Old fashioned things you do?

[jennymanara]

Are there things you do that you realise have become old fashioned? I din't mean things you do for affect like lighting your house with antique oil lamps. But normal things that have slowly over time become old fashioned.

If I make salad we still have lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes, and that is it.

Soap(kept in airing cupboard for months to cure)
Fountain pens (bottled ink)
Paper diary(despite my bosses' imprecations to use office 365)
Embroider, spin and crochet.

Loose leaf tea
Get a delivery of raw milk in glass bottles from the milkman
Cook from scratch
Use a cotton handkerchief
Bar of soap
Darn holes in clothes (have a 1950s darning mushroom)
Cook with beef dripping/lard (refined vegetable oils are the work of the devil)
Clothes horse (proper old fashioned wooden kind) or line dry the laundry

Read newspapers and magazines.

Nothing quite hits the spot better than a paste sandwich on Mother's Pride.

Apart from a Vesta Risotto out of the packet, that is.

I hand write all my recipes out into my own recipe notebook. That way I always know where to find them. It has to be a good recipe to make its way into the notebook! ☺️

Ok so.
I sew buttons back on, alter clothing for dd, make my own bits and bobs.
I wash dishes by hand, use a washing line and iron my clothes.
I read real books, use notebooks. I’m not on social media.

Call audio books 'tapes'

I keep a paper diary (v therapeutic, having a rant in there, I write awful things about people , but it’s great for personal bitching!) I always write in it using a decent ink pen, enjoy a “proper cup of tea” call the meal at lunchtime ‘dinner’ and the evening meal ‘tea’ .... and late eating becomes ‘supper’
Have a bath and put on clean clothes for any medical/dentists appts - then thank them for seeing me!! 😳 I don’t know why I still do it, but my parents always did it! God knows why I thank my dentist, it’s a private practise and not cheap!!
Only listen to music from my ‘happy years’ 70s and early 80s - and have never bought recent chart music.
Sew buttons back on and do minor repairs to clothes.
Yes to Christmas Radio Times, good manners, using full sentences in texting and have only recently got an iPhone ( I do like it, I read newspapers etc on it!) I still get a daily newspaper delivered and would love my milk delivered but it doesn’t happen by me anymore.
Love getting washing out on the line to dry and also love a man in a decently ironed shirt! I also enjoy a good old-fashioned meat, 2 veg and gravy sort of dinner ( and a hot pudding...roll on winter evenings!) Also, really
enjoy a nice bath before bed rather than a rushed shower

What's old fashioned about salad?

😂 i wondered that too

I know where my cheque book is, and wrote one a couple of months ago .

Have a landline
Sew on buttons and mend seams/pockets
Use a paper calendar
Make meals from scratch
Grow many of our own vegetables
Make marmalade and jam
Have shoes heeled
Polish shoes
Yes, I have turned into my mother.

Also... Yes to beef dripping, yes to no social media and yes to planning what to wash according to weather forecast👍

Ever since we got Spotify and I put all my cds in the attic, I've not listened to music (except on the radio but that's different)

I'd have said "nothing in particular" but DD commented that I don't have a television, computer, tumble drier, car or dishwasher.

MonnaLisa. I make it up for my rice pudding, I’ve done it for so long I don’t even measure anything out
It’s just short grain rice, sugar and milk...mixed together and baked in the oven
I’m sure there must be recipes with actual measures somewhere but I’ve bern doing it for over 40 years now and have long passed the recipe stage

I still regard cds as ‘new-fangled’🤣🤣
I can’t wear something if it shows my bra straps, and I still remember the horror of being told “your slip is showing!😳”
I still polish shoes and boots with old- fashioned lovely smelling shoe polish, and go round collecting occasional washing (cushion covers, fleece throws, winter coats etc) on lovely hot days cos I can get them dry. I also “air” rooms by flinging open windows and “air” the bed when I get out of it.
I’m not actually THAT old...😳

I've racked my brains and there's not much! Am 47 and I think I believe more in moving with the times.

Thanks to my youngest, who's 12, I even know what 'yeet' means and can use it in the correct context. I also like saying Yas Kween but apparently that makes me ridiculously pathetic

I do hang out washing but prefer the tumble dryer and I do use bar soap for the 12 year old but apart from that ...

@Mummybares the salad thing? I think salads are so inventive these days - with addictions such as seeds, nuts, pomegranate .. you name it! Lettuce tomato and cucumber is proper old school

I send thank you cards, and make DD do them too

I always thank the bus driver when I get off

oh I loved these!
Putting a hankie in your sleeve - the memories that brings back of people I have known.
Turning a collar- I only know what this is as my mum still does it. Almost an art form in thrift, patience and resourcefulness.

This is what I do

make rice pudding
polish shoes ( love doing this)
get shoes reheeled
use a washing line
plant sweet peas
say 'can you video that' to the kids when I want things recorded on TV.
shake hands when I meet people
Own a sewing box
like 'appointment TV' ie everyone watching the same programme, on the same night at the same time ( like when The Bodyguard was on )
clean my jewellery with Goddards Silver Dip
use a book Thesaurus
sometimes wish a travel agent could sort out our holidays instead of poring over websites for days
wonder where I could still buy Woolite for handwashing
put a squirt of Fairy Liquid into my kids bath for bubbles just like my Gran did
love the smell of Johnsons Baby Talc
love the smell of Old Spice that reminds me of my Dad
Feed the birds
do Jigsaws
put some rice in my salt

sorry got carried away here

My salads are usually lettuce, tomato and cucumber because DCs don’t like anything else.

Surely everyone replaces buttons
I stood behind someone in the queue in Next who was returning something because a button had fallen off. I was trying not to but couldn’t help myself.

I do try to mend things, will sew buttons on, repair torn seams and I can do a reasonable bit of invisible mending for holes. Except socks, I chuck them when they get a hole.

I went out for dinner with a group of friends and realised I was the only one with a napkin on my knee.

Oh gosh there's quite a few

. I sew buttons and mend rips
.I let down hema on clothes and turn up cuffs etc
. I cook a home cooked meal every day
. I make apple purée in autumn
.i write shopping lists on paper
. I wear jackets in the house or hot water bottles in bed when it's cold, rather than up the heating
.i help dp to get his jacket on each morning
.we have each meal at the table
. My dc are not allowed computers or to watch tv
Instead of sitting on our bums we go for walks and spend quality time together
.i use bars of soap
.i read real books
I buy second hand and run everything into the ground rather than upgrade ( ie our car)
.i make pies and jams

I use a top and bottom sheet on my bed, with a duvet in the winter and just a thin cover in the summer. My dd thinks I'm mad, she gets her feet tangled up in the sheets!

Emails seem to require instant responses but sometimes a more measured response is preferable

Says who? If it's a business communication, you take the time needed to write a response that is sufficiently precise. If you're putting it in writing, getting it wrong is no good, no matter how fast you are.

I don't understand why people consider most of the examples given as 'old fashioned'. Just because a new way of doing something has been discovered/invented, it doesn't necessarily make the existing method obsolete. Sometimes it doesn't, but often it does not.

Green salad, mending clothes instead of throwing them away or cooking from scratch are still in common usage, surely?

It's not like we're talking about phone boxes and fax machines are we?