Things from the 90s/00s you don’t see anymore?

[Firebird83]

What are some things you remember from the 90s or early 2000s that don’t exist anymore?

I remember old ladies used to wear headscarves or those plastic rain bonnets

Lucky heather sellers in town centres

In my gran’s rural village she used to get a mobile library van and also a man selling soft drinks in glass bottles

Any more?

Of course a lot of these things existed before that era too, I just don’t remember seeing them anymore after the early 2000s.

@Allofthelightss was there a wine shop called Bottoms Up as well?

Oh Fads was the go to place to buy this stuff. Bonus points if you had a border around doorframes

@Ketzele Mates ? Weren’t they condoms ?🤔

We have a library van in my village. So they are still around!

The new postboxes with scanners and parcels shoots have solar panels on the top so the toppers can’t go on them.

I love these toppers and yarn bombing in general. Cheers you up. A village 8 miles from me does a once every 2 years, yarn bomb around the village with about 50 displays on properties, on the ground as it has a brook in the centre.

When visited Spain - a Costa or an island, you had a 25 peseta coin (the one with hole in it) threaded through your necklace with a yingyang pendant.

I really want one of those new fangled post boxes near me because it would save me faffing about with post office trips for eBay parcels. Not sure if they're being rolled out nationwide though.

MD 20/20

The flannels you used to get in a hard square, and they opened up in water

zigzag partings

the two bits of hair everyone kept down around your face when your hair was slicked back in a ponytail

butterfly clips

Splendid. I shall put that on my very long list of places to visit.

More are being rolled out. They just replace the door, then add the solar panels. As seen postboxes on FB where they kept the GR (George V) insignia.

Think the small ones are being kept.

Toys in the cereal box

People actually wearing trainers without socks in summer, especially Reebok Classic, before invisible socks became popular. (I was sockless then, and still am now!)

I loved Ceefax, especially “backchat”, where teenagers could write in. I remember a comment which I think sums up the whole of modern social media: “Backchat is brill because of all the stupid things you talk about. Keep up the good work, everybody, it’s so funny!” Teletubbies was a popular discussion topic among teenagers.

It was either hash or that revolting stick weed that was filled with seeds, waiting to pop and then burn straight through your band t-shirt. Those were the days…

Backless trainers were popular in the 90s, not so many to be seen now.

I'm still firmly wearing trainers no socks until winter forces me to!

Loved Ceefax remember the quiz on there Bamboozle? If you got one wrong you had to go back to the start . Apologies if that already been mentioned not read the full thread!

A wide range of clothes shops on the high street with different looks and styles.

Gap hoodies.

Reasonable quality going out top for under £20.

Young people who dressed differently. I’m always amazed at so many girls wearing the exact same trainers to school, and at a recent uni open day visit with my teen, all the girls had identikit clothes, hair and looks.

People drinking vodka and coke and the such like in the pub.

Pubs and bars that you can go into for a drink and randomly decide to stay and eat if you fancied food, without having to book a 2 hour slot in advance (I know you still can, but nowhere near as many places as you could).

Taxi ranks full of taxis.

magazines that were a good read, not just pages of adverts, or paparazzi shots.

Smash hits magazine!

Young girls (teens/20's) looking like individuals rather than identical make-up, fillers, nose job clones of each other

Slim-Fast

Amazing 'can't put down' books. I really struggle to find decent fiction now as it all seems fantasy/fairy or quickly churned out crap. I tend to pick up books originally published 20+ years ago that I didnt get round to reading the first time.

Platform ankle boots😀, as a shorty, I loved them.

Sweater Shop sweaters. So comfy and cosy ☹️.

The Body Shop before they went downhill.

Bursting Bugs (when you know you know- Rowntrees, please please please bring them back!!!!)

London - Camden selling mushrooms in plastic containers
Dvd sales on the street, in a big plastic wallet that could be laid across a big area and quickly picked up of police came as they were all counterfeit.

That went along with those adverts about steeling movies

Omg yes, that's it! haven't seen that magazine in years. I think I actually had that issue. I was like 16. My friend wasn't allowed get Bliss or sugar so she'd come over and read mine! 😏 And no I haven't heard totty being used in years either!

Converse One-star suede sliders, with peep toes: lots of my peers wore them. Meghan Markle is wearing them in that photo of her as a teenager outside the palace. I managed to get a pair on Vinted. (I don’t like Meghan Markle though!)

Slim people being in the majority.

Common sense 😂

I have still got a Sweater Shop sweater. It just has a small S embroidered onto it and it’s grey marl. Wear it when feeling ill.

Living in Leicester, that’s where TSS were made. A factory making T-shirts and sweatshirts and another factory the jumpers. Used to have factory sales. Factory sales in general i miss.

Back to TSS factory sales, I remember some of the stuff had letters missing. One spelt He Sweat Hop. Sometimes there were prototypes which they made a couple in each colour and sold them in factory sales