Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
Times before private or incognito browsing. I was kinda the tech guy of our group and would sometimes get calls or texts asking how to delete browsing history. Can only imaging what they were browsing back in those days on the family computer…
My folks still have a knife they got as a wedding present in 1976. Still works perfectly.
Ya think thats good, Mother dearest still has the Table she got from her parents as a wedding gift. It's used constantly. Formica never looked so good.. received in 1960.. :)
Do you remember YokuTube, it was an Asian version of Youtube but with full boxsets of tv series and films but dodgy as fcuk with pop ups.
I don't remember that one but there has been countless streaming sites that come and go over time. The good ones become well known and eventually too big and get shut down.
RIP Torrentz too.
Sorry just looked it up there it was called Youku.
I think every house used to have one of these when I was a kid.
My friends granny had one of these and we wanted to take it and use it as one of our Barbies
One in the jacks too to shame you if you having a quick tug. Jesus is watching you sinner🤣
Brass tortoise (turtles) were pretty common. Some of them had the shell open to form a sort of stash box.
Away the lads
Our dining room table had built in swivel out ashtrays on each corner, top of the range!
I visited an elderly lady, friend of the family, in her house outside London a few years back. I couldn't get over the HUNDREDS of tiny ornaments, cheap religious statues and shítty holiday souvenirs. She died last year and her family are still trying to empty the house of masses of, basically worthless crap, before they can put it up for sale.
Even expensive things like Waterford Crystal will become next to worthless because people don't want to fill their homes with useless dust gatherers anymore.
Also a framed pic with JFK and two Popes for some reason.
That U shaped piece of carpet people used have at the jacks bowl.
Carpets in toilets full stop.
Those dolls and stuffed toy like things people hid their bog roll in.
Net curtains everywhere, for spying on neighbours or whoever was outside without being seen.
Carpeted toilet lid covers, to match the U shaped carpet around the bowl and at the base of the sink.
I remember a trend of padded seats too - if you're sitting it on that long, go to the doctor!
nearly every front door in a house had a door chain.
why I don’t know, because if you are breaking in and can get past a yale lock, and a mortice lock….that won’t be any issue to ya. Might delay your entry by 15 seconds, tops.
There's a subset of people who still buy these and put them up I imagine but decorative plate wall hangings.
Reader's Digest.
Awful looking home "improvements" which I guess date from before planning was tightened up. Worst looking are windows roughly grafted onto the roofs of small terrace houses.
Those stupid shower attachments with the rubber hoses that went onto the bathtub taps, the hot one inevitably popped off giving one a cold shower.
Fitted to doors of nervous types who can peek out at whoever's there without fully opening the door. Kind of largely redundant with spy holes and security cams.
Solemn Novena stickers on the windows of most people in the neighbourhood.
Clearing the mother in law's house at the moment and she has a wired in sacred heart lightbulb. I remember her telling me that before electrification they had a sacred heart lantern that always had a candle lit.
We've the full set of plaster religious statues, they creep me out.
Soda Stream. With the exception of Lemonade the rest of the flavors were vile
Declining numbers of cars with Padre Pio stickers these days. Bluey sunshades tho...
That's still around, and might get more popular thanks to the deposit/return scheme.
My folks still have one. The mother wouldn't sleep if it wasn't chained.
Torches with incandescent bulbs. Absolutely ate battery power and if you dropped it the bulb would almost certainly fail. It was dark times before LEDs. Literally.
Milk cartons with perforated pull away to open. Before the days of the plastic screw lids. Some people used to buy those little plastic spouts you could attach to it after you open it. Sometimes opening the carton would result in spillage if you were not careful.
Or the missions, a week of masses when there were stalls in the car parks selling all kinds of tat.
Old pully ring pulls on cans. Would occasionally snap without opening the can, and you could get some awesome lip injuries from them too. And you found them absolutely everywhere.
Most cars having these car door dinging reflectors. Shockingly they seem to be making a comeback.
My parents used to bring me to work when I was a kid. I'd play around on the floor of the shop while they worked. Before I could walk, they'd have me sitting in one of those bouncy baby chairs on the desk beside them, while they served customers.
Somehow I don't think you'd get away with that kind of carry on these days.
