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Old fashioned things you still do

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AussieGran59 Wed 11-Jan-23 06:48:53

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Calendargirl Wed 11-Jan-23 07:06:37

Wear a pinny.

Have arm and chair back covers on my furniture.

Tablecloth on table.

Greenfinch Wed 11-Jan-23 07:23:39

Same as Aussiegran and same as Calendargirl except for the pinny!

Grammaretto Wed 11-Jan-23 07:30:06

Yes me too.
I have cotton hankies but don't iron them
I use table napkins too and sometimes iron them .

kittylester Wed 11-Jan-23 07:52:56

I use hankies, table napkins, an apron. All are ironed either by me or the ironing service.

I don't use antimacasas as noone uses hair oil.

JackyB Wed 11-Jan-23 07:53:44

I peel potatoes. Apparently this is not done any more. However, I don't peel them in a bowl of water like my mother used to.

DanniRae Wed 11-Jan-23 07:54:15

I wear an apron when I am cooking and always have a man's cotton hanky in my handbag for the same reasons as AussieGran.

AussieGran59 Wed 11-Jan-23 07:58:23

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Nanagem Wed 11-Jan-23 08:03:08

I always wear an apron, use a tablecloth and napkins everyday !

I also use loose tea and a tea pot with a cup and saucer !

I don’t use gravy granules 😂,

I have nets at the windows- I hate them but live in a bungalow and my bedroom windows are by the front door so don’t see another way, I’ve been told my the younger family members blinds are better 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh and yes I iron, hankies / pillow slips / tea towels included

BigBertha1 Wed 11-Jan-23 08:04:50

DH does all the ironing including his white hankies , the sheets, the duvet covers and everything else. he is very particular about trousers (golf ones and jeans). I still cook everything (wearing and apron) from scratch, bake bread (but not often) and cakes and biscuits. We eat sitting at the table for breakfast and evening meals. I think we are probably just very old fashioned full stop.

HotfootSue67 Wed 11-Jan-23 08:16:56

Let's just say the old ways are the best ways!

I still use Table cloths

I use Dusters with Wax Polish

I brush up leaves with a brush and shovel.. Not a blower..

Grammaretto Wed 11-Jan-23 08:20:27

I iron tea towels because I wash on a cool wash so I think I am sterilising them with the hot steam iron.

Kaimoana2 Wed 11-Jan-23 08:24:57

I wish I could iron because I love that job as well as how good my cotton t-shirts used to look. A whip-shake is just not good enough.

I don't use cotton table napkins or loose tea (can't get it in decaf) but I do all the other stuff.

I don't see it as old fashioned, just common sense.

Like putting coffee grounds on roses and Epsom salts on my tomato plants.

Hospital corners for sheets; washing all the receptacles which go into recycling and keeping jars to fill with chutneys, pickles or lemon curd.

Having scrap paper (old invoices and letter from the tax man!) by the phone and throwing away, immediately any pen which won't write, instead of putting it back into the chipped, but still beautiful mug where pens live.

Hand making bread; scraping every possible last scrap from a mixing bowl.
Scraping butter paper then using the paper to grease the loaf pans.

Am I mad do you think?
grin

Redhead56 Wed 11-Jan-23 08:30:12

I use an apron for baking only I have a table cloth and napkins in rings on the dining table. I make my own pastry and gravy I don’t like ready made. I also peel potatoes when they are for roasting only.
I use a fake feather type duster in the house for picture frames etc. I mop the floor in the kitchen with an old fashioned mop. I only iron what I really have too definitely not hankies don’t have them. Boxes of tissues are a modern thing I appreciate.

Witzend Wed 11-Jan-23 08:33:41

I do iron white linen table napkins, but then we only use them when we have guests. Otherwise it’s kitchen roll, if needed. I iron pillowcases, but again, only for guests - any other bedding is never ironed.
I still peel potatoes for roast potatoes and mash, but not for boiled or any new potatoes.
We don’t possess any hankies.

MawtheMerrier Wed 11-Jan-23 08:34:28

Napkins and silver napkin rings.
I also iron teatowels and although I use tissues, keep one of Paw’s tablecloth size hankies in my handbag!

Witzend Wed 11-Jan-23 08:34:33

Oh, and I suppose almost always cooking from scratch counts as old fashioned now.

kittylester Wed 11-Jan-23 08:37:57

Crumbs, I am more old fashioned than I thought.

We use leaf tea and a teapot, China mugs and I make gravy. I don't peel new or baby potatoes but always peel my maris pipers.

Sago Wed 11-Jan-23 08:40:45

I also iron my linen tea towels and husbands hankies.
White linen napkins are starched and ironed but only used on high days and holidays.
I bake my own bread and make butter.
Stock is always made from bones
I write letters.

harrigran Wed 11-Jan-23 08:49:18

I iron everything, even dusters.
I wear an apron when cooking.
Table cloths are very much in use, there are four in this week's wash.

Witzend Wed 11-Jan-23 08:50:51

I do make ‘proper’ gravy too, in the roasting tin.

Elusivebutterfly Wed 11-Jan-23 08:55:12

I didn't know that peeling potatoes was old fashioned. I stopped doing it (except for mash) because of the arthritis in my hands but the younger generation in my family prefer potatoes peeled.

Grammaretto Wed 11-Jan-23 08:55:19

I have best china (wedding present) that I only bring out at Christmas and antique crystal glasses the same. I still keep my beautiful coffee cups and saucers in the box they arrived in. They were a present too and I always think of the people who gave them to us 54 years ago.

Riverwalk Wed 11-Jan-23 08:58:42

I must be an old-fashioned gal at heart, not the hipster I strive to be grin

I iron my clothes and tea towels - bed linen is usually sent to the ironing service.

NO hankies!

Lexisgranny Wed 11-Jan-23 08:59:27

I polish furniture because I enjoy doing it.
I carry a fabric handkerchief but mainly use tissues
I never use paper table napkins, I even have fabric ones for picnics
I only wear an apron for really dirty jobs

(Just in the middle of an animated discussion as to why I always say a round of toast when the bread is clearly not round!