August 11, 2025 • 16 mins
In this Quirks, Bumps and Bruises episode, Melody and her daughter Lindsey dive into the surprising list of everyday items disappearing from our lives—landline phones, paper checks, fine china, diamond rings, and more. They share funny, heartfelt stories and explore how technology, generational differences, and shifting values are transforming the way we communicate, shop, and celebrate milestones. From nostalgia for traditions to embracing modern convenience, Melody and Lindsay offer a relatable, thought-provoking look at the culture changes shaping our world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So, on this episode of Quirks, bumps and Bruises, I
have my daughter, lindsay, whoobviously is quite a few years
younger than I am, and we'retalking about different products
that are just going away.
They are just no longer what Ihad as a little girl no longer.
Lindsay, you're obviouslyyounger 30 years younger than me
.
So there are some things nowthat are completely dying, going
(00:24):
away because you young'unswon't buy them anymore.
So I want us to talk about afew of those.
Now.
This one is no surprise and it'sa landline phone.
Do you have a landline phone?
No, I still do.
Now let me tell you why I don'tever use that landline phone.
Like everybody knows my cellphone number, everybody uses my
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cell phone number, everybodyuses my cell phone number.
But my mother, who passed awayeight years ago, always said I
really want you to keep thatlandline phone.
I want you to keep it becausethat just makes me feel secure,
knowing you have another phone.
So for her, I kept it, and thenwe just kept it, and then we
just kept it, and then we justkept it.
I don't know why we need to getrid of it, but landline phones
(01:07):
you know what A decade ago,every home just about still had
a landline phone.
But younger generations likeyourself, who have had cell
phones since birth, not really,I wouldn't give you a cell phone
.
Yeah, that's a whole separatetopic.
No, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Get it out.
I was not allowed to have acell phone until I was 16 years
old, which I kind of understand.
But at the same time I wasplaying sports before that and
traveling to different gameswith the school and I'd have to
borrow somebody's cell phone totell you.
I was almost back in town tocome pick me up, and let me tell
you that worked just as good asyou having one using somebody
else's.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Here was my thing Now , back then, you have to admit,
I may be a little bit differentabout that now because the world
is cray-cray, true Cuckoo forCocoa Puffs crazy.
But back then because thatwould have been what year 2006.
Yeah, back then it was a littledifferent, I feel like, and so
I think if you were in the sixthgrade now, I think it would be
(02:06):
different.
But back then, at age 16, untilyou, here was my thing, I'm
defending myself until you drovea car and was out in a car by
yourself.
That's when you got a cellphone and you would say you know
, I'm the only one in my classwho doesn't have a cell phone,
and I would say, well, thatmakes you unique.
(02:29):
You can put a spin on anythingbut, uh, but yeah, but landline
phones, they're just going out.
Everybody thinks they'reoutdated, they're unnecessary,
and so, uh, everybody uses cellphones, all right.
Now this one is a littlesurprising and I did not know
this until recently traditionalwedding rings where you have the
diamond and the band.
A lot of the younger generationdon't want to spend that kind
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of money $10,000 or so on a ringanymore.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That is kind of sad.
It is kind of sad Because Ilove my ring.
I wear it every day.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I love it, no, but a lot of couples are, like I said,
skipping those expensiveengagement rings and they're
doing a ring.
They're just doing moreaffordable alternatives like
just a simple band with nodiamond, or some are just doing
no rings at all.
But I think if you're marriedyou need to be wearing a ring At
least something I agree aboutthat.
(03:19):
So another thing that we'reseeing a decline in I don't
think jewelry stores are goingto like that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, Cable TV, another thing that we're seeing a
decline in.
I don't think jewelry storesare going to like that cable tv?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
yeah, not necessary.
You don't have cable tv.
No, that's, that's justridiculous.
Too much money.
All those channels who has timeto watch?
All that?
It's amazing to me.
I do have cable tv.
Recently we called our carrierand pretty much just picked and
chose.
Like 10 channels is all we havenow I could get on board with
that.
That's uh yeah, I mean, and itlike halved our bill doing that.
So we, that's what we have.
(03:55):
You have a streaming tvsituation at your house which is
great.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, we have all the channels we need, and extremely
affordable, and so cablecompanies are losing subscribers
.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think every day, people are moving away from that
.
