Things you miss from the 'good old days'

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I'll start with:

1. Choosing a video or DVD from Blockbusters
2. Pic n mix from Woolworths
3. Puffy triangle snacks/crisps. I can't even remember what they were called.
4. Walkmans and mixed tapes
5. Simplicity e.g. only having 4 TV channels, not having 1001 chocolate bars to choose from etc

Joosters

Baywatch and Gladiators on a Saturday night. Then watching Casualty.

I know we still have Casualty, and Gladiators is back. But the BBC shift Casualty around so much and only do about 10 episodes of Gladiators.

Would love someone to show reruns of Baywatch on a Saturday.

NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo to the comedies. They were all so obvious and boring. They were to be endured before the actual programme you wanted to watch.

I miss life pre-mobiles and internet. I’m probably looking at it through rose-tinted glasses but I just feel life was more exciting and fulfilling back then.

I miss a lot of the high street shops. I miss going out shopping and being able to spend a day in town browsing shops. Nowadays you just walk past a million charity shops or empty units. I miss Woolworths.

When life for a family was affordable on one or one and a half salaries.

When extended family including grandparents and cousins lived nearby.

When a fiver was enough to take into town (including bus fare).

Pre-digital fragmentation when the whole country watched the same telly.

Pre-internet when we kept our polarised opinions to ourselves and nobody really knew or cared how you voted.

That's nothing, I've got the original cassette player in my car.

Being able to see the doctor the same day you needed them

Ah thank you !

🤣🤣🤣 Vive la difference !!

Aw fabulous !!

its just that I think of ‘body conditioning’ as more toning not cardio

Being able to just turn up at the GP and sit in the waiting room until you’re the next to go in.
Going out for the evening with £10 in your pocket.
Filling my Mini petrol tank with £5.

Being able to go to places like the swimming pool without having to book, I don't bother going now

I loved all of these too. Children’s tv was great! And there was a series called Friday Film Specials which were brilliant.

I miss family members, the feeling of being secure and not having to decide what’s for dinner every night, playing in the garden on sunny days, more recently (before emails and mobile phones / iPhones) not feeling like work can contact me 100% of the time. Teaching things that inspired the children and not just from schemes of work.

Woolworths was epic.
Saturdays going in to town to buy a tape / cd and looking at all the art work in them and learning the words to the songs.
Smash hits, Just 17 and Fastforward magazine.

Thornton continental chocolates back in the day.

Being able to go out to bars without having to reserve a table for drinks. Or actually being able to go anywhere without having to pre-book.

I miss how much less bureaucracy there used to be. Now you need to fill out masses of online forms, create accounts and download apps for absolutely everything.

I just miss the simplicity, really. Life can be very overstimulating these days with a relentless pressure to always be busy and “on”.

Record shops.

Had a star bar the other day ! For the first time….So good ! A guy I work with is trying to get everyone on to them so they arn’t discontinued again!

Eating banana sandwiches while watching the Muppet show. going to Woolworths for pick and mix. Going to bike rides and taking a butter sandwich thinking was amazing. Taking bottles back to the shop and being given money to spend on the 10p mix.

I used to buy a one day travel card for £2 which would take me all over London - all zones - trains and busses - which lasted till midnight.

I remember me and my mate, skint and bored on a wet sunday. We'd buy a travel card and bus into Ealing Broadway and sit in the Wimpy, making a cup of tea (50p?) last for AGES while we people watched from the window seats. That was aged about 12/13 ish i think.

C & A
Shopping in the UK (went to Cologne and Brussels recently and they both had lots of department stores and good shops including C & A)
Thorntons sweet shops, especially the one in Newcastle that had a Thorntons cafe upstairs
My parents and grandparents
Dogs were not EVERYWHERE
The old boxes of Neapolitan chocolates, my grandad LOVED those and it was a big treat to be able to choose one. I think they only really appeared around Christmas and around his birthday.
Being able to go out and get stuff from the shops rather than having everything online.
Everything said 'Made in England' rather than 'Made in China"
Fewer people
No social media

Top of the Pops! There being shared music, where we all followed the charts and were talking about what we like and how they dressed etc.
TV ! Having a few channels and we all discussed the latest episode and shared what was going on.
Shops! I used to go into Debenhams, British Home Stores, Woolworths.. all gone.

I really miss Debenhams, particularly at Christmas

I miss the shops having stock in the back, so if they’ve not got your size, it’s usually back there. I really hate going shopping and then having to order it at home. If the shop hasn’t got your size in they should post it to you for free.

Buying gig tickets from record shops, none of this sitting online all day while the price is being gouged. I bought Glastonbury tickets in 1984 from the local independent travel agent with the coach as well.

I went to two gigs as a teen with tickets bought from the travel agent, it included coach travel.