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Fashion / tech "never-again&qu ot;s

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valdali Sun 18-Oct-26 08:22:20

What goes around, comes around they say & fashions certainly do seem to cycle around over the decades or centuries - like puff sleeves, vinyl records, underfloor heating.

What once familiar items/ styles though, do you think will fade away never to return?

Starting us off with wallpaper....

Aldom Sun 18-Oct-26 08:27:10

Blown Air central heating. We had it in a new house in the 1970's. I've never come across this method of heating since.

Grandmabatty Sun 18-Oct-26 08:32:52

I had blown air central heating too, in the first house we had after marrying in 1981. It only worked downstairs and wasn't terribly effective.

Gran22boys Sun 18-Oct-26 09:00:21

Electric hand-held bread slicers

Magenta8 Sun 18-Oct-26 09:07:21

Talking of wallpaper; I think flocked paper has probably had its day but you never know.

Aldom Sun 18-Oct-26 09:42:48

Meat mincing machines. The type that screw on to the edge of a kitchen table.

Moth62 Sun 18-Oct-26 09:47:39

I have a meat mincer, same style as the one my mum had, but they’re plastic and washable now!

Aldom Sun 18-Oct-26 10:00:18

Moth, does your mincer stick to the surface by vacuum seal?

greyfur16 Sun 18-Oct-26 10:04:21

T. V

Mollygo Sun 18-Oct-26 10:08:46

I’d never heard of blown air central heating, but a current Internet ad is offering a Device to sit on top of your radiators and blow the hot air around the room. Perhaps that’s the modern version.

madeleine45 Sun 18-Oct-26 10:09:22

havent looked around ,much lately, but I think it was the 70's when there was that vogue for painting 3 walls and then having one wall papered with either bold stripes or zigzags of colour. Not my cup of tea then or now! And again about that time I think it was the brown and orange colours that were everywhere.