexic and find them much easier), ounce weights, pestle and mortar, old-fashioned coffee grinder and pots, my gran's Le Creuset and Viner's studio cutlery, my partner's granny's willow-pattern crockery, etc. We've got an 1800s tea spoon, which is genuinely useful as you can strain a teabag out of a mug without any faff.

My brother is even keener on useable antiques. He's a professional gardener and recently showed me his collection of pickaxes and hay forks and so on, lots of which are late Victorian and still in working order. He reckons they are better quality than a lot of modern stuff.

Landline
Companion set
Curtains (who knew they were old fashioned)
Fire guard
Serving hatch
Wall calendar
Wall clock
Coal buckets

And I'm under 30, so I don't really understand how any of these things are old-fashioned. They're useful and necessary (most, anyway)

Oh and loads of books! Old fashioned my arse!

Why are tea towels old fashioned? They’re useful for a number of things.

I thought a pantry was a “big posh house” rather than an “old house” thing.

What do people dry their dishes on if they don’t have tea towels? Surely they’re essential!

I have recently purchased a tea cosy for my Woods Bery Ware tea pot.

I was also recently trying to explain to DD what a paperweight was.

1983 russell hobbs coffee percolator
1983 Kenwood Chef
Jam pan
Books
Landline
Portable CD player
Photo albums

We have a bakelite GPO rotary dial telephone. It makes that gorgeous purring noise when you turn the dial . I also have analogue wall clocks in every room including the bathroom even though I wear a wristwatch and have a smartphone with the time on...