WHAT IS NOT GOING TO BE HERE FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS?
ALARM CLOCKS
ATLAS
BOOKS
CABLE BOXES
CALCULATORS
CAR MIRRORS
CARD CATALOG
CHECK BOOKS - CHECKING ACCOUNTS
CLOCKS WITH HANDS
COUNTING MONEY BACK WITHOUT A MACHINE GIVING YOU THE ANSWER
CURSIVE WRITING - WRITING IN GENERAL
DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
DIGITAL CAMERA
GPS STAND ALONE UNITS
HOUSE PHONE
HUMAN CONTACT
KEYS
LETTERS
LIBRARIES
MULTIPLICATION TABLES
NEWSPAPERS
PASSWORDS
PEN AND PAPER
PERSONAL TOUCH
PHONE BOOKS
PICTURE ALBUMS
PHONE CALLS
PHYSICAL BUTTONS
PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS
PLASTIC CARDS
RESEARCHING PAPERS
RSVP'S
THANK YOU NOTES
TYPEWRITERS
WHITE PAGES
WRITING CHECKS
YELLOW PAGES
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
WIRES
CAN YOU THINK OF ANY THING ELSE THAT IS IN DANGER OF BECOMING EXTINCT?
HERE ARE SOME ADDITIONS PEOPLE WROTE ME:
Here were some more items going missing:
US!
Post office – stamps.
Check out registers with no electricity! lol
Car mirrors
Department Stores/Malls
RSVP’s
Photos
Carbon paper
Typewriters
White out
Morals
I don't really know why I am thinking about this - it just sort of came to me when I was listening to a YouTube a friend sent me with things the kids of today will never know of or experience.
My kids won't have experiences that I did.
Their kids will never know some of the above things.
And so on.
I know it is called progress, but I will miss some of those things....
What are your thoughts and opinions?
COMEDY IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL:
I THINK I'LL TAKE NUMBER 8!
DISCO'S CORNER
OKAY GUYS LET ME REST WITHOUT MY PHOTOS BEING TAKEN!
LASTLY SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
37 comments:
But we will miss all of these things if the Internet ever goes down!
I was in the checkout line at the grocery store a while back when the computers suddenly went down. We all just stood there. They had no idea how to let us pay...
I still have lots of those things on that list. Amazing that lots of those items are going to disappear:( I love thank you notes, I just received one in the mail for a graduation gift. I would miss those! Cute pictures of Disco:)
Hope you have a wonderful day dear friend, HUGS!
Have a great day
Not all that long ago I tried to get carbon paper for a typewriter when I worked at PSU and couldn't find any anywhere. Never thought there wouldn't be any because there are typewriters around. A lot of the items you posted I will miss and miss that my grands won't know most of these things but human contact is the one that bothers me the most along with letter writing and phone conversations (NOT TEXT). Have a great Monday, Sandi and by the way...I feel like Disco today.
Now you have me thinking. White out for typing. Oh I'm going to be thinking about this all day. That's a good thing.
I linked this post to Awww Mondays.
Have a fabulous day and week, my friend. ♥
I have enjoyed the read and comments. Good one. I see snail mail and greeting cards getting slower and slower.
Love you lady, Glad you are not missing.....
But there will come a day when someone will miss us, that is for danged sure. I hope they remember us positively! LOL
Who would have thought car mirrors would go away?! You made me smile this morning, thanks!
Interesting list to think about. I think libraries will stay around, but they'll be very different - more like meeting places or shared workspaces. When my son and I visited a newly opened library, it took us 10 minutes to find the books.
Lots of things going away! I saw a meme on Facebook that they should take away all the analog clocks in school since kids don't know how to tell time that way any more lol. Change is good but keeping some old things is good too! I'm a #7 on the cat scale :)
I wish our local library would reopen. They are doing curbside pick up and holding books that get checked back in for 3 days before putting them back on the shelf. There is something fun about going to the library and looking through books. Maybe have people wear gloves while doing so?
betty
Thank you for the smiles today.
I'm happy to be apart of the older crowd that has enjoyed and still does for the most part "the list"!
I definitely have hang ups with the NOW GENERATION ways and means 😊
I guess I'd be a #3 on the cat scale. Having a hard time getting started today. Too lazy to do much at all. I'd say it's up to us who have experienced all these things to keep the memories alive. I would aay writing letters and notes to say Thank you should not be forgotten
most schools have quit teaching cursive writing
All I can say is that some of those items better not go away anytime soon!
