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?

How could you revise without a calculator if it was required for exams?

I use a basic scientific calculator (so no graphing capabilities, but needs more functionality than a mobile phone) for applied maths studies. Rarely need one for pure maths

How could you revise without a calculator if it was required for exams?

I didn't revise for maths, certainly none of the trigonometry stuff that I would have needed a calculator for... I did the lower tier paper, the year I sat it they had a Higher and Lower paper, I sat the lower so still got a C (I didn't even expect that, it must have been barely-a-C)

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

Ahh right. So you did actually need one. You just didn’t have your own. How did you do homework and revision for exams? Scientific calculators are only about £6ish why didn’t you just buy one?

We didn't need one because we weren't told to bring one to lessons, that's all I mean. I rarely did my maths homework and lots of it was online My Maths stuff where you have an online calculator anyway, hardly any purely written offline work, but then you can just use an online one anyway

Schools just don't have the funding to provide scientific calculators to all their students these days.

That’s depressing.

Roadmap in the car.

Maths wasn't my priority, I spent so long revising for history, English, RE and other subjects I enjoyed that maths/science got forgotten about, but I'd never liked maths, even in primary. It is depressing I suppose.

Sleepys post i meant.

My DC was informed upon starting secondary school that all students would be required to have their own scientific calculator. It was the same when I started secondary school too. We all had them from day 1 and we were all expected to have them in our bag. I can’t imagine trying to do GCSE maths without one.

Yes I hated maths too in school. Struggled with most of it. I spent maths classes hearing the “whoosh” sound as most of it went right over my head. Fell in love with it years later as a mature student doing an access course.

I think we probably had that rule in Year 7 but nobody stuck to it, just like we were told to have a compass for maths and everyone had one in Year 7 but by Year 9 the teacher was just handing the class ones out, no reprimands, a lot of students just turned up with a pen/pencil, no extras. You would have been the odd one out carrying a calculator, glue stick, and all the other stuff you were told to have in Year 7, most people I knew didn't have a pencil case by GCSE years, just bits shoved in the bag. But I did notice the rules in the secondary school slackened as you got older, weirdly, e.g. Rules about hair, makeup, trainers, jackets, doing PE, so I guess the school had form with not keeping up the expectations from 1st year.

Sorry for the derail

What do people wear indoors if dressing gowns are out?

DD's school was much stricter than yours Sleepy. The SLT and prefects used to do regular bag checks on students arriving at school. Not having their planner, pencil case, calculator etc earned a detention.

They didn't want time wasted in lessons because of students who didn't have everything they needed. It was a very good comprehensive school with exellent results.

I wear a dressing gown in cold weather, and slippers as we don't wear shoes in our house. I am not prepared to heat the house to tropical temperatures so that I can swan around in skimpy clothes all year.

I wouldn't say my school's results were bad necessarily, I think this year it was 25% of all grades are 7+, so not the best but not terrible but probably improved since I was there.

I've recent bought a hand-made poncho which is just right for this weather indoors. It's like a crocheted blanket with a hole for your head, turtle neck, quite snug but definitely bit modern.

Not

Well I am now officially old fashioned.

DP spent a couple of hours last night re-arranging our CD collection.

We also have a landline as our mobile reception is crap.

I prefer real books to a Kindle.

I've only used a Satnav twice and on both occasions it took me a very roundabout way. Not only do I have the local A-Z in my car I also have a UK and county map books.

I've only just got a smart phone (cheap one from Argos) and have finally joined the school WhatsApp group. Unfortunately I managed to delete myself from it by accident after two days much to everyone's amusement.

I use a cheque book regularly to pay for stuff at DD's school (although the branch where I opened my account has now disappeared).

I think I've always mentally felt young but now it's officially confirmed that I'm not actually. (Walks off wondering if this means I'll be tempted to buy crimpelene trousers!!)

Underskirts/ petticoats as a lovely elderly lady said to me, “ it’s too hot to wear my petticoat today”. It made me smile.

I use cheques all the time. Payments to school, brownies, hairdressers all only take cheques.

You really need to know how to use a real map and compass if you plan to do any serious hillwalking in Scotland. Plenty of areas do not get a mobile signal, it can get very cold and deplete your battery, low pressure can affect GPS. Map and compass always works.

We also have a landline and phone. We get power outages out here and this way we can still use the phone.

I write letters to two friends almost weekly. I often use a fountain pen my father bought me 32 years ago. I also have my mother's old typewriter and use that. Writing like this is actually really good for the brain.

I have an old battery powered travel clock that MIL gave me that I take everywhere.

I love all my watches and wear them all the time, especially the Cartier steel tank my aunt left to me in her will.

You really need to know how to use a real map and compass if you plan to do any serious hillwalking in Scotland.

Not just Scotland - but to be fair plenty of people didn't know how to read maps properly long before GPS ever came along.

When I was in my early teens, in the early 80's, my family moved from an oldfashioned house to a new build with 'all mod cons'. I remember thinking it was incredibly stylish and modern and I was even allowed to choose my own modern furnishings. When I look back, a lot of the things I was impressed by are almost unheard of now:

• serving hatch (to pass food from kitchen to dining room
• coloured bathroom suites with matching toilet mats/fluffy toilet seat covers and patterned tiles picking up the colour of the suite. Finished off with colour co-ordinated toilet paper!
• The 'hi-fi' unit in the living room- this was wooden,about the size of a small fridge and had double tape players, radio, record player and space to store records etc. This combination enabled you to tape the top 40 from the radio once a week and even make copies of the tape for your friends! The speakers needed their own shelves.
• Pushbutton landline phone attached to the kitchen wall
• Wallpaper 'borders'- essentially strips of wallpaper put about a foot from the ceiling. Paint that was essentially white but with a hint of a colour (I think mine was rose white). net curtains under my main bedroom curtains (which matched the 'border'.

I could go on...

After seeing LP's again in a reopened branch of HMV we dragged our behemoth of a stack system out of the loft and set it up. It does take up space!

I have been considering a hatch because I have a kitchen at the front of the house and the dining area is at the back! The hatch would be over the utility room sink. A neighbour with a similar arrangement had their kitchen redone recently and the workmen said 'you'll want to get ride of the hatch' but they wanted to keep it.

I passed O level maths without a calculator. They hadn't been invented... I used a slide rule and log tables, oh the shame

I’m in the middle of a renovation project and have changed the layout around. As a result I currently have a serving hatch between the living room and dining room. I probably won’t keep it, but I kinda like the talking point as it’s part of the history of the (very old) house. Mind you, I wasn’t as romantically inclined about the brown bathroom suite.

On a relevant note, my friend’s 10 year old twins managed to watch Highlander when we weren’t paying attention. Little sods. Much low voiced and agitated discussion about the Kurgan (sp?) ensued. Was it the violence, the swearing, the decapitation, the swords, the hookers? Nope, it was the cassette he played in the car. What was it? How did it work? Music? Couldn’t possibly be that. Why not play music from his phone?

We felt both relieved and about 90 years old.