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DarkLight
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I think we call those electric cat callers.
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Peeps
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Nowadays a lot of cans have those “pull-tabs,” which I think are hard to use even though I don’t have arthritis in the hands (yet!).
But…lately I’ve noticed that a lot of cans DON’T have pull-tabs. Do you suppose that the manufacturers have realized that people with arthritis have a difficult time opening them, and have pulled them (ha ha–pun!) from their inventory?
I hate electric can openers because they are ugly on the counter top and they get that gunk and it’s harder to clean than a simple manual opener.
RETRO–I still use my Grandma’s mixing bowls. She wrote her name on them in indelible marker decades ago, and it’s a nice connection with her.
I also collect those decorative glass divided relish dishes, and for years, I have set them out for dinners, filled with pickles, nuts, or veges/dip. Very retro compared with the Pampered Chef alternatives.
But…lately I’ve noticed that a lot of cans DON’T have pull-tabs. Do you suppose that the manufacturers have realized that people with arthritis have a difficult time opening them, and have pulled them (ha ha–pun!) from their inventory?
I hate electric can openers because they are ugly on the counter top and they get that gunk and it’s harder to clean than a simple manual opener.
RETRO–I still use my Grandma’s mixing bowls. She wrote her name on them in indelible marker decades ago, and it’s a nice connection with her.
I also collect those decorative glass divided relish dishes, and for years, I have set them out for dinners, filled with pickles, nuts, or veges/dip. Very retro compared with the Pampered Chef alternatives.
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7_Sorrows
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I have those retro relish dishes too. love them!
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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I have my mother’s Corning Ware casserole dishes from the 60s and I use them constantly
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ZMystiCat
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I still do it for the most part. With that said, I also use Gboard, which has some excellent swipe-texting and word recommendations, which makes proper writing easier. While I do think Apple’s keyboard beats it out in word recommendations (seriously, it’s freaky good), swipe texting is absolutely necessary for me anymore.
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F_Marturana
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Ive got my mom’s Corningware coffee pot. I don’t use it. It makes terrible coffee. But it’s very retro.
Joan had the same one on “mad men”
Here’s my mom’s
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F_Marturana
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I think I remember those as a treat visiting someone.
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dochawk
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I’m making my own sprinkler system with microcontrollers, having gotten fed up with the fancy boxes failing after a couple of years in this climate . . .
i don’t remember the last time I saw ribbons or re-inking ink for one . . . but I do have one or two in my garage, along with a couple of Apple ][ that were going to run a model railroad someday (but now it will be a micro controller; with the pi and arduino, the Apple ][ has finally been topped for accessible hobbyist control circuitry . . .) . . .
I have no facetwit, have a smartphone because I have to for work (either that or hire a secretary
) [ok, I’m retro enough to think “secretary” rather than "assistant], it’s a smartphone so that it can sync the address list and let me text that I’m coning back by voice, and to use the gps on it; use fountain pens and usually have a couple at hand with different colors of ink.My desktop iMac is apparently seven years old now . . . so I’ll upgrade to an SSD drive.
My daily car is a 1997 (well, it won’t be daily now, as it had to go on my classic insurance, and I"m hunting for another . . . a 2004 Deville DHS if I can manage . . . mmm . . . actually has a massager in the back of the driver’s seat!); my favorite car is a '72 Caddie Convertible (although the carburetor is on my workbench at the moment), my newest car is an '06 with a manual (a miata waiting for another engine.
I mow and maintain my own yard, built my own hothouse (16 ft by 16ft) for tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant(about all you can grow here), and am finishing repairs on the swamp cooler on the roof and my wife’s fancy dryer (I’m not allowed to touch it unless filing it).
I open doors for women and walk around to open the car door for my wife and don’t go outside, not even the driveway, without a hat (OK, that’s really about the family skin cancer history and my irish skin!).
I feel inadequate i I don’t change my own oil.
I haven’t done anything with vacuum tubes since college, but I do have a wire recorder in my garage that I have delusions of repairing someday . . . WWII or so vintage, it takes a 5 pound cassette with two internal spools for the wire upon which it records.
I never accidentally end a sentence with a preposition, nor do I offer insult without meaning to . . .
i make beer, but not these new hipster styles.
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dochawk
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I still have plenty of vinyl and CDs–in fact, I stop at thrift shops to buy them. I then put them on a modern contraption . . .
Oh, and those annoying short cords on appliances today? I spent 9 days in ICU at 20 months old because of the longer cord on the electric version of that same pot. (it was dangling over the edge of the counter). I still have scars on my arm, chest, and under my chin (part of the reason for the beard–perspiration burns in summer heat after scraping with a razor . . .)
