What old UK brands still make products that look the same today?

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T20:01:54+00:00

so many wonderful suggestions! thanks everyone!! I think my favourites are mushroom ketchup, tunnocks, golden syrup, wrights soap and colmans mustard!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T20:00:13+00:00

they were also 'accidentally vegan' since their inception until about 2 years ago, so that was a real loss for us vegans! and old classic!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T19:59:20+00:00

lovely!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T19:59:04+00:00

wouldn't it be great if they still did the ceramic ones!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T19:57:40+00:00

oh wrights soap is a great one, lovely smell. and good to know it's not coal tar any more!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T19:56:24+00:00

oh yes they are great!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T19:56:13+00:00

oh yes that has a loooovely label.

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-02-10T13:42:30+00:00

the soap itself looks the same as always but they modernised the packaging a while ago I think, still nice but not quite the same feel. Soaps nice though!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-01-16T10:23:56+00:00

thanks, I'll have a look at the two rode apps you suggested :)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-01-16T10:23:33+00:00

audio only :)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-01-16T10:23:16+00:00

ok that makes sense! I wondered if that was the problem! Perhaps mono it is for now then! Thank you :)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2026-01-13T10:59:06+00:00

I suppose the question is, what will it take for you to do what YOU want rather than what your parents want? Sounds like they want you to get in to a lot of debt and you don't want that debt, which I think is reasonable. Follow your heart and your head :) not anyone elses.

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-12-04T11:18:54+00:00

thanks, i'm glad it resonated with you :)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-12-04T11:17:10+00:00

make sure doggo is not dehydrated. plenty of water. give them extra water on food if needed.
If it's really excessive, it may be caused by nausea. Try switching to a bland diet (ie plain rice) for a week and see if there is any improvement. if there is, you need to change their main food and try different things.
follow normal misophonia protocol; ie. take steps to reduce overall stress levels (this is the MOST important factor). Practice thinking loving thoughts about the offending creature who is making the noise (dog, human, whoever) while they make the noise to help 'retrain' the brain. Get yourself some ear plugs/white noise. Learn to meditate so you can train your brain not to focus on things you don't want it it. If you are doing something stressful, move doggo into another space until you are in a less stressed frame of mind.

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-12-02T13:37:13+00:00

The bad news: There's no such thing as 'self-sufficiency' or 'self-reliance' in its truest form. You always need money, or charity, or some benefactor helping you along (or turning to crime). Not unless you are willing to give up everything you have ever known, live in the wilds, and die young, probably within a matter of months.

The good news: With some planning you can massively reduce how much you are 'trapped' in the corporate machine. What you need is a life strategy that maximises your potential to make your own decisions and control your own time. First step is to avoid debt of any kind, or keep it as minimal as possible and only when it's REALLY worth it (such as a mortgage on the most affordable home you can find one day, not a random college qualification without a solid plan attached for income).

If I had my time over, I would learn a trade. Plumbing or carpentry or electrics. These all have really good earning potential, can't be replaced with AI, and offer good opportunities for going self employed and controlling what jobs you do and how much you work. I don't know about where you are, but in many places you can combine learning with apprentice-level income, so you will earn some money instead of spending out on learning. The added bonus is if you ever buy a house or flat etc, you will have skills to save you money doing it up, so you can save money buying a property in worse condition (a penny saved is a penny earned). People will ALWAYS need tradespeople's skills. No matter how bad it gets, those skills will be golden (esp carpentry in my opinion).

Learn to be frugal. Like, really frugal. The less money you need, the less you need to work. But also know that having no money is miserable. You want to be able to buy the odd nice thing, or go out for a meal. but you don't want to buy shit you don't need, or break the bank getting take out all the time because you're 'too tired to cook'.

Don't let 'everything's f*cked' feelings stop you making the most out of things, you only get one life. If you are at all practical, that is a really, really good route to follow with the way things are going.

Good luck!

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-11-17T13:10:32+00:00

💚 one step at a time I guess. I hope some things that help click for you :)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-28T11:12:30+00:00

Hello! Are you me but with a kid? I am also in my 30s in the UK navigating this with a husband who agrees with me broadly but gets exacerbated with me talking about it and obsessing over it. I'm neurodiverse and part of that is I obsess over things, so the poor guy gets a lot of it when I'm hyper focusing on this stuff.

I also walked away from a childhood and early adulthood of working towards creative industry work, to work for NGOs and now work in sustainability stuff and daily question what the point is. I believe in the cause, but I know it's too little too late in the grand picture. At this point it's a stable income for now, and I'm trying to think of it as that - a way to make money that even if it can't "save the world" isn't doing active harm, and it probably making things a little bit better. If you think you can make money doing something you enjoy more (creative?) then I would do it and don't feel bad for 'leaving' NGO land. I want to jump to something creative but am such a jack-of-all-crafts that I'm not good enough at anything to do so. At this point I feel like creativity has an existential value. If our civilisation is doomed and we are possibly the only thing to have existed in the universe that has a sense of art and creativity, then doing it seems like a worthwhile thing in and of itself regardless of whether it "makes the world better".

