What would we do without .......................

[Ann]

Kitchen roll
Kitchen foil
Photocopiers
Mobile phones
Computers!

What modern invention could you not manage without? Mine would have to be kitchen roll - I use it for everything.

[craft1948]

hair straighteners..............

[starone]

Computer. I have withdrawal symptoms when mine goes wrong.

[Maydup]

I'd miss my laptop more than anything.

I could use a cloth in place of kitchen roll, a dish or cling film for foil, a laptop to print another copy of something or to contact someone if I had no phone, ot to watch TV on or to listen to the radio. But the laptop itself I'd miss more than anything all modcons put together.

[Ann]

Me too, starbuck, it's a great timewaster, especially for people who do not need much to be distracted from the housework (like me :)

[Ann]

I have tried a laptop maidup but can't get on with them as much as a proper computer on my desk. I hate the sliding pad in place of the mouse.

[micmak]

My Wife. We managed without everything else in the past.

[Jemisa]

Toilet Paper. When I was a kid we only used cut up newspaper & used to end up with black print all over my bum.
If we had tissue paper that an orange was wrapped in we'd fight over it.

jem

[Ann]

Ah thats very nice micmak - did she tell you to write that ;)

[Maydup]

I prefer the laptop (with a mouse when I feel the need) as I can slob about on the sofa or sit at the desk depending how I feel. But best of all, on a nice day I can sit out in the garden with a cuppa and still chat to you all.

[Ann]

I only used newspaper for toilet paper when visiting my Grandma - she had an outside loo with a wooden seat like a plank with a hole cut in it - as a little girl I was terrified to go if it was dark. "Take the flashlight Ann" she used to say ....I never dared put it on as I was more terrified of the spiders and moths!
We used the horrid smelling Izal toilet roll sheets at home, you had to rub each sheet in your hands first to make them soft enough to use on the poor old bottie!

[starone]

Housework can wait ann - it will always be there. Why waste your life doing housework when you can be enjoying yourself.

[micmak]

No Ann. MrsMM is in bed reading. She will not sleep until she has helped me to get there.

[Ann]

I quite agree Starbuck :)
Have you seen this poem?
http://www.wrensworld.com/dust.htm

[Ann]

Its lovely that you help each other micmak ......you sound a nice couple :)

[starone]

Ann - you have just described my grandmother's toilet facilities, and to flush you had to get a bucket of water and pour it down. My father used to cut newspaper in squares, make a hole in the top and thread a piece of string through to hold them together. Good way of recycling and that black print, jem, is supposed to be good for killing germs.

[starone]

Just read the poem Ann, and it typifies my sentiments precisely. I must remember that phrase, Dust if you must. Great.

[Ann]

Yes Grandma's loo was just like that - I used to stare down into the black murky depths scared I would fall down it ............thinking about it they must have had to empty it unless it flushed (but I don't think it did) If it was just a bucket, where did they empty it? They only had a back yard so they couldn't put it round the roses! ;)

[Ann]

I love that last bit "A house is not a home unless you can write "I Love you" in the dust on the furniture!"

[starone]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, definitely!!

[gness]

On the subject.....my hairdryer. Off the subject.........my Gran didn`t have a toilet. It was down the field with a dock leaf.