A Thing You Don't See These Days

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I found a picture of my mum standing on one of those big red coin operated weighing scales today. It had a big dial face. It was in our local shopping centre but I remember seeing them on piers, train stations etc too. Did you ever use them? Other than this picture of my mum I don't remember seeing one in use

@ThorIsAGod

No, the cracker ones, although I’ve just googled to find you a photo, and it says Waitrose still sell them. I’m not sure if that’s just a big lie though as I’ve asked in Tesco, and they said they were discontinued, and when I just googled The Morrisons page says ‘no longer stocked’

I can’t understand why, as they’re just so delicious.

We've got a coal yard in Wolves, @Crimeismymiddlename

It sits by the canal too. www.wulfrunacoalco.co.uk/

Or the cassette tape you put in your car stereo that connected to a cd player so you could play CDs in a car with no cd player. No idea what it was actually called...

Dogs roaming the streets without owners.
Working phone boxes.

That really scratchy toilet roll that was almost like tracing paper. I remember using it at primary school- awful stuff!

@UnitedRoad I'll look out for those next time I'm passing Waitrose. Love crackers!!

@Daisychainsandglitter

That really scratchy toilet roll that was almost like tracing paper. I remember using it at primary school- awful stuff!

Izal. Also a favourite in church hall loos.

Saving stamp books for Xmas at supermarkets

[quote ThorIsAGod]@UnitedRoad I'll look out for those next time I'm passing Waitrose. Love crackers!!

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I'll have a look tomorrow and report back!

@Daisychainsandglitter

That really scratchy toilet roll that was almost like tracing paper. I remember using it at primary school- awful stuff!

We were talking about this at work the other day!

Reins on kids. All the rage in the 90's.

@ShellyShore

Cream on the top of bottles of milk - it was a treat if you got to it first. Kids everywhere playing in the streets.

Giving your divi number to the co-op checkout woman.
Queues at the co-op when it divi paying out time.

Re the cream on the top of milk bottles- Waitrose and Co-op sell gold top milk with a proper layer of cream on top, especially if you leave it undisturbed in the fridge for a day or so!

Old ladies with flowery plastic headscarves on, long brown coats and stockings with sensible shoes. Used to see them all the time when I was a kid, never any more :(

@Asthenia

Old ladies with flowery plastic headscarves on, long brown coats and stockings with sensible shoes. Used to see them all the time when I was a kid, never any more :(

Older people looked old from about middle age, the photos of my Grandparents and my mum and Dads wedding could place them anywhere between mid 40,s and mid 80,s,very sensible hair, no make up sensible shoes etc

Hats in church.
Beautiful feathery frost patterns on windows.
Chamber pots under the bed at my grandparents’ house.

I had reins for my eldest ( now late 20s) he was prone to run off , they were great especially as we had to get about on buses etc!
They were not very cheap either. You don't see kids with them on now.

Ladies wearing headscarves
Horse drawn carts for rag and bone plus beer deliveries (my children don’t believe this)
Greaseproof paper style loo roll at school
Dynamo bicycle lights
Free toys in cereal
A half moon table for phones in the hall

China dolls

@Daisychainsandglitter

That really scratchy toilet roll that was almost like tracing paper. I remember using it at primary school- awful stuff!

Ohh god this. Didn't soak up any pee 😆

Nuns in their habits .I went to Catholic schools all my life in different countries and also during my training as a nurse in Ireland. They were part of daily life .I only realised how much they had disappeared when trying to explain to my son what a nun was during the time we lived in California in the early 00's .He had no clue what I was talking about

@schnubbins

Nuns in their habits .I went to Catholic schools all my life in different countries and also during my training as a nurse in Ireland. They were part of daily life .I only realised how much they had disappeared when trying to explain to my son what a nun was during the time we lived in California in the early 00's .He had no clue what I was talking about

I went to a Catholic convent school, i dont know if different orders had different habits but the nuns at my school wore knee length skirts and blouses and jackets with shortish head scalf thing dark blue? There was an uproar when my head teacher went to America for a year in about 1979/80 and came back with no habit, /head scalf

@Galassia

Impressionists. Mike Yarwood was a popular entertainer. Faith Brown, Marti Caine and there was another woman who’s name I can’t remember.

There's still Rory Bremner!

Convent educated. I can always spot a nun in civvies.

The credit card swipe machine.

Cream on the top of bottles of milk - it was a treat if you got to it first.

My mum was a bitch. I hated it so she would insist I drank it. My brothers who would fight over it would beg her for it but she would rather force down my throat and make me gag. Sorry I know that's not in the spirit of the thread. It just reminded me after all these years

Business card machines
Woolworths
Joke shops
Rag and bone man
Toys in the cereal
Panda pop drinks