Useful Things You Can No Longer Easily Buy

[northwichcat]

Mothering Sunday (as opposed to Mothers Day) cards.

Mine always refers to it as the former and I've found it more and more difficult to find the right card.

The term Mothering Sunday actually refers to a tradition in the Christian church where you visited your mother church (the church you were baptised) once a year. Over time that tradition faded out but you may still find cards being sold with the Mothering Sunday term on sale in churches. Although, it's possible the messages inside may be a bit religious for your mum's liking.

 

[Dai Corner]

The term Mothering Sunday actually refers to a tradition in the Christian church where you visited your mother church (the church you were baptised) once a year. Over time that tradition faded out but you may still find cards being sold with the Mothering Sunday term on sale in churches. Although, it's possible the messages inside may be a bit religious for your mum's liking.

That's interesting. Thanks.

Mum's quite religious but I'm not so such a card would feel wrong coming from me I think.

 

[PeterC]

Such as replacement foils, cutting blocks and mains leads for certain discontinued models of electric shaver. You can still get them for some but not all legacy models.

In about 1988, when I was 13, my parents bought me my first electric shaver. It lasted nearly 30 years before finally giving up the ghost, and during that time I had to get several replacement foils and cutting blocks for it. I also had to get a new mains lead for it at least twice. Getting them wasn't usually too much of a problem even though I'm fairly sure that that particular model of shaver is no longer produced.

I also have a small battery shaver (also a now discontinued model) but finding replacement foils and cutting blocks for that one is more difficult. I managed to find a spare foil for that one on eBay, though.

I got round that by using a straight (cutthroat) razor. What is difficult is sourcing the white paste for treating the canvas side of the strop. The tube that I bought 20 years ago has run out at last.

 

[Scousemouse]

Eeek! No thanks! I have hundreds of DVDs. Ripping each one individually to a hard drive would take days of full time effort, and on a quick estimate based on Googling the capacity of a DVD (4.7GB) and guessing that DVDs on average use maybe about 2/3 of that capacity, I would expect the data on my DVDs to consume an entire 1TB hard drive. So basically impossible to fit on a laptop if you also want things like an operating system on the drive too.

Besides, it's actually quite nice to be able to choose a DVD to watch based on looking at the packaged boxes on the shelves.

I have a laptop with an 8TB hard drive......

 

[najaB]

I have a laptop with an 8TB hard drive......

To be fair, laptops with drives over 1TB are an exception, rather than the rule. Most consumer laptops tend to be around 500GB to 1TB max.