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Sounds like we have a few Carrie Nations here! I've got more alcohol than a small-town liquor store!
I always keep an eye out in thrift stores for sheets. I bought a pair the other day both with holes in and the lady in the shop gave me a bit of a side-eye. But i just cut off the holey side on each and sewed them together. I'm not wildly extravagant but good sheets are a must!
I have a very long dining room table and my Mum was here, who is an excellent seamstress. So she helped me. I wouldn't have bothered otherwise. I'd have slept on the sheets holes or not as they were lovely thick cotton. You can be suitable unimpressed now Puzzicato!
It's interesting that despite being such adamant self-professed Luddites (myself included) we are very knowledgeable about the things we should have by the standards of society at large. Seems ironic. Is it to be attributed to the pervasive wonder that is modern advertising?
I prefer to think of it as our being islands of sanity in a sea of insanity.
Well said Lizzie!
I seem to be constantly told what i should have regarding modern technology by friends and acquaintances who are shocked at what a Luddite i am. "What you don't have an i-pad"??? Makes me come over all contrary i tell you.
Ironic it is though Marla.
Puzzicato - I guess the tv dinner has had alot do with the decrease in dining tables. I have always managed to squeeze a table and chairs in wherever i've lived. Standards dontcha know!
I forgot -- I don't have a microwave, either! This is the thing that makes most people give me very confused looks. "What do you mean you don't have a microwave?" "How do you re-heat things?" and so on. But I hate them and we don't have one.
Puzzicato - I guess the tv dinner has had alot do with the decrease in dining tables. I have always managed to squeeze a table and chairs in wherever i've lived. Standards dontcha know!
I forgot -- I don't have a microwave, either! This is the thing that makes most people give me very confused looks. "What do you mean you don't have a microwave?" "How do you re-heat things?" and so on. But I hate them and we don't have one.
No tattoos or piercings for me ---- NEVER, EVER ----- YIKES :eeek::eeek::eeek:. I'm just too "old school" for that sort of thing![]()
Hmm i have to 'fess up, i have a touch tone phone in the cupboard which i pull out when i have to make calls which require a touch pad, other than that i have a vintage phone. I hate using it with a passion.
Anyone around here without internet?![]()
It's interesting that despite being such adamant self-professed Luddites (myself included) we are very knowledgeable about the things we should have by the standards of society at large. Seems ironic. Is it to be attributed to the pervasive wonder that is modern advertising?
Nope, still very impressed!
And for the other side of the ledger, you have a dining table - apparently the proportion of homes that have one has been declining steeply.
I love breakfast bars! My mum always said as long as you have somewhere to sit up and eat it's good. I've made do with a picnic table with a cloth slung over it before when i had a tiny flat.
I don't own a big flatscreen telly - i find them really ugly. I know i'm missing out when i watch films...
I do own a microwave though, my parents couldn't believe i didn't have one and bought one. It sits in my utility, glaring at me like a silver monster! I only use it for putting dishcloths in to sterilise them!
I find the microwave tremendously convenient for basic reheating and defrosting. I prefer to cook "for real", but I'm certainly not gonig to give up the convenience of the microwave for when I do use it.