Everyday Items That Are Disappearing!

25 thoughts on “Everyday Items That Are Disappearing!”

1. I use my debit card for everything I hardly ever have cash on me I think I have $5 in my purse 👛 in cash money 💰

2. I would get a newspaper out the box to just get the coupons on Sunday

3. All the germ's that were on a pay phone 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

4. Fun fact: you can shove phone books in your car doors for effective, cheap armor plating. You cand rolp down your windows, but eh.

   Also I always use cash unless it's impossible. Don't want the guh'mint tracking me

5. I miss the times of elegant cars, tube radios, record players, swing music and beautiful planes, and I wasn't even born till the late 90s.

   I want a B-17 god dammit

6. I had no clue about that shoe sizing machine. Wow! Wonder if that has contributed to people getting cancer later in life?

   I remember cigarette and newspaper vending machines. Although I couldn’t get cigarettes because I was way too young, I always loved pulling the levers whenever I saw them. lol

   Phone booths. I remember when they were a dime, then a quarter and fifty cents. I remember when we would get new phone books every year.

   I work in retail and this man had a few fifty cent pieces and he wanted to exchange them out for dollar bills.

   I loved getting a new tv guide every week. The one you could buy on the stores and the one that came in the Sunday paper. I loved reading the articles in the front of them.

   I remember using the credit card imprinter when I worked at CVS in the life 80s/easy 90s. Yes it was definitely slow. lol But that’s all we knew.

   I still have my Disc camera from back in the day. It’s still in excellent condition!

   I bought my first typewriter from CVN which was home shopping channel bought out by QVC.

7. All of those disappeared in only the last 30 years.

8. I used to sell Filofax day planners and after the store closed for the day I had to call in all of those carbon copy credit card sales.

9. I was buying cigarettes when I was 12. Nobody cared. Twenty five cents a pack.

10. Another item that is becoming obsolete are Telephone Land Lines. Even the somewhat successor of Land Lines, VOIP (Voice Over IP) that could tie into the Land Lines are not as much used. Things such as Alarm Systems that relied on the Land Lines are moving to Cellular or WiFi Technology.

11. New York City still has an uses the newspaper vending machines, some are pay some are free (I live in NYC)

12. We had Yellow Pages too in the UK. We still have TV guides though, which are great! We get them in our Saturday newspapers. Used typewriters at work for 30 years.

13. I just wish the whiskey dispensing machines from the 50's could be brought back 😉

14. I miss the time when we had the carnation milk delivered to your house that was convenient the good old days.

15. Today's millennials and gen Z'ers are using debit cards for damn near everything. I'd say it's about 50/50 between card users and cash users nowadays across all the generations. At work, I'm swiping credit cards about as often as I'm taking cash from customers. I've never been a big fan of creating a paper trail for Big Brother to follow, but hey, to each their own. I also miss the typewriter. Many a term paper and book report in high school and college got typed out on a Smith Corona electric typewriter. I also miss such ancient technology as VHS VCR's and reel-to-reel movie projectors. I remember during my high school years in the mid / late 80's when classrooms were transitioning from using reel-to-reel projectors to using media carts with a TV / VCR combo on them for watching in-class movies. Another thing I miss terribly is those old video game consoles from the late 70's and early 80's. The cartridge games were expensive, the graphics were primitive by today's standards, but my God they were fun to play!

16. The whiz bang Polaroid magically produced instant film photos. The picture quality wasn’t as good as film you had to take to a developer and there was no negative to make copies. The film was also fairly expensive. Despite the drawbacks, they were pretty cool.

17. The customer name and card numbers on credit cards used to be raised because of the carbon copy machines. I was an HVAC service technician for many years. At the start of my career, we carried carbon copy machines on the truck. By the time I retired, we were using iPads that had plug-in card readers.

18. I was a kid when the Susan B Anthony dollar coins were introduced. Because they were new and an oddity, I wanted them instead of paper dollars. One problem with them was that they bore a close resemblance to quarters. One time when I tried to use some Susan B Anthonys at a store, the clerk, who was an older lady, kept arguing with me that they were Canadian quarters. I could not convince her that they were real US dollar coins. I was also enamored with the $2.00 bill. Had a few times when people hadn’t heard of them and thought they were counterfeit.

19. 1. Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope – Never encountered this, but my Dad (RIP) was a physician & he knew how to run the full body analog x-ray machine as well as process the x-ray films.
    2. Cigarettes – Never smoked but indeed vending machines are gone but not the cigarettes themselves.
    3. Newspapers – There are still a few paper vending machines around today & I still read newspapers every now & then.
    4. Payphones – There are still some around & I had used them myself back in the day but thank goodness cellphones are so much more convenient now, except you do mostly have to pay for cell service on a monthly basis compared to a payphone you don't have to pay regularly for.
    5. Phonebooks – They are still around too & we still have some ourselves at home.
    6. Jukebox – Still around too & I actually have a toy of this that plays radio & fixed songs, batteries required.
    7. Cash – Definitely still around & I use it if I don't want to use my credit card, but yeah, much less required I supposed.
    8. Coins – Same as above, I actually had to use many of my quarters up in the 2015-2017 timeframe & went to the bank to get those paper roll wrappers for them.
    9. Rolodex – We actually still have at least one of these from our old business, since 1980, & it's one with a security key/lock.
    10. TV Guide – We subscribed to this back in the day for decades & we probably have a few old stray editions left at home somewhere.
    11. Carbon Copy – We also used this a lot at the aforementioned old business & we still have a few piles of carboncopy paper left around at home.
    12. Film Camera – My Dad was a camera buff so we still have a few of his film cameras left, with piles & piles of photo prints of our life at home since the early 1970's. It would be nice to scan them for digital backup but there are so many. Never got into film cameras myself, I started off with digi-cams 2 decades ago, so I don't know how to work them, or repair them. It also does require a pay service to process the film if you don't have the knowledge & resources yourself. I will keep my dad's film cameras, the piles of photos & a few blank film rolls left over, for sentiment due to his passing.
    13. Typewriters – We still have many of these left over, from our mentioned old business etc. We have around 10 typewriters, iirc. My favorite is my old heavy Royal 10 (circa 1914) bought from an old couple in 1980, but right now it is seized up due to rust.
    As with everything, today's technology will also become obsolete in due time.

20. I remember Rolodexes at work, I would have to update business addresses and information and make new addressograph plates.
    I loved playing with carbon paper for tracing cartoons in the Sunday paper, etc. Missing Ditto machines and payphones.
    Mising the "Real typewriters"!

21. Sadly the nuclear family as well.

22. OMG, when I finished college and was not making alot of money back in the 80's I remember, when you could "float" a check. We knew we were getting paid on Friday…so Wednesday night before that Friday we would go and write essentially a hot check because it wouldn't clear before you got paid. These days they can tell you right now whether or not you have money in your account. I saw this older lady writing a check at the store and updating her check registry. The cashier put the check through the machine and gave the check right back to her. I was floored the way it works now. I haven't written a check to a business in God only knows when. Banking has totally changed as well. I can't tell you the last time I physically went into a bank. I think it was 2 years ago before I went out of the country and needed that country's denomination. Wild.

23. Cigarettes in machines as a kid….65 cents

24. I remember having only 1 pair of sneakers

25. One thing I can tell you from working at Fuji…….there's still plenty of people from several countries using film. Lol. It's been extremely busy lately. I'm a bit surprised considering the use of cell phones. I didn't think so many people still used film.

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