Things people used/had that are now considered old fashioned

[GabbyChalice400]

Saw another poster on a thread talking about landlines! It seems in the past few years that people either don't have one or use them less. I don't have one, I do think they're old fashioned

Anyone have any more to share?

We use fabric napkins daily, my whole family does. I didn’t realise it was unusual

I suspect that posters who think calculators are old hat don't have children st secondary school.

We too use fabric napkins. Better than paper or sleeves.

I am studying a STEM degree and I use ordinary scientific calculators for applied maths-related topics but not usually for pure maths-related (no need). Mobile phones not up to scratch

Some things just get reworked & resold. Bullet journals are the new Filofax.

I no longer use maps.

I use landline occasionally

Dc discovered my old iPod Recently and feel "cool retro" using it.

Dc discovered my old iPod Recently and feel "cool retro" using it.

That reminds me of when, a few years ago, my friend's teenage stepson told her he was listening to a 'retro band' called The Stone Roses; we felt ancient!

Not just coloured loo paper, but tissues too. You could even get a multicolour box! I loved them and used to stock up on 'different' ones you could get abroad in lovely boxes. They used to get a bit squashed on the journey home!

Fuller's walnut cake!

In the summer I went to visit a friend in her new home in a part of the country which I’m not familiar with. She had sent me her new address on Messenger and I was using Google Maps to navigate. It was a really hot day, my phone overheated and switched itself off. So - no idea where I was going or how to get there (with about 40 miles to go on small country lanes). I had to sit by the roadside until the phone cooled down enough for me to switch it back on.
With the benefit of hindsight, if I had also written her address on a piece of paper and had a road atlas then I wouldn’t have been delayed at all.

I took shelter in a public phone box a few weeks ago in an absolute downpour. Obviously I had no fears that anyone would come along and actually want to use it! (And I wouldn’t have been able to use it either - no Button A or B to press!)

number pads in keyboards. When I was learning to type there was always a separate square bit for the numbers on the right, but newer keyboards you have to use the top row. I miss it.

Yes! I have no reason to use a keyboard anymore (sign of the times?) but when I started working in a bank in 2004 I got very quickly adept at typing in account numbers, IBANs, transaction codes etc on the number keys without looking. Before I left they did an upgrade and some of the new keyboards had lost the number keys on the right hand side. I was gutted!

Dc discovered my old iPod Recently and feel "cool retro" using it.

I remember discovering my mums old record player and falling in love with the sound of playing records.

Not sure if I've RTFT so handkerchiefs may have been mentioned already. I sometimes see elderly men using them, and inwardly boak. Somebody has to wash those!

My Filofax is my bible. If it's not in there, it's not happening.

Never owned a slip / petticoat / 'underneath skirt' (as they were called in our house growing up), they make me cringe.

We have a landline as we have FTTC broadband but all landlines will shortly be done away with and you won't be able to have one. Calls will be made over VOIP in future but we mainly use WhatsApp for calls now anyway.

We had a landline so we could send faxes. Had to send a lot in the "noughties" but no one uses faxes now so we'll probably get rid of it soon

number pads in keyboards. When I was learning to type there was always a separate square bit for the numbers on the right, but newer keyboards you have to use the top row. I miss it.

I tried to learn to type with a manual typewriter, noo number key pad, then I started to learn to program using a commodore pet and using basic - you had to number the lines so I too got used to a number pad. If I have to get a new keyboard I always get one with a keypad.

Just a thought, when I got my first PCall the connectors were different, now it's USB all the way.

I miss the glass milk bottles that got delivered and the birds always pecked through the top to get the cream.

They are making a come back, I ordered some gold top recently.

Road atlases.

I had a bizarre time incident while driving a while ago which involved a few other cars and a duck. One of my friends said the oddest thing about the whole story was that one of the other drivers had a road atlas!

We wished we had a road atlas earlier in the year in the Alps during a snowstorm leading to lots of road closures. We had no idea where the official diversion was taking us, sat nav kept telling we were going wrong way and to get on the closed routes, and we ended up just following everyone else then working out where we were when we were out of the mountains.

I still use maps and atlases. I like way that with a really big fold-out ma you can see the big picture and whole context. Plus, I just find both easier to see and read.

I recently bought a new alarm clock. It's pretty awful and not like the quality one that I had that finally died after being thrown on the floor one too many times.

This is a great thread. My parents still have an a radio/cassette player that takes batteries (you can plug it in as well).

It came into its own during the 1987 storm when the electricity went down and mum got us to empty the big batteries from our toys so she could hear the news and weather report.

What about proper singing kettles. The neighbour (again storm if 1987) had on and we all went to her house for tea as we only had an electric cooker.

I still use tea towels, a written address book, slips and calculators.

DS and I found a working phone box on holiday in Somerset. DS was thrilled and rung his grandparents on it after some tuition from me.

When i was at school and someones petticoat was hanging below their skirt we used to say 'Charlie's dead'

Blimey I'd forgotten all about that! They used to say that at my old school too.

I'm thinking short haircuts for women should be in this list - say it ain't so, please, I hate long hair on me....

Clock Radios
Video's
Cassette tapes
Dial up internet
Palm Pilot
Fax machine
Telex machine

Both me and my husband have road atlases in the boots of our cars.
I still use a teapot.
I used to use coloured loo roll to match the bathroom, I've not seen any in a long time, nor multi coloured tissues.
We had a landline until a couple of months ago when we switched to fibre when virgin installed it in my village. It didn't have a phone plugged into it though.
I still use DVDs and CDs.
I still wear a wristwatch daily.

What people used to have is common sense. That seems to be dying a death nowadays.

We used to keep our road atlas in the pocket on the back of the seat, but when we got our new car (3 or 4 years ago) there was no pocket. An atlas that lives in the boot can’t get used very often!

I still use road atlases, fabric napkins, soda streams, landline, wristwatches, address books, petticoats, calculators, dvds (borrow them from the DVD store), ....still all really useful too!

Things I have hanging around that I never seem to use now:
egg/tea cosies
toast racks

Sealing wax! I didn't know what it was for until quite recently.

I actually had to use some the other day! Luckily I had some (inherited from a great aunt).