“When I was a kid in the ’70s, they were sweet, flavorful, and delicious.
These days, they are hard, flavorless garbage.”
Here’s what they had to say.
u/baron_von_brunk
2.“Printers.
Anything from the last 15 years is the epitome of cheap garbage.”
3.“Jeans.
u/Substantial-Award-20
4.
They domesticated them to be bigger and stuff, but now they’re way less sweet.
5.“Furniture!
Used to be solid and worth having for years.”
They’re at least 60 years old.
Still going strong.”
u/Jjkkllzz
6.“Pyrex.
The old stuff was borosilicate glass, highly resistant to heat stress and therefore great in the kitchen.
7.“Oreos.
A pathetic example of shrinkflation.”
u/Rough_Idle
8.“Tomatoes.
When I was a kid in the ’70s, they were sweet, flavorful, and delicious.
Tomatoes these days are hard, flavorless garbage.”
“Fast food used to be delicious good portions, fairly cheap, and fast.
This is in no way an attack on employees but more on the higher-ups who make these decisions.”
u/hallandstoat
10.“Staplers.
We lost our ~20-year-old solid metal stapler, and all the new replacements were cheap plastic.
You’ve done well if yours lasts more than five years now.”
u/Dannysan5677
12.
“Kids' toys.
My parents have toys at their house that survived their entire childhood AND mine and are still going strong.
I buy something for my kids, and it’s broken in weeks.
“Plastic disposable utensils.
u/Beginning_Link_1600
14.“Houses.
You used to get 2024 episode seasons every single year.
Now we get 610 episode seasons that feel like long movies, sometimes every few years.
u/TheRealOcsiban
16.“Fridges.
My grandma’s fridge from the ’70s?
Still humming along perfectly.
I bought a brand new one a few months back, and it’s already broken twice.”
I just got a giant toolbox full of ’70s steel tools made before the mills shut down.
They are in perfect shape and will last another 50 years.”
u/tossaway78701
“My grandpa gave me some of his tools before he died.
I have a power sander from some time in the early ’80s.
That thing is amazing; it’s the best sander I’ve ever had.
I had one I got in 2018.
Piece of shit in comparison.”
u/Sanguiniutron
18.
“I bought underwear two years ago that is still in great shape.
I have been losing weight and needed to go down a size.
“Almost anything that demands a subscription where it could previously have been bought outright.”
u/TedTyro
20.“Mattresses.
They used to be solid, last longer, and more comfy.
Flippable, too.”
21.“Shoes.
u/Alovingcynic
22.
“My family had the same GE microwave for 16-ish years.
It finally stopped making things hot.
I found out they still make that ‘exact’ microwave and bought it.
Within a month, the buttons were broken.
The old unit had features that the new one had programmed out of it.
It is already grinding, clicking, and groaning.
It won’t last a year, let alone 16.”
My shirts used to last for years.
Now, they don’t hold up and start getting little holes within six months to a year.”
u/Glindanorth
“That’swhenyou can find cotton t-shirts.
Most shirts now are polyester-bend rags that hardly last a year.
Not to mention how polyester spreads microplastics everywhere.”
u/subtleplus
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