What do you still do the old-fashioned way, even though technology has come up with a tech-ier way to do it?
For me, I still write (with a pen) my appointments and important dates on a calendar, which is made of paper and hangs on a wall.
Yes, a paper calender is so much quicker. One glance and I know my appointments. Much faster than opening a calendar app.
Still write my grocery list on a scrap of paper. Still use post it notes. I got 5 stuck to my monitor now.
Most of my transactions are for cash. CC is for big purchases over $30.
Line-dry laundry and peel my own vegetables. And i make hot cocoa with real cocoa powder, not the nesquick mixes.
I still use long division, and occasionally write in cursive. I also roast my own coffee.
I read books made from pulp. I don’t own a reader.
I still purchase music CDs. I have never downloaded an MP3.
I still use iOS 5 on my iPhone.
Read books,brew tea,write notes/lists,cook most of my own food… Wear glasses,wash dishes in the sink,hang closes on the line(not by choice). Did have a standard truck…
Ditto, with a fountain pen.
Er, write, not roast coffee, with a fountain pen, that is…
Raise food. Cook, simply, from scratch whenever possible- and convenience meals are things like sushi, or daily fresh sandwich from the office hippie barista. Line dry weather permitting, getting soft in my old age and use a dryer when it’s raining rather than hanging a line in the barn. Peel and cut up my own vegetables. The calendar thing. We still have a land line.
I could make basic medicaments out of a lot of the plants in my yard, both native and intentionally grown. All of our rooms have at least one bookcase except the down 3/4 bath, and they are overflowing.
Brew cider, and various other fermentables (mead).
I talk to people face to face. I think I have texted maybe twice. Husband never has.
I don’t use a computer-- that whole internet thing is just a fad.
I write on paper, but only paper that I make myself (from papyrus plants a raise in my garden), with ink I make from dried berries and horse dung, and a quill from the feathers of geese I raise myself. They’re a special breed of geese that I’d mention, but you’ve never heard of them.
I run a very specialized machine shop. The oldest machine can verify is 1906 we suspect one is older. The newest is 1950’s.
With some reconfiguring of the belts and pulleys to a line shaft, we could run without electricity. A lot of work but could run off of steam or a water wheel. Welcome to the 1800’s.
When I make a bow and arrow I start with a log and use my draw knife and hand tools to shape it into a bow. Same way they did it 600 years ago.
A lot of the things mentioned already.
The one I lament the most is pilots not being able to navigate with just a map, no electricity at all in the cockpit.
I don’t want to go back to that but the ability to do it is important IMO.
Maps instead of GPS, although with Portland’s hopeless street system I’ve been tempted.
My wife makes endless lists and schedules on paper.
I only have prokaryotic cells
My husband designs, builds, and sells tube amplifiers…
Me, I still write and format my books in Word. Do my own internal links and stuff. No fancy novel-writing software for me, no sir.
Sex without toys
You kids and your trendiness. Metal tools are a fad. I still knap my own flint tools when I want to build a bow and arrow. If it was good enough for my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, it’s good enough for me.
I wrap my husbands lunch sandwiches in wax paper, exactly the way your Gran did, back in the day.
I rake my leaves and shovel snow, no machines. I’m not a fan of kitchen gadgetry, and do most everything with my knife. In a small kitchen that would annoy most. But it suits me just right!
And hopefully your plants are not GMOs. :eek: