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?

I don't have any photo albums anymore they are all stored on my phone/fb and any originals are chucked. Also never buy a book, calendar, dvd, diary, rarely send Christmas cards. Haven't wrote a cheque yet this year. Don't keep any plastic wallets with bank statements etc all paperless now. Suits me I hate clutter.

CDs. We saw a good band last weekend, Fling, and DP ordered the CD from their website. It came signed which was sweet - DP sent a pic over WhatsApp. Then I got a followup message... "Do we actually have any CD playing devices?"

We do not.

On getting home I did dig up a USB CD drive and hooked it up to a computer, digitised the album and now we're all happy.

Oh bollocks, I have a tartan blanket in my car. I'm definitely an old gimmer, then... 😭

To add insult to injury:

I always wear a slip under my skirt.
We have a landline (no mobile reception at home)
I make tea in a teapot and use a teacosy, which I made myself.
I always have a pocket handkerchief
I collect teatowels.

I'm only 41!!

Were quite old fashioned according to this thread, I'm happy with that

I do miss the proper electric milk floats where everyone had their milk delivered in the morning. We still have ours delivered in glass bottles but it's not on an electric float.

Second post at lunchtime, if something you were expecting to arrive on the first post didn't turn up, you always knew there's a chance it could arrive at lunchtime.

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

Greenshield stamps

Swimming hats with flowers on them

Long bolster pillows you used under your top pillows

I was going to say books and account statements. Almost all of my accounts and cards etc are paper free now and I got an email the other day saying if anyone wants printed statements they have to pay each month. In work we aren't allowed to print stuff off anymore and if you need something you have to write to an office who do it for you. I think gradually a lot of offices will move to a more paper free environment given what friends and family have said.

Books. I only have one bookcase now for my collection of fairy tales from round the world. I have my kindle for everything else. Everyone has them on the trains now, I haven't seen anyone on the train with a paper book for a while now.

I'm in my 40s and regularly wear petticoats (waist ones) Skirts and dresses, especially jersey ones, hang so much better! And stops pale skirts being see-through in sunny weather.

@CCquavers I remember spin dryers! We still had one when I was small (80’s) at some point my parents must have bought a washing machine with a spin cycle, because I don’t remember it after that..

Do you get your internet via mobile data only Brahumbug?
Our signal just isn't strong enough to support iPlayer etc. It has to be via landline.

Twin tubs
Black and white TVs
The national anthem at the end of the night, no mid afternoon tv and the test card - girl with a teddy bear
Everything was made to last longer than 5 mins:

• sturdy wooden pegs
• thick tins on strepsils
• Thick plastic
• St Michael clothes

Toilet seat covers Toilet roll dolls Catalytic converters

Never mind an underskirt, I bought a pair of cover up beach shorts that I want to wear in summer- not just on the beach- they're so light I need bloomers!

We have toilet mats. I don't like cold feet!

We don't have tea towels. Things are left to dry on the rack, or kitchen towel for an emergency dry.

Went to Curry's as DS1 had requested a CD player for his birthday. They only had 2.

When I was young and your petticoat was showing it was 'It's snowing down south'.

We used to say "Charlie's dead"

Carpet sweeper ! Loved my grandma’s.

Carpet sweeper ! Loved my grandma’s

Yes mine too! Eddie Izzard has a great sketch about them - he calls them hod-d-d-ds 😂

I sometimes wear an underskirt, I've got a couple of summer dresses that are a bit see through without one. I wear a full slip with one.

Record player/"music centre" with radio, cassette player and turntable. Although a few of the younger men at work have music centres to play their "vinyl" on. They are the 70/80s ones though.

Sanitary towels the size of a house brick that pinned into your knickers.

@BlackeyedGruesome do you remember the ones that came with loops and a special belt?!

I can remember being mortified at ballet class when I had my period - my mum wouldn't buy me tampons, only house bricks which were visible through my leotard

I also remember Tele-bank When you couldn't afford to buy a television this was a way of renting one It had a meter fixed to it and you had to put shillings in to watch the telly...

I have an underskirt. Good for transparent dresses in summer, and to stop your skirt clinging to your tights in winter.

DH always has a clean hanky. I think it’s sweet.

21 year old DS has started buying DVDs again. He likes to actually physically own the films he buys, he says.

Ds (5) saw a typewriter in a charity shop window and asked me What it was . When i told him he didn't even believe me!

Yeah @LittleAndOften I think the safety pins were because the belt was missing and mum was trying to get me to use up her old ones. I think the belts were because the knickers were not the right close fitting things of today, but big baggy things.

Cabinet to display posh glasses or china - MIL has one and it seems really outdated.