Things we don't need in 2022 like we did 10 years ago

[kylie122]

Just a Sunday thought remembering how we used to get phone top ups

Watches are something else, my teens have never worn a watch, they just use their phones to see the time. I suppose smart watches are the exception.

A landline phone; i know some will still use one but majority don't need to.

Clocks - I don't have any clocks in my house just use my phone.

Glad Facebook has lost it's power and influence.

Always taking at least one guidebook when travelling. I did this until quite recently. My bookshelves are full of Lonely Planet and Rough Guides to all sorts of places, and while they're a great souvenir, they just seem so out of date now. Why travel with a clunky, heavy book with info at least a year out of date, when you get up to the minute directions, recommendations and timetables a few clicks away?

Definitely using USB sticks still. I get laughed at sometimes but when the WiFi signal/internet connection is poor (quite often at work) I can share files by throwing them the USB stick!

I still use my Oyster card as well. And my employer still uses cheques for some if not all of our third-party payments.

I think people forget that in 'poor' areas we still use 'old' ways.

Yes, everyone has a smartphone, but we still use cash alot.
The laptop I'm typing this on is reconditioned second hand from 2014.

I used cash to get a bus today because I'm not comfortable with cashless society.

My contactless card was blocked today because of 'suspicious activity' - An £11.49 transaction I made yesterday!! I was in the middle of a city centre over 7 miles from home with limited battery to call and get it unblocked. What would I have done if I had ran out of phone battery (I nearly did) and had no cash on me?

I got a taxi recently and tried to pay by card. The GPS payment system went down and I had to go get cash. A waste of time for both myself and the driver. It happens often in my work as well - systems down.

Yes I use this intrusive tech at times, I won't lie - but I really try not to.

You are all sleep-walking into giving up control on your lives you will never get back. In the name of 'convenience' - but is it really??

The Machine Stops is a great (tiny) book.

Not everyone has a smartphone; I don't. I could if I wanted to, but I just don't see the point.

I used to carry an A-Z everywhere in my handbag

Still a lot of cash being used in my area, think this is due to distrust in banks, people pulling their money before direct debits come out or drug use. Lots of shops only take cash or have minimum spends for cards. We're in an inner city area.

@Cavementality

Torches, calculators, maps, payment cards etc. We now have apps for these on our phones!

But a lot of them are a pretty crappy substitute for the real thing.

I have a cheap torch that I use to search the back garden from the doorstep for wandering cats, my phone wouldn't do anything over that distance.

Phone calculators are completely hopeless for anything but basic calculations, I still prefer a 40 year old scientific calculator.

Phones are great for locating exactly where you are and I think the OS Map subscription is brilliant but I'd never rely on it solely for hillwalking.

DH does a lot of walking and would never just rely on his phone, maps and compass for him, phones are OK if you want directions to a shop the other side of town not out walking in the countryside. We still use a Tom Tom in the car not a phone, maps are always in the car as well though within easy reach.

A lot of things on phones are just really inferior substitutes, the torch may be quite useful if you haven't got a proper torch but if under the sink or somewhere like that needs repairing, I wouldn't be grovelling under there with my phone, sometimes you need both hands free so would use a head torch, or would you strap a phone to your head.

Shower radios.

I suspect that the posters not needing to call a taxi or ring for a takeaway live in towns and cities
We still have a landline, but rarely use the landline phone. It is a useful back up. Not all of our nearest takeaways can be ordered online. We don’t get Uber round here, and sometimes the mobile signal isn’t great.

We have a satellite dish for our Freesat, and still watch terrestrial TV (as well as Netflix, Prime and catch up services).

We have books, CDs and DVDs, and still use USB drives as back up. I have read that you should back up your data in three different places, so we use a USB or portable hard drive as one of the options.

Re Facebook. I think it is being used in a different way these days. More and more small companies have a Facebook page rather than their own website because it is free and can be updated more easily. Even the council and other large organisations use Facebook to update about bin collections and other useful information.

