# What DON'T you use that everyone else does? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444 "2013-05-15T19:47:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/41 "2013-05-16T00:49:03Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > With the ubiquity of everyday foods/condiments just _overloaded_ with sodium already, why on earth do you need _extra_ sodium? I need extra sodium, too. My blood pressure is pretty low, and it keeps it up. My doctor said I was the only patient he told to eat potato chips. One day I imagine I will wake up, my BP will be high, and I will have to adjust my habits, but it’s been over thirty years and so far so good. No makeup for me (I’m a woman) No tanning lotions/bronzes (is that considered makeup?) No coffee or sweet tea ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/42 "2013-05-16T00:51:05Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > I’m always the first/only one with this: toothpaste. > > 😃 You’re the first, but not the only. I hate the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/43 "2013-05-16T00:52:30Z")
Those of you that don’t use salt- so you don’t cook potatoes, or rice, or, say, vegetables? I can’t even imagine not using salt. I don’t have a smartphone, but I kind of wish I did. I don’t have a dishwasher. I would like to get one, but I don’t know where he’d sleep. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/44 "2013-05-16T01:06:36Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > I’ve never sent or received a text message. I wouldn’t know how. > > StG I have received them but don’t send them. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/45 "2013-05-16T01:15:09Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I have received them but don’t send them. So you’ve never even _responded_ to one of those received text messages? Or do you receive a text and respond to it with a call? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/46 "2013-05-16T01:29:13Z")
A purse. (I’m a woman, last time I checked.) I have my work ID in [this lanyard](http://www.revdesign.biz/servlet/the-1531/Baumgartens-Black-Vertical-ID/Detail) around my neck. Stuffed in there with my ID are my debit card\* and my drivers license. On the back is a tiny zippered compartment with a few folded bills. Coins go into a pocket, if I have one, or are tossed in the car as soon as possible. Ecig generally goes into a pocket, but I just got a [lanyard holder](http://www.theveteranvaper.com/joye-ego-lanyard-black/) for that, now that warm weather (skirts-with-no-pockets, grrrr) is coming. Cell phone…is becoming problematic. I finally broke down and got a smart phone last week, and it’s too big for some of my pockets, and definitely too big for my bra. Gonna have to figure that one out… I only wear makeup to Special Events, and then I do drag out one of my purses to carry it. I own a stupid number of purses/bags for someone who doesn’t carry a purse more than six nights a year. \*I also have no credit cards. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/47 "2013-05-16T02:37:30Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Isn’t SDMB a form of social media? It’s sort of social. Demented and sad, but social. ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/48 "2013-05-16T02:44:52Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > I’m always the first/only one with this: toothpaste. > > 😃 So how do you clean your teeth? Brush only? Baking soda? Nothing? How are your teeth? Do you see a dentist? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/49 "2013-05-16T03:00:49Z")
MS Windows? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/50 "2013-05-16T03:09:08Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > It’s sort of social. Demented and sad, but social. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/51 "2013-05-16T03:46:19Z")
Count me in on the no make-up (while being female), no microwave, and no smart-phone band wagon. Edit: Didn’t have a purse for the longest time, but they’ve finally shrunk pockets on womens’ jeans to non-existence, so had to get one after all. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/52 "2013-05-16T04:59:41Z")
Smartphone Gyno Hairdryer (or any other hair appliances) Caffeine Body Soap Coffee Maker Credit Cards Escalators ---
**Author:** ![Scholar\_Beardpig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/53 "2013-05-16T06:39:00Z")
Toilet paper. I just take a shower afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/54 "2013-05-16T07:20:58Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Those of you that don’t use salt- so you don’t cook potatoes, or rice, or, say, vegetables? I can’t even imagine not using salt. I don’t cook potatoes but when I eat my mom’s baked potatoes I don’t add any salt and I know she doesn’t use it beforehand (but they do add their own salt…my daughter spent some time there and then I saw her put salt on KRAFT MAC N CHEESE, I almost died). I don’t put butter on or in anything either. I do cook rice and vegetables some but normally we have raw vegetables. I use pepper and sometimes other spices, but no salt. Not that I’m opposed (I do eat processed foods and that’s the real problem as far as high sodium intake, not adding salt to food cooked from scratch), I just never have a reason to, and I’m not normally a huge fan of salty food. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/55 "2013-05-16T07:24:36Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Smartphone > Gyno > Hairdryer (or any other hair appliances) > Caffeine > Body Soap > Coffee Maker > Credit Cards > Escalators Wait. Everyone else has an escalator?!? I want my escalator! I run up and down those damn stairs a thousand times a day. Now give me my escalator! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/56 "2013-05-16T08:45:15Z")
Deodorant. I’ve always wanted to ask this - is deodorant compulsory? I hear people talking like not wearing it is a crime. So does everybody use deodorant every day? What happens if you don’t use it? Because I sure don’t smell it everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/57 "2013-05-16T09:05:02Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > Deodorant. I’ve always wanted to ask this - is deodorant compulsory? I hear people talking like not wearing it is a crime. So does everybody use deodorant every day? What happens if you don’t use it? Because I sure don’t smell it everywhere. But, we smell you. (Kidding!) 😃 On a serious note, much of today’s deodorant is unscented. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/58 "2013-05-16T09:16:11Z")
No Facebook, Twitter, et al. I can’t see the need. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/59 "2013-05-16T12:28:59Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > With the ubiquity of everyday foods/condiments just _overloaded_ with sodium already, why on earth do you need _extra_ sodium? Why should I buy food other people made and which carries other things I do not need or to which I’m allergic, just to get my dose of sodium? Salting eggs doesn’t make me stop breathing or give me the runs and it keeps my BP at levels approaching normal values (too low to donate, though :(). Facebook (I have an account but I don’t use it), twitter, dishwasher (I recently refurbished my kitchen and one of the things I did was trade in the dishwasher for additional storage space), TV. I do watch movies and series via internet, but not other programs. OK, ETA for truthfulness: I do remember my monitor is actually a TV when Mom is visiting and once a year for Sanfermines. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444/60 "2013-05-16T13:00:43Z")
[ul] [li]_Car._ I have never learned how to drive. I walk everywhere, or take the train.[/li][li]_Mobile phone._ Ugh.[/li][li]_Wi-fi._ No need for it if I don’t have a phone or tablet. Or laptop.[/li][li]_Video Game Console._ I rarely play games, and then only on the PC.[/li][li]_Microwave oven._ Keep meaning to get one, but never have.[/li][li]_Dishwasher._ I rent, so I can’t install one.[/li][li]_Clothes Dryer._ Because of limited space. I’d sure use one if I could fit it into the laundry somehow.[/li][li]_Shampoo._ I just use water. My hair has never responded to hair products favourably.[/li][/ul] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does/658444.md?page=4)