But when that happens andpeople start going another
direction, that direction thatyou go in is going to go up.
Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, soit's.
It's just, it's always changing.
Everything is always changing.
Another one department stores.
Department stores.
That is sad.
That used to be the end-all,no-all place that you went to
(04:32):
shop for clothing, for sure butyounger consumers are ditching
those now in favor of what?
Do you think it has to be?
Online shopping, onlineshopping and hey, I'm not young,
but you know, lindsay, I'm anonline shopper.
Oh yeah, I mean, I love to shoponline because it's convenient.
I can sit in my pajamas with acup of coffee and order my
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entire Christmas list and neverget up.
I like that, and so a click ofa button, you've got what you
need.
And so these luxury departmentstores that have been around for
generations are just reallystruggling now to attract
younger consumers.
So I mean, do you ever go?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
in a department store .
Well, the problem is when youorder clothes is what I always
think about.
You just kind of need to trythat on, and if you do order it
online and you don't like it,you got to have a place to send
it back to or take it back to.
Well, amazon makes that easy.
Amazon does, but not everybodyelse does.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And I really don't order from anywhere else except
for maybe amazon or if the storeis kind of close by me where I
could hop in there, right?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
yeah, we joke that you get an amazon package a day.
Yeah, if you don't get one,something's wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm very good though it's not that I'm just buying to
buy.
I have now learned like, evenwith shampoo and conditioner,
it's cheaper for me to buythrough amazon, the the brand
that I use, than to go to thedrugstore to get it, or to get
it even at somewhere likeWalmart.
It's interesting, yeah, butI've had to learn not
everything's like that, no.
(06:00):
So I'm not just buying thingsto buy things.
I'm buying things that Iactually do use All right.
Another one that's interestingis fabric softener.
Now, I'm sorry that I actuallydo use All right.
Another one that's interestingis fabric softener.
Now, I'm sorry, but I use Downy.
I do too, and I did not realizethis.
But now apparently there arenew high-efficiency washing
(06:20):
machines that have built-insoftening agents in the machine,
where you don't have to pourthat in there anymore.
I don't trust that.
I'm like what so?
Fabric softeners are just kindof disappearing from everybody's
shopping list now.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Maybe that's why my washing machine doesn't have a
place to put fabric softener.
We had to buy a downy ball andwe have to put it in the downy
ball.
There's not like a spot to putyour fabric softener.
Is it a new washing machine?
We got it in the last year.
Yeah, I bet it has a built-insoftener and I always wondered
why I didn't have that and I hadto buy a downy ball to use
fabric softener.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Don't use that next time.
Ditch all that and just look atthe directions, that'll work.
Here's another one and I getthis Printed magazines and
newspapers.
Yeah, now, growing up, lindsay,back in the day, we got a
newspaper every morning and whenyou opened that newspaper it
would, it was sprawling, it wasbig.
Now when you open up anewspaper because I did it
(07:16):
recently it was like a pamphlet.
Yeah, little bitty, not worthit looks like a brochure.
I'm like.
People are still paying forthis.
So it was once a daily habit.
But digital media has takenover because now you can just go
look at your magazines andnewspapers online.
Yeah, if you want it that bad,you can just look at it online.
(07:37):
So lots of decliningsubscriptions out there for
magazines and newspapers.
Hard to make those work anymore.
So I do kind of get that one.
Single use plastic water bottles.
Now, that used to be the thingeverybody was walking around
with like a specific brand ofwater bottles, but they're
ditching those disposableplastic bottles in favor of
(08:01):
walking around with thosestanley cups the size of texas
that cost ten thousand dollarsyes, those big cups.
So now a lot of the youngpeople just see that single-use
plastic thing is just being verywasteful and unnecessary, which
I kind of get, yeah, and soit's really pushing beverage
companies to rethink how theypackage things and how they're
(08:22):
doing things.
So disposable water bottles,all right.
Here's one that I can totallyagree with Expensive china
dishware.
Now again, back in the day,everybody got china as a wedding
gift.
13 place settings is what Ihave of china.
I got the 13th one in caseanything broke.
Oh, interesting.
(08:42):
Wasn't that smart yeah that issmart, ended up actually getting
17 place settings of gifts, butI was able to return those to
get other things like salt andpepper shakers and gravy boats
and things to match the china.