I use a few Facebook groups, especially the local ones for recommendations for services etc. People post about road closures and other useful community information. It is a great resource for recycling, and I would like to think that due to people being able to offer “free to a good home” stuff that they might have taken to landfill has cut down the amount of stuff that people take to the tip.

Being able to buy tickets directly from a venue for gigs and big events has disappeared, and we all end up paying a premium to Ticketmaster or other agencies which makes tickets even more expensive. When booking hotel accommodation I always end up with Booking.com/Trivago etc to get the wher, availability and how much, then google the hotel and contact them directly.

I suspect that the posters not needing to call a taxi or ring for a takeaway live in towns and cities

Yes, it's all very London/Urban centric all this and it appears that a lot of people don't really ever stray from such an environment, if they can't imagine a situation where their phone might not serve their needs all the time.

Being able to buy tickets directly from a venue for gigs and big events has disappeared, and we all end up paying a premium to Ticketmaster or other agencies which makes tickets even more expensive. When booking hotel accommodation I always end up with Booking.com/Trivago etc to get the wher, availability and how much, then google the hotel and contact them directly

These, plus Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat etc all make their money by taking a cut from the labour of others, backed by massive 'venture capitalist' type investors who use huge resources to exploit the people who work for them and take all the risk in an attempt to move themselves into a dominant position. It surprises me how people seem to be blindly happy to go along with it all.

Yes. Too many middle men/women wanting their cut these days.

Torches, calculators, maps, payment cards etc. We now have apps for these on our phones!
But a lot of them are a pretty crappy substitute for the real thing

I agree that many apps are a helpful but often a poor substitute.
Digital maps are something thing that I’ve seen people in the mountains rely on, nearly always obviously inexperienced ones. Digital mapping is awesome and companies like OS have done an amazing job. People should not rely on them. Signal gets lost, batteries drain and then you are snookered,especially if you are on the fells or in the mountain ranges.

Heels
Heels on shoes are very much still needed! You’d wear through the soles in days otherwise! Why do you think they’re not?

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Stupid scratchy nylon underwear esp bras & thongs
Mens voices & opinions on everything including feminism
Television

Torches, calculators, maps, payment cards etc. We now have apps for these on our phones!

Nope. I still have all of those things. I agree with a previous poster that you can't beat looking at a map to see the bigger picture, especially if you are planning a day out or need to detour to avoid traffic. I still use the satnav app on my phone, especially if driving through an unfamiliar city.

I keep a calculator in a kitchen drawer for working out recipe quantities if I am dividing or multiplying a recipe as I don't always keep my phone handy. I won't use my phone for payments and prefer to use my debit card.

Television

We still watch TV. The screen and the sound quality are so much better on a widescreen TV with speakers than a laptop. We often watch together as a family. I wouldn't like to sit hunched over a laptop to watch something. I prefer to relax on the settee. We watch live recorded stuff, catch up and streamed stuff.

@EightMonthsScared

Maybelline dream matte mousse foundation

That so dried my skin out but I loved it for some reason. I don't even wear foundation now.

I guess fake tan was the other thing. Everybody was still orange ten years ago. Orange with lots of lip gloss and completely flat hair.

Fake tan has just improved.

Fake tan is the bane of restaurants that use tablecloths, the orange mess left behind whenever the instagrammers dress to impress leaving their arm marks all over the linen. Do they sleep under black bedding 🙈

I suspect that the posters not needing to call a taxi or ring for a takeaway live in towns and cities

Yes, it's all very London/Urban centric all this and it appears that a lot of people don't really ever stray from such an environment, if they can't imagine a situation where their phone might not serve their needs all the time.

I live in a city albeit much smaller than London. I don’t use Uber or Just Eat, always go to collect takeaways and phone for taxis, have never done an online supermarket shop. It worries me that we are gradually eroding the reasons why people might actually have to leave their home.

Does anybody else print off paper copies of flight boarding passes?

I do. I get too paranoid that my phone will break just as I get to the airport or something. I'd rather have the paperwork physically in my purse.

Does anybody else print off paper copies of flight boarding passes?

Yes. I don't trust my phone