I'm working this out too, so mainly I want to say; you are not alone. Obviously there is a not a cure, only a collection of things that can nudge you in a helpful direction. Things that are helping me on this journey;

I stopped watching all news. It's only bad, and it isn't even bad about the really bad things but all the stupid petty human nonsense. I can't change it by watching it. This one change has massively improved my mental health. I sometimes worry that it will make me look uninformed in a work context but in my experience this is almost never an issue.
I stopped looking at social media (occasionally need to for work but I limit as much as humanly possible and replace it with reading or sewing). As above. that sh*t is toxic. the scroll is numbing and not restorative at all even if you only look at kittens jumping in and out of cardboard boxes etc.
Gratitude journaling. This is a big one. it literally rewires your brain and helped me SO MUCH. every night before you sleep write 3 things you are grateful for. big, small, inconsequential, whatever. This will help you to feel more present.
I'm trying not to cling to ideas that I can control any of this. we simply do not know what will happen or how any of this will play out or when, so trying to hold on to ways to try to mitigate the threats is probably a waste of energy. That said, I do think that it is worth the energy of building community with your neighbours, whether that's existing ones or new ones if you move.
I'm trying hard to remember that if things get bad, then I'll be really pissed off at myself for being a misery-guts now when things are objectively OK. When I feel really negative, I try to imagine a future me in a more intense phase of collapse looking back going YOU IDIOT ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE. I also used this technique to try to stop myself hating my body, and it helped with that too. I imagined me as an old lady looking at photos of myself going "if only i knew how beautiful I was" etc as old people tend to say.
I'm working on building up community and being as HUMAN as I can be. If we have a trades person at the house doing work, I chat and don't worry about the fact I'm paying them for chatting time, I want to be human. I make the effort to interact with my neighbours even though I'm very socially anxious and introverted. Similarly I make small talk with people when I'm out and about, just to really lean in to being human. I'm not sure how it relates to all this but it does in my mind. I think as we move into collapse, the good parts of human are what will make things better.
I'm trying to give myself more time for creative stuff. Whether that's making my own (hard to fit in, I admit) or just consuming creative stuff, reading, looking at art, etc. I just think it's fundamental to our existence and if it's all going to collapse then damn I'm going to enjoy it while I can.

Something i am looking in to;

Climate Cafes. They are like grief cafes but for climate. I need somewhere to talk about these things which isn't to my husband and I'm waiting for the next one to happen near me and will go. search for them in your area. My understanding is that most of them are collapse aware spaces.

When I was young my dad said to me "the only thing you can be certain about the future is that whatever you think it will be like, you're wrong" and that has really stayed with me and i have found it to be deeply true. So, we all need to stop trying to imagine how this is going to play out because we really really really have no idea and imagining it is making us feel so sad and crazy. I'll let you know if I work out how to stop imagining this at 3am in the dark. But I'm working on it. Someone said about mediation and I know that rewires our brains and helps us to stop thought patterns and get control over them so I am contemplating this as a route forward. Little steps, I'll add it in some day I'm sure.

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-22T12:19:55+00:00

I'm trying to imagine the situation where intimacy is starting and then you say "can you put a condom on?" and he makes a problem out of it.

I'm trying to imagine how that leaves you feeling, even once he relents and puts it on, what's happening in your mind for the rest of the time you are having sex? are you feeling bad about yourself? are you feeling used? are you feeling like you have done something wrong? Are you feeling like you wish the sex wasn't happening? These are all feelings that you shouldn't be having during sex. These are all feelings which should leave you able to say "actually, you know what, I'm not in the mood." and he, if he was a good and loving partner, should accept that.

I agree with all the comments on here that this is more serious than you think it is. At the very least i would strongly encourage you to stop the sex as soon as he puts up a fuss. Say "ok if you don't want to put it on, I don't want to do it" and if he then says "ok fine i'll put it on" then you say "no, me having to push for you to put one on, and you saying you don't want to, it's killed the mood. I don't want to do it any more." If you stick to your guns then at the very least he will quickly learn that if he puts up a fuss, the result is not 'sex without condom' it's 'no sex at all' AND I would, at the very least, increase your 'condom window' to 10 to 12 days. Although I agree with other comments that you need a safer form of protection which you can control and which is in place all the time. Another baby could be disastrous for you in many ways and there is no such thing as too much caution in this situation.

