cashs_mom

I also have a landline and an answering machine. I have a cell phone, but not a smart phone and my cell phone is more of a convenience and for safety since I'm quite often alone in the car. I also don't dash for my cell when it rings downstairs and I'm upstairs or in another room. That's why I have voice mail!

Endora

Good thinking, Cashs_mom. Better safe than sorry.

popover

I used to carry a prepaid flip phone in the car, but it never seemed to have minutes even though I put them in there. Seems they erased everything you didn't use up by the end of the month and start over. Not paying for what I don't get to use.

bearisgray

I think there are plans available now where you buy minutes and keep them until you use them.

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ube quilting

Side walks and front porches make a community.

ube quilting

I could go on forever about things from our past that are better than what we have today.

A real phone on a table or hung on the wall.
Cast iron double sinks with side boards.
Car windows that roll down and air vents and high beam light button on the floor.
Pantries and mud rooms.
Awnings on windows.
roller blinds.
There was a time when houses had "front stairs and back stairs" to the second floor. I loved the back stairs from the kitchen.
Smaller schools in neighborhoods where the kids live.
Local parks with "park benches". Today a park seems to be designated by soccer and baseball fields.

Aghhh! This is making me nuts.
peace

ube quilting

Totally agree with turning out lights. Light pollution is on of those quiet things that happen without realizing it. Our community has a voluntary lights out program. Making people aware of it goes along way to accomplishing it.

Rose Marie

I remember the Danny Thomas Show with the bratty kid that talked back. Also Dr Spock ? and his book on how to raise kids. No spanking etc.
They changed everything for the worse.
I used a wringer washer.
Learned to sew on a treadle sewing machine.
Learned to drive in a 1956 Chevy.
Im so bad about not liking new gadgets that my daughter has to turn off my phone at the movie theater. She gave me the phone to begin with or I would still only have a land line.
But I have a very nice fancy Viking sewing machine. A long arm table that I just need a machine for.
I feel very lucky to live in the pine forest mountains of AZ.

Endora

Regardless of whether or not spanking was universally accepted, or whether it worked or not, kids (from my generation) had more respect for people and things, compared to today's generation. Society, as far as behaviour and respect is concerned, has lost a lot of ground over the past 20-30 years.

quiltingshorttimer

yes to this!