I have not had a television in more than 5 years and have no immediate plans to get one. I also lived without a kitchen for one year until just recently (we just finished getting one installed in the apartment this summer). About 5 years ago, I was living in the former Soviet Union and for 6 months we only had electricity about 4-6 hours per day so it was like having no appliances.
Never had a cordless phone, nor knew anybody who did.
Never used one until last week, and the caller had to call again because the first time I didn’t know you had to push a button to talk.
No cable or satellite TV for us. Just rabbit ears. And no video games.
I don’t know if this would be considered an “appliance” but I might be one of the few people that does not have a cell phone. Anyone else?
I do have a TV - several actually. There’s usually one on almost all the time (even when I’m asleep). The funny thing is I don’t really sit and watch it. It’s on right now and some movie is on to which I’m paying very little attention.
No phone, no lights, no motorcar…
I haven’t had a dishwasher or garbage disposal since I moved out of my parents’ house. The absence of a garbage disposal only briefly annoyed me since scraping plates into the garbage can or compost first isn’t really a major inconvenience. I mourned the dishwasher for years, but now have completely forgotten that other people have them. I went to visit family a couple weeks ago, and after a meal with my grandparents, I got up and started scraping and washing dishes. They looked at me like I was nuts, took the plate out of my hand, rinsed it, and stuck it in the dishwasher. Amazing!
I don’t have a TV either. I do have a dishwasher, but I never use it (I live alone and it would take me forever to fill it up, so it seems much quicker and easier to hand-wash the dishes).
It’s been about four years since I had a functional TV, apart from one brief stretch when I had a roommate who bought one, and I don’t really miss it.
I sold my TV so I could spend the cable money on Amazon instead. Now I get to read a lot more than I did before, for both time and money reasons.
I gave away my microwave to reduce my consumption of premade food. It forces me to think more about the way I eat and doesn’t cost much, even considering cheap-and-meager microwave meals. Things taste better from scratch, too.
I like those trades.
I don’t have a dishwasher, clothes-washer, or clothes-dryer, either, but that’s because my apartment doesn’t have them (even on-site).
I’d get those if I could.
I have a TV, but for those who don’t, be aware that you can usually watch DVDs on your computer nowadays.
Well, I did a little research to answer my own question.
From a Dept of Energy report on the effects of Income on Appliances the most common appliances are (as of 2001):
Refrigerator 99.9%
Cooking appliance 99.7%
Color television 98.9%
A different report says that in 1997, only 50% of US households had dishwashers.
in 2007, 69% of US households had computers with access to the internet.
I don’t have a dishwasher and haven’t since moving out. My parents have one, but I rarely used it there because my mother is neurotic and washes the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher to sterilize them. Yeah. she’s a bit crazy about cleanliness. I didn’t often do dishes or laundry at home because she’d freak out that I wasn’t doing it properly.
I don’t personally have a washer or dryer either, although my building does have a laundry room. I doubt I’ll have any of these appliances until I buy my own home, because I prefer older apartments which tend not to have room for them. Yes, I definitely think parquet floors instead of a dishwasher is a fair trade-off.
I have 2 TVs but don’t often watch them because I don’t have cable or an antenna, so I only use them for movies. Probably only spend 5 or 6 hours a week watching them. I really miss the Weather Channel though.
Have to have AC. Living in Florida without it is unbearable. I speak from experience because my old apartment had an AC rated to cool up to 150 sq ft for a 350 sq ft apartment. During the height of summer, it wasn’t sufficient to even cool the room it was in (the kitchen of all places). No amount of fans can cool you off when it’s 90-something degrees outside with humidity over 70%. For 3 months all I could do was strip down to my skivvies and sprawl out under the fan without moving. If I walked to the bathroom, I broke a sweat. I even slept on the tile in the kitchen, it was too hot in my bedroom. It was a nightmare.
So, I hope those posters who don’t have an AC live in an area where it’s not a necessity, otherwise, I feel your pain.
No air conditioner and no electric dryer. All my neighbors have AC, none have electric dryers. Instead we dry our clothes in the blazing sun outside.
Hamish and I have no TV; his broke several years ago and we never replaced it, which turned out to be very good for us. (He was badly addicted, and literally spent time staring at the broken TV for a number of weeks after it broke.)
We used to have this crummy old microwave, but we ditched it with the last move - it was really gross and we decided we didn’t want it anymore.
We don’t have a dishwasher either. We do have a dryer, but now that we live on the second floor, I usually line-dry all my clothes, at least outside of wintertime.
No dishwasher. I live alone so it would probably take more time to load and unload the dishwasher than to just wash the dishes to start with.
No coffeemaker. Last time I had coffee was eight years ago and I immediately regretted that dumb decision.
I don’t think I’ve ever even seen what I think you guys mean by “garbage disposal”. A thing installed in the sink that grinds stuff you put down it, right?
No car, if that counts. I live within a healthy walking distance of everything I usually want to get to, and don’t have a driver’s license anyway.
No garbage disposal.
No cable or satellite for the TV, which is a 19" jobbie.
We’re finally getting into the time of year (football season) when I turn it on about once a week. The rest of the year, we wouldn’t notice for weeks or months if it stopped working.
Sorry, but I just can’t get my mind around that parenthetical. 
No dishwasher, no garbage disposal, no coffee pot, no clothes dryer. There is a microwave in the kitchen but it wasn’t my purchase and I don’t use it.
I lived for many years without a TV and never felt the loss of it, I listened to the radio a lot and also worked my way through a lot of audio-books. Now I live with a gadget-freak, we have every imaginable TV-related gadget going and a few more besides. I have little use for any of them and to be honest, I don’t really understand how it all works. There’s so little on TV that interests me, I wonder at the amount of brain-draining trash there is out there to watch.
In all my grown-up years I have virtually never had a garbage disposal or a dishwasher. (The exceptions are brief abberations.)
I would LOVE not to have a TV but in the interests of my marriage I make certain sacrifices. I never watch television, and only watch videos as a social activity with my family (even that is starting to annoy me - I’d rather read).
Other than aforementioned dishwasher and disposal, I own just about every kitchen appliance ever invented.
I have a friend who doesn’t have a refrigerator, and hasn’t for a couple years. She buys fresh food and nuts and stuff like that daily and keeps it in a little cooler.
Have never owned a dishwasher - nobody I know has one. I wouldn’t know how to use one.
I have a tiny, tiny portable TV that is on the blink. No video or dvd.
No clothes dryer (had one in the past and don’t miss the thing at all).
I have a washing machine, but I’ve lived without one (and in the days when I hand washed and line dried exclusively, I think my clothes were at their best).
No heater, no fan, no air-con.
Went car-free for a year or two but have one again now.
I have an old computer, a washing machine, a fridge, a microwave (which I’d never be without), a toaster, an electric kettle, an oven, and a radio. I’m cool with that.
I don’t have a TV or a toaster. I really miss not having a toaster.