There are only two things I cook in our microwave:
Frozen meat pies
2 Minute Noodles.
That’s it.
I make my coffee the old-fashioned way, with a grinder and then a plunger. I have a coffee machine, but there’s too much dicking around and cleaning it out afterwards for me to use it much (if I’ve got a full day of writing ahead I might fire it up, though) but for the most part I like plunger coffee, even if I do have to go through more hassle to get it from bean form to liquid ambrosia. 
I do like those new Steamfresh veggies for when I’m too tired to make a “real” dinner - it’s like microwave popcorn, only it’s vegetables! You don’t have to take it out of the bag or anything. We like the Mexican corn. That’s the only thing I “cook” in the microwave, though - otherwise I only use it to heat up leftovers. I was entirely alone in one of those “what appliance could you do without?” threads to say my microwave. Everybody else would get rid of their dishwasher, which, over my dead body!
I don’t have a Netflix account. I’ve never gotten a movie from a Red Box or Blue Cube. I still rent movies from Blockbuster and Hollywood.
I sort, count and roll my change by hand and take it to the bank. I’ve never dumped a single penny into a Coinstar machine.
I make my own marinades and rubs for meat. I usually don’t use the premarinated stuff (although the Hormel peppercorn pork loin is pretty good).
I mow and weedeat my own lawn (my old geezer neighbors hire Mexicans to do it for them.).
I change my own oil and do my own brakes, generally speaking.
When I do a website, I use Notepad. You get better control.
I’m not a great cook, but I always make stir-fry from scratch. My mom uses frozen bags and it’s just not the same.
I don’t use online banking at all.
Me too.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to make my GF dessert for Mother’s Day. I found something wonderful on the web – blueberry, raspberry, and white chocolate pie. It sounded yummy, but then I looked at the list of ingredients. Store bought graham cracker crust, powdered vanilla pudding, Cool Whip. Screw that, I made everything from scratch. (I’ll will admit to not actually baking the graham crackers myself. I hang my head in shame.)
The pie came out, in the words of her son, “kick ass.”
Yay! Someone else who does this! I tend to use Textpad or Homesite if its anything complex, but usually its faster to use Notepad.
WYSIWYG? Why?
Actually, I read in my local newspaper yesterday that mixes are cheaper. I’ve been to the online version of the paper and can’t find the article, though. I think that’s because the info was in a small sidebar to a main story and not in the main story itself.
I do recall it clearly, though, because I was surprised at the fact.
I’ve found in my last few classes that I’m the only student who creates bibliographies for their papers by hand, instead of using a program. Unless you have to cite something really esoteric, I don’t see why doing an APA or MLA works-cited list is so difficult.
I also still type “http://” with the rest of the URL in web browsers. Picked it up when using Lynx in the '80s, and… never dropped it.
Mixes are cheaper in the short run. If you don’t keep certain essentials in your cabinets, that is. For those who keep flour, sugar, etc. in the pantry normally, though, making your own biscuits/cookies/cakes from scratch is cheaper.
If I only want to make 1 batch of cornbread per year, it’s way less expensive to buy a box of cornbread mix, but if I make it all the time, it’s cheaper to keep corn meal, in the cabinet. Easy enough to do the math on your own, but what it boils down to is if you buy all the ingredients in one shot to make certain things from scratch, then figure how many batches you can get from that bulk supply, it does turn out cheaper over the long run.
I wonder. The cheap cake mixes are about $2 around here. A block of butter is $4. It takes me half of one of those to make a cake, not counting eggs and sugar and flour. Of course, I’ll keep making the homemade ones because they’re better, but homemade probably isn’t cheaper.
I bake my own cakes, most of my bread, and used to make tortillas from scratch, too. And stock. I also sew some of my own clothes, and will probably make some of my children’s clothes, too.
Even the SDMB’s much-revered food guru Alton Brown says the following:
Hm, what do I do that’s old fashioned…well, I do shine my work shoes the old, proper way, with thick pasty polish and flannel rags and a horsehair brush. I find it very mentally relaxing, actually. None of that quick-sponge nonsense for me.
My old motorcycle has a 30 year old shovel style HD engine. A 40 year old frame with no springs or shocks on the seat or rear wheel, the front struts do nothing because of the excessive rake of the front end. It only has 8 wires on it.
I kill my own skunks and armadillo’s.
Hmm. I think that box cakes don’t have as good tecture as homemade, and they certainly aren’t as flavourful, owing to lack of real butter, real chocolate etc.
No cellphone; I use pay phones where they still exist.
I don’t eat anything from a box unless I’m with my SO’s family.
I shave with a straight razor–mostly because that’s how I was taught by my grandfather but also because it feels much smoother.
No plastic except for the company card(and a gift card from my niece 
).
I also do a lot of mundane house chores the harder way simply because I enjoy the ritual of it.
I played on a co-ed softball team for 6 or 7 years and although everyone else in the league used aluminum bats, I inisisted on using a wooden bat because it was more “traditional.” It wasn’t until my last game of my last season that I decided to try the aluminum bat just to see what it was like. I had five or six at-bats and each time the ball exploded off my bat! I had never hit the ball harder or farther. When I now think of all the extra-base hits that wooden bat cost me over the years…
Having only gotten to post #6 and I had to respond to this. This is exactly why I prefer to wash dishes by hand.
I remodeled my kitchen a few months ago and last week finally decided to use the new dishwasher. I’ve been collecting dishes for almost two weeks in order to have enough to justify running the dishwasher for an hour. Now that it’s ready to run, the ones that have been in there for a while look disgusting, with a thin layer of dried-on-whatever-food-was-on-them scum. No matter how great these dishes look when the cycle is over, I won’t trust them not one bit.
I very rarely use my cell phone. I don’t text with it at all, nor do I play games with it. It’s darned handy when I’m at the airport and I just learned that my flight is going to be delayed for half an hour. However, most of the time I figure I can call someone from my own landline.
I use a cartridge fountain pen to write in my diary. I tried LJ for a while, but then I realized that most of the stuff I write about is nobody else’s business, or stuff that would mostly bore other people. Also, I like to paste stuff into my diary, like pressed flowers, airline tickets, newspaper articles, and old photos.
I do use a microwave. I find it very handy.
You should probably just run the dishwasher even if it’s not full. It usually uses less water than hand washing (especially if you tend to leave the water running while you hand wash).
I make various wooden objects (storage chests, display racks for my watch collection, Japanese style serving dishes, etc) using only hand tools. So no power saws, powered miters, and so forth.
I also graft plants using the old methods - really old methods that are perhaps 1000 years old - rather than the newer methods, and raise seeds using methods from 50 years ago rather than those new fangled methods.