I recently bought a new landline phone with answering machine and it was slim pickings! I think we are seeing the end of department stores, which makes me sad. My first job out of college was as a section manager for a local department chain. It was like a home to me. Miss it!
We have a game in our family, called 'Back in the olden days'.
For instance, we start remembering what is was like with no central heating, no electric kettles, landline phones (with no push buttons) I know many still have one … and yes, it is called progress, but I do still, and will, miss some of those things....
I enjoyed your funnies and always nice to see sweet Disco.
My good wishes.
All the best Jan
Everything old is new again... let's hope not everything goes away!! Disco is so cute! It is always great to see a post from you, Sandie!! Love & hugs!
Oh, I love the "from my house to your house." That's wonderful. Sandie, I've been thinking the same thing lately. The world is changing so much, and I'm afraid our children won't remember some of these things too. My kids are older, so they are familiar with a few of them. The thank you notes, letters, and pen and paper really got to me, as they are diminishing, and I hardly ever receive them in the mail any more. I love that French quote, so funny. And Disco just wants to be left alone hahaha.
Have a very nice week, Sandie.
~Sheri
There's more than a few on this list that make me a little sad. Fashionable or not, I think RSVP's and thank-you notes are always in good form. But that one about no car mirrors? Whaaaaa?! Those cats are so funny! Having had WAY too much to eat today, pretty sure I resemble #7.
Everything has a short shelf life, including us.
So much of what you wrote makes me so sad.
We won't have to think for ourselves or do anything by our own effort.
there will be no secrets or privacy...It's kind of scary...
To answer your question on my blog...
The company will print what ever you download. I always begin with Jan. 1 and go until Dec. 31. because I want an annual book. You can choose what ever you want to be in the printed book, it can be hard back or soft and different sizes too. You can eliminate some posts if you don't want them in the book. Its all up to you.
Sue
I love the dog/cat knock knock joke the best, it is hilarious!!! Well, things are always changing. Change is life. We have a wall phone in the kitchen, and already our granddaughter asked what it is. She couldn't believe it is a phone!
Goodwill, consideration for one's fellowman.....many things, I believe, can be added to the list!
I love dear little Disco...what a sweetie he is. :)
I'm about No. 8 o the Cat Scale today, too. :)
Stay safe..stay well, Sandie. Great post. :)
You have always posted the best stuff! I like old fashioned hand written letters and cards. I suppose because I belong to an encouragement group too. But you have no idea how someone can brighten another person's day. I have received many responses just from sending a simple encouraging card with a note. People have sent me Christmas cards too that I sent a greeting to. I hate seeing history erased. I dislike schools using "creative spelling" instead of proper grammar and spelling of words and most of all cursive. It is so sad no one wants to take the time to teach kids these things. I still have calendars all over my house because we all love different things, I have a Barbie calendar. My hubby has a Bruce Lee calendar at his office. Our youngest son has a classic car calendar. Our daughter has an Ireland calendar and her hubby a hockey one. I think being unable to tell time is sheer laziness. Oh my list goes on and on.The saddest for me is the fact that my country will be destroyed and we will have nothing left. That is something that makes me weep.
I did not mean to get so serious but looking over the list of things I still have started me thinking. Young people today will never know so much. I find it sad.
On a pleasant note, I hope your week is wonderful and it was nice to see you here. I have good intentions to visit all the participants in aw...Mondays and someday's just gets away from me.
Thanks for your great space my friend. HUGS
A fun and still thought-provoking post!
Your Disco is adorable!!!
Sadly some of these things are gone and I miss them mostly morals so mandy have none now days, well it seems that way at times
Oh, my! I hadn't really thought of many/most of these. Instead of losing all these things, I wish we could somehow go back in time to when life seemed easier, sweeter, and less complicated. I know some things from the past I would not like to revisit, but life today has changed in ways that I am not happy with. I try to remember though what my good friend always says...Life is Good (no matter what)!
Hi Sandy -- I'm so glad that I came here today.
(1) to tell you that even though I have missed your nice comments on my weekly for a couple of weeks I have been sooo busy chasing my tale so I haven't even had time to postpone my income tax return. I think it is due June 15???
(2) I read of the terrible long lines there would be for voting yesterday I was hoping you would be able to vote. A guy on FB was complaining that cost cutting and lack of mail in voting there would be 10,000 registered voters for his precinct. TV showed a two hour line. We used t4o have that problem but now voters can vote in any precinct within the county that would be the most convenient for us, mostly one a mile or two farther away in a small town (if annexed that would be our town) that never has long lines.
