Things you do no longer use or buy now

[Linde]

Linde,


That is interesting.  Are you talking about lab coats?

Chrissy

Suit jackets or something like this.

[MaryT]

Filing cabinets.

[CynthiaAnn]

Ties (I had a job once that required wearing them)

[Ryuichi13]

Filing cabinets.

Pfft!  I wish someone would tell that to my partner!  He just spent days reorganizing his!

Bras and panties.  SO uncomfortable and dysphoric-causing for me!  Give me boxer briefs and A-style undershirts anytime!

Ryuichi

[Julia1996]

florescent light tubes
boxer shorts
10base t hubs
8 track tapes
6 volt lantern batteries
35mm film
flash cubes
video cassette camcorder

to name a few

C -

I found a box of flash cubes at my grand parents house. After my grandma explained what they were I must say I thought they were kind of cool. She still had a camera that uses flash cubes. Of course they no longer make film for that old camera. Why my grandma won't throw it away I don't know. It's kind of sad that before cell phones you h had to carry around an actual camera if you wanted to take pictures of anything.  I've never owned a camera. I take any pictures I want with my phone. I've also seen those old video cameras people used to take videos. My grand parents still have one of course. Life must have sucked before cell phones. You actually had to have separate devices to take pictures and videos. Very sad.

[Ryuichi13]

I found a box of flash cubes at my grand parents house. After my grandma explained what they were I must say I thought they were kind of cool. She still had a camera that uses flash cubes. Of course they no longer make film for that old camera. Why my grandma won't throw it away I don't know. It's kind of sad that before cell phones you h had to carry around an actual camera if you wanted to take pictures of anything.  I've never owned a camera. I take any pictures I want with my phone. I've also seen those old video cameras people used to take videos. My grand parents still have one of course. Life must have sucked before cell phones. You actually had to have separate devices to take pictures and videos. Very sad.

Oh man, now I really feel old! 

I still have a Polaroid camera, the ones that make the picture right away and you shook it to get the film to dry faster, like in that song. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw&ab_channel=OutkastVEVO

I can still find film for it on amazon, but now I too prefer my phone.

Ryuichi

[Linde]

Oh man, now I really feel old! 

I still have a Polaroid camera, the ones that make the picture right away and you shook it to get the film to dry faster, like in that song. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw&ab_channel=OutkastVEVO

I can still find film for it on amazon, but now I too prefer my phone.

Ryuichi

Want to feel young?  My first camera is that what was called a Box, some very early rendition of the point and shoot things!

[MaryT]

Handkerchieves.  Remember those things that people filled with snot and then put back in their pockets?

I still have some unused ones with my initials, that were given to me many yeas ago.

[CynthiaAnn]

TV and Radio tubes

recalling the drug store tube testers and the like...

and yes I had Polaroid film cam, it was really cool to peel the back off the film and see your picture come to life, like wow...

now Audio tubes are a specialty today and highly sought after...

C -

[Julia1996]

Pfft!  I wish someone would tell that to my partner!  He just spent days reorganizing his!

Bras and panties.  SO uncomfortable and dysphoric-causing for me!  Give me boxer briefs and A-style undershirts anytime!

Ryuichi

Oh I know! My dad has a filing cabinet in his office at home. I have told him all the crap he has in there can easily be put on his laptop. He also still gets paper statements in the mail for the electric bill and everything else. I told him to switch to electronic billing and he wouldn't have the clutter of paper statements. He told me that when I started paying bills I could do the electronic billing but that he liked the paper statements. Ugh, I try dragging him kicking and screaming into the 21st century but I usually fail. He is only 40 but I swear sometimes he acts like an old fart!

[DawnOday]

Encourage your Dad to get a VPN connection to protect his data being transmitted as  VPN is encrypted. I taught old people at Boeing who did not want to join the 21st Century. Guess what the number one question I got....How do you turn on the computer?

[Julia1996]

Encourage your Dad to get a VPN connection to protect his data being transmitted as  VPN is encrypted. I taught old people at Boeing who did not want to join the 21st Century. Guess what the number one question I got....How do you turn on the computer?

Or when you ask someone what kind of computer they have and they say " a white one". 🤣🤣

[Dena]

Oh I know! My dad has a filing cabinet in his office at home. I have told him all the crap he has in there can easily be put on his laptop. He also still gets paper statements in the mail for the electric bill and everything else. I told him to switch to electronic billing and he wouldn't have the clutter of paper statements. He told me that when I started paying bills I could do the electronic billing but that he liked the paper statements. Ugh, I try dragging him kicking and screaming into the 21st century but I usually fail. He is only 40 but I swear sometimes he acts like an old fart!

You might change your tune if you have ever been through an IRS audit. I was and the trick is to bury them in paperwork. Everything they questioned I could produce the paper work for and the bundle I sent off to them included about 160 checks and some other assorted documentation. I passed the audit without any difficulty thanks to having all that clutter.

[CynthiaAnn]

maxipads (they were only useful for a certain period of time post op)

breast forms (I grew my own)

Frilly panties (plain Jane for me now)

Short hem lines (I prefer knee length or longer now)

[ChrissyRyan]

Excessive makeup.


Just a little goes a long way...   



Chrissy

[Northern Star Girl]

Excessive makeup.


Just a little goes a long way...   



Chrissy

  @ChrissyRyan           
In mechanical terms, it is kinda like if one drop of oil is good then two drops of oil is excessive
Danielle

[ChrissyRyan]

  @ChrissyRyan           
In mechanical terms, it is kinda like if one drop of oil is good then two drops of oil is excessive
Danielle

@Alaskan Danielle

In mathematical terms, being a decimal point off can yield bad results.

Chrissy

[Haley Conner]

correction fluid for manual typewriters

[CynthiaAnn]

correction fluid for manual typewriters

typewriter ribbons / printer ribbons

[Susan Baum]

Carbon paper.