How did we make it before...

i can't live without my cell phone it comes with me all along.. i also have the habit of saving the gift wrappers it gives me a sense of pleasure...

Computers! I love mine. I have 3 that belong just to me at present, 2 laptops and a desktop. I always have had a computer for the last 28 years but obviously before that they weren't for people at home,only big companies had them. I think I could do without again but it would be such a wrench. I am a puzzle person and that is probably why I like computers. I would just have to go and get a paper and pencil and fill in some puzzle books wouldn't I? :P

I feel fortunate to have what i have but guess we are all spoiled & could make it w/out alot of things we have.We all need to count our blessings more.

Hi friend When I was growing up, we do not have a color television. During those times, when we want to watch cartoons, we used to go to our uncle's house. He was one of the few who has television in our place. His television was a black and white one. After sometime, my parents decided to buy a television of our own. It was also a black and white television and I can still remember that on the first night that the television arrived, almost all of the kids in the neighborhood were at the house watching our favorite cartoons. Those are the early years of the television. This time. I think that many of us including me, can not pass the day without watching a program on the television. It has become a part of a man's life just like the cellular phone. Regards

Hello, and welcome to MyLot. I often wonder how I ever managed without paper kitchen towels. I seem to use them for absolutely everything, and the same goes for cling film. Thinking about it, I don't suppose our parents had enough money to buy more food than they needed, so they probably wouldn't have had a need for cling film.

i cannot live without foods,water and sleep.hehe

The internet. And private phone lines. When I was growing up, the only thing available where we lived was a party line. Only rich folks had their own private phone line. You had to pick up the receiver and listen for a minute to make sure no one else was on the line. You could hear when someone else picked up their phone when you were talking. If they were rude or if you stayed on the phone very long, they would tell you to hang up!

I think it's funny, the things that we have now that we can't live without. My cell phone goes everywhere with me and sometimes, although something would taste a lot better re-heated or cooked on the stove, I just have to use the microwave for convenience. I don't know that I could entertain myself if I only had three channels without a remote on my tv again or didn't have a dvd or vcr. Of course, when there were no such things as these, we listened to more music and there weren't so many people that were overweight. Sometimes it seems as though the better things that we have now have their drawbacks.

I can't live without my friends. But now I can't live without the internet! Ha...ha :)

It's funny because recently having being going through my old video collection I found them so primitive having got use to the convenience of DVDs where I can skip chapters and watch extras rather than fast forwarding to try and find where I got up to before I feel asleep, lol.

I'm much older than most of you and I think about this ofter. So many things have become obsolete or have changed. About 20 years ago, the thing was to have a car phone. Then cell phones came along and made a relatively new invention virtually obsolete. One of the things that always amazed me was the fax machine. I remember working in an office before we had fax machines. The day that we had one installed, it started spitting out paper and never stopped. I wondered how we could have possibly gone without one before. Before the days of copy machines, secretarys (the new administrative assistant) typed everything on two sheets with a sheet of carbon paper in between the two pieces of paper. I remember when I was 18 and got my first job in an office. I worked typing up cards that were then keypunched onto smaller cards and fed into the computer. That was the way that information was input into a computer back then. The computer itstelf occupied an entire floor of the building that I worked in. Then came the CRT (cathodic ray tube) and the keypunch operator was virtually elminiated. Then the PC came along and replaced all of those things. My Grandmother passed away when I was 12 and I often wonder what she would think if she suddenly had the opportunity to be back on this earth for a day. I can just imagine what she would say to me about buying water in a bottle when all I really have to do is get a glass and turn on the faucet! I could go on and on with this. Thanks for taking me back.

There are two things that I know I would miss. The first is the remote control for the television. I actually remember as a kid flipping the channels on the telelvision to get to another station. Of course there were only like 7 stations totla to choose from, so there really wasn't a whole lot to choose from. The other thing that I can't imagine not having is the microwave. I made a frozen dinner for lunch at work and glanced at the conventional oven time...35 minutes! Now, I like my frozen dinners ok, but I don't know about waiting 35 minutes to eat one. And, the idea of having to heat up an oven or recook things on the stovetop for leftovers...it's like having to cook every meal every day. Yay, modern technology!