Things people used/had that are now considered old fashioned

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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?

Sparked by another thread, advent calendars that just had pictures, these days they all have chocolate, or beauty products or lego or...

I still use many of these things.

Sashh - we always have them just with pictures. We tried the chocolate ones one year but actually we all preferred the picture ones!

Sashh - I had several sparkly advent calendars as a child - just pictures - and used them over and over again for many years!

Actually we've already got our calendar for this advent ' it's got pictures and knock knock jokes on it!

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. That'll piss people off who live in villages where there is no mobile reception whatsoever.

Given we have no mains gas in our village, I am not holding my breath for anything but internet over the phone lines for the foreseeable future.

Someone upthread mentioned that reading a physical newspaper was old fashioned. I still read them, and then recycle them by clearing the litter trays into them. Can recommend the DT and the Sunday Times for that!

Have a clock radio, landline, use CDs & DVDs.

I wear a slip.

Still use a landline. OH works from home but doesn't have a mobile so the landline is our main phone.
We use a clock radio - wakes us up every morning with Radio 4.
Still buy the occasional CD and DVD (Endgame last week), and still have a working VHS player so occasionally still watch a video.
We use a proper road atlas as well as satnav.
I also wear a lot of long skirts so have long cotton underskirts/slips that go with them (especially in winter) which keep you warm because of the layers.
OH uses a large desk diary (esp as he doesn't have a mobile) - it goes everywhere with him, to meetings.
Teapot - yes; toilet pedestal rug - yes.

We used to say “it’s snowing in Paris” for your petticoat showing. Anyone remember the trouble Sue Barton got into as a newly qualified nurse when her old tutor told her and other nurses off for having their slips showing? Sue knew she couldn’t have hers showing as she wasn’t wearing one (little hussy!) and it turned out to be a bit of net curtain or something that they were standing in front of when they were called to the tutor’s office made it look as if their slips were showing.

Love teapots too

Just bought Adele cd for car

My grandparents had a teasmade. I thought it was brilliant. It seems so old fashioned now

When DM died I had to order a cheque book as the probate solicitor wanted me to post cheques to him to forward to pay for various things.

I do and have pretty much everything mentioned and I'm only 31. I didn't think I was THAT old-fashioned
I will add:
Napkin rings
Shopping from catalogues
Walkmans
Pot pourri (strangely popular in the 90s)

Slippers
Dressing gowns or robes
Watching a TV programme as it airs
And
Cooking anything that requires you to stand near the cooker (unless it's performance cooking)

All criticisms from my young adult children

@665TheNeighbourOfTheBeast It's true that dressing gowns seem a bit old-fashioned: I never had one myself, and I always associated them with my dad being grumpy (and smelly) in the mornings, so I've never liked them. When I was in university hall of residence in the early 2000s, I never saw anybody wearing a dressing gown, but loads of people liked their slippers: even boys wore big fluffy ones!

As for another thing considered old fashioned: the other day, I saw a 9yo boy being told to close his eyes before receiving a surprise. He protested "but that's so old-fashioned!!!"

Have a landline and still buy cds/dvds - I feel so old

My mobile - no internet access, just a basic phone. Friends laugh at it at parties

This is me! Except I have no landline.

I wear a watch! Remember them? I have tried to do without (when I lost one) but I hate having to get my phone out just to check the time!

It annoys me how many shops now don't have a clock! Even the Chiropodist doesn't.

@665TheNeighbourOfTheBeast all the the teenagers hanging around my local McDonalds in their PJS have dressing gowns! I wonder if young people's use of them just depends on whether they wear nightwear in public or not

Did someone say a calculator is old fashioned? I use one everyday in my job! Probably one of the best things ever invented and will never be obsolete in my opinion. Don't school kids still use them a lot? I mean how else would a school child add things up as they wouldn't know how to use excel etc? Complicated sums I mean that require a calculator

I had a twin tub washing machine as a student. I still have a land line as Virgin we’re going to charge me more not less if I cancelled it! What’s wrong with dressing gowns, I love mine!

our pockets in the Brownies had to contain:

2p for the phone (upgraded to 5p at some point)
a piece of string
your Pathway card (presumably to flash at civilians like the FBI in the event of an incident requiring a 2p phone call or a very short string tourniquet)
a clean handkerchief

this was late 70s. i need to go on ebay and find my era’s handbook. i had my Country Dancing badge, my Hostess badge (make and serve a cup of tea to Brown Owl, note from home confirming washing up done) and my Jester’s badge.

i went up to Guides, had the most horrendous week of my life at camp in Derbyshire, and was asked to stop attending when my language and deportment weren’t suitable. i fucking hated the Guides.

exWifebeginsAgainat46 we also had to have a little notebook and pencil in our pockets. No string though or card. I've still got my Brownie uniform, it's 44 years old now. I also had a Hostess and Jester badge along with a few others.

Did someone say a calculator is old fashioned?
We use one every day at work to check petty cash.

I'm not having slippers and dressing gowns as old fashioned. The teenage girls in our care ( at work) love putting in their fluffy slippers at night. They like to have ' beauty nights' and put their pjs on, dressing gowns and slippers on and do each others nails and put face masks on!
With CDs' the only time I buy them is at the merch table of a small band to support them.
Theres still plenty of internet cafes around Europe and I occasionally use them

We got a nest if tables about 3 months ago . They are really contemporary not like my mums old GPlan ones ( although they were really modern when she got them)
Every bedroom at work has a clock radio. We bought some more about a month ago from ASDA
Sunday closing try shopping in Austria when youve not long arrived on a Sunday. You'll probably be glad for what you can get from a fuel station!!

Does anyone still have an alarm clock? We all use phones or Alexa in our house
Yes I have Karrang radio on a work morning and Planet Rock on my day off on my alarm clock!
Men dressed in button down shirts tucked into suit trousers
This fashion has returned in some places. My eldest son and his age group ( 23) wear this look.

I just use the calculator on my phone. DS1 was reading a Murderous Maths book the other day and it had an example of a sum which would present a message on the calculator, and I realised it wouldn't work on a phone calculator as they don't have 8-bit displays.