So I have it now.
I did do this smartly.
I bought a very simple pattern.
Yeah, I love your china.
It's just very simple, veryvery, very classy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, match it with anything.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yes, you can, if you had a themed party, you can
match it and I probably shoulduse it more than I do.
But now nobody's buying china,so you got married six years ago
.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Do you have china?
No, we just registered forreally nice plates, but just
everyday plates, not fancy china.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah well, she didn't , because she knows she's gonna
get mine one day.
Oh, I know, it's so pretty, sointeresting.
Bar soap is another one.
Now we've talked about Chinaand cable and water bottles and
landline phones and cable TV,all that stuff, but bar soap,
that's interesting.
So I'm going to ask you,lindsay, you being the younger
of us, do you still buy bars of?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
soap.
I buy bars of soap, but not formy to wash my hands with.
I use liquid hand soap.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's exactly right, younger consumers preferring
the liquid body wash too.
Yeah, not soap.
And they think soap dries outtheir skin.
They think multiple peopleusing the same bar of soap isn't
very appealing.
A lot of these new body washeshave moisturizers in them and
that kind of thing Really nicesmells, easier to apply and they
(10:16):
think that just traditionalbars of soap are losing their
place in the bathrooms ofAmerica.
I still use a bar of soap.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
To wash your hands?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
No, I use pump soap for that, yeah, but to take a
bath in?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
the shower I have a bar of soap.
Well, I do too.
I use both in the shower, Iguess, Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
All right, the world.
I have a bar of soap?
Well, I do too.
I use both in the shower, Iguess.
Yep, Alright, the world ischanging y'all.
Y'all better keep up with mehere.
Alright, paper checks.
Now this is a touchy subject.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Why is that?
Because you've made comments tome before about how I need to
get more checks, but I don'tkeep checks.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I actually only write one check.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I don't write any anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I, yeah, I don't write any anymore.
I don't think, and I have tobecause she won't take a card
and that's the person that cutsmy hair.
Yeah, so I write one checkabout every three months so I
can keep checks like forever.
So I don't know why I told youyou needed more checks.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We were, I think we needed one for something, or I
was going to write you a check.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I don't remember what the deal was, but now, if you
run out of checks and you justliterally don't have any checks.
You probably need to just orderone package.
Well, that's me.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't have, I do not own any checks right now.
Okay, well, Because I wouldeither just give you cash or I
would electronically send it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You could do that you could do cash, but if it was
something a larger amount, youmay not want to do the cash.
But hey, you do you.
But paper checks that'sdefinitely going away and I
would love it if I didn't haveany checks as well.
But now, banking online, youcan do everything online.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
There's payment apps as well.
Our kids do need to know how tobalance a checkbook.
Even if you don't write checks,you need to know how to balance
your own checkbook and that isthe teacher in her talking.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Don't even get her talking about cursive or
electronic books.
Oh yeah, don't get.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's anotherwhole show.
Times are changing y'all, and Imean changing fast.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But here is another one alarm clocks yeah, that
makes sense, because your phonehas one now I set three clocks,
three clocks.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I set my phone, I have a battery operated clock
and then I have a it's.
I've had this for years.
I think I had it when I wasmaybe in high school, but it's a
clock radio.
Oh, it has a radio.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Ancient.
Looking it is ancient, but thatthing still works.
Moses may have woken up to thatin the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He probably did but it works and I hate to get rid
of it because it still works andit has a radio.
I listen to Joy FM sometimesgetting ready, so I set three
clocks.
Little tidbit of informationhere while we're talking about
this.
I have been on this show for 18years.
I have never overslept.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, it's because you set 84 clocks every morning
exactly but everybody else here.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Let's just go through the gamut of co-hosts daniel,
gabe and candy.
All, all of them overslept allthe time.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
All millennials because we were all using our
phones.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
All right, just a couple of more things that are
dying and going away, and thisone is interesting.
Now, we've talked about a lotof things.
Some things were not surprises.
Landlines that's not surprising.
Cable TV not surprising.
Now, the traditional weddingring was surprising to me.
And that washers now havebuilt-in softeners attached to
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them.
I did not know that.
And that you have to buysomething called a downy ball.
Never heard of it, but this oneis interesting.
