Peace, Love and Understanding.
Does anyone still sell their used vehicles via their local newspapers classified ads?
With things like Autotrader, CarSoup, Ebay, Craigslist where you can cheapley or even for free post unlimited photos and descritions of the car you’re selling why would anybody pay good $$ to post a photoless 3 line blurb on page 32 of the local rag?
The last time I used a key to open a car door and trunk was to check if it worked when I bought each car. Before that was in 1994.
Using just ‘City’ as a mailing address when mailing something to a person living in the same city as you.
I can’t remember the last time I had to get up and walk across the room to change the channel.
I’m very thankful people no longer carry boom boxes around with them.
I haven’t defrosted a freezer in years.
I know a few people who still change their curtains and bedspreads with the seasons.
I use snail-mail probably more than most people nowadays; and I don’t know the price of stamps. In the UK where I live, stamps these days just bear the legend “1st” or “2nd”: the price is not shown on the stamp. I buy stamps six or twelve at a time, and am ususally mildly appalled by by how much they cost; but being bad with figures generally, immediately forget the amount that I’ve had to pay…
Man, I miss those!
“1979 OLDS CUTLISS for sale $1,500 obo. Possy rear end and rachester carb, MINT”
I work for the state and we use a travel agent because we don’t have access to the state credit card to book flights/hotels/cars. So, we book through a travel agent, who then sends us a bill, which we turn over to the business office to pay with a check.
One thing I used to do but don’t anymore is balance my checkbook. I can check my bank account online at all hours and since I don’t write checks hardly ever, it’s always accurate (or accurate enough).
Funny.
Does anyone stand in line to buy concert tickets anymore? I’m just barely old enough to remember having to go to the record store to buy a ticket at the Ticketmaster counter, but for a good 15-years-ish now it’s all been online sales.
I started my business around 1999/2000, and for many many years I had to take a coupon and go to the bank in person and pay my business taxes. I don’t remember if it was just Federal Withholding or federal, state and local. I had to do this for a long time, like maybe up until 2008!
Then finally I could pay everything online. And now I can pay federal and at least one state by clicking a button in Quickbooks. Still have to go through the city and Ohio state websites to pay the other taxes.
I bet people still totally pay their business taxes at the bank, though. There’s got to be some old dude who has “done it this way since 1945” and is going to keep doing it that way, dangit.
FAXing stuff. Doing it from your computer, which of course had FAX software (either the package that came with your OS or something else you liked better) and a modem (which you also used to get on the internet) which connected with your analog land line. These were copper lines and it was how telephones worked.
Or if you were at work your office maybe had a dedicated FAX machine.
You’d FAX, retry a few times (becasue it didn’t always go through without losing the connection) then when it finally proclaimed success you’d still call whoever you FAXed the stuff to to verify that it came through in a useful condition & all.
Does anybody still pay long distance charges on domestic calls? Every land line or cell phone plan I’ve had for the past 15 years has been unlimited long distance. I haven’t seen an itemized phone bill showing long distance calls in forever.
The big local rag (Washington Post) has a deal with cars.com; anyone buying ad space in print also gets listed there.
Anybody used a cassette tape recently? Didn’t think so. My son found my old Walkman a few months back, and I couldn’t even show him how it used to work, because there wasn’t a single cassette in the house!
When I was a kid, back in the Sixties, people were always taking TV tubes to the drugstore to be tested. Anyone do that any more? Shoot, does anyone even bother to have TVs repaired any more?
Anybody get film developed at the drugstore any more?
I related to that scene in ***Back to the Future ***where a car pulls into the gas station and a bunch of guys in uniforms run out to check the oil, wipe the windshield and pump the gas. Yes, kids, that still happened when I was a kid. AND they gave you a free dish or drinking glass for filling up!
I use a metal key to open my 2009-model car, and my apartment too.
There’s a travel agency at the shopping mall near my house, and there are almost always customers there, talking to agents.
The want ads in my local paper have plenty of private-party used car ads.
One thing that’s changed in my profession is that doctors don’t usually write prescriptions any more. They electronically transmit them to the pharmacy, or print them out at the office and sign them if it’s for a controlled substance.
Working TV tubes can be worth a lot of money. There are people who use antique TVs, and the tubes can be hard to find.
Whenever our TV malfunctioned when I was a kid, my dad would take the tubes to a grocery store and use the tube tester. He often took me with him, and I was about as tall as the machine. 
I remember my dad sending me to the store (I was nine-ish I think) for cigarettes.
I remember having a note from my dad in case the clerk started asking too many questions, but hell, most of them never did.
I also remember cigarette vending machines.
The whole auto bill pay is such a life saver. I dreaded that job. And I’d end up with a trash bag of the crap they included afterwards.
Now every thing is auto exept my mortgage and main credit card. And I do those online.