Things you still use - Page 2

diamondsnake · #16 03-19-2006, 10:39 PM

I never use email and only occasionally use AIM. I'd rather write someone a nice letter or card. I like stationary. And, if I need to talk to someone immediately I just call them (I don't log onto an intstant messanger.)

I buy black and white film! I just took a class on photography and digital may be easier, but it just doesn't compare.

I still use a regular old date book. No palm pilots for me!

estranged4life · #17 03-19-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I'm shocked when anyone younger than say, 40 years old, still has a VCR. The technology is so out-dated, and the quality is in inherently piss-poor. DVD Recorders and DVR units kinda put the VCR on it's death knell if you ask me.

VCR units, but only use one (For transfers of VHS to DVD-R) so I dont mind 'em...But I definitely prefer DVD over VHS (Who doesnt?)

I still use my collection of audio cassettes, Which I will never part with (Too much rare s**t to part with: i.e. "Buckingham/Nicks" on Polydor audio cassette, With a different track listing than the vinyl release and a mint condition "J-Card".)

estranged4life · #18 03-19-2006, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

I just threw out an old turltable of mine that I had since I was like 6. Thing had so much dust on it!

in my dining room (That was my Mom's...But I inherited it last March) but I need a cartridge for it so I can blast the LP's I inherited (Mainly alot of older Beatles releases from '64-'66, Some other classic rock & DISCO!!!!).

I know one thing, that stereo console plays a mean 8-track tape too!

Red · #19 03-20-2006, 12:25 AM

No palm pilot for me either, I use just a regular day-timer. I need to see the whole week planned out in front of me, complete with colour coded hi-lighters.

skcin · #20 03-20-2006, 09:38 AM

I still use the VCR, since we just bought a DVD recorder. They're still too damned expensive, so we got a pretty crappy one - with a VCR built in.

Actually, I mainly wanted that so I can transfer but bootleg VHS tapes & home movies onto DVD.

I still have a turntable and an 8 track, neither are working properly right now. I really need to take them in to get repaired.

Our truck only has a cassette player, so the few old cassettes we still have (which are alomost all hair-metal bands from the 80's) we bring with us on road trips. Not so much with the satelite radio anymore, though.

I still have white appliances!

No stainless steel for me, thank you. Seems everyone wants to get those whether their old stuff is still good or not.

DrummerDeanna · #21 03-20-2006, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

I still have white appliances!

No stainless steel for me, thank you. Seems everyone wants to get those whether their old stuff is still good or not.

I KNOW!!! I cannot cannot comprehend getting new stuff when the stuff I have is in perfect working order. But to each their own I guess. I've had the same (white) microwave for about ten years now lol...my VCR? Also for about ten year...all are in perfect working order - so I see no need to upgrade.

HomerMcvie · #22 03-20-2006, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I KNOW!!! I cannot cannot comprehend getting new stuff when the stuff I have is in perfect working order. But to each their own I guess. I've had the same (white) microwave for about ten years now lol...my VCR? Also for about ten year...all are in perfect working order - so I see no need to upgrade.

I have all stainless appliances, BUT, I have rental properties for hand me downs. I would never shell out for a new refrigerator, to replace a good one. For two years, I kept praying for someone's stove to die, so I could give them my white one. Finally, that day came last year. More important that the stainless, I was able to switch over to a gas stove!

DrummerDeanna · #23 03-20-2006, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I have all stainless appliances, BUT, I have rental properties for hand me downs. I would never shell out for a new refrigerator, to replace a good one. For two years, I kept praying for someone's stove to die, so I could give them my white one. Finally, that day came last year. More important that the stainless, I was able to switch over to a gas stove!

Hey Good for you! At least you don't just chuck out perfectly good appliances! That drives me nuts - we are all so wasteful and take so much for granted (myself included). That said, I wouldnt' let my landlord give me any of his old cast-off appliances - even though my stuff is old it still looks nice - I do have a thing about stuff looking nice at least :\

chiliD · #24 03-20-2006, 02:19 PM

1) Nose DROPS instead of sprays.

2) manually operated lawn sprinklers instead of electronic timers

3) hand-wash dishes instead of an automatic dishwasher

bikerchic · #25 03-20-2006, 02:20 PM

I love stainless steel. Unfortunately when I did my kitchen over, I bought all white. This was five years ago and stainless was just starting to come out and it was still very pricey (about twice the price of white). My kids were small at the time and the fingerprints really turned me off. The salesman actually talked me out of buying SS because of the prints. Anyhow, I really regret not buying it. Although my microwave just died and I did replace it with SS. So slowly I will replace with SS as my white ones die but that could take 20 years and by then white will be back in

madformac · #26 03-20-2006, 02:21 PM

A watch.

It's amazing how many people just use cell phones for the time now.

HomerMcvie · #27 03-20-2006, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Hey Good for you! At least you don't just chuck out perfectly good appliances! That drives me nuts - we are all so wasteful and take so much for granted (myself included). That said, I wouldnt' let my landlord give me any of his old cast-off appliances - even though my stuff is old it still looks nice - I do have a thing about stuff looking nice at least :\

Tenant needs stove. THIS is your new stove. Don't like this one? Buy your own. End of discussion. THIS is how it works. Seriously.

For the record, my stove that I gave them was less than five years old, and in very good shape. Except it was white, and electric.

HomerMcvie · #28 03-20-2006, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bikerchic

I love stainless steel. Unfortunately when I did my kitchen over, I bought all white. This was five years ago and stainless was just starting to come out and it was still very pricey (about twice the price of white). My kids were small at the time and the fingerprints really turned me off. The salesman actually talked me out of buying SS because of the prints.

It was REALLY pricey when it first got popular! I wouldn't have paid for it then.
As far as fingerprints, GE has a stainless called Clean Steel, which doesn't print up as badly as regular SS. That's what I've got.