Child of the 70’s so we had an electric ice crusher. One that broke ice into little pieces, not an ice shaver.
Here is a manual one. Electric one but is it worth $130?
No, not a hand-held blow dryer. I mean the big clunky box with a hose coming out that attached to a plastic elasticized bonnet you put on your head. There was also a groove along the bottom where hot air came out for drying your nails. It must have broken some time in the 90s. I don’t remember seeing it when I would visit after then.
I have a hand-held, but rarely use it. Everyone in the family just air dries.
The ice dispenser in the door of most modern fridge/freezer units has that built in. So many/most of us still have the same capability, just not the separate device.
My grandparents had an electric “bellows”, basically a free standing fan that looked a little like a leaf blower on a tripod. It was super effective at getting the wood fire in the fireplace going.
I’ve tried to find one for our fireplace and totally failed, the nearest thing is a flimsy little plastic battery powered thing (that is meant for camp fires), which does work OK, but nothing like as well as theirs did.
While I don’t need one at this stage of my life, I do see its value. The one my parents had had a larger cooking area than even a large skillet for the stovetop. My mom used to use hers all the time to pan-fry thin slices of squash dipped in flour, salt and pepper - with the big square electric skillet she could cook it all in 1-2 batches.
Prior to the advent of cellular phone technology, there were car phones, which were not cellular phones, as far back as the 1940s and 1950s. They used a different sort of radio frequency and system than was later developed for cellular phones, and once cell phones started becoming widely available, by the end of the 1980s, a “car phone” was likely a cell phone.
Oh, I forgot that one, too. By which I mean I don’t have a hand held hair dryer. I just air dry. Going for a drive in my convertible after a shower helps it dry faster, too.
And thinking of bathroom items reminded me, I don’t have a bathroom scale, either. If I want to know how much I weigh, I have to go to the doctor. Or gym, I suppose. But really, I’ve never really needed to know exactly how much I weigh outside of doctor visits.
Until we moved to this house, that was our situation - very few newer houses are built with double wall ovens, and/or separate cooktops.
I will admit, I use that second oven about 3 times a year, but when I need it, it’s grand.
Mom’s kitchen also had a much wider-than-usual cooktop (36 inches versus 30, or something) and in the back / middle, there was a large griddle area, useful for pancakes etc. and covered with a stainless steel cover the rest of the time. I’ve never felt the need for one of those.
It’s hard to imagine ANYONE ever thinking that was a good idea. But the one in our bathroom (the one we kids used) had such a slot, though none of us knew what it was at the time. I have no clue whether there was such a slot in the cabinet in my parents’ bathroom.