Old fashioned things you still do

I do most of the above.

And kitty, I use hair oil about once a month- Argan Oil- put it on early evening and it is mostly absorbed by the time I go to bed- and change pillow case the next day. Makes your hair lovely and soft.

For stains on sweatshirts, jumpers, etc, that can't be put in hot wash, I use Fuller's Earth- sprinkle some on, leave overnight, and it just soaks the fat stain out perfectly- brush off and put in wash - perfect. My go to product all the time- cheap and ecological.

I iron everything apart from duvet covers which DH irons.DH uses cotton hankies.We use a tablecloth and peel all veg and make proper gravy.We have a dinner service and cutlery which only comes out on high days and holidays.I think we must be very old fashioned too.

DGD didn’t know what an iron was.She used to call it the flattening tool!I iron the children's clothes when we look after them at their house but draw the line at ironing DD’s and SIL’s.
DH always wonders how they look so neat when they don’t iron anything.

Fleurpepper where do you find Fuller's Earth and what is it?
I have an oily stain on my new Seasalt tunic top, right in the middle front!

Susan56

I iron everything apart from duvet covers which DH irons.DH uses cotton hankies.We use a tablecloth and peel all veg and make proper gravy.We have a dinner service and cutlery which only comes out on high days and holidays.I think we must be very old fashioned too.

DGD didn’t know what an iron was.She used to call it the flattening tool!I iron the children's clothes when we look after them at their house but draw the line at ironing DD’s and SIL’s.
DH always wonders how they look so neat when they don’t iron anything.

Susan56, that reminded me. We once stayed with a sister of mine in the US in order to look after her young dd while her husband was seriously ill in hospital. As we left, elder sister arrived to take over.
Elder sister later told me that after doing the washing she’d looked absolutely everywhere - turned the house upside down - looking for an iron.

When she asked younger sister where on earth it was, the reply was, ‘I haven’t got one!’
She literally never irons anything. My dd1 is much the same. SiL does iron his work shirts though!

Grammaretto

Fleurpepper where do you find Fuller's Earth and what is it?
I have an oily stain on my new Seasalt tunic top, right in the middle front!

It is a sort of clay in powdered form. Go to a traditional chemist perhaps.

I actually buy it in France when we visit. It is called Terre Sommières. It is the only thing that does the job, but works much better if you don't wash it first.

Fleurpapper, I should have been clearer! No one in our family uses hair oil so we have no need of antimacasas.

Anti-macassars - should have checked the spelling earlier.

kittylester

*Fleurpapper*, I should have been clearer! No one in our family uses hair oil so we have no need of antimacasas.

No I understood. But I do use Argan Oil once in a while, and do not need or use antimacasas either.

Grammaretto

Fleurpepper where do you find Fuller's Earth and what is it?
I have an oily stain on my new Seasalt tunic top, right in the middle front!

You can buy online. You use very little at a time- so it lasts for years. Always brush off the powder gently before putting in wash.

www.piatraonline.co.uk/?id=8343&pid=12264395

Grammaretto, I just googled Fuller’s Earth and there’s plenty available online.
My mother used to have some many decades ago - I’ve just realised that a I never knew what it was for! I think I assumed it was for making some sort of face pack.

I wear an apron,use a table cloth and tip the postman at Christmas.

I have a mug tree

Save bits of soap like my granny did. I do draw the line at boiling them up and pouring into a mold though.

I don't like modern movies much (they used to be called films). I don't use jars of made up sauce. I hate gravy granules (Sainsbury's gravy powder has been discontinued). I make my own pastry with butter and lard! I make bread pudding (it soon gets eaten by all generations).

I wear an apron for cooking.
Make my own gravy/sauce/fish cakes etc. buy very little convenience food
Peel potatoes for roasts and mash and scrub them for everything else.
Use a tablecloth at the weekend and cotton napkins every day. Eat at the table except for breakfast which I get in bed, I know spoiled!!!
Always make tea in a pot with cups and saucers.
Still have a best dinner service and cutlery for high days and visits.
Use a flat sheet under the duvet and hospital corners.
I don't iron a lot, especially in winter the teatowels and napkins dry on the aga.DH wears shirts that don't need to be. More so in Summer, and I dry things outside when I can.
I'm also a hoarder of toothpaste /brushes soap, toilet rolls and dry goods, we very rarely run out of anything.
Yes, I am an old-fashioned girl and so are my two daughters, one more so in fact she does a lot more ironing.

Will we soon be told we are so old fashioned because we actually cook our own food, in our own kitchen???

Fuller's Earth is also used as a cosmetic, for greasy skin.

No one in our house uses hair oil either, but I think having chair back and arm covers just keeps things cleaner.

Iron loads of hankies, napkins, table cloths., shirts and DH’s boxers.Though to be fair DH takes his turn.
Cook from scratch nearly every day.
Always have a proper hanky in my bag or pocket..

I’m an ironer ,too and I actually find it quite relaxing. I cook too but most Aussies do. They don’t have the variety of ready meals that they have in the uk. In fact most of the ones we do have are pretty foul and taste fake. I hang washing out rather than use the dryer, except when it is really cold and damp. Then I tend to dry it on racks round the fire. I don’t have a minimalist house, it is full of treasures with lots of wooden panels and exposed bricks. All round the top of the walls in the dining room I have decorative antique plates , mostly from my nanna.

I don't see loose tea in a proper teapot as old-fashioned, I see it as the proper way to make tea.

I make nearly everything we eat from scratch as my mum did unless we go out for a meal.

GagaJo

Save bits of soap like my granny did. I do draw the line at boiling them up and pouring into a mold though.

I put soap scraps in a small crocheted cotton bag which I then use in the shower. Think it's called a Soap Buddy

I have never owned a tumble dryer or a dishwasher and I dust with an old fashioned yellow duster which I shake out of the window.

I have a mug tree! And reading this has reminded me that I had planned to make a bread pudding (very old recipe from my aunt) and so I need to start saving crusts in the freezer
Loving this thread AussieGran .... Thank you!

I have 2 mug trees! Didn’t realise they were considered old fashioned.