Whatever happened to...........?

I use a push mower at our caravan and find it easier to use on damp grass.
I dont miss izal loo paper.
I used to love to hear the rag and bone man and he used to give us a goldfish/baloon/lucky bag.
The coalman i see on very rare occasions.

Tins of Bluebird toffees at Christmas.
Compendiums of games.

Lexisgranny

Think hankies, especially embroidered ones, are an unknown item to many people under 60 today.

Bidets? Never quite understood how these cause such mirth. Maybe I've been responsible for the total purchase of these items! . Had one in the UK, installed in our last home, owned or installed 5 in France and can't think of a more practical piece of bathroom furniture.

Not fountain pens.
Not satchels - bit heavy but more fun than brief cases.

Talcum powder (I now make my own)
Fish knives
Roller towels
collar studs
Tie pins
Hat pins
Doyleys

Whatever happened to thin sliced bread? Don't people make dainty sandwiches any more?

Dolly tubs, possers and scrubbing boards. And little bags of blue dye to brighten your washing. Dolly Blue, I think they were called.

MellowYellow

Bidets???

My friend has recently revamped her bathroom and I was astonished when she told me that she'd had a bidet installed. I think it must have been the first one bought or sold in a decade!

Hand-operated drills, there only seem to be power drills nowadays.

when was the last time anyone saw a Lada car on the road. we have a shop that sells vesta meals and also lemon puffs. Saturday morning was always insurance man and Thursday the pools man came. My nan used to have milk tokens for the milk, she would get them on a Saturday from the Co-op.

Ladies who sat in dry cleaners’ windows invisibly darning stockings (the darns were invisible, not the ladies or the stockings!)
Small circular combs with a hinge to hold pony tails
Elastic “waspie” belts.
Poppit beads that pulled apart to make bracelets, necklaces etc
Californian Poppies and Midnight in Paris scent, sold in Woolworths when staff served behind counters.
Boxes of embroidered hankies, with pictures of snowy mountains on the lids

My dad had a sidecar and I remember going to the market with him every week when he went shopping

When I met my to be husband, he had a side car. He still uses a fountain pen. He also still uses the scythe to cut the meadow (occasionally).

I still get the occasional packet of Lemon Puff Biscuits from Morrisons. I also had a box of 6 eggs from there - all were double yolks. Couldn't believe it so took a photo of the cake I was making at time,

... Budge in a cage + stand. Mum had one.

Encyclopaedia salesmen .

I had five double yoked eggs out of a box of six from Sainsburys. I use my beautiful, leather cased manicure set regularly. It is 51 years old and was purchased when we lived in the Netherlands. I well remember my Liberty bodice, rubber buttons and tape suspenders, also with a rubber buttons. Our Prudential insurance man stayed for a cup of tea, as did the milk man on payment day. Remember Dolly tubs, and Monday being wash day for our mothers' generation. My mum moved on to an English Electric washer, with mangle in the early 1950's. Before that it was the 'copper' for boiling, then the tubs with ponser, before going through the mangle.

The 'clubby book' - I used to have John England then Littlewoods . Neighbours would order stuff and I'd get commission .

Letter racks - my mum and dad had one on the shelf, and my Aunt did.

We used to carry our cookery ingredients to school in a gondola basket

Gardener Gran our insurance man was from the Pru as well! He came for such a long time he and my dad became friends.

I do remember having a satchel but just haven’t seen one for ages except for the small “posh” ones for women

Bath cubes
Home perms
I remember wearing diamond mesh stockings

I have a lovely little Manicure set a German friend gave me for my 65th, I love using it.
Children are taught to use fountain pens in school here !! so we all use them sometimes.
The dry cleaning van which called on a Wednesday and returned on a Friday.

I never see Johnny Depp or Paul Merton without a cravat! Also, the milk floats are still alive and kicking and trundling about at 5am in the morning usually. Manicure sets are sold in Boots, supermarkets, department stores; you are not looking in the right places

Twiceasnice my Dad was a ‘Man from the Pru’ and I still have my old leather satchel from school with boys names scrawled on it..

blossom14 my husband uses a scythe to cut our wild flower meadow! Not quite Ross Poldark but not bad either!

The corona man and the insurance man that your mum paid every Friday!

Lemon puff biscuits- I loved them!

Block mascara- put on with spit when I was a teenager

Swing boats and Helter Skelters

Vesta dried meals - thought they were marvellous at the time, wouldn’t dream of eating them now

Cream in a tin

Satchels- do children still use them they all seem to have individually chosen bags for school now

Fountain pens
Coppers for boiling the washing
Manicure sets
Fancy compacts for pressed powder

Milk floats
Dirndl skirts
Scythes
tricycles