What "back then" inconvenience would annoy today's youngsters?

That’s very suspicious of you Dickens?🤔

J52

Having to use ‘the family shampoo’, no specific type for your hair and no conditioner.
Awful if you had curly/ frizzy hair that you dried with a very slow cold hairdryer.

That’s true, I remember the agonising about split ends as a teenager, I don’t think they are even a thing now, I haven’t heard them mentioned for years.

... is there a purpose behind these numerous questions CrazyUSA?

Bellanonna

Telephone calls could be as long as we liked. They were not charged by time spent.

Maybe you had an early phone?

in December 1958 STD/ automated exchanges were being rolled out and by the early 1960s, exchanges charged in time increments (initially 3d for every 3 minutes).

Phone boxes were all timed I seem to think.

Better than waiting six weeks for an appointment as we have to do now.

Going to the doctors. You didn’t make an appointment you waited your turn in the queue.

Having to do the shopping most days after school once my mother went back to work. From the time I was ten, there would be a shopping list and money on the table for me most days when I got home.

OMG.

Ah yes. I remember it well ....

To change

Getting up the change stations on the tv

Telephone calls could be as long as we liked. They were not charged by time spent.

Having to hand in homework on time, be quiet in class, not answer back, do chores at home, only use the phone with their parents' permission and for very short calls and as teenagers having to be home at what they, as indeed we did, consider a ridiculously early hour, plus not being allowed to go out on week-day evenings.

Oh, and being expected to eat what was put before one at mealtimes and wear the clothes Mummy bought you.

They won't believe we survived all of the above, but we did!

No central heating. Having to make a fire in the grate. No fitted carpets.
No fridge
No phone.

What's all those "only 3" or perhaps "just 2 TV channels"? When I was little, we couldn't afford a TV, I recall when I was maybe 4 or 5, being taken to Granny's house (mum's side, quite well off), and there was this polished wooden box in the 'drawing room'.

When the door was pulled aside, a TV screen appeared (it was a radiogram too?), so I could watch Andy Pandy, Woodentops, or Rag, Tag & Bobtail (my favourite).

When I was about 10 or 11, we must have gone up in the world (only slightly!), as we got a TV, it had a meter on the back so you got a rebate at the end of the week or fortnight. BUT - you had to have spare coins, it always seemed to click off just before the end of a show!

Other irritations for today's 'yoof', well, back then just about nobody had central heating, nor double glazing, in our house, icicles formed on the INside of the windows in winter.
In the big freeze (1963 - like Siberia) we still had to go to school, despite snowdrifts, black ice and all the rest.

I'd forgotten about Green Shield Stamps (someone mentioned), but we like the majority had no phone, there was a call box at the end of the road. Oh, and we had quite a lot of recycling way back then, you got thruppence (?) back on an empty lemonade or ice cream soda bottle, can't see today's kids collecting them for a trek to the shop?!

For quite some years, a 'treat' was toasting a slice of bread on a fork in front of the fire/stove, then spreading some dripping on it. But we DID have 'takeaways' (another treat), it was fish and chips or . . .fish and chips, possibly sausage and chips or cod's roe and chips. I realised I was almost an adult (!) when first entrusted to ride my bike to the shop, hand over the list, and get the correct change.

We never had what folk call a holiday until I was about 10 or so, a week in a little chalet at a camp on the Isle of Wight. There was nothing to do, except play ball, go on the swings, or to the beach, but it was wonderful. We'd only ever had day trips on a train until then.

Oh, and we never had a car, everything had to be by bus or train, though my dad had a bike (several miles to get to work and back!), then I got one. Nowadays kids in this village (& most others?!) get a car ride to school, just a couple of minutes, no wonder so many are . . . .a tad on the chubby side?!

Were, not we're. Grrr.

Having to go to school or work in all
weathers. No concessions given for 2 feet of snow or temperatures of 25 degrees+
Strangely, everyone turned up, teachers and pupils and traffic seemed to get where it was going, even if slightly delayed.

We're we foolish or just more sturdy and determined back then?

Having to wade through heavy telephone directories or yellow pages to find a number then wait for your parents to go out before you can ring it. 🤣

Having to take a film to the chemists to get it developed then go back three or four days later to see the results - only to find you have far too many copies of the same photo. 🤔

Rewriting essays and projects at school/college…..everything was hand written and my handwriting was unreadable, which has not improved with age 😂
No computer or laptop then, where you could edit and print off your work.

No central heating, outside toilets at primary school.

A bath, hair washed once a week. No daily shower. The one, then two tv stations closing at 10 pm. No live sport shown. No shops open after 6 pm, closed Wed afternoon (in my area) and not open anytime on a Sunday. How times have changed.

Horrible suspenders and stockings for everyday before tights came in.

(Anyone who wants to dress up in such things these days of course is welcome to do so.... 🤣)

Phone boxes!

We were always doing things and had little time to be bored. Going and getting shopping, running messages and always walking everywhere.
Washing your hair took ages. Slow cold hair dryer. Helping with washing clothes, sheets and towels took the morning with endless to and from the washing line. No wonder we were thin kids. And then the folding of sheets with Mum for ironing. Me at one end she at the other. Even my DDs have never done that with me.

Days just playing on our local beach and the excitement of finding a half crown in the sand...or even a threepenny bit. That last sentence wasnt an "inconvenience" of course. But we were physically playing not sitting scrolling phones.

Life was just more physical.