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Question just for fun😋

SeaMaiden — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:04:27 GMT

BESIDES TV, smart Phones, computers and Internet.....

What are the TWO main things/ conveniences/ inventions that you could not live without?

For me, paper towels and my microwave oven. Use them both everyday and a lot!

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deepwaterdotter — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:07:02 GMT

I don't own a Smart phone, but I would really miss electricity and a toilet.

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SeaMaiden — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:15:18 GMT

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
I don't own a Smart phone, but I would really miss electricity and a toilet.

@deepwaterdotter So true! I think back before they had these two luxuries....and I can not even fathom not having them!😮

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roxxy1 — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:16:57 GMT

My car.

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Nightowlz — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:17:12 GMT

I will name 3. LOL!!! Air/Heat, Indoor Plumbing & Electricity. I'm not using an out house no way no how.

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twinny70 — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:18:15 GMT

Our hot tub and our power recliners. I am all about comfort.

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ScenicMaine — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:19:09 GMT

Geez, only two?

toilet & car

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... @SeaMaiden if you should decide to be more generous, can I add: shower, washer & dryer, faucets, radio & for DH, lawnmower, snow blower

Thank you

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Jordan2 — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:19:10 GMT

I can't live without my microwave and my Breville Smart Oven. When my microwave went, I bought one the next day!

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Nightowlz — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:21:11 GMT

@roxxy1 wrote:
My car.

@roxxy1

LOL!!!. Too me that's funny. I could give a rat's behind if I could drive or not. My car is almost 6 yrs old now with just over 12,000 miles on it. Still brand new. Drove it to Fl twice & SC once.

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hckynut — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:21:48 GMT

@SeaMaiden

Well! Our microwave quit last night, and we are snowed in now. I drink instant coffee, so boiling water have to now use our electric range. Also, since no oil popcorn is my only meal of the day, pop the corn in microwave. Had to dig out my Whirly Pop stovetop popper, which needs oil, and takes 3 times as long to pop. So that would be 1.

Guess #2 would be my "sound system", which I use when working out in our gym. Need music whether riding recumbent/treadmill/NuStep, and it's a MUST HAVE at the ice skating rink.

hckynut

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SoX — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:21:51 GMT

Heat ... of any kind ... gas, electric (would not want to go back to a wood/coal stove, LOL). Electricity ... that's a given! Radio ... I love my old radio programs!

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deepwaterdotter — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:26:07 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
I can't live without my microwave and my Breville Smart Oven. When my microwave went, I bought one the next day!

Our microwave quit working at 5 pm one day last week. We were at Costco an hour later buying a replacement. Like hckynut, I need my microwave popcorn.

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Kalli — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 20:53:39 GMT

@Nightowlz wrote:
I will name 3. LOL!!! Air/Heat, Indoor Plumbing & Electricity. I'm not using an out house no way no how.

@Nightowlz I was 16 when my parents decided to move from the nj suburbs to an old farmhouse in Podunk, PA. I went into a very predictable teenage girl meltdown!

Anyway, that old place had a working outhouse. My sibs and I thought that was SO funny, dissolving into fits of hysterical laughter at first. Come to find out that facility was a godsend to a family of 8 who had moved from a fairly new home with 2 1/2 baths to an old place with only 1 inside bathroom. As long as it wasn’t cold outside every one of us kids used that outhouse at one time or another rather than be uncomfortable waiting for the bathroom to be free. 😆

Years later my parents decided to get rid of the outhouse to build a garage. We all protested even though none of us “kids” lived there anymore. Existing outhouses are grandfathered in but construction of new ones is now prohibited in that township.

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on the bay — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:05:56 GMT

I consider it an emergency if my coffee pot goes out!

So that

and my toaster and microwave (I can't count)

Isn't it funny how we may have never had something so never missed it but once we have it, it would be sad to do without it.

I never had a microwave or dishwasher for a long time or garbage disposal and never wanted them but now that I do, I sure do like having them and would miss them!

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Mary Bailey — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:08:51 GMT

I hearted everyone because I can't pick just TWO.

so, what they said

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Nightowlz — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:09:58 GMT

@Kalli wrote:
@Nightowlz wrote:
I will name 3. LOL!!! Air/Heat, Indoor Plumbing & Electricity. I'm not using an out house no way no how.
@Nightowlz I was 16 when my parents decided to move from the nj suburbs to an old farmhouse in Podunk, PA. I went into a very predictable teenage girl meltdown!

Anyway, that old place had a working outhouse. My sibs and I thought that was SO funny, dissolving into fits of hysterical laughter at first. Come to find out that facility was a godsend to a family of 8 who had moved from a fairly new home with 2 1/2 baths to an old place with only 1 inside bathroom. As long as it wasn’t cold outside every one of us kids used that outhouse at one time or another rather than be uncomfortable waiting for the bathroom to be free. 😆

Years later my parents decided to get rid of the outhouse to build a garage. We all protested even though none of us “kids” lived there anymore. Existing outhouses are grandfathered in but construction of new ones is now prohibited in that township.

@Kalli

Well there was 9 of us living in a house with 1 bathroom for years. We just had to wait our turn.

In the morning when we got ready for school I was last one up. Why get up to fight over the bathroom. LOL!!!

We all had to take showers in the evening. Still do now since that's what I did as a kid.

I would never buy a house without at least 2 toilets.

I'm glad I grew up with indoor plumbing.

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SharkE — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:25:53 GMT

I didn't have it till I was around 16 you went out to the outhouse and used newspaper. I didn't use the 'funnies' though colored ink U know.

I'd miss pressure cooker

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Kalli — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:38:24 GMT

@Nightowlz yup! I hear ya on that business of having to wait your turn. The worst was when someone was taking a shower! 😂😂😂

With regard to the original question, I guess I’d have to say I’d miss electricity and heat. Once in a while we lose electricity. It’s fun for the first hour or so, but after that it wears thin in a hurry.

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croemer — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:48:38 GMT

Air conditioning and Soap. My list would really be...very...very...long.

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bikerbabe — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:57:03 GMT

Air conditioning- can’t surivive summers in inland southern CA without it

Car - can’t work in southern CA without it