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Things that are now obsolete or were easier years ago

Homebird

A recent thread got me thinking about a couple of things.

The first one is instructions. I find things like mobiles frustrating as they don't come with instruction manuals. Then other things have to be researched on the internet. If I have flat packed furniture to build I lay it out and follow the instructions at my own pace. That's what I liked about Lego unless that has changed now.

The other thing I was thinking about recently is things we used to use that young people would have never seen. I was thinking of the phrase being a carbon copy which I guess comes from the use of carbon paper. In my first office job the typists did two copies of letters using this which went in different files. Some shops used it for receipts so they had a copy. I wonder if anyone uses it today.

Are there things that others can think of that aren't in use now?

Parents

  • Typewriters; telephones with dials; bus conductors; half-crowns and sixpences.

    Ben

  • in reply to Ben

    I miss the days of telephones with dials. Yes, it was time-consuming to dial phone numbers, particularly if one needed to include an area code, but I always thought there was something strangely satisfying about using telephones with dials.

    As for sixpences, I have an aunt who was born in the 1960s, who has continued with the tradition of putting a sixpence in her Christmas Puddings. Don't worry! She does make sure it's clean.

    I remember the days of the ha'penny, and the ability to buy a bag of twenty sweets for 10p.

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  • in reply to Ben

    I miss the days of telephones with dials. Yes, it was time-consuming to dial phone numbers, particularly if one needed to include an area code, but I always thought there was something strangely satisfying about using telephones with dials.

    As for sixpences, I have an aunt who was born in the 1960s, who has continued with the tradition of putting a sixpence in her Christmas Puddings. Don't worry! She does make sure it's clean.

    I remember the days of the ha'penny, and the ability to buy a bag of twenty sweets for 10p.

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