When did you last:

Have your milk delivered?

Have your newspaper delivered?

Buy an ice cream from an ice cream van in the street?

Polish your shoes instead or throwing them away and buying new ones?

Get coal delivered?

Make a call from a telephone box?

Use a typewriter?

Buy a CD?

Play a vinyl record?

Wear a hat?


Anyone think of any other fads and phases that may be dying out?

Re: When did you last:

Have your milk delivered? 2014

Have your newspaper delivered? 1967

Buy an ice cream from an ice cream van in the street? 1956

Polish your shoes instead or throwing them away and buying new ones? 2006

Get coal delivered? 1967

Make a call from a telephone box? 1997

Use a typewriter? 2018

Buy a CD? 2018

Play a vinyl record? 2018

Wear a hat? 2018


Anyone think of any other fads and phases that may be dying out?

Press trousers

Write a letter

Defrost the freezer

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Write a letter.

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I last wore a hat during the snow a few weeks ago. I looked liked a complete Twonk but at least I was warm.

Re: When did you last:

We haven't had our milk delivered for about 30 years.

I don't think we have ever had a newspaper delivered.

I can't remember buying an ice cream from an ice cream van, but might have done along time ago.

I haven't polished shoes for a while.

We have never had coal delivered.

I can't remember when I last used a telephone box.

I have never used a typewriter.

I can't remember buying a CD.

I have never played a vinyl record, although my husband used to play them years ago.

I wear a baseball cap in winter when it is cold, and one in the summer when it is hot.

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We used to have milk delivered up to about ten years ago but the delivery got so late in the day that we would miss it and the milk would be out in the sun all day. So we cancelled.

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friday, milkman comes again tomorrow..

Every time I go out, some of my shoes are 10 years old.


I tried one on last week, I need a basic one to keep my hair out of my eyes when gardening

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Write a cheque?

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I write them periodically for people whose bank accounts I haven't got on-line.

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Last week I wrote two and will write another this week as my contribution to the garden fence