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?

Modern scientific calculators have more up-to-date displays too. A mobile phone wouldn’t be sufficient for the kind of calculations I have to do

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!
When my upright freezer needs defrosting I save newspapers to catch the overflow on the floor.

Secondary school pupils are usually required to have a calculator as PP have said, they are not generally allowed phones in lessons!

@Lovestonap Sat 07-Sep-19 08:05:54
From my point of view, things like the Radio Times (once a household staple) are obselete - not only because of TV guides online/on the TV but also because I rarely watch any terrestrial TV live these days. Other people may still find them invaluable. I'd be interested to compare sales figures for Christmas radio times last year to 1990 though

A lot of people still buy that at Christmas just for the nostalgia, there was a lot of it on my FB last Christmas.

I like way that with a really big fold-out map you can see the big picture and whole context.

Same here. We took a road trip across 11 states this summer in the US and while we did use the GPS on our phones for most navigating, there were times that we needed to see the big picture and alternate routes, especially entering and leaving cities we are unfamiliar with. We keep an up-to-date atlas in the car and several road maps.

I mean how else would a school child add things up as they wouldn't know how to use excel etc?

If they have been in one my classes they do.Even the health and social care students are taught basic excel.

@MitziK Sat 07-Sep-19 09:44:59
And I fucking miss my awesome gas cooker with an eyelevel grill that I had to get rid of when I moved here.

Toast made any other way just isn't the same! :(

Teletext

I still buy a paper diary and calendar every year as I prefer them rather than an online one.
I don't have a DVD player as such but can watch dvds on Xbox but never do.
I never use my landline but like looking at it as it's an old bakerlite one id be sad to see landlines gone forever. What would happen to all those old phones?

Teen magazines. When I was a teenager I used to get them all. Mizz, Sugar, Bliss but now I don't think they are still a thing.
I have a landline but never use it, only one relative will ring me on it.
I remember my walkman and CD players. I don't buy CDs anymore but I do get DVDs sometimes.

If they have been in one my classes they do. Even the health and social care students are taught basic excel.

But you can't use excel in a GCSE or A level maths exam

Secondary school pupils are usually required to have a calculator as PP have said, they are not generally allowed phones in lessons!

And if they used a phone during external exams they would be disqualified. Clearly a lot of posters on here don't have secondary school aged children.

I like way that with a really big fold-out map you can see the big picture and whole context.

I agree. You simply can't do this with a phone or a satnav. I do use a phone/satnav, especially for driving around cities I am unfamiliar with, and for getting traffic congestion updates, but a map is invaluable for planning a journey and also for areas where the signal is poor or non existant.

Love slippers and a dressing gown

I love my dressing gown! It's a man's velvety one which is warm and snuggly and just right when you need it. Lovely deep pockets too.

You would have to prise it out of my cold dead fingers before I gave it up.

I too love my slippers in winter (hence why my kids have had chance to comment on them) they just wear modern substitutes...eg huge slipper socks and gigantic hoodies.

I have a paper diary, an MP3 walkman, a landline (mobiles are all very well but the reception isn't always that great and it's annoying missing half a conversation), still play DVDs (got Amazon Prime too). And I have paper maps and road atlases and look at them for fun because I am a map geek.

DH likes to buy the Christmas Radio Times. We have a subscription to the paper Times (though I'd quite like to have digital only Mon to Fri and paper at the weekends but they don't offer that).

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

Is this outside the UK? Ofcom has just announced an extension of dialing codes in London to allow more landlines, so they're definitely not planning to stop landlines any time soon in the UK.

FTTC broadband is a pipe dream for manyparts of the UK.

Someone upthread said perms - I think they are making a comeback. I can’t wait for my hairdresser to be trained in them. I would love a demi wave to give my straight hair some body and volume.

When I was little a salad with round lettuce, cucumber, spring onion, tomato and quartered boiled eggs was obligatory for Sunday evening tea, always served with salad cream of course. My aunt sometimes served beetroot and shop coleslaw on the side but she had pretensions!

The thought of serving a salad as a side dish on any other day of the week wouldn’t have occurred to us nor would we have considered salad with a hot dish. I had heard of mayonnaise and vinaigrette but Never thought I’d ever taste such exotica.

I can also remember discovering that French people bought drinking water in bottles instead of getting it out of the tap. It seemed crazy to me. For environmental reasons I hope any GC I might have find it a similarly crazy concept.

Never needed a calculator when I was at secondary, maths teachers had them to give out if needed for the lesson. Only taught Excel in IT, never in maths and certainly not Health & Social. Going back about 6 years.

Never needed a calculator when I was at secondary,

Bothe GCSE and A level maths have calculator papers. DD took GCSE maths 3 years ago BTW. She needed her calculator for A level chemistry as well.

Encyclopaedias

Never needed a calculator when I was at secondary, maths teachers had them to give out if needed for the lesson. Only taught Excel in IT, never in maths and certainly not Health & Social. Going back about 6 years.

There’s no way you passed a maths GCSE without a calculator 6 years ago.

There’s no way you passed a maths GCSE without a calculator 6 years ago.

We had them in lessons and exams, we didn't have to buy our own to bring in

She needed her calculator for A level chemistry as well.

I mean we didn't have to use them for the exams or in lessons though, just that we didn't need our own - they were given to us, in exams they were ready on the table next to the paper.

*I didn't mean