Canned tuna Now, apparently youyounger consumers are not
buying canned tuna like many ofthe previous generations before
you have done.
No, I guess not.
A couple of reasons why.
First of all, they don't likethe smell.
Oh, boo-hoo, boo-hoo.
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Others are concerned about themercury levels Again, really.
But because there are fresherand healthier options available,
they're choosing morealternative ways to eat tuna,
like fresh, or they want plantbased proteins ready to eat
meals you know a lot of thosemeals that just come to your
doorstep now and so tuna is justnot doing well on the store
(14:02):
shelves anymore interestingright?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
yeah, well, you forgot one.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's also disgusting lindsey doesn't like tuna.
I don't know if you could tell.
And this one last one I want totalk about this is not a
surprise at all Traditionalgreeting cards.
Now, lizzie used to make fun ofme all the time.
I'm a card girl.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, you like cards.
You like to send cards and getcards.
I do like to send handwrittencards.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
In fact, you know, my dad passed away recently and
there were so many beautifulflowers at the funeral, there
were so many memorials that weregiven to him or given to our
church in his memory, and soeverybody got handwritten notes.
Takes a long time I think Iwrote about close to 50.
And so they are going away.
I do like them.
(14:48):
I do think it shows you've putsome thought into something.
But these paper cards,especially if you're going to
like a card store 6.95 for acard, oh yeah.
And now you can go to thedollar store type places and you
can get two cards for a dollar,or now a dollar 25, but still,
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and they're nice cards.
Now, it didn't used to be thatway.
When you went to these cheaperstores to buy a card, those
cards were.
They left much to be desired.
But now the cards that are inlike Dollar Tree stores and that
kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Those are really nice , yeah, and there's a bunch of
options to choose from too Lotsof options.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So they've really upped on that.
So I can see why just papergreeting cards are, especially,
like I said, if you're going toa card store where you're having
to pay eight bucks for one cardthat somebody's going to read
and then throw in the trash.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, not doing it, ain't?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
going to have it.
Yeah, so those are someinteresting consumer products
that are going away.
They're dying.
If you think of one you'd liketo add to the list, we'd love to
hear from you.
Here on the Joyride, you cancall us or text us and let us
know.
You can do that by calling888-985-6936.
But, lindsay, thank you forbeing with us on this latest
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episode of Quirks, bups andBruises.
So, on this episode of Quirks, bumps and Bruises, I
have my daughter, lindsay, whoobviously is quite a few years
younger than I am, and we'retalking about different products
that are just going away.
They are just no longer what Ihad as a little girl no longer.
Lindsay, you're obviouslyyounger 30 years younger than me
.
So there are some things nowthat are completely dying, going
(00:24):
away because you young'unswon't buy them anymore.
So I want us to talk about afew of those.
Now.
This one is no surprise and it'sa landline phone.
Do you have a landline phone?
No, I still do.
Now let me tell you why I don'tever use that landline phone.
Like everybody knows my cellphone number, everybody uses my
(00:44):
cell phone number, everybodyuses my cell phone number.
But my mother, who passed awayeight years ago, always said I
really want you to keep thatlandline phone.
I want you to keep it becausethat just makes me feel secure,
knowing you have another phone.
So for her, I kept it, and thenwe just kept it, and then we
just kept it, and then we justkept it.
I don't know why we need to getrid of it, but landline phones
(01:07):
you know what A decade ago,every home just about still had
a landline phone.
But younger generations likeyourself, who have had cell
phones since birth, not really,I wouldn't give you a cell phone
.
Yeah, that's a whole separatetopic.
No, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Get it out.
I was not allowed to have acell phone until I was 16 years
old, which I kind of understand.
But at the same time I wasplaying sports before that and
traveling to different gameswith the school and I'd have to
borrow somebody's cell phone totell you.
I was almost back in town tocome pick me up, and let me tell
you that worked just as good asyou having one using somebody
else's.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Here was my thing Now , back then, you have to admit,
I may be a little bit differentabout that now because the world
is cray-cray, true Cuckoo forCocoa Puffs crazy.
But back then because thatwould have been what year 2006.
Yeah, back then it was a littledifferent, I feel like, and so
I think if you were in the sixthgrade now, I think it would be
(02:06):
different.
