Hey, everybody! Run out an buy a “smartphone!” Make certain the deep state can track your every movement! You want to be sure that the globalist tyrants know all your buying and browsing habits, and otherwise have a free pass to spy on every detail of your life ... because, you don’t want to be labeled “outdated.”
So, go ahead, you emasculated flunky! Continue to rack up points on the stupid graph. Trade your soul and your liberty for “convenience” - because you’re just too damn lazy to think outside the box.
Tell you what, Mr. Techno Geek - Take your “smart phones,” and shove ‘em up your a$$.
I’m never buying one. All my “obsolete” tools will continue to function reliably, enable me to remain self-sufficient, allow me evade the deep state, and continue to be an independent American citizen - rather than a robotic emasculated slave of your globalist leash holders.
I am with you plus more:
I am called a DINOSAUR by those who know me:
I have NO cell phone—not now & not ever. Had a pager once for 1 year & gave it up. One client was bugging me at all hours & I didn’t want to continue that. My house phone is a “Princess phone’ that is over 40 years old. No caller ID. No call waiting.
I use a land line & when the power goes out, I can call the power hot line. No ‘Walkabout’ phones because when power does go out, they don’t work. I have dial up internet, which take more time, but only costs me $10.95 a month.
I have at least 3 paper calendars up at all times. One—Range Magazine-— is because the photos are just gorgeous, and I support that magazine. One for planning a move to another property-—(when that happens)—one for daily stuff I dare not forget.
I also use a paper appointment book- with a separate page for each day & actual room to make notes. I keep them.
I have at least one flashlight in each vehicle—one in the bedroom- two in the kitchen- one in the living room & one at the front door. When you have lived thru a couple of really good earthquakes, you cannot have too many flashlights.
Also- a cop once told me—Have a full size Maglite in your car——it is a weapon you don’t need a permit for.
I have an alarm clock. And a timer in the kitchen.
I have at least 3 calculators....But I am a bookkeeper /accounting person for the last 61 years, so that isn’t a surprise.
I am still using a refrigerator/freezer that I bought in Nov 1965. 53 years old.....It works just fine. Have a pair—refrigerator & upright freezer from 1972. They work just fine. Newest one is an upright freezer I bought in 2008—the day after those fools elected Obama.
Have a toaster that is over 40 years old. Have a power can opener that is even older. I have tools —more than the average female—and some are older than 50 years. I have a chain saw that is more than 25 years old & I used up over 7 chains clearing my 5 acres in N Calif 1993 to 1996. Still works just fine. Have a weed whacker that is over 45 years old & it works just fine. Not many weeds here in the high desert except Russian Thistles that become Tumbleweeds....I pull those by hand. Have yard tools that I bought when I bought my first house—in 1966. Have gas cans that I don’t even know how old they are-—but the new ones don’t work on my older vehicles. Camper shell on truck is at least 40 years old & I bought it used. Still there.
Drive a 1976 Chevy 1 ton dually truck & tow a 2001 4 horse trailer with it. Over 348,000 miles on truck & I put on over 250,000. I got it 32 +++ years go.
Have a 1979 Buick station wagon for daily driving. I got it over 37 years go. It has over 215,000 miles & I put on 160,000 ++. Both were not new when I got them. Combined cost? $7500 total. Each one has a rebuilt engine done by a race car engine builder. Balanced & blueprinted. Not a problem to get parts-—I call Summit Racing & they don’t blink at the age of my vehicles. New fuel pump? $22. 4 new shocks? $86. New lower radiator hose? $12.96. Rebuild standard trans on truck? $600. New door guts to roll both truck windows up & down? $100 plus $20 freight from Kansas. Being installed now, so don’t know how much. BUT- those lasted 43 years plus, so I cannot complain.
Only New Car I ever owned was a 1965 Pontiac Catalina station wagon, I bought new in Feb 1965 for $3434 -— tax & license out the door. I put over 444,000 miles on that car & sold it in 1996 or so to a guy in Sweden who restored the body & interior. The engine ran just fine, with a rebuild at 231,000 miles.
Living room TV is a Mitsubishi I bought in about 1978 or so, and have moved it 3 times. It requires a convertor now, but I have it on every day. Hair dryer is over 39 years old. Works fine. Most household furniture is older than 30 years & some much more than that. Bookshelves over 50 years old.
I have 4 Australian stock saddles, and they all were bought in 1985 & 1986. No problems with them. Most of my gear is equally as old or not much newer. Custom made tack box is over 33 years old. 2nd tack box came from a storage sale — I don’t know how old it is.
Have 10 Rubbermaid 100 gallon water tanks for horses which were bought over 25 years ago & it does get cold here. 6 -9 the last 3 nights. Broke over 1 inch of ice the last 2 mornings. They are lasting just fine.
Walnut Office desk is over 60 years old & Oak desk is from the mid-1920’s. Mr Coffee is over 40 years old.
Don’t even ask me about some of my books. ...Or some of my kitchen utensils. Or the dishes... or the baking utensils & dishes.
I can remember phone numbers without looking them up-—and I do have a hard copy address book-—the 4th one of ones from over the years. I can still remember phone numbers better than any of the seniors at the Senior Center meals I attend occasionally. Whenever I am towing horses, the address book is on the dash of the truck.
I have some clothes I bought in the late 60’s. Some I MADE in the 70’s, and t-shirts from horse races I competed in from as early as 1985. Over 40 of them. Have 13 Sweatshirts from one annual event alone, and haven’t ridden that ride for over 12 years. I hve at least 3 atlases—one in each vehicle & one in house, and I have DeLorme atlases for the states I rode in on the Pony Express ride in 2001. Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska-Wyoming—Utah-Nevada. 2000 miles, 8 weeks, 50 miles a day 5 days a week. A REAL bucket list item!!!
I have photo albums & framed photos. All the way back to about 1957. After riding endurance horses since 1985, I have lots of ‘ride pics’ that enhance the other memories. I entered 119 events & finished 93, on different horses.
I will use a one time camera set up when I move out of this house & when I am looking for another. Getting tougher to find a one hour or even one day processing place, but I want sharper pictures.
I will be 79 in a week, and I did a bookkeeping job TODAY for a client I have done books for —— for OVER 48 years. He is a year older than I & still runs his appliance repair business. My accounting computer is 27 years old—was bought in Nov 1991-—a DOS system made by Dac Easy—and I still use it. The Panasonic printer is same age & uses tractor feed paper. Original monitor. I have had as many as 19 clients at a time on that system. No modem- keyboard only, and NOT connected to the internet. I won’t use anything made by Quick Books. Fax was new in about 1990. Same for this computer that is connected to the internet, but it has had one update when the hard drive failed about 4 years ago.
I don’t need all the electronic stuff—it is expensive & is obsolete faster than race car tires.
When the Internet fails—and the cell phones fail— & even when the power fails, I CAN STILL DO MANUAL BOOKKEEPING on paper ledger sheets-—still have a box full of them......
Scare yourself-—DO a complete inventory of everything you own-—your insurance agent will not be able to contradict you when you need to get paid for any losses.
So-—I am the dinosaur, and I don’t care......
Did I win???
I don’t drive or ride them any more, but I still keep my 1956 Chevy pickup truck and my 1946 Harley Davidson Knuckle Head in tip top shape.
Top’em off, tun’em and run them around the farm for at least an hour once a month.