How "Old Fashioned" Are You?

Treacle said:
I think I could deal with technology if it didn't move at such a fast pace. Once I've conquered one bit of technology it appears to be out of date and need upgrading. Upgrading to me means it is not quite like you had before, just a little improvement needed , but it seems to me that upgrade means you have to learn something that is totally different from what you had before. I call that NEW not upgrading!!! o_O Don't mind learning but it's mind boggling. Slow the pace please and I might catch up. I think I've lost the plot. Time to go :ROFLMAO:
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What ticks me off is you pay $100 for something and in 6 mo to a yr there's another newer something that's $400. I hate that! They're just in it to bleed our wallets dry. I don't like that.
 

JaniceM said:
Manners might be "old-fashioned," but they're still right. :)
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Absolutely, old fashioned manners do not seem to be taught anymore. I have a young family close to me that is teaching their two year old to chatter with her mouth full. I love them but hate the rude behavior.

Electronics. I love them and know they are useful but will never let either a cell phone or computer take over my life and that's what seems to have happened.
 

JaniceM said:
Agreed.
I don't go for it, though- if whatever I have works, I have no interest in "upgrading."
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For example, I like video games. I'd like to someday have several different systems. But I'll be damned if I'm paying out the nose for new. We have a place that sells used game stations that are in fairly good shape for less than a $100 sometimes. They have used games for them, too.
 
JaniceM said:
One reason I prefer texting is recipients can reply when they have time. Another reason is when you can read an incoming text you know if it's something important.
You don't have these benefits with a landline.
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My feelings exactly, Janice. I think many people don't realize the benefits of some of the technology devices until they have one; then, they are delighted with it. My family and I are in nearly constant touch, thanks to texting on our cell phones. We live all over the country, and there's no way we would do that if we had to keep calling each other on old-fashioned phones.

My daughter just texted a gorgeous photo of an eagle that she just took at their vacation home on Lake Champlain. The details of the eagle's face are so clear that it looks like one of those pictures in the National Geographic. We are all encouraging her to enter it in a photo contest.

No way we could do that on a regular phone, or any other way!
 
Well, I've got a digital camera and a laptop. I can send pictures to my daughter's email. I don't text, and nobody texts me. The only person who knows my (basic) mobile number is Mrs. L.
Electronic gadgets are like fire, a good servant but a bad master. A lot of people have been badly burned.
 
That and the cyber criminals have figured how to rob us straight from our bank accts. The little turdmonkeys stole my phone number last year. Had to buy a new phone and get a new number. I was livid.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I think of myself as very old-fashioned.

Never lost my love of rolling down car and truck windows by-hand, pushing open those triangular corner fly-windows, manually tuning to a radio station in the night and hearing the spooky lost radio signals with each turn of the dial, and lighting a cigarette using the classic push-in/pop-out cigarette lighters that were built into all of the dashboards of older model automobiles, and let's not forget the audible clicking sound the old floor-mounted headlight dimmer switches made with each press of your foot.

When it comes to domestic/homemaking type things, I live for being able to do most everything the old-fashioned way... washing and drying dishes by-hand, getting down on all fours to wash floors, and hanging washing to dry on my outdoor pulley clothesline. The squeaking of the pulleys with each tug and pull of the line, holding the wooden pins in my mouth while snapping items one at a time before tacking them to the line... the look, the feeling, so nostalgic and homey. Can't help but think of my foremothers whenever I pin washing on a line.

Cooking, baking... all from scratch, alongside canning, freezing, etc, and like a few others here, I'd welcome back an old rotary dial telephone in a heartbeat!

When babies started coming (motherhood years) I was adamant about diapering the old-fashioned way, being the staunchly old-fashioned type that I am, and while economics played a key in me choosing to use cloth diapers, ultimately, it was my desire to diaper the traditional way that determined what my kids wore, not the environment, not their health, not dollars and cents, none of that. For me, taking a few extra seconds to fold a diaper from scratch, then apply it using two pins, just always had a way of making me feel good inside. Just seemed so right... so proper.

Crocheted tablecloths, doilies, throws, along with window dressings... I just can't get enough of that sort of thing, and I'd be short-changing myself if I were to leave out coal oil lanterns. Such a love I have for old-fashioned coal-oil lanterns and the relaxing light they cast.

Gosh, I could go on and on, and while I do appreciate certain modernity's of today, my blood runs pure with the likes of all things vintage, retro, and old-fashioned. That's me, always has been... always will be.
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Aunt Marg, Do you have trouble getting up off the floor after you were down there scrubbing it? That's what keeps me up on my 2 feet. I know you can do a much better job down on the floor though. I'd have to crawl to a couch or chair and then gradually work myself back up.
 
Linda said:
Aunt Marg, Do you have trouble getting up off the floor after you were down there scrubbing it? That's what keeps me up on my 2 feet. I know you can do a much better job down on the floor though. I'd have to crawl to a couch or chair and then gradually work myself back up.
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Oh, Linda, how I pay the price afterwards. Not only do I not have the mobility that I once used to, my knees won't take the pressure longer than about 20-30 minutes, and even then, I feel slight stiffness and soreness after.
 
I don't have a cell phone and I don't want one. Almost everyone I know has one so in a way I would still be able to use one if there was an emergency. I love the computer it really makes a lot of things easy for me like on line shopping and of course talking to people in this forum.
 
My smart phone will be 2 years old next month. I still cuss it every day.
 

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