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won't go back | Pad Patter 14 Aug

Never was fond of the clothesline! Mom used it but not that much. Dad and I hated air dried bath towels which is what she put on it. We always had a dryer... it was bought in 1972 or 1973 and finally died in 2010. Dad finally took the clothesline down since it wasn't used in the 90's. But in 2000 he hooked it back up (it went between the house and the shed at the back of the lot) and I clipped a dog tie-out to it so Pepper could run. Continued using it with Paige. Sadly, the shed has been taken down so I can't use it for Peyton.

File that under an alternative use for a long single clothesline :)
 
Karen said:
The other thing for me is once I went switched to a smartphone, I will NEVER be able to go back.
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Now I know I have a friend who still has a flip phone but do they actually sell anything but smart phones? and I'm excluding that dinosaur 'land lines' even though we keep ours just for a full scale emergency or disaster.
 
Dalis said:
Once you have a dryer you won't ever want to go back to clothes line.... even though I do miss them!
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I have both and while I do use the clothes line a lot, if I've got towels, they go in the dryer for 10 min to fluff and then dry in the hot sun - all my towels are white and it helps them stay white.
 
cookingmylife said:
I have both and while I do use the clothes line a lot, if I've got towels, they go in the dryer for 10 min to fluff and then dry in the hot sun - all my towels are white and it helps them stay white.
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this is essentially me too, we have solar power to offset some of the cost but i would hate to see our power bill if we used the dryer in all but the rainiest times and for the odd towel fluff-up!
 
cookingmylife said:
Now I know I have a friend who still has a flip phone but do they actually sell anything but smart phones? and I'm excluding that dinosaur 'land lines' even though we keep ours just for a full scale emergency or disaster.
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Actually yes, because my Dad keeps finding awful cheap pay as you go options because he doesn't really want a cell phone, but we want him to have one if he's home alone and falls or has heart trouble. He buys the cheapest one he can find and then can't figure out how to work them when he needs to. Sigh.
 
cookingmylife said:
I have both and while I do use the clothes line a lot, if I've got towels, they go in the dryer for 10 min to fluff and then dry in the hot sun - all my towels are white and it helps them stay white.
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maureen, that's what I miss. I never had "stain" problems when I had cloth lines!!!!!! The Caribbean SUN made sure to work on those super hard. LOL!!!!! Plus, I swear that it had a freshness... REAL freshness, you can't get.
 
Nemla said:
Once you have an electric oven,you won't go back to a gas one (not in a hundred years )
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so funny, I am the opposite, I love the flame on the stovetop, we use it here so much for heating up tortillas! lol, and I love the instant off and on of gas!
Bluetooth headphones! I love the freedom! lol
and as a tech junkie I love my little Alexis to say, "Echo (her name in our house) add _________ to shopping list. I am addicted to ease.
and I may sound like a broken record, but having my mom in my town! I never want to go back to worrying about her like I used to...!
 
djp332 said:
I used to have an induction cooktop, but now have a gas stove in my new house. I hate the gas stove and would love to go back to the induction if I could.
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I feel you! I loved my induction stove. I told my husband when we buy a house again, I want induction back. I'm tolerating the gas, but I abhor the electric I had to use for a short time.
 
For me, the only thing I can think of is digi scrapping. I switched over in 2013. I tried to do some paper pages later that year, and in 2014. I can't go back. I gave up, and got rid of the majority of my supplies.
 
bestcee said:
I feel you! I loved my induction stove. I told my husband when we buy a house again, I want induction back. I'm tolerating the gas, but I abhor the electric I had to use for a short time.
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We went from a gas stove to electric & I will say it is heaps easier to keep clean but it does exercise my patience during the cooking
 
bellbird said:
We went from a gas stove to electric & I will say it is heaps easier to keep clean but it does exercise my patience during the cooking
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That's what I adored about induction! It had the nice parts of electric, really easy to clean, but the power of gas!
 
I'd never go back to dictionaries, encyclopedias and textbooks for homework and school reports. The internet and especially google has spoiled me.
 
keepscrappin said:
I'd never go back to dictionaries, encyclopedias and textbooks for homework and school reports. The internet and especially google has spoiled me.
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i hear ya! it's so nice not to have to go to the library for every assignment and hope there's a book available that covers it! (do they even make encyclopaedias anymore?!?! well i googled Britannica which was the staple of assignments for me back then and it's last published edition was in 2010, it's been online ever since - moving with the times i guess and also saving so many trees and injuries! (those volumes were massive!))
 
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