(3) on you Memorial Day post to mention that Mrs. Jim's brother was shot down by Germans over Italy in WWII. He was the sole person piloting his P38 that had left Tunisia to bomb. He parachuted but the Germans short him on the way down parachuting. A Catholic priest found him, took his dog tag, and covered his body with the parachute. Not long after the Germans came and buried his body in the Church cemetery.
(I'm sorry for not showing earlier, I only returned the comments on my post. Tat is naughty for a friend to do, I am sorry again.
I FEEL LIKE Cat Number 7, I am glad you are 8. I am a night person but have been asleep by around midnight every night. But the I wake up around 4:30 and can't get4 back to sleep. Finally I get up and make a cut of decaf. About seven I get tired and would go back to bed but that sometimes wakes Mrs. up so mostly I sleep in the chair if I can.
WHAT I would put (you have Atlases) is that the clerks at our State Farm have never heard of Road Atlas. I tell these you people that they still print Road Atlases, But State Farm just hasn't subscribed fore a loooong time.
DISCO IS KING at your house. But even he might not understand the "knock knock" that you put on. I suppose it might be like we would have problem with one if it were to be told in French or Spanish. Dog language vs. Cat language.
STAY WELL. Did you watch the Houston man's, Mr. Floyd's, funeral that was in the Houston area. We watched it through getting his body to the private graveside ceremony. The church first was in our Fort Bend Country, not Harris, for most4 of Houston. Pearland is in Galveston Country, we used to live close to Pearland in Friendswood. I would hate to have to live with as police person shooting my sister or dad or even uncle. Eight and as half minute has to be done out of hate. Police to get burnout as do a lot of public servants. That should have been recognized and him given a desk job after those other 18 complaints.
I feel I have ranted but even as a white young people I was harassed a lot by the cops. It stopped about when I got to be in my 30's, about the time I was married again and stayed home where I was thought to belong. The first remark on my last harassments I was riding my motorcycle to the Galveston Bay through as small town was, "You're a long way from home aren't you?" Dah. Houston used to be terrible with youth and Blacks but we have a very good reputation now. But even then that wasn't Houston city proper For the most part it was at Lincoln Nebraska before my first marriage, back in the 50's.
Bye. (-: :-)
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I love your list. How about adding a bookmobile? Do you remember those? Are there still ice cream trucks in the neighborhood that play a little song as they ride around? I like Disco's blanket. Did someone make that for him or did you buy it somewhere? I want to steal the knock knock meme for Facebook. May I? And I'm number 3 on the cat expressions. Really, I'm so sleepy.
Hi Sandie - you've listed lots of things and the others have added more ... take care - Hilary
chasing my 'tail' ...
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Hey, great minds think alike! I just wrote a post that is so similar! I guess I would add records, tapes (8-track and cassette), dvds, stereo systems, movies that aren't streamed, movie players, tape recorders, doorbells and thank you cards. :) I'm sure I could think of more. ;)
I've gotten used to a lot of these things going, but human contact is the one that is the worst! I still use a paper calendar and write in cursive most of the time. If that makes me a dinosaur, happy to be one.
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Income Tax is due July 15 as is the Estimates with money.
My Cat pick has moved to # 3, it looks sooo lonesome.
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My grandkids are already missing or have not experienced a lot of those things. None of my grandkids (including the 19-year-old) know what cursive writing is because they haven't taught it here for over two decades. When kids are asked to put their signature on something they just print. And thank you notes - don't get me started! My ex refused to let me teach my boys how to write thank you notes for when their grandparents gave them gifts, so they never learned (the schools had stopped teaching that before I even graduated high school in the 70s), and now the grandkids haven't ever been taight that in school either. So, I can add one more thing - no, two - to your list . . . common sense and courtesy. GREAT post!! Hugs and blessings to you, Chatty! And Disco is lookin' as cute as ever! ❤️
Young people today will never know much, as they grow older. I find it sad!
I hate seeing History erased! More Love and Compassion for others are what people need, not only computers, or technology, or robots, new TV sets, etc.
I feel so sorry for the world nowadays. The generations to come ahead will
not have what we used to have when we were children.
I love the pics of cats you posted up there. Needless to say, Disco is awesome. Well, I could go on and on, because I am so displeased about this world the way it is at this point.
But this is an excellent question. From what is listed in the list, we can say that no one uses home phones anymore. I also think that things like human contact, libraries, personal touch, and much more will soon cease to be relevant. But what will last forever is online security. This is why I use the block porn sites app, which makes the internet safer for my kids.
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