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

It wasn't the large payment at the end that the solicitor needed cheques for it was the small stuff as it went along where other people needed paying

@GeneLovesJezebel

Still have a land line. Still buy books. Only have Sky. Still got my CD’s and vinyl.

Same here and I still have heels too..

USB sticks

they seem to have gone when they were once so common they were even incorporated into bracelets, and whats stranger is that I cant work out why they have fallen by the way side.

Tax disc

@4pmwinetimebebeh

Yellow pages

We actually got a phone box delivered through our door the other day. It was a quarter the size of the old ones we used to get in my youth.

**book

To go out!

@VelvetChairGirl

USB sticks

they seem to have gone when they were once so common they were even incorporated into bracelets, and whats stranger is that I cant work out why they have fallen by the way side.

Cloud storage? I used to back my uni work onto a USB but I would also save it in Dropbox

Actually we will need to be careful or we will evolve with a great big arse, small stubby legs and a hunchback, I feel I am halfway there

Actually, probably Facebook. It feels very stale now.

I agree with facebook. I still have loads of books and CDs though, CDs are good for car journeys and I like real books because I can lend them to people (and borrow them).

How are people doing all the streaming that makes their satellite dish redundant if they don't have landline?

Or is it possible on mobile internet? We can barely make a phone call or send an email on ours.

But you'd have to be a very light mobile user to make phone tops still worth it. You can get unlimited calls and texts plus a bit of internet for a fiver a month on Giff Gaff etc and you'd only have to make a couple of short calls and send a few texts to blast through that amount on PAYG.

I still keep an atlas in my car even though I do use sat nav. It's much easier to find a sensible way round a closed road if you can look at the bigger picture and not rely on the nonsense your sat nav app is telling you, and everyone else that it's trying to send down a minor road to avoid a closed motorway.

Love my kindle though and can cope with charging it every few weeks.

@User7698365

Actually we will need to be careful or we will evolve with a great big arse, small stubby legs and a hunchback, I feel I am halfway there

Ever seen the film Wall-E.

Considering it was made by Disney over a decade ago, its anti-commericalism, anti-consumerism and environmentalist message is pretty strong.

I wouldn't dream of being without my books, CDs, DVDs and landline.

Landline, CDs.

Although you will be prising my proper books out of my cold dead hands.

I'm 60 so I'm still young enough to have caught up with everything online such as banking and social media but for anyone older than me it is a very lonely world especially if you cannot leave your home.
Most of my elderly patients still rely on cheques, have no way or understanding of getting on line and are totally isolated from the modern world. Many don't speak to anyone for days on end.

I know lots of people love cook books and will still have them but I rarely use the ones I have and any new recipes I want/need I get online.

Much longer than 10 years ago but does anyone remember the family allowance book?

@BarbaraofSeville

How are people doing all the streaming that makes their satellite dish redundant if they don't have landline?

Or is it possible on mobile internet? We can barely make a phone call or send an email on ours.

But you'd have to be a very light mobile user to make phone tops still worth it. You can get unlimited calls and texts plus a bit of internet for a fiver a month on Giff Gaff etc and you'd only have to make a couple of short calls and send a few texts to blast through that amount on PAYG.

I still keep an atlas in my car even though I do use sat nav. It's much easier to find a sensible way round a closed road if you can look at the bigger picture and not rely on the nonsense your sat nav app is telling you, and everyone else that it's trying to send down a minor road to avoid a closed motorway.

Love my kindle though and can cope with charging it every few weeks.

They mean they don't have a landline that allows them to make phone calls. No phone number. It doesn't mean they aren't using it to get internet in the house.

Oh yeah and ringing for a takeaway!

@ouch321

People who said they didn't have DVDs in 2010- but Nerflix and Prime only became a thing circa 2015.

I definitely had Netflix in 2013. Still have DVDs though! Likewise Spotify and CDs.

And I don’t think I’ve used more than about 10 cheques my whole adult life (and even then, mostly grandparents sending them etc) and that is a fair bit longer ago than 2012.

What has always interested me though is are cheques still used in the States?

I remember that still in the noughties friends in New York literally used to use cheques to pay their rent and bills and things and I always found that incredible. I was surprised because to me, cheques stopped being used after the 90s. Even pre internet banking for a good while we all used standing orders and direct debits set up manually and on the phone with the bank I think…?

I live in the mid world. I have a collection of DVDs and books I love, yet have a kindle for most of my reading and I do everything including banking online or on my phone.

Petrol/diesel cars

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

I'm 60 so I'm still young enough to have caught up with everything online such as banking and social media but for anyone older than me it is a very lonely world especially if you cannot leave your home. Most of my elderly patients still rely on cheques, have no way or understanding of getting on line and are totally isolated from the modern world. Many don't speak to anyone for days on end.

That's a massive generalisation. My parents, late 70s are totally comfortable with internet banking and so on. In fact, one of the reasons why I think Facebook is going out of date is that it is all elderly people on there!

Cash. I’ve used it once since March 2020 and that was for a very rural taxi.

Also I’m having a big clear out at the moment and getting rid of lots of electronics - printer, DVD player, basic digital camera that I just haven’t used for years. Technology is moving at an incredible pace!