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?

Reading this thread I have realised just how old fashioned I am! I am a huge paper fan and still have an address book, a hanging calendar, a paper day diary and a birthday book. I also bought a new car recently and my main stipulation was that it had a CD player in 😂 I also print photos and put them in albums and hand write thank you notes.
We don’t have a phone plugged into our landline though. Most of our DVDs are slowly being sold as they appear on Netflix.
That made me laugh @Lovestonap when you said about the Xmas radio times as my parents and in-laws can manage all year without one but still by the December version. Not sure they even read it I think it’s just part of their traditions 😂

I just bought a dress which had slightly clingy fabric and is white. My first thought for it was 'hmm, I like it but it needs a slip'! So they are still around - but I think there's a whole generation of people who aren't being taught what they're for; I'm 35 and I was shown them and why you'd use them by my grandmother rather than DM.

We have a landline but strangely ours is the other way around. We recently moved and Virgin installed our fibre and then handed us a phone to plug into it! So it's all though the internet.

We always have tea towels in the kitchen and I wash up NOTHING as I love my dishwasher. It's still useful to have.

Wind-up alarm clocks.

I use and love my filofax

Toe socks, the socks with toe gloves at the end. I miss toe socks, they kept my chillblains away in the winter. I bought some off ebay recently and they're rubbish. Damn you for going under sock shop.

I'm in London and get one bar on my mobile indoors. If it wasn't for the broadband (a speedy 2.7kps most of the time - they aren't offering fibre and I'm not paying Virgin hundreds to dig up the road and my front path to run a cable a whole 20 foot), I'd hardly ever get a good enough signal for data. I have precisely zero TV signal with an aerial, despite being 5 miles from a transmitter. So I have to have freesat or Internet TV to watch anything.

The physical act of writing things down fixes them in my memory, compared to tapping them into my phone. Filofaxes were brilliant for that, now I have to make do with A5 hardcover note books from the poundshop.

The idea that gas hobs could become obsolete bothers me, though - I already detest having to have an electric oven, losing the hob and having to use electric or halogen, both completely dependent upon electricity, worries me. And I fucking miss my awesome gas cooker with an eyelevel grill that I had to get rid of when I moved here.

I use a teapot with cosy.
I have a serving hatch.
I still write letters, but not every week like I used to.
Probably write and post letters around ten times per year.
I only get handwritten letterreplies from my elderly aunts though. I love getting a letter in the post.

High heels

Maybe it’s because I’ve never used one but I often think mangles should come back. I know washing machines spin but how much electricity would you save each year if clothes went through a mangle before the tumbler?

We use our landline a lot, I prefer having conversations on it. Although my hearing is fine I do find it easier to hear on a landline

Crisps with a twist (not a sachet) of salt
Circles of elastic to hold up long socks
Re-threading knicker elastic
French skipping and donkey against a playground wall
Winkles for Sunday tea
Green tomatoes wrapped in newspaper on windowsills
Chopper bicycles
A funny computer game that only had a line and was in black and white. Depending on how big the line was changed the game from tennis to table tennis to squash.
Hair nets and curlers (My grandmother)
Black and white television
Television finishing each night.
Only two or three TV channels
Chip pans

Does anyone still have an alarm clock? We all use phones or Alexa in our house.

Dictionary at home? Replaced by google.

No landline here, well we have one, but no phone plugged into it. Bizarrely our package (we have fibre broadband) was cheaper with a landline than without.

I think with the growth of smart TVs that any kind of digital box will soon become obsolete. Everything we watch their airs weeks is available on catch up, so no need for a sky box or anything to record.

Still got a cheque book for the very rare occasion we need to write a cheque. It's a real once in a blue moon occurrence though.

awesome gas cooker with an eyelevel grill

Makes the best toast ever!

Why did eye level grills fall out of fashion? Is it the aesthetics?

We have broadband without a landline and we get a respectable 50 megs download speed.

I think farmers are one of the only groups of people still regularly using cheques as a means of payment

We have a landline because broadband is almost always cheaper with one than without! And my grandma can call us on it. And if theres a middle of the night emergency my parents can get us on it, as our mobiles will be on silent

I have a paper diary, paper calender, alarm clock, CDs, DVDs, paper maps, I print photos! I'm only 24 am I old fashioned?

It's all very well to just say phones do it all, but phones don't get signal everywhere, phones can break, phones can run out of charge. If your reliant on your phone and someone nicks it your completely fucked!

I often find that the original product is so much easier to use than the phone version. It's nicer and easier to have for example a rack of CDs to chose from when I want to listen to music than just browse Spotify.

Oops! Posted to soon. We have got rid of the landline as it is redundant. The broadband costs £20 a month unlimited downloads, bargain!

I have waist slips, worn regularly as my skirts hang better.

I have teapots and a tea cosy.

I use tea towels on a daily basis. I have a clock radio (a Christmas present when I was 10, I am now 53).

I have CDs, DVDs, tapes etc.

I have a landline as it's the only way to get internet, and the mobile signal isn't brilliant.

I do not have want, or need, a smartphone. I have an AA map in the car.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it springs to mind.

I do love my Kindles, but have huge amounts of physical books as well.

I've still got and use several of the 'old things on here.

I have a clock radio thta I bought in 1995 and I wish DS had something similar, he's got though so many alarm clocks that give up

Maybe..get yourself an M+S slip, thye are fab under and dress especially iftyou think it may be see through

Maps kept in the car
Watches seem to be used less
Alarms
Cash

I work in the NHS where there are a lot of things that have made my jaw drop (I only joined a couple of years ago).

Fax machines (we have just got rid of them), medical notes on paper, endless printing out of things that could be shared electronically...

My kids still do paper rounds tho, we do live in an area of OAPs it must be said.

I used to teach MFL and struggled to get the kids to understand that Handy is the German word for a mobile phone. They didn't know what I meant by mobile phone! A they thought I meant a cordless landline phone! That thing in your pocket is a phone.

In the same way, when I say "game" I mean monopoly or Cluedo, the teens all meant Crossy Road (or whatever Computer game is now in vogue).

Cassette tapes and then (to a lesser extent) CDs.
Phone book and yellow pages. My mum also had a book with family / friends phone numbers and addresses in. (It was also used for sending a big long list of paper Christmas cards each year. Hardly anyone I know still does cards!)
2 star and 4 star leaded petrol.
A tv with the remote control attached by a cable.. it was rented from Radio Rentals as they were so expensive to buy!
I do still use a separate alarm clock though.

A watch is useful for a footy ref or an athletics official (both of those are in my house) as you are not supposed to have your phone out in those situations.

I have an alarm clock as well as I prefer not to take my phone to bed with me, I struggle to sleep and it's not supposed to help.

Big road map books for the car, having to plot a route across different pages. The list art of navigation!

I found out the other day that the PILs navigate long journeys by printing off a list of instructions from the AA website. Explains why they get lost so much! 😂

So many things on here I had forgotten about!

I still have tea towels! And everyone I know still uses them

A spinner to get water out of clothes.