What do you miss from back in the day?

Old fashioned wool shops where the wool was sold in skeins and I had to hold each skein between my hands while my mother wound it into a ball to go into her beehive wool holder. There are few, if any of these shops now. The nearest one to me suddenly closed and not sure whether it will open again. So sad.

I miss proper shops too Oldnproud, department stores where you really could buy anything and everything, including dressmaking fabrics and good haberdashery. Clothes shops where you could buy fashionable clothes you liked, shoe shops that sold comfortable but stylish shoes, wax polish in different colours so you could keep shoes and handbags looking good for years. Now clothes seem to be produced for fashion victims and skinny women.

On School Holidays, being out with my friends all day and only being called home for meals/snacks or bed.
In School always remember being hit on the head by the Blackboard Duster by our not very nice French Teacher!

I miss proper high street shops, where you can browse to your heart's content, being able to see, feel, and in the case of clothes, try on, before purchasing, so you know exactly what you are buying.
Whatever i wanted, I knew just where to go to find it.

Online shopping for clothes just doesn't work for me.

And as for craft items - it is impossible to know exactly what colour yarn or fabric you are buying online. Or the quality of them.

My last purchase of 4ply cotton yarn to crochet with was a perfect example - I was going to crochet flowers, so needed a selection of natural-looking greens for the leaves and stems. Needless to say, when they arrived, half of them were nothing like they looked on the screen!
(Though I did manage to make two balls of a particularly awful light green colour usable by dying it in tea - it turned it a mid- olive colour!!!)

Pork chops with a kidney in it!
I also remember Styx perfume, it was lovely.
I remember my mum putting her head around the hall doorway when I was on the phone and telling me to "Wind it up" as I had been on so long!

Deepat

Nothing, I never look back.

And there was me thinking I was the only one 🤨

happygilly

Mars bars that big you had to eat them sideways !

Or bounty bar with the cardboard inner! That was the bit that got stuff in your teeth 😂

Everything said here and more, how I miss the old world.

yogitree

Being able to run and jump, not ever getting tired or sore and riding ponies and horses.
Quiet roads, with just a few vehicles.
The simplicity of life.
Milk being delivered and tinkling bottles wakening me up in the morning.
Less climate doom.
Having a memory!

Rag’n’bone man on his trap & pony, collecting bundles of rags off the garden wall-Non of these plastic bags they leave these days.

Mars bars that big you had to eat them sideways !

Styx perfume I loved it
Chocolate that didn't shrink
Cheap lamb shoulder chops
Being able to give kids a lift when they are soaking wet with rain. Yes I know now I would get arrested for offering. Lots of nice people used to stop for me if it was pouring rain on the way home from school.

Camadery and neighbours who talked to you. I felt more part of a community years ago. Everyone seemed to know us and stopped to talk when we went shopping. Maybe it’s just happy memories.

Living in a high trust society.

Less traffic – safer for cycling.

Less swearing and more polite public discourse in general.

Nothing, I never look back.

I miss not having a defined waistline. Hormones.

So many things, my health, going out with just a handkerchief and some loose change in my pocket for the bus, nothing else. Feeling safe in the streets. My friends, my parents, our old house, albeit single glazed, no central heating, no telephone and no fridge or washing machine and I'm going back some time, The 50's. A time where if you fell someone said 'mind how you go' without filming it on their phones and giggling. Quieter times, polite times, respect for your elders....it's endless.

Telephone boxes where I could talk privately to my friends or boyfriends.
Old style cinemas with an interval and ice creams served by the usherette. I always got a choc ice. And dance halls with a live band.

Poppyjo

I had a magical childhood but get nostalgic and miss

1. The smell of steam trains,
2. The sound of men whistling on the way to work
3- The small of a cigar at Christmas.
4- fish and chips in newspaper.

What,if anything, öl9do other grans miss ?

Funny you should say 'whistling' - we (family) were just talking about this the other day, and it suddenly accorded to me that this could be part of speech delay in young children?

My GS has a speech 'sounds' delay, and I said he should be doing lots of bubble blowing to shape the mouth, this them moved on to the fact no one whistles these days. (not to mention everone has bubble machines and wands now- so not a lot of actual bubble blowing happening either!
We always had to try so hard to get bubbles with the homemade mixture too.

Being able to run and jump, not ever getting tired or sore and riding ponies and horses.
Quiet roads, with just a few vehicles.
The simplicity of life.
Milk being delivered and tinkling bottles wakening me up in the morning.
Less climate doom.
Having a memory!

MT62

Our old original in door market. I could mooch for hours- you could anything. All gone now. Just seems to be fast food stalls.

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Our old original in door market. I could mooch for hours- you could anything. All gone now. Just seems to be fast food stalls.

Samsara1

I miss having a telephone on a hall stand and perching on the stairs to talk to a boyfriend.
I miss dressing up to go out (I still try but it loses impact when few others do).
I miss my job and the people.

Ahh me too- talking in hushed tones so my parents didn’t know I was sneaking a quick phone call as it was really expensive to call back in day.

JamesandJon33

My youth

Where did you lose him?

Poppyjo

I had a magical childhood but get nostalgic and miss

1. The smell of steam trains,
2. The sound of men whistling on the way to work
3- The small of a cigar at Christmas.
4- fish and chips in newspaper.

What,if anything, öl9do other grans miss ?

All those bar steam trains which were well before my time.
Proper sized Waggon Wheels 😁
Jubblies

Getting off the steam train at Edale Station on Sunday morning, as a teenager, with a group of friends knowing that all that gorgeous countryside was waiting for you to explore. Great scenery, great companions.