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What I don't miss:
35mm camera's!
Love the digital one like we have. Yes, more sophisticated, but set it on "auto" and takes a better pic than any 35mm I had. And, don't have to take film in for processing and pay for bad pictures.
VCR Tapes!
Absolutely love our DVD Player and Recorder. Have already transfered most of the old VCR recordings to DVD's and they look much, much better.
Shoveling Snow!
Done it while living in Colorado.
Doing Inventory on 3 x 5 inch cards!
Love the Purchasing & Inventory Software available today.
Filling out UPS, FedX, etc. form for Shipping!
Just go on the computer and DO IT.
The old propane/gas forklifts!
All electric at most company's.
Manually posting to a General Ledger!
Love the Accounting software in today's computers.
Manually "keying" in prices on a register in stores!
Scanning prices is so WONDERFUL and FAST.
Using a switch to turn off lamp!
Now there is "touch" lamps and The Clapper.
Paying cash and writing checks at stores!
Love those credit cards.
Farm work!
When I was a kid, getting up at 5AM to do chores in freezing temps and knee-high snow.
Well, that's all for now. Have to think more.
Sticking to the sheets in a bed in a house in the UN-air-conditioned South, only to try to dress in the morning, and have your undies roll-up on you like a damp swimsuit.
Panty hose.
8-track tapes and cumbersome tape players.
Cassette tapes that un-wound themselves all over the place.
Inadvertently slipping out of my wooden Dr. Scholl's and coming down on my arch on the heel of the sandal.
and sorry, but old-fashioned feminine products! You girls today are SO spoiled, as were we, when our grandmothers shared what it was like in their day!
One-piece gymsuits for PE classes.
Toni perms my Mother put in my hair.
Dresses with sashes and crinolines.
One-piece swimsuits with skirts a la 'sailor girl.'
Ah!, but carbon paper reminded me of the old mimeograph machines in school -- ugh! the chemical smell and the 'purple' everywhere. I ruined some nice clothes early in my teaching career.
I don't miss eraser pencils for typing errors, or having to type, and re-type, and re-type yet again, term papers in HS because I had not left enough room for stupid footnotes at the bottoms of the pages. I don't miss Card Catalogs, either, or 3x5 index cards.
And those old bookbags that were a lot like raincoat fabric? The rubber backing always rotted away, making a mess, and your papers got stuck to it.
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