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

I’ve just bought DS (6) a CD player, I hated the idea of him having Alexa constantly listening and wanted him to appreciate listening to an album all the way through instead of just one song over and over.

@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.

I don’t even know if we have a landline. It might be that we technically have to pay for one though don’t plug one in. This was definitely the case ten years a go (I remember paying £10 a month for the landline although we did not own a landline phone, it was a £10 a month charge regardless as it was still technically required for broadband). DH does that bill now so I don't know if we're paying anymore for a phoneline noone uses. I had assumed not..?!

@lostteaspoon I noticed recently that Ticketmaster will sell you a paper ticket if you pay extra on top of their already monumentally rip off prices - it's some kind of artefact souvenir, apparently. Rather than something we used to just get instead of having to use our own pixels/data etc to do their job for them. Wankers.

I still have CDs. I like listening to classical music and albums, not just random tracks, and I honestly don't want to pay for yet another frigging streaming platform.

I also have DVDs because not everything is available on streaming, a lot you have to pay extra for including films that are 20/30 years old ffs, even films that are out of copyright and what you have to pay for changes a lot; I do think the way that media content is owned now doesn't particularly benefit the consumer. I'm glad for eg that I bought my kids Dr Who and Marvel DVDs because one's gone onto britbox and the other has gone to sky, just in the last five years or so.

@Serendip20

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!

Used a printer a LOT in 2020 and 2021 for homeschooling. Prior to this I honestly saw no need to ever own a home one.

I still top up my phone, use books, and like having a landline.

It’s a bit misleading to say people don’t get TV subscription packages any more as Netflix, Prime, Disney Plus ARE subscription packages. The only difference is that you can choose when you watch rather than having a set time or using a recorder.

You could say people don’t need TiVo anymore (remember when that was a massive thing? Didn’t have it myself)

Going out!

Sorry, not sky, Disney, I mean. I got quite a few of the marvel DVDs out of the pound shop prior to that happening, so now they've got them all to watch whenever they wish rather than me shelling out to Disney monthly.

Non landline broadband deals are often not any cheaper and quite few and far between so many people are still paying for a landline with most mainstream broadband providers, this will hopefully disappear in 2025 when landline phones go, or at least I hope so

I still use a landline occasionally because mobile signal is flakey where I live (though it has improved a lot in the last couple of years).

I still love to read a book. I do have an iPad and a very elderly kindle which I do have a number of books on and will sometimes use, but nothing beats a proper book, and a browse through a good bookshop is bliss.

We still get the Radio Times

As @Timeyime says, you don't really own an album or a film when you stream it. If the platform takes it down it's gone, tough. Any fellow Woody Allen fans will understand why I'm glad of my blu-ray box sets and DVDs.

@Caramelvanillafudge I only heard about amazon music and Spotify during the last two years

@Feather12

10 years ago was 2012. Did these things still exist then? I think a big change is that many people don’t really need to leave our homes anymore.

2012? 😭

No 10 years ago was definitely 1992

I have a landline, books, CDs, DVDs vinyl. I have zero interest in paying to stream music when I have CDs which I have already paid for. Ditto the DVDs, and when the internet goes down, there are still things I can watch if I want to. The landline is because the mobile signal is not good where I live, so a landline is necessary for online banking, if they need to call me with verification code, ordering a takeaway,(no deliveroo here) and normal life.

I also use cash on a regular basis.

TV licence

Yes! DS is 7 and was asking for a camera for his birthday. I later realised he might as well have my digital one, it’s a decent one bought in 2012 but I never used it once I got an iPhone in 2013.

Agreed. For all these other solutions people are either showing their “luddite” or they’ve forgotten how 2012 was only 10 years ago, but the camera would be mine. I got one for my Christmas in about 2010, but haven’t used it for about 10 years.

My daughter asked for one too, they are really expensive now! Used to get them for less than 100 quid, but not now.

I play cd's all the time and dvd's. I have loads of books and buy them all the time. I have a kindle but don't really like it very much.

We have a landline and use it quite a bit. DH is using it as I type this.

I still use cash a lot as I prefer to. Also DH's has customers that often pay him in cash

No 10 years ago was definitely 1992

I wasn’t even born in 1992!

We still get the Radio Times Christmas edition.

We still have books, DVDs, CDs, Sony walkman MP3 players and a landline. But I also stream music via Alexa too. And I read "paperbacks" on my kindle.

I don't use cash very often since covid. Before covid I didn't like using a card for less than £5 but I got over myself during covid.

And I don't get takeaways anyway unless you count going to get fish and chips occasionally.

You do need Tivo for some things as some channels don't have "watch again" options. And some of those that do make them impossible to use without lengthy registration processes, so it's easier to record or have a series link.

I even use a cheque book once a year for the guy who services our central heating boiler!

I still use my camera too but only on holiday. It's easier to take pictures on a mobile phone when you're out and about but if I am away I take my camera with me. I now have a new phone and suspect the camera is better on the phone though, we'll see when I am next on holiday! I will take my camera to a friend's wedding as well.

@KKslidoff just looked at some stills from Wall E and I see what you mean, I haven't seen the film but will seek it out.

I'm shocked at some of these.

I use a usb stick weekly at work and home.

I print every day at work (NHS) and most days at home. We have a subscription for ink on two printers at home which is £13 a month combined.

My parents still record onto VHS tapes.

Ipods
I've recently been using my ipods again and rediscovering my old playlists.
Its fantastic. It doesnt use my phone battery or data up. It's been great when I've been driving to the north of Scotland by myself ( from Lancashire). I feel like Ive found my old comforter!

@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

Wheels for legs as the kids don't walk anymore, they scoot.