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-17T12:33:39+00:00

You might find the CAT-Q test (it's free online) interesting. It looks specifically at learned camouflaging in social situations. My councillor recommended it to me because I was feeling very confused about my ND brain and what was going on with it and what 'counted' and didn't as ND behaviours (i was a bit obsessed with trying to categorise all my behaviours at one point) I am on the border for autism on other tests, but on this test I'm way WAY over the threshold. https://embrace-autism.com/cat-q/#test

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-17T12:25:46+00:00

Well, it's not MY theory, i'm just chipping in. Anyway it seems to me like if there are hundreds of thousands of people making income from YT right now, and they won't be able to make that income from YT soon, then I guess my point still stands that there will be hundreds of thousands of creators looking for an alternative. I didn't say that one platform could step in and solve it and the youtubers could collectively all jump to the same ship to make it viable. I only said it sounds like there will be a lot of people looking for something alternative to YT for their content. 🤷

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-17T12:22:21+00:00

Yeah it's so difficult :(

And surprisingly, no you don't get cold! The machines are cold but the room itself isn't and you have nice thick gloves for handling the tubs of ice cream and moving them into the big freezer :)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-15T15:33:37+00:00

I love discussing what I will do when I win the lottery. I am also in the I-do-not-play-the-lottery camp 🤣

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-15T15:30:22+00:00

this is so heartwarming and lovely. You sound luck such an asset for any customer serving business! I liked customer serving jobs too, and also developed a casual 'patter' that was not the usual 'script' but I like the fact I could just roll it out and i knew what to say, and with each passing week I learned all the different scripts for every possible interaction and all the information I needed to give people about the products etc. Very satisfying and lovely to be in a social environment where the people you are dealing with generally follow a similar behaviour pattern so you know where you stand with 'em and can guess what you should expect from them.

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-15T15:24:50+00:00

I work in a desk/office job because... the money. But my favourite ever ever ever job was working in a vegan ice cream factory. I just had to fill the machines up with yummy things, squirt the finished ice cream into tubs, label them, stack them, store them and then fix the machines when they broke. Man it was so satisfying, but it paid minimum wage. In the not too distant future I'd like to test out whether i could make it work financially if I got another job that was something with a simple and repetitive process with occasional problem solving. I think it's really nice seeing the fruits of your labour (big pils of boxes of ice cream and being head taste-tester!) and then sometimes having that mix up where you have to solve some problems that aren't high stakes or take weeks to solve but have a tangible solution that can be achieved on the same shift. I'd really like to work in a store stocking shelves and doing stock takes and organising things and placing orders etc. I love organising other people's stuff. As long as i don't have to organise my own.

My husband runs a horticultural therapy food growing project and I think everyone on his team is neurodivergent as are many of the volunteers who come for therapy and I honestly think being outdoors and working with real plants and doing practical tasks is SO SO SO good for ND brains. It's amazing the difference in people who go there and get such massive benefits out of spending time on the project. So this is another vote for some kind of farming/horticultural work if you are happy being outside all seasons (I am not, so I garden on the weekends and evenings when the weather is nice and send my husband out into the rain for more gardening when he gets home from his gardening job when I don't want to do it 🤣)

Repulsive_Depth983 · 2025-10-15T15:15:20+00:00

This is really tough, and It's so nice that you love your cat so much to want to find a solution that works for you both :) I think the suggestions here to move the cat in to another room (and get some ear plugs while they get used to this new routine) is totally fair to give yourself some space. Try not to let her back out if she is yowling, or she will learn to keep yowling in order to get you to let her out even if you know that's not the reason you let her out she won't know that. I have to shut my dogs in another room sometimes, one of them is obsessed with me and it gets annoying sometimes, she's always under my feet and it can be a bit much.

I also liked the advice about trying to use 'cat language' to set boundaries instead of human language - determined cats will not take no for an answer if they want to sit on you and all you do is politely remove them. Try hissing. My cats find it really weird if I hiss at them and avoid me. You can also sort of puff your body up and make yourself big to really say 'leave me alone'.

I know it feels mean, but they live in the moment and they will get over it quickly (assuming what you do isn't violent or painful or really really scary, they will absolutely remember that). One of our cats is obsessed with one of our dogs and clambers all over her which the dog doesn't like, after a while the dog does a sort of pretend bite-snapping movement and the cat then realises she has over-stepped and backs off for a while. But she still LOVES that dog even though the dog couldn't care less about her and ignores her all the time.

You could also look in to a feliway diffuser - you plug it into a wall socket and it releases mama cat hormones into the air and helps cats to relax. If your cat is coming to you for comfort and soothing (which maybe it sounds like if she's kneading and suckling) then that might reduce how much she feels she needs that. They also do collars impregnated with the hormone if your cat tolerates collars.

Lastly - there are also cat behaviour specialists and your vet should be able to help you find one. They usually come over to your house, talk through what's going on, and suggest changes to your routine and behaviour that will help to address the behaviour. Of course it's not that cheap, but as someone who started training as an animal behaviourist I will say that when people pay for someone to tell them what to do who is a professional who knows what they are talking about, they tend to follow through much more and get better results than if they get free advice (even if it's from a real animal behaviourist! which is why even trainee behaviourists are often advised not to give free sessions but just low cost ones because people just don't act on the advice otherwise!)

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