But back then, at age 16, untilyou, here was my thing, I'm
defending myself until you drovea car and was out in a car by
yourself.
That's when you got a cellphone and you would say you know
, I'm the only one in my classwho doesn't have a cell phone,
and I would say, well, thatmakes you unique.
(02:29):
You can put a spin on anythingbut, uh, but yeah, but landline
phones, they're just going out.
Everybody thinks they'reoutdated, they're unnecessary,
and so, uh, everybody uses cellphones, all right.
Now this one is a littlesurprising and I did not know
this until recently traditionalwedding rings where you have the
diamond and the band.
A lot of the younger generationdon't want to spend that kind
(02:52):
of money $10,000 or so on a ringanymore.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That is kind of sad.
It is kind of sad Because Ilove my ring.
I wear it every day.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I love it, no, but a lot of couples are, like I said,
skipping those expensiveengagement rings and they're
doing a ring.
They're just doing moreaffordable alternatives like
just a simple band with nodiamond, or some are just doing
no rings at all.
But I think if you're marriedyou need to be wearing a ring At
least something I agree aboutthat.
(03:19):
So another thing that we'reseeing a decline in I don't
think jewelry stores are goingto like that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No, Cable TV, another thing that we're seeing a
decline in.
I don't think jewelry storesare going to like that cable tv?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
yeah, not necessary.
You don't have cable tv.
No, that's, that's justridiculous.
Too much money.
All those channels who has timeto watch?
All that?
It's amazing to me.
I do have cable tv.
Recently we called our carrierand pretty much just picked and
chose.
Like 10 channels is all we havenow I could get on board with
that.
That's uh yeah, I mean, and itlike halved our bill doing that.
So we, that's what we have.
(03:55):
You have a streaming tvsituation at your house which is
great.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, we have all the channels we need, and extremely
affordable, and so cablecompanies are losing subscribers
.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I think every day, people are moving away from that
.
But when that happens andpeople start going another
direction, that direction thatyou go in is going to go up.
Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, soit's.
It's just, it's always changing.
Everything is always changing.
Another one department stores.
Department stores.
That is sad.
That used to be the end-all,no-all place that you went to
(04:32):
shop for clothing, for sure butyounger consumers are ditching
those now in favor of what?
Do you think it has to be?
Online shopping, onlineshopping and hey, I'm not young,
but you know, lindsay, I'm anonline shopper.
Oh yeah, I mean, I love to shoponline because it's convenient.
I can sit in my pajamas with acup of coffee and order my
(04:53):
entire Christmas list and neverget up.
I like that, and so a click ofa button, you've got what you
need.
And so these luxury departmentstores that have been around for
generations are just reallystruggling now to attract
younger consumers.
So I mean, do you ever go?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
in a department store .
Well, the problem is when youorder clothes is what I always
think about.
You just kind of need to trythat on, and if you do order it
online and you don't like it,you got to have a place to send
it back to or take it back to.
Well, amazon makes that easy.
Amazon does, but not everybodyelse does.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And I really don't order from anywhere else except
for maybe amazon or if the storeis kind of close by me where I
could hop in there, right?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
yeah, we joke that you get an amazon package a day.
Yeah, if you don't get one,something's wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I'm very good though it's not that I'm just buying to
buy.
I have now learned like, evenwith shampoo and conditioner,
it's cheaper for me to buythrough amazon, the the brand
that I use, than to go to thedrugstore to get it, or to get
it even at somewhere likeWalmart.
It's interesting, yeah, butI've had to learn not
everything's like that, no.
(06:00):
So I'm not just buying thingsto buy things.
I'm buying things that Iactually do use All right.
Another one that's interestingis fabric softener.
Now, I'm sorry that I actuallydo use All right.
Another one that's interestingis fabric softener.
Now, I'm sorry, but I use Downy.
I do too, and I did not realizethis.
But now apparently there arenew high-efficiency washing
(06:20):
machines that have built-insoftening agents in the machine,
where you don't have to pourthat in there anymore.
I don't trust that.
I'm like what so?
Fabric softeners are just kindof disappearing from everybody's
shopping list now.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Maybe that's why my washing machine doesn't have a
place to put fabric softener.
We had to buy a downy ball andwe have to put it in the downy
ball.
There's not like a spot to putyour fabric softener.
