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
You’re the first, but not the only. I hate the stuff.
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.
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?
A purse. (I’m a woman, last time I checked.)
I have my work ID in this lanyard 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 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.
It’s sort of social. Demented and sad, but social.
So how do you clean your teeth? Brush only? Baking soda? Nothing? How are your teeth? Do you see a dentist? Just curious.
MS Windows?
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.
Smartphone
Gyno
Hairdryer (or any other hair appliances)
Caffeine
Body Soap
Coffee Maker
Credit Cards
Escalators
Toilet paper. I just take a shower afterwards.
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.
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!
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.
No Facebook, Twitter, et al.
I can’t see the need.
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.
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[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]