Old timey things and traditions you love

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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.

Writing cheques.

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!

To add to my visceral disgust of handkerchiefs, the idea of storing a tissue in a pocket is also rather nauseating. Surely, they are one and done?

I do that with clean tissues which I have put in pockets for when I need them. Drives my partner bonkers but I still don't want cloth ones.

Reading this almost made me retch 😂

I remember my mum soaking hankies. Also remember the large green sticky clumps of sputum on them.

Don't miss them at all

Sorry if I made you feel bad, but I feel very strongly about this subject, and I felt that I needed to be graphic in order to convey how disgusting I feel the traditional hankies are.
i feel it makes washing one’s hands is an action thsts null and void, if one is going to handle a snot filled hankie, and even more so in times of of covid or similar … 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I cannot understand how women who have given birth and raised children can still be so squeamish about slightly snotty handkerchiefs.

Foraging, using proper cutlery, always eating at the table, baking cakes and making bread, making soup and other dishes from scratch rather than ready meals or convenience food.