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?

No, they were sort of made up of rings of metal? I've seen the mesh ones, but these were cuter.

(I am aware this is a very specific nostalgia! )

Awww I feel nostalgic. Dh and I used to write to each other in 2005

I have a teapot and tea cosy

I knit and crochet

I also have an academic diary to write dates in

My head of department wears button down shirts and cords. And writes with a fountain pen

I use a paper diary. On a business call recently we were arranging a meeting and my colleague said "are you turning pages in an actual diary?" She thought it was hilarious 😂.
OTOH, we are in a standoff with our window cleaner currently as he will only accept cash or cheque in payment, but we never seem to have cash to hand when he calls for his money and neither of us has written a cheque since God were a lad. We've told him that we either pay him online or we'll find someone else to do it. He keeps coming, we keep not paying. We're fascinated to see how it plays out.

Um ... d'you not think you should maybe get some cash out and keep it near to hand?

I can't believe you'd boast about not paying someone in that situation.

I've found more of a use for waist slips now that more retailers are cutting costs by not lining their clothes. Selling cotton or linen skirts/dresses for upwards of 70 quid with no lining is just taking the fucking piss IMO.

I used to write a lot of letters
19yo DS has a huge DVD movie collection.

This video never gets old.

Haven't RTFT so maybe these things have already come up, but I remember:
Hostess trolleys
Valances on beds
Counterpanes (candlewick)
Fly curtains on external doors, made of strips of coloured plastic or strings of beads
Wall-mounted tin openers
Changing your curtains with the season - thin cotton ones for summer, thick ones for the winter
Top loader washing machines
Having a metal coat hanger stuck in the top of the TV to improve reception
Neopolitan ice cream
Having a "choc ice"

Oh I still have valances on the beds! (I’m only in my 30s) They look weird without them I didn’t used to but then I got a job in a bedlinen store and all the pretend beds looked lovely and finished with their valances so I bought some for ours.

What happened to the loop of towelling that you had to pull on for drying your hands in toilets? It's all stupid wooshy handdryers now which I often can't use as I'm frequently accompanied by a young child who is terrified of the things!

I don't miss the actual sewn up loop of towel around a bar in a cheap nightclub from my student days. Halfway through the night it would be very soggy and grey!

I like my landline. It's nice for family calls as it's not directed to one individual. It's easier to hold on longer calls too. I'm just beginning to leave DC at home for short periods, do it's handy that they have a phone to hand.

I like the physical act of browsing through my CDs, selecting one and playing an album. It's great having music on my phone, but sometimes I just want to select the album manually.

I'm a book lover. My kindle seems to have reached the end of its life. It was handy for travelling, but I prefer the physical experience of a book. I know where I am in it and can flick back and check things easily. I feel like I'm on a journey through books and get attached to the volumes I read.

I like magazines too.

Not paying your window cleaner because you are too lazy to get some cash out is a shitty thing to do and the height of arrogance LenoVintura

Most of these things don’t seem that unusual to me. I’m 33 and I don’t consider myself especially old fashioned.

For international calls just call the other person through WhatsApp or Skype. You don't need a landline.

LenoVintura get yourself to a cash point and pay your bloody window cleaner, for God’s sake!

Watches

I have a collection of watches but the one I wear most you set the time using an app, it displays two times so I can have one set to where relatives abroad are.

If I can't find my phone I can press buttons o the watch and it will make my phone ring.

We have a valance on the bed, and a bolster.

Also a drinks / display cabinet in the dining room for our best glasses and booze.

Come to think of it, a dining room.

I forgot, the hostess trolley, very useful for family get togethers and Christmas.

I wear slips, use a handkerchief and watch DVDs. We have a bookcase and listen to CDs, keep a map in the car and have a special drawer in the hall table for the phone book and yellow pages.

Mountian we only got rid of our hostess trolley last year and I almost regretted it whilst handing it over to the couple collecting it. The only reason I didn't immediately rip it out of their hands and take it back was because they were taking it for a soup kitchen type place, I just couldn't take it after they told me this.

@LenoVintura I really hope you are joking as if not that is a shitty thing to do. I can't believe someone would come on to brag about that. You know what your window cleaner accepts as payment. It is up to you to either have the cash in or write him a cheque.
You are showing a horrible entitled attitude.

I forgot, I have a paper diary and am lost without my family organiser from M&S that is on the wall. I also wear an analogue watch.

For international calls just call the other person through WhatsApp or Skype. You don't need a landline.
Phoning ordinary landlines is cheap through Skype as well. I call friends in the USA on Skype to their ordinary phone at 2p a minute, bargain!

I use a paper diary and use an actual map. DH prefers to use his phone and we recently had an almighty row when it took us a ludicrous route after I had offered to map read, and it should have been a very simple journey.

I still have a teasmade, inherited from my granny, though it is not very old. Being woken up by radio 2 and a freshly made coffee, sheer bliss

@13LenoVintura I don't understand why you wouldn't pay someone for a job they do for you and that you're 'fascinated' how it it plays out. You must go and get cash out sometimes so just get enough money out to pay your debt.

You're being difficult for the sake of it and that's just weird. Pay the man.

CD players in cars. My current car doesn't have one and l hate that. l spent the entire journey changing radio channels to try and find some decent music. l've never heard my favourite band played on the radio.