Old timey things and traditions you love

[IWantToHibernate]

Here are a few of mine:

• Teapots. I don’t use them often but when I have guests I love cracking it out.
• Bed trays. I don’t have one but I always think about how nice it would be to have breakfast in bed on one when they’re in period dramas.
• Having milk delivered to your front door. It’s so much more expensive than the supermarket so I can’t justify doing it much but it makes me feel nostalgic.
• Homemade cake. It’s so nice to have homemade when shop bought is much easier.
• Buying eggs from an ‘honesty box’. Even better if it’s in a quaint village with cute cottages.

It seems a lot of mine revolve around food.

I long for older and simpler times. It seems looked down on if you want to spend your afternoon in front of the fire skimming a magazine, doing a bit of sewing or a crossword, whilst drinking from a teapot.

See, white toast has to be hot, but for me, wholemeal toast is best cold so you get a slightly nutty taste.

Yep, I'm a weirdo!

All meals at the table, which always has a tablecloth.
I still iron 😁

Agree with this. Also I never eat white bread except toasted or bacon sandwich I think there was less brown or seeded bread in shops when I was growing up.

I still iron also.

That's one I'm not sorry to see the back of. Writing them was the chore of the holiday though and as soon as I went on my first adult holiday without my parents I stopped doing it.

It was something my parents thought you just had to do although in later life they stopped doing it too.

I did like to collect postcards as souvenirs when away on holiday because I liked the colourful pictures and used them as bookmarks.

@GoldbergVariations @Ohcrap082024 Another Holly and the Ivy fan here. I have my mum's Christmas pudding bowl and cream jug and we have them on the table at every Christmas dinner.

Picnics are another lovely old time thing. For my 21st birthday I was given a picnic hamper so we take that somewhere beautiful, sit on a blanket and all of a sudden it's the 1920s again.

Err your other washing will have bodily fluids on it! Is snot worse?

Saw this article and thought of this thread.

I have some good, solid, dark wood furniture.

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/homes-interiors/interiors/g70199864/outdated-home-trends-2026/?HearstNode=CF019B8F107F911DB8D0ACBA2A56AB4200901F2206F7DA23F26B3AD0D5C4FD2B&utm_source=crmz&utm_term=SUBS_N&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CNL_N_20260205

Also, although I don’t use them myself, I love the fact that my DP uses cotton handkerchiefs instead of tissues and has a fresh one in his pocket every day.

I’d be completely nauseated by this. Does he blow his nose and put his snot filled hanky back in his pocket? Revolting.

I remember auld mannies doing this 1970s even as a child it turned my stomach🤮🤮

Infinitely worse !!!
Can not, abide the very thought of bogies detaching themselves from a handkerchief, then reattaching themselves to another item in the wash…. Believe me it happens.
in what feels like a different lifetime ago, I was with someone who used handkerchiefs, so I have first hand experience.
The first time I realised (as a naive young woman), that what was happening, I banned the bloody things, or he could wash the disgusting things himself… and you might guess that he didn’t want to bother with that.
Even aside from the laundry aspect, how on earth anyone could use a “hankie”, stuff it in a pocket, then fish it out again, possibly accidentally touching the jellified congealed previous snot somewhere in the material… just no no no …
My face is all grimacing as I’m typing these words.
Oh yes, he had other (worse) disgusting habits that were untenable… and ever since recovering from him, I absolutely swore that I would maintain my boundaries…. older and wiser I guess…

What a lovely thread. Thank you @IWantToHibernate for thinking of it.

I think my number one favourite is a handwritten thank you note or letter. What a wonderful thing to receive that is, and so rare these days.

Homemade cakes.

Nice manners. Was in my local garage the other week and the guy in there booking all the cars in, who was youngish (mid 20s), was so polite to each customer as we dropped off our cars. It was both lovely and also a bit sad that this feels like a lost art!

Ahh yes I love a picnic. Bonus if it’s afternoon tea with dainty sandwiches, homemade cakes etc

We have a couple of vintage eiderdowns. They are so warm and cosy on the bed when the Scottish weather does its worst.

I also have lots of vintage jars, pots & bottles. I especially like the pottery cream jar with the dairy’s name on the front; it’s so pretty filled with sweet peas. And I love my Ovaltine whisking jars.

I even have one of those hand operated kitchen whisks!

@ChurchWindows I got a picnic hamper for my 30th! (Many moons ago)

Following and trying to think of old-fashioned habits that I keep. (We do get milk deliveries and I walk rather than driving most of the time!)

I like lots of the things mentioned on this thread. I am probably too lazy to do a lot of them. I did bake a nice pineapple upside down cake at the weekend. We had it warm with full fat Greek yogurt.
The hanky thing! No just no and thrice no. In my youth I had an elderly relative who was always soaking used cotton hankies in a pail of bleach solution ready for boiling. My DH is a constant nose blower. Divorce would be on the cards if he used cotton hankies. In fact I just realised I don’t even like the word hanky😂.

Or ‘handkerchief’ if we’re going old school, which as I write, seems a very strange word, and I realise I never pronounce the ‘d’.

Make chutneys, pickles, mincemeat, marmalade etc. Write with a Mont Blanc fountain pen (engraved with my name), have a classic car, wear a lot of vintage clothes (mainly 50's), range cooker, tea set, kettle goes on the range, books not kindle, make my own firelighters, anything I can really to slow life down a bit. (Stressful job).

It's a kerchief you use in your hand, rather than a neckkerchief that, well goes around your neck.

I love this thread OP. I am definitely an old soul. I love collecting tea sets and use them regularly, I also collect old cookery books, use a singer sewing machine, read real books, go blackberry picking, baking and making my own bread.

Surprisingly, we don't suffer much with damage from deer (though there are some about, as I've seen their prints). Our problems are mainly badgers (digging setts by farm tracks, and they're so big that it's a wonder that our wheels don't go down them and get stuck!), crows and pigeons (they're everywhere, and eat a lot of livestock feed), and mice (ditto, and they come into your house uninvited, too, but they haven't invaded my tea towel drawer since I put vents over the air bricks). Other garden invaders/regular roadkill are the pheasants and Peter Rabbit and his entire extended family!

I resorted to handkerchief use after forgetting (more than once...) about extracting tissues from pockets when clothes went in the washing machine. No more do I have to worry about picking white bits of tissue off my clothes for weeks afterwards!

Fountain pens are what I've used since primary school, and I only have dark furniture. I recently visited a Victorian property, where I actually felt fashionable for once in my life! It just takes a long time to collect, because I keep finding bits in antique shops, so the house looks quite minimalist. Oh, and then there is my giant black Underwood typewriter, which still works!