I still rely on a tea trolley to avoid slightly unsteady carriage of drinks etc from the kitchen all the way into the extended rear room where we spend most of our time when we do not have any visitors.
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A few years ago I bought a tea trolley to transport food from my kitchen to my lounge/TV room. It was dirt cheap, unfortunately I forgot about the 100mm step in the way so it has been used to store junk and I have consoled myself with the thought that spilled tea and coffee is probably good for the carpet.
I once read a scientific paper which said that it takes 4 to 5 paces before the harmonic motion of walking causes the tea or coffee to be spilled from the cup. They should have just asked me.
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All this talk about tea reminds me of the teasmaid! Do you remember them? you would set it up and in the morning the alarm would go off and there’d be a cup of tea waiting. I don’t think it boiled the water properly though as the tea was horrible.
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I always wanted a teasmaid but have never had one. I think they had to boil the water because they relied on the steam pressure created by the water boiling to put the water on the tea leaves in the teapot. I can’t comment on the quality of the tea it made because i have never owned one.
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Someone gave me one as a housewarming gift - but I didn’t really use it. If you left milk on the tray overnight it went off and, if you had to get up to fetch milk from a fridge, there was not much point in going back to bed. I think I put it out for a charity collection in the end.
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Who remembers ‘Hostess Trollys’ ? A lot of my friends had them.
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Everyone needs one of these. Also good exercise!
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One thing I have not seen for years is a shot gun, (410, 12 gauge etc) stood against a wall just inside a back door. As a kid, growing up in a rural area, it was very common to walk into someone kitchen & pass a shot gun or two, sat just inside the backdoor.
I can only think of three people who I knew as a kid who had a gun cabinet, all were farmers, all the cabinets were glass fronted pieces of furniture designed to show the guns off & none were locked.
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Yep, we had one too, but now there’s no need as we seldom entertain these days 
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Tea Caddies containing loose tea leaves which means no strainers either and very few teapots. Most caddies these days contain teabags. My FIL referred to teabags as dust sweepings from the floor.
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A meat safe. every house used to have one here back in the day (listen to me with ‘back in the day’ lol)
At least the country homes I grew up in did. You know the thing…box on the outside wall but the opening was in the kitchen maybe…vented…
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As mentioned elsewhere I only use leaf teas so I have teapots, strainers and caddies for every occasion.
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Woodchip wallpaper or even Anaglypta paper.
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Twin tub washing machines…
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Scrubbing boards.
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Carbolic soap…
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Stand-alone spin dryers. If I’d been able to find one when in the rental here, I wouldn’t have spent 6-7 months going to the launderette, or to my sister. When I got the keys to the house before moving in, washing machine and cooker were the first items bought and installed.
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My mum is lucky enough to have a laundry room and she has always had a stand-alone spin dryer. I have never had one but I have to admit, they do a good job. 
This is going to sound funny, because it wasn’t in every house hold. It was more for farms, but I haven’t seen an old fashion Butter Churn in forever. Which considering the time as a kid I spent making one of those handles go up and down. I don’t want to work one again. 
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Jar of Malt and cod liver oil
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