Modern Life

[Sabre]

Do you eschew modern items? I loathe plastic and would prefer glass. I buy pure cotton and wool clothing instead of acrylic and polyester. I buy unrefined sugar, and cannot understand why we need the bleached white version. I use traditional soaps and boycott any products with SLS/SLES. I douse myself in Eau de Colognes. My shoes are generally Goodyear Welts so they will last twenty years. I shaved today with an injector.

There is a place for modern products, most of us probably would like modern healthcare. Although I am using traditional cures such as ACV, witch hazel, oils and essential oils. Steam engine's are a novelty on heritage lines, but we all probably prefer 140 mph comfortable trains.

I would love the "Good Life", self subsidence.
Growing your own fruit and vegetables, making bread, cakes and jams.

The irony I appear to want to go back in time, as I tap away on a Samsung mobile in bed...

 

[Blademonkey]

Do you eschew modern items? I loathe plastic and would prefer glass. I buy pure cotton and wool clothing instead of acrylic and polyester. I buy unrefined sugar, and cannot understand why we need the bleached white version. I use traditional soaps and boycott any products with SLS/SLES. I douse myself in Eau de Colognes. My shoes are generally Goodyear Welts so they will last twenty years. I shaved today with an injector.

There is a place for modern products, most of us probably would like modern healthcare. Although I am using traditional cures such as ACV, witch hazel, oils and essential oils. Steam engine's are a novelty on heritage lines, but we all probably prefer 140 mph comfortable trains.

I would love the "Good Life", self subsidence.
Growing your own fruit and vegetables, making bread, cakes and jams.

The irony I appear to want to go back in time, as I tap away on a Samsung mobile in bed...

Very well put......I agree with everything you said and as I was reading it I had to check it wasn't myself who had posted this while half asleep in the wee hours of the morning! P.

 

[JohnnyO]

I suppose I'd really like modern devices which were designed and constructed to be repairable rather than with built in obselecence. There is no reason (other than commercial) that given advances in materials available and build quality achievable modern items could not be greatly improved on and longer lasting than the household items with which I grew up in the 1950s ... but, they ain't. As my mummy used to say, "Mr Coleman got rich from the mustard left on the plate". In a capitalist society disposable, throwaway products are required to keep the wheels turning.

JohnnyO. o/.

 

[whitesix]

Totally agree with all comments made. I purchase say a good pair of shoes and have them repaired (albeit that I have to send them to London from Poole, because this artisan pursuit is now all but lost); I purchase good quality 2nd hand coats; I may then repair the linings. Nowadays the issue is just purchase, wear, throwaway; not purchase, wear, wash, wear, repair, wear etc. My partner quite rightly says that the economy wouldn't survive if it was left to me or perhaps it would in a less throwaway format, who knows!