Is it a new washing machine?
We got it in the last year.
Yeah, I bet it has a built-insoftener and I always wondered
why I didn't have that and I hadto buy a downy ball to use
fabric softener.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Don't use that next time.
Ditch all that and just look atthe directions, that'll work.
Here's another one and I getthis Printed magazines and
newspapers.
Yeah, now, growing up, lindsay,back in the day, we got a
newspaper every morning and whenyou opened that newspaper it
would, it was sprawling, it wasbig.
Now when you open up anewspaper because I did it
(07:16):
recently it was like a pamphlet.
Yeah, little bitty, not worthit looks like a brochure.
I'm like.
People are still paying forthis.
So it was once a daily habit.
But digital media has takenover because now you can just go
look at your magazines andnewspapers online.
Yeah, if you want it that bad,you can just look at it online.
(07:37):
So lots of decliningsubscriptions out there for
magazines and newspapers.
Hard to make those work anymore.
So I do kind of get that one.
Single use plastic water bottles.
Now, that used to be the thingeverybody was walking around
with like a specific brand ofwater bottles, but they're
ditching those disposableplastic bottles in favor of
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walking around with thosestanley cups the size of texas
that cost ten thousand dollarsyes, those big cups.
So now a lot of the youngpeople just see that single-use
plastic thing is just being verywasteful and unnecessary, which
I kind of get, yeah, and soit's really pushing beverage
companies to rethink how theypackage things and how they're
(08:22):
doing things.
So disposable water bottles,all right.
Here's one that I can totallyagree with Expensive china
dishware.
Now again, back in the day,everybody got china as a wedding
gift.
13 place settings is what Ihave of china.
I got the 13th one in caseanything broke.
Oh, interesting.
(08:42):
Wasn't that smart yeah that issmart, ended up actually getting
17 place settings of gifts, butI was able to return those to
get other things like salt andpepper shakers and gravy boats
and things to match the china.
So I have it now.
I did do this smartly.
I bought a very simple pattern.
Yeah, I love your china.
It's just very simple, veryvery, very classy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, match it with anything.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yes, you can, if you had a themed party, you can
match it and I probably shoulduse it more than I do.
But now nobody's buying china,so you got married six years ago
.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Do you have china?
No, we just registered forreally nice plates, but just
everyday plates, not fancy china.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah well, she didn't , because she knows she's gonna
get mine one day.
Oh, I know, it's so pretty, sointeresting.
Bar soap is another one.
Now we've talked about Chinaand cable and water bottles and
landline phones and cable TV,all that stuff, but bar soap,
that's interesting.
So I'm going to ask you,lindsay, you being the younger
of us, do you still buy bars of?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
soap.
I buy bars of soap, but not formy to wash my hands with.
I use liquid hand soap.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's exactly right, younger consumers preferring
the liquid body wash too.
Yeah, not soap.
And they think soap dries outtheir skin.
They think multiple peopleusing the same bar of soap isn't
very appealing.
A lot of these new body washeshave moisturizers in them and
that kind of thing Really nicesmells, easier to apply and they
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think that just traditionalbars of soap are losing their
place in the bathrooms ofAmerica.
I still use a bar of soap.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
To wash your hands?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
No, I use pump soap for that, yeah, but to take a
bath in?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
the shower I have a bar of soap.
Well, I do too.
I use both in the shower, Iguess, Yep.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
All right, the world.
I have a bar of soap?
Well, I do too.
I use both in the shower, Iguess.
Yep, Alright, the world ischanging y'all.
Y'all better keep up with mehere.
Alright, paper checks.
Now this is a touchy subject.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Why is that?
Because you've made comments tome before about how I need to
get more checks, but I don'tkeep checks.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I actually only write one check.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, I don't write any anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I, yeah, I don't write any anymore.
I don't think, and I have tobecause she won't take a card
and that's the person that cutsmy hair.
Yeah, so I write one checkabout every three months so I
can keep checks like forever.
So I don't know why I told youyou needed more checks.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
We were, I think we needed one for something, or I
was going to write you a check.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I don't remember what the deal was, but now, if you
run out of checks and you justliterally don't have any checks.
You probably need to just orderone package.
Well, that's me.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't have, I do not own any checks right now.
