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.

This is in a work context as well! 🙄😆

Hairdressers who can cut short hair

@StoorieHoose that is so true

TV shops with all the TVs in the window playing the same channel.
Weighing scales in the shopping centre
Avon sellers dropping off the mini catalogue. I used to love the smelly pages!

I’ve recently went short again and I’m going to start going to a barbers - look on any social
media for a hairdressers and it’s all long hair with GHD curls!!

Used to buy a pot of dried powder/coating that you shook over raw chicken in a bowl and then stirred it to cover the chicken pieces before frying in a pan, with a little oil to stop it sticking. The one I recall was a Chinese-style flavour and my DC loved it so much. It just disappeared one day and no-one outside my family/close friends whose DC often stayed for tea, can remember it. I can’t even recall the brand now either.

I knew the man who owned the company that produced the Argos catalogue, as well as many others.
Can't help wondering what has happened to him & his company in this digital age ?

I once worked for Schwartz/McCormicks , & they were experimenting with this when I left. Was it them ?

@oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends ooh yes - it might have been! It was delicious so it’s a shame it disappeared.

@StoorieHoose it is like a uniform

@oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends cant you buy cellophane type oven bags with herbs in, I’m sure this was on here a few weeks back 🤔

@SossijWoll

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305738179?srsltid=AfmBOooqblXvZNIq_UuYvcSsmc8KeXWgLkUl9isoBg0oRMT20Eauqr5h

Our city centre had a Virgin megastore where you could put on a set of headphones and listen to newly-released albums before deciding whether to purchase the CD.

Naf Naf
Pepe jeans
Fruit of the loom tshirts
Floppy discs
Jukeboxes in pubs
Tall CD storage cabinets for the home
Rusted old cars

Loving all these!
Floating candles in a bowl of water

Fax machines

@SossijWoll you can certainly get spicy or paprika-based chicken seasoning powder still from various brands — check out the Just Spices seasoning range (but I haven’t seen a Chinese-style flavour).

Laser jet printers.

@catontheironingboard thank you I’ll check that out 😊

Tall bottles of bright yellow Galliano

That shampoo advert was for Salon Selectives not Vidal Sassoon 😀 I remember it really well!

Totally forgot about this! My mum used to do this at Christmas!

I'm 40 ish and I have kind of become like this! I hate it when my phone rings and if it's someone from work I do get annoyed, like why couldn't you have pinged me on Teams first!

Pot pourri - actually not sure that was even still around in the 00s, but definitely the 90s!

100% this.

And jelly candles.

Dammit, just seen this is an old thread!