What do you still buy that you're convinced no one else still does?

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Title may have been a slight exaggeration, but is there anything you continue to purchase ( be it groceries, cleaning products, home bits etc) that is maybe seen as outdated, useless, old fashioned or just generally unliked by the masses , that you continue to buy?

Mine is Fisherman's Friend. I love them but have never found anyone else who still buys them!

Shake and Vac - smells of me granny

Bar soap

Tinned fish in sauce, I'm having tinned sardines in chilli sauce on toast for lunch. I'm sure others must buy it, but I never see anyone eating them.

@joyfullittlehippo bar soap is in the middle of a comeback, less packaging etc

I always buy cakes of soap.

I bloody love Vesta Chow Mein, whenever I see it I stock up. The crispy noodles aren't the same though, they don't puff up as well as they used to 20 odd years ago.

Andrews Liver Salts is another one I always have in stock - no idea what it's meant to do but I always take it when I'm nauseous!

Love Angel Delight but never have it any more because of the palm oil

I have changed back to dove soap as I find it last longer than shower gel,is better for my skin and better for the planet.

We like pasta and sauce packets - mainly used when we are on a camping holiday but at home I mix a packet of pasta and sauce with lots of veg and put grated cheese on top and grill to brown.

I make and use my own beeswax polish for my wooden furniture, rather than use a silicone spray.

Duraglit (though it's rebranded as Brasso now) for the door furniture

I like to have a Fray Bentos pie in the Emergency Stores cupboard

I've used bar soap forever, i also love angel delight but stopped using that and an 'own brand' one due to palm oil. I use cloth handkerchiefs as i collected loads when i was very young and still have some wartime hand embroidered ones from my (now deceased) aunties.

I’m buying bar soap now - no plastic waste.

I love those cod in sauce bags, but they are so tiny now they cook down to nothing
I still buy angel delight, love it with jelly.

Another semolina fan here! For semolina pudding with jam, so yummy.

Also bars of soap instead of shower gel or hand-wash. And aniseed imperials which are hard to find these days! Never met anyone else who likes them. And liquorice and coltsfoot rock if I'm passing and old-fashioned sweet shop.

Brillo pads. No one I know seems to have heard of them.

I think I am about the sixth person on the thread to mention bar soap so its not just me, but I want pink soap and the shops I go to only ever have white or occasionally green. I order in bulk online every 6 months.

I still drink Ritz. Its not sold in many places where I am but when I see it I buy it. Also still buy and love Calvita 'cheese'!

"Proper" light bulbs, not these new fangled low energy/LED thingies! But they're getting harder to find. Thank heavens for Ebay!

Cartridges for ink pens?

£10 a month mobile phone top up voucher

Me too, but mine lasts longer than a month.

Brasso. Bovril. Bar soap - although my heart was broken when Fairy green bar soap went out of production a few years ago. Just why? It was such perfect, useful stuff.

The old-fashioned thing I really want and I can't find is .... hang on, I'll start a new thread for it, so it gets more views ... it's a powder compact ..

My DS loves Wrights tar soap(?) he says it makes his skin less itchy(he gets mild eczema occasionally), I thought that was the cream he has put on every day but he says it's the soap

Butterscotch Angel delight.
Tinned semolina.
Tinned prunes to have in semolina

Those boxes of mushy peas with a tablet for soaking them in first - love them!

@joyfullittlehippo In the last year I've gone back to bars of soap, the dove shower gel was drying my skin out and i wanted to try and reduce plastics. I love proper soap!

Biotex stain remover.

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