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

Better manufacturing standards - things were generally made to last.
Cars which were less complicated.
Scammers were far far less of an issue.

I don’t really miss a lot from the ‘GOD’s ‘ personally. I suppose being able to socialise without SM for instance and meeting people rather than OLD, and a nice day out shopping but that meant lots of impulse purchases ! but the food was awful, the tech was awful too. I love that we can now watch a series in full and pay for so much good content as and when we please and there is always YouTube for nostalgia
so much more choice now for decent food mainly. I agree with a PP there are lots of tatty imports and awful disposable clothes but nobody needs so many so there are quality clothes to be had, you just need less.
safety standards are better too now

Toffos, especially the mint ones.

Being skinny and beautiful

People doing their jobs properly

I’ll tell you what went wrong.
Forgetting to cancel the bugger and ending up with the monthly “surprise” cd which wasn’t Blondie but in fact some pan pipes delight, or similar. And having to pay for it, due to lack of cancelling it. That’s what went wrong there 😂

I miss the simplicity of life before the internet.

People growing older gracefully without botox and fillers.

People were more respectful in the ‘good old days’ unlike nowadays.

I miss not having to put up with the stench of cannabis. It stinks and it’s everywhere.

Sweets, biscuits and lucozade from the good old days. Lucozade doesn’t taste anything like it used to. Neither do Rich Tea biscuits and why did they put a stop to Highland Toffee Bars and Tutti Frutii sweets.

I miss the time when we didn’t hear about so much crime and depravity. I miss the time when we didn’t hear about the likes of Bonnie Blue and Lily Philips.

I could write a never ending list of what I miss from the good old days…

Being able to see a GP in the same week as making an appointment. These days I'm lucky if it's in the same month.

Fish and chips with change from £10

Woolworths.

Good manners. Please and thank you is apparently passive aggressive these days so some people don't bother. Some people don't even bother to hold a door open for anyone behind them.

Shop assistants on the floor to ask questions and reach higher shelves.

Pedestrians taking care before crossing the road. The Green Cross Code was drummed into me as a kid but nowadays people are so busy looking down at their phones they step straight out into the road, sometimes without looking first.

So many things ! Consistency especially- seeing the same doctor or same dentist/ optician for years; shops keeping their layouts ( and staff rather than self service tills) C&A and TOTP as lots have mentioned. Holiday brochures - the anticipation was great ! Whilst Amazon, Trip Advisor and 24 hour on demand tv have their huge advantages in terms of instant gratification or feedback/ recommendations, I sometimes miss that mystery, the anticipation of waiting for things ( like photos , or going to a record shop).Also proper phone calls rather than texts which leave plans so fluid - we used to just make a plan and stick to it because once out you were out of contact !!

Long distance journeys by car didn't take a ridiculous amount of time due to months long roadworks and accidents caused by crap driving.

As a couple of examples, my journey to visit family, 240 miles, has increased from 4 1/2 hours to 5 1/2 hours routinely even away from bank holiday weekends over the last 20 years. Recently my partner and I went to Northumberland, about 360 miles and although we had to go to Twickenham first which added an hour and a half's time, the journey took 12 hours.

Transport seems to have regressed in the UK.

I am ancient so I remember playing outside all day with friends, roaming freely in parks and fields and only going home when it was tea time. Walking to and from school, and some years later, the thrill of going to the local "disco" and dancing all night and maybe "getting off" with a boy who then asked you to go to the pictures with him the following week.

All of them, also no internet. Having to actully leave the house to go shopping, or to the library to find out information

Crisp packets with enough content to save you reaching for a second packet.

Cats being allowed to roam without being 'rescued' and plastered all over FB.

Phoning people for no reason was appreciated.

Nescafe Gold Blend before they ruined it.

Mongrels were free to a good home without a silly made up doodle name.

Paper files at work, staplers, hole punches, treasury tags, tippex, carbon paper, floppy discs😍.

Pease pudding at the deli counter (North East thing maybe?)

£1.00 got you 10 Regal Kingsize in the dodgy papershop next to the school.

Sounds like my childhood and youth too.

Happy days!

Being able to take my pedal bike out with my cousin and cycle all day. I have no recollection of what we ate or where we went for a wee but just remember the freedom of being out all day pre high school.
Half penny mojos, when 25p would buy a big bag of cola cubes.
Not having to worry about how much things cost. I feel all my adult life has been spent worrying about money, even more so lately. Maybe it's nostalgia and I'm remembering things through rose coloured glasses as I was a child but life seemed more simple and joyful in the 80s and 90s

People walking around adopting a normal straight posture and looking where they are going rather than hunch over at nearly 45 degrees with their faces glued to their phones.
People who looked liked normal humans and not plastic ones.
Funny comedies on TV and cheesy dramas rather than the gruesome fests we are served up these days.

People just looking around at their surroundings and noticing things if they had to wait longer than 10 seconds for anything, as opposed to whipping out their phones during the briefest of waits these days.

And by extension of that...

Kids in prams looking around and not at a screen.

Ha, I see me and pp poster think alike!

My red passport.

Cleaner streets as shops were owned and the shopkeeper would keep the pavement clean -also Council wasn’t skint so cleaned things

Someone has already mentioned this, but - spontaneously deciding to go somewhere, and being able to stay all day. Now you have to pre book slots everywhere.

A local restaurant introduced a 2 hour slot booking system not long ago and it feels so unwelcoming. Obviously you’re not going to stay there all day, and you may well be ready to leave within 2 hours, but it feels pressured and like you need to watch the clock.

Women have always judged other women. Sadly.

Yes my car is a few years old and l can listen to cds ,the radio , l can drive an electric car but with all the computer stuff on them it's ok but the ev l had for work before retirement always kept stopping and needs a garage repairs yet our battery engine goes on and on , the pleasure of getting anything from a shop , clothes , white goods , furniture, presents so and so on , woolworth and so many more shops , so now you get a picture of the said item from whoever and pray it will in the least be delivered and not thrown over next doors garden fence . Are things better l will let you decide

Yes, it's the simplicity of life that I miss too. I'm not in the UK so don't have to book for everything, but so much in life now is complicated and everything seems to take so much more time.

I try to live as simple a life as possible, but a lot of it is out of our control. Things like it being difficult to actually contact businesses to get things sorted, or even being able to talk to a human, phoning places and having to wait in a long queue, or get a callback, before you can have your issue addressed.

In some ways life now is so much better than it used to be, but also in many ways it is so much worse.

Yes, i think you've got something there. Having so much choice, and cheaper stuff, available instantly, has spoiled us. Broadly I think life has improved overall but there is a sense of detachment - and the pursuit of individual pleasure and constant distraction (snacks on sale everywhere, ads everywhere, phones demanding our attention) has made life complicated and 'noisy' in a way that it wasn't 30+ years ago.