I don’t have any friends with working cars older than 1903 (and that’s the only one anyone I know has that has to be hand-started,–largely because the other ones from the era of hand cranking are Cadillacs, which got the self starter in 1912, making them the first car women could drive . . . that 1903 is also only one of three known working examples to still exist from Cadillac’s first year–and he bought it disassembled and restored/ put together himself!)
hawk, who needs to plant his lawn again
I have this very coffeepot in my garage! (but a drip pot makes much better coffee, and even better is my vacuum pot . . .)., and a couple of my grandmother’s kitchen things (an ancient rotary sifter, among others).
Oh, and those annoying short cords on appliances today? I spent 9 days in ICU at 20 months old because of the longer cord on the electric version of that same pot. (it was dangling over the edge of the counter). I still have scars on my arm, chest, and under my chin (part of the reason for the beard–perspiration burns in summer heat after scraping with a razor . . .)
I don’t have any friends with working cars older than 1903 (and that’s the only one anyone I know has that has to be hand-started,–largely because the other ones from the era of hand cranking are Cadillacs, which got the self starter in 1912, making them the first car women could drive . . . that 1903 is also only one of three known working examples to still exist from Cadillac’s first year–and he bought it disassembled and restored/ put together himself!)
hawk, who needs to plant his lawn again
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StephieNorthCo
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One does NOT harm a vintage vinyl recording. We sic The Jesuit Hit Squad for less than that.
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Titivillus
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My “sprinkler system” has neither tubes nor microcontrollers – Whatever God deems to send
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MaryEstelle2
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Wait!!! Isn’t this Catholic Forum a ‘Social Media Account’ a part of the genre’? LOL!
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dochawk
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That doesn’t work so well in the desert . . .
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Titivillus
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It works perfectly in the desert – It is obviously God’s will to save me from mowing a lawn.Titivillus:
That doesn’t work so well in the desert . . .
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dochawk
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I spent so long in exile that I missed mowing my own lawn . . . it’s relaxing.
At the moment it’s completely dead, but as soon as I have a lawnmower repaired, I’m reseeding.
What I need, though, is something that let’s a beer hang from the pushbar without being jostled by the motor or turning . . . oh, and I also need self-propelled–there is a significant rise . . .
At the moment it’s completely dead, but as soon as I have a lawnmower repaired, I’m reseeding.
What I need, though, is something that let’s a beer hang from the pushbar without being jostled by the motor or turning . . . oh, and I also need self-propelled–there is a significant rise . . .
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oldgraymare2
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Although I have computers to use, I still prefer to use pencils and paper for some things.
I don’t have a Smart phone, but rather an older flip phone. I don’t really care about using a cell. phone except for emergency situations.
I don’t have any social media accounts, either–no Facebook, no Twitter, no Snap Chat, no Instagram–nothing like that.
I also have old cookware and bakeware that belonged to some of my family members that would be considered “retro,” too.
I have some of my maternal Gramma’s Fire King bowls from the 50’s that I just use for making Jello.
My MIL sent me her old Revere ware cookware that was a wedding gift to her, so it’s about 64 years old now.
I use some of it every day, so it’s starting to wear out on its surface, and I’ll have to replace it with something else.
I don’t have a Smart phone, but rather an older flip phone. I don’t really care about using a cell. phone except for emergency situations.
I don’t have any social media accounts, either–no Facebook, no Twitter, no Snap Chat, no Instagram–nothing like that.
I also have old cookware and bakeware that belonged to some of my family members that would be considered “retro,” too.
I have some of my maternal Gramma’s Fire King bowls from the 50’s that I just use for making Jello.
My MIL sent me her old Revere ware cookware that was a wedding gift to her, so it’s about 64 years old now.
I use some of it every day, so it’s starting to wear out on its surface, and I’ll have to replace it with something else.
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Irishmom2
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A self propelled mower is a game changer.
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dochawk
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Yes.
And even so, my back feels the changes in direction.
The mower I need to have replaced under warranty has separate left & right power levers, but they simply add, rather than moving each side. It still takes effort toter, and when doing so on a grade . . . it’s something for 19 year olds . . .
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And even so, my back feels the changes in direction.
The mower I need to have replaced under warranty has separate left & right power levers, but they simply add, rather than moving each side. It still takes effort toter, and when doing so on a grade . . . it’s something for 19 year olds . . .
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alice24
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Ok, this is definately a new retro -point on my list:
renovating a very old house into the original status (clay soil, oven heat, an old loom under the roof, indoor forge, no electricity ) with, well, old tools (only tools who don´t need electricity).
renovating a very old house into the original status (clay soil, oven heat, an old loom under the roof, indoor forge, no electricity ) with, well, old tools (only tools who don´t need electricity).
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Sarcelle
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It would be if you exclusively grew plants native to the desert .
What do you grow by the way?
.What do you grow by the way?
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