What 'modern conveniences' do you live without? - Page 10

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

Just like people in the past said "BAH HUMBUG!" about electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, gas heat, and stoves. "I'll stick with my fireplace thank you very much!" Trains, supermarkets, and anything else since we came out of the cave! LOL!!!!

Do you churn your butter, use a spinning wheel, or weave your cloth? LOL!!!! We've come a long baby and we have a long way to go. Each one of will decide for ourselves how we want to live and why.

MoJoV · ‎10-01-2010

@Puzzle Piece wrote:
Hmmmmm. What some can and do have and can't live without and what others need etc.
I don't have a bread maker, toaster over, a fit bit (I find that a piece of ridiculous unnecessary junk).

I agree with you about fitbit,I can't stand so much self-involvement..my sleep my steps -ugh.

I do have a breadmaker,which I rarely use. I have all the "stuff" that makes my life easy and happy. AC in house and cars is not negotiable,must have for DH and me. Our dogs don't enjoy panting in the heat.

Trees are the lungs of the Earth

Dell1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Sooner wrote:
Just like people in the past said "BAH HUMBUG!" about electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, gas heat, and stoves. "I'll stick with my fireplace thank you very much!" Trains, supermarkets, and anything else since we came out of the cave! LOL!!!!

Do you churn your butter, use a spinning wheel, or weave your cloth? LOL!!!! We've come a long baby and we have a long way to go. Each one of will decide for ourselves how we want to live and why.

@Sooner, your post made me think of the commercial, I believe it is for Direct TV. There is a family that appear to be pioneers called the settlers. And there is a family next door who appear to be in the present. The settler Father offers the next door neighbors food for their trip home. The modern day Father, "Says we live next door." Too funny!

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@Dell1 wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
Just like people in the past said "BAH HUMBUG!" about electricity, indoor plumbing, cars, gas heat, and stoves. "I'll stick with my fireplace thank you very much!" Trains, supermarkets, and anything else since we came out of the cave! LOL!!!!

Do you churn your butter, use a spinning wheel, or weave your cloth? LOL!!!! We've come a long baby and we have a long way to go. Each one of will decide for ourselves how we want to live and why.

@Sooner, your post made me think of the commercial, I believe it is for Direct TV. There is a family that appear to be pioneers called the settlers. And there is a family next door who appear to be in the present. The settler Father offers the next door neighbors food for their trip home. The modern day Father, "Says we live next door." Too funny!

LOL!!! I have seen that and it is funny! You gave me a laugh thinking of that!

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

My car doesn't have a computer ... and I'm glad!

sienna123 · ‎07-18-2012

Dishwasher, garbage disposal. Husband bought a refrigerator with icemaker and cold water in door. I insisted we didn't need it. Guess who uses it constantly.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Shorty2U wrote:
After reading this, i think I am spoiled. lol..I wish (many times) we could go back to the days without technology. Because people do not interact with each other, like they used to due to modern technology!

The only things I can think of that I dont have is a cellphone plan (I have a prepaid smart phone, refuse to get into those contracts!). And I dont have netflix (yet but I think I will get it soon), hulu or a fit band. Thats about it!

We have central air, a dishwasher (but sometimess I hand wash anyway..lol), we have a dvr, a smart tv, and other tvs, and dvd players, and we have 2 laptops in the house, and I have a tablet, an (old) iPad (hardly use), and a Kindle (also hardly use). We also have a GPS, and I have an Amazon Echo.

@Shorty2U

Your reply was exactly the spirit in which this thread was started.

It is amazing the things we have now, that even those of us in our 50's (heck, forget going back to our great grandparent's generation) remember not existing (or having). We love most of them, use some of them, and know that indeed, none of them are essential to survival, as man did indeed survive at one time without them all.

Life did go on, and quite happily before they existed, people were born, lived, loved, enjoyed and died, just like they do today and will in the generations to come with ever more amazing (and maybe not so amazing) things yet to be invented.

Each generation invents new things to make life better (and it does in some ways, and doesn't in others) and each generation has those that won't ever look back (so sad for them) and those that won't ever look forward (and that is sad too).

Thankfully most of us are capable of seeing the blessings (and curses) of living in both the present and the past, and love having a foot in each of those worlds, honoring the past, living the present, and dreaming the future.

scoop · ‎03-27-2010

My husband and I still have flip phones. We pay $100 a year each for minutes, thus no monthly bill. My friends laugh at my phone. We have trouble using all our minutes and end up carrying them over. These days all you see is the tops of people's heads as they're texting away.

ID2 · ‎06-25-2012

Wow I'm just sitting here shaking my head. I love technology! Why not use items to make life easier? I'm a modern girl and use any and all modern conveniences.

"Pure Michigan"