Okay, well, Because I wouldeither just give you cash or I
would electronically send it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You could do that you could do cash, but if it was
something a larger amount, youmay not want to do the cash.
But hey, you do you.
But paper checks that'sdefinitely going away and I
would love it if I didn't haveany checks as well.
But now, banking online, youcan do everything online.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
There's payment apps as well.
Our kids do need to know how tobalance a checkbook.
Even if you don't write checks,you need to know how to balance
your own checkbook and that isthe teacher in her talking.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Don't even get her talking about cursive or
electronic books.
Oh yeah, don't get.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's anotherwhole show.
Times are changing y'all, and Imean changing fast.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But here is another one alarm clocks yeah, that
makes sense, because your phonehas one now I set three clocks,
three clocks.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I set my phone, I have a battery operated clock
and then I have a it's.
I've had this for years.
I think I had it when I wasmaybe in high school, but it's a
clock radio.
Oh, it has a radio.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Ancient.
Looking it is ancient, but thatthing still works.
Moses may have woken up to thatin the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
He probably did but it works and I hate to get rid
of it because it still works andit has a radio.
I listen to Joy FM sometimesgetting ready, so I set three
clocks.
Little tidbit of informationhere while we're talking about
this.
I have been on this show for 18years.
I have never overslept.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Well, it's because you set 84 clocks every morning
exactly but everybody else here.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Let's just go through the gamut of co-hosts daniel,
gabe and candy.
All, all of them overslept allthe time.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
All millennials because we were all using our
phones.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
All right, just a couple of more things that are
dying and going away, and thisone is interesting.
Now, we've talked about a lotof things.
Some things were not surprises.
Landlines that's not surprising.
Cable TV not surprising.
Now, the traditional weddingring was surprising to me.
And that washers now havebuilt-in softeners attached to
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them.
I did not know that.
And that you have to buysomething called a downy ball.
Never heard of it, but this oneis interesting.
Canned tuna Now, apparently youyounger consumers are not
buying canned tuna like many ofthe previous generations before
you have done.
No, I guess not.
A couple of reasons why.
First of all, they don't likethe smell.
Oh, boo-hoo, boo-hoo.
(13:39):
Others are concerned about themercury levels Again, really.
But because there are fresherand healthier options available,
they're choosing morealternative ways to eat tuna,
like fresh, or they want plantbased proteins ready to eat
meals you know a lot of thosemeals that just come to your
doorstep now and so tuna is justnot doing well on the store
(14:02):
shelves anymore interestingright?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
yeah, well, you forgot one.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's also disgusting lindsey doesn't like tuna.
I don't know if you could tell.
And this one last one I want totalk about this is not a
surprise at all Traditionalgreeting cards.
Now, lizzie used to make fun ofme all the time.
I'm a card girl.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, you like cards.
You like to send cards and getcards.
I do like to send handwrittencards.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
In fact, you know, my dad passed away recently and
there were so many beautifulflowers at the funeral, there
were so many memorials that weregiven to him or given to our
church in his memory, and soeverybody got handwritten notes.
Takes a long time I think Iwrote about close to 50.
And so they are going away.
I do like them.
(14:48):
I do think it shows you've putsome thought into something.
But these paper cards,especially if you're going to
like a card store 6.95 for acard, oh yeah.
And now you can go to thedollar store type places and you
can get two cards for a dollar,or now a dollar 25, but still,
(15:09):
and they're nice cards.
Now, it didn't used to be thatway.
When you went to these cheaperstores to buy a card, those
cards were.
They left much to be desired.
But now the cards that are inlike Dollar Tree stores and that
kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Those are really nice , yeah, and there's a bunch of
options to choose from too Lotsof options.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So they've really upped on that.
So I can see why just papergreeting cards are, especially,
like I said, if you're going toa card store where you're having
to pay eight bucks for one cardthat somebody's going to read
and then throw in the trash.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, not doing it, ain't?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
going to have it.
Yeah, so those are someinteresting consumer products
that are going away.
They're dying.
If you think of one you'd liketo add to the list, we'd love to
hear from you.
Here on the Joyride, you cancall us or text us and let us
know.
You can do that by calling888-985-6936.
But, lindsay, thank you forbeing with us on this latest
(16:02):
episode of Quirks, bups andBruises.
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