Old fashioned things you still do

We use pastry forks for cakes, fish knives and forks every week, cloth napkins and tablecloths when we have guests. We have a gravy boat, fish slice, cake slice, soup spoons and dessert spoons. We are big foodies and love to have cutlery etc for all occasions. I use hankies regularly, which are always ironed we have tea bags but have china mugs for tea, but not fussy about mugs/cups for coffee. If that makes me old fashioned so be it I think of ot more as having good taste.

I make marmalade which, apparently, is mainly eaten by old people!! Never buy it in a shop.
Also scrape bowls and pans clean... I notice younger people don't bother so much.
I also wear a pinny for dirty jobs.
I sometimes polish furniture.. love the smell.
Never iron towels or sheets etc but I love wearing linen and iron it even though I know its going to crush as soon as I put it on. It is a labour of love. I don't like man made fibres so I iron a lot of clothes.
I keep the cooking water from vegetables and use it to make soup. A lot of the goodness is in the cooking water.
I cook everything from scratch.. only tins used are tomatoes and tuna. Never buy ready meals.

Hi @Nanagem, I must agree about the blinds being better than nets, it would save having to take them down every couple of weeks to wash. JMO

We have ‘brown’ furniture. My sons think it is very old fashioned, though they aren’t rude about it.
My dgd thinks it is Elizabethan.
It’s a Victorian house, so I suppose it goes.

I wear an apron, frequently cook from scratch and, like my grandmother who was a farmers wife, don't often dust, or clean the carpets (she brushed carpets by hand with a stiff brush a couple of times a year, I have a Shark...)

Still steam my Christmas pudding, rather than microwave..Use hankies, wear a pinny , still iron, cook a Sunday roast & apple pie, use a paper diary.

I've hung on to a collection of horse brasses which get polished occasionally. Some were worn by my grandfather's Clydesdale horses in days of yore. I'd just like to discover a way to display them that would look modern rather than Olde King's Head.

Registered disabled, rely on physical help. Have lady that cleans and does the washing, she irons things when the items need it, e.g. husband’s shirts and trousers., my cotton clothes (dresses and skirts in the Summer months). Try to purchase non-iron clothing and household things.

My son-in -law calls me Mrs Bucket for asking for a cake fork to eat dessert. One other thing I do , that's not been mentioned is
Wash my windowsills and front path and dust the front door

I use a pinny when doing mucky stuff. No satnav in my car and it has a gearstick. Petrified of modern technology. (My son is an IT expert and often shakes his head sadly at me).
Say "may I have", not "can I get". Use "please" and "thank you", and hold doors open for people coming behind me. (These seem to be out of fashion for many people nowadays).
Dress up to go out for dinner (apparently not done by younger people now).
Have best cutlery and crockery for special occasions.
I love brown furniture, especially Victorian, though coming round to liking more modern styles.
However I don't iron - invention of the devil!

I still say please and/or thank you when appropriate to anyone I have contact with. Didn't realise that I was old fashioned until the lady at the supermarket checkout commented on the rarity of anyone thanking her.

A daughter bought me cake forks - she's only 35. I have a cake slice too.

I do hope we are not doing these old fashioned things at the expense of keep up to date too. Surely we can do a mixture?

A small tip: if you by duvet covers which have some polyester in them (not all of it) - you can get away without ironing them. So exhausting ironing and THEN doing the whole business of trying to get them on the duvet!

Buy - not by!

Ironing, aprons, cake forks, steaming xmas puds and making marmalade, dusting (using recycled botty-bags) etc. Yes.

I also use Windolene original pink cream to clean windows.

I did 'modernise' using all sorts of stuff that left smears then went back to what worked when I was a sulky teenager moaning about why my sibs didn't have to get their hands dirty.

Use a tea pot
Iron tea towels and hankies
Use a kettle to boil water (lots have the taps that give boiling water, etc)

Warm plates for hot meals. I no longer switch the oven on especially to warm them, but have some microwave plate warmers to heat plates in one minute. My daughter cooked Christmas dinner this year, so I can't complain, but what a pity that the plates weren't warmed before the food was served!

I do nearly all cooking from scratch.
The food tastes BETTER.
Oh...and l use cash to pay for almost everything.

I iron pillow slips, use loose leaf tea, wear an apron (occasionally) and read a newspaper every day (not online)!

Never use the dryer….have two airers in my laundry room and one pulley ceiling airer. Wash all our sweaters by hand - never machine wash! Always serve our evening meal at the dinner table…never EVER in front of the TV. Use ironed cloth napkins when family and company comes to dinner, always cook from scratch each evening using fresh veggies and always peel the potatoes (unless they are minis). Will never make a cup of tea by putting a teabag in a cup…..always make tea using a warmed teapot, and always leave to steep (under a tea cosy) before pouring into a china mug that has milk already in it!

I use a notebook for each year. I write in all sorts of reminders, pass codes, draft versions of complicated emails, tradesmen, programmes I want to watch on Iplayer and the occasional poem. It works for me!

Yes I peel potatoes too, but not new ones or the modern varieties like Charlotte.And isn't it lovely that they come washed now? I used to hate washing the mud off them from the greengrocer. And quite often there was a stone amongst the potatoes.
My friends and neighbours always write thank-you notes or card after having received hospitality. So do I of course.

metoo! have done so since about 13, i have used professionals on occasion over the years but honestly? i always get best results as I really know my hair! and it always looks fab according to those who ask where I have it cut/coloured etc!!

My daughter laughs at me in my apron, but I find that wearing it puts my mind in work mode. When I take it off I know I have finished and can relax.

Use a Sheila Maid - old fashioned clothes dryer you hoist into the air; and an airing cupboard; make loose leaf tea in a teapot; keep a paper diary; sleep with the window open no matter the weather; have a landline telephone; warm plates.