Name Something....

[AbbysMom]

Off the top of my head I'll go with rotary phones and black and white TV's.

 

[Kat0121]

These won't apply to ALL people obviously but:

Phone books, land lines, magazines, physical books, maps, encyclopedias, dictionaries.

 

[artiemom]

Rabbit ear antennas for TV.

Having to get up to change the channel— no remotes.

Transistor radios

 

[cassiopea]

VCR
Audio Cassettes
Floppy Disks




Giant Camcorders for your home movies

 

[Jem]

A-track player and cassettes.
Beta player
Commodor 64

You know what's either sad or cool depending on who you ask?
I have most of the things that everyone has already posted (including what I did as well, except the a-track).

 

[blueyedgirl5946]

Feather mattresses. Boy did they sleep good though.

 

[susanm9006]

Dial wall phones, telephone tables, avocado or turquoise appliances, ice cube trays, fuel oil tanks in the basement, wringer washers.

 

[NY cat man]

Wood stoves that people actually cooked on, cistern pumps, and while not exactly in the home, lightning rods

 

[neely]

Princess telephone, fridge that you had to defrost and no self cleaning oven

 

[micknsnicks2mom]

those old aluminum ice cube trays. i loved those, and they were ever so much better than the plastic ones available these days.

 

[NY cat man]

those old aluminum ice cube trays. i loved those, and they were ever so much better than the plastic ones available these days.

You mean the ones with the lever that you pulled up on to free the cubes?

 

[Mia6]

I still use ice cube trays, ha! We had an avocado frig, yuk!

 

[Kat0121]

those old aluminum ice cube trays. i loved those, and they were ever so much better than the plastic ones available these days.

You can still get those. Those were the best. We had those when I was a kid. Look at the price tag though.

www.amazon.com/RSVP-International-ICE-18-Endurance-Cube/dp/B00QQVZX5Y/ref=sr_1_8?crid=9JOFM8HJ1M7C&keywords=aluminum+ice+cube+trays+with+levers&qid=1565351723&s=gateway&sprefix=alumium+ic%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-8

 

[Winchester]

My first computer didn't have a hard drive. It had an A and B drive. A to use the program (WordPerfect, for example) and B to store data. And when I got my first computer WITH a hard drive, it was only 40 mgs of space.

Do they even make computers without a hard drive anymore?

When Rick and I got married, our kitchen appliances were Harvest Gold.

We still get phone books.

 

[susanm9006]

My first computer didn't have a hard drive. It had an A and B drive. A to use the program (WordPerfect, for example) and B to store data. And when I got my first computer WITH a hard drive, it was only 40 mgs of space.

Do they even make computers without a hard drive anymore?

When Rick and I got married, our kitchen appliances were Harvest Gold.

We still get phone books.

I had a computer like that too! Before you did anything you loaded half a dozen floppy disks. But I still thought it was way cool. No internet at that point but there was AOL and Prodigy.

 

[NY cat man]

I almost forgot- treadle-powered sewing machines

 

[susanm9006]

I almost forgot- treadle-powered sewing machines

That is what I learned to sew on.

 

[NY cat man]

That is what I learned to sew on.

So did I.

 

[Talien]

Between my house and my parents' place we have 90%+ of the stuff listed so far. Except avocado appliances.....do have harvest gold though.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned typewriters, breadboxes, and a rolodex though.

 

[marmoset]

Corded phones with rotary dials. The cats loved those cords.