Do you own any of the following?

Every so often I see an article on a news site, or see a Youtube video, claiming that certain things are disappearing because they're going out of style or because they've been superseded, and I was idly wondering how many people on this forum actually own any of the following:

1) A non-smart watch that cost under $50 (Not a Rolex or an antique, just a regular one)
2) A rotary can opener
3) A non-smart phone
4) A landline telephone
5) A flashlight
6) A standalone video camera
7) Any means of recording a live TV broadcast to keep (Not a rented cable box)
8) A film camera
9) A boot scraper
10) A paper encyclopedia or dictionary
11) A CD based music player, for example a discman or hifi
12) A cartridge based fountain pen that isn't an antique
13) A rocking chair
14) A telescope
15) A whittling knife
16) A flower press
17) A reloading press
18) A soda making machine
19) Any cobbling tools
20) A magnetic compass

This is more for fun than anything else.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,20

I still have quite a few of those things:

my watch has 17 jewels - $2.50 at an estate sale, and I would not trade it for a "smart" watch

my stereo has vacuum tubes...well the main system does

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
I own;

1) A non-smart watch ( nothing I buy is priced in dollars)
2) A rotary can opener
3) A non-smart phone
4) A landline telephone
5) A flashlight

20) A magnetic compass

YES $15 - 1) A non-smart watch that cost under $50 (Not a Rolex or an antique, just a regular one)
YES - 2) A rotary can opener
YES - 3) A non-smart phone
DOES MAGICJACK COUNT? lol - 4) A landline telephone
YES - 5) A flashlight
YES - 6) A standalone video camera
YES - 8) A film camera
YES - 10) A paper encyclopedia or dictionary
YES - 11) A CD based music player, for example a discman or hifi
YES - 13) A rocking chair
YES - 14) A telescope
YES - 18) A soda making machine

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Yes, about two thirds of what you listed. However, it's not for nostalgic or apocalyptic reasons. I've been a hoarder since childhood; a MacGyver type that is always thinking how to reuse something. I love to keep thingamajigs, thingamabobs and whatnots.

It drives my mother, my wife and my colleagues crazy... until I fix something with something else totally unrelated. For this reason they are tolerant of my addiction. It's so bad that I feel physically sick if I don't pick up and save a screw, bolt or anything metallic I find lying around. I must have been a magpie in another life.

ETA: This is my latest craze... paperclips and springs... Even the S clip thing I found on the street.

I have everything but these:

14) A telescope
17) A reloading press
18) A soda machine

4) A landline telephone
5) A flashlight
14) A telescope
20) A magnetic compass

I have a couple diving wrist watches (Invicta) I take when I go swimming in the ocean, but I didn't list them here because if I recall they were over $50. A lot of that stuff on the list is obsolete. Just like overcoats and wearing fancy hats.

When I moved to Mexico I pretty much started over. That was some time ago. I left my big library collection which was my greatest loss. I miss it, but at the same time I spend most my time reading on my IPad these days (you do not know how much I love my IPad). I can download most books I own. And it has a built in dictionary, actually quite a few different languages.

I no longer own a radio, a cassette player, a CD Player, a DVD Player, or an LCD player. I do have a computer and a very recent Smart TV that doesn't need a ROKU or an Apple TV, but I do have an Apple TV as well.

I have recently acquired a salt lamp that sits on my bookshelf stand at the side of my TV, but that's only because a friend couldn't sell it in a yard sell and gave it to my wife. I think it looks nice at night when I'm reading in the dark on my IPad. It gives off a nice pink orange glow with the little bulb inside it.

I have a nice telescope but nothing like the one I had back in the states. I haven't even taken it outside in probably two years, it's just sitting there collecting dust. My binoculars do almost as good a job as the telescope. Have always enjoyed astronomy.

"Do you own any of the following?"

Yes. 😎

a reply to: AaarghZombies

1, 2, 4, 5 (three of them), 7, 11, 13, 20

Some of the best things are old school, but I know some would not agree.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
Every so often I see an article on a news site, or see a Youtube video, claiming that certain things are disappearing because they're going out of style or because they've been superseded, and I was idly wondering how many people on this forum actually own any of the following:

1) A non-smart watch that cost under $50 (Not a Rolex or an antique, just a regular one)
2) A rotary can opener
3) A non-smart phone
4) A landline telephone
5) A flashlight
6) A standalone video camera
7) Any means of recording a live TV broadcast to keep (Not a rented cable box)
8) A film camera
9) A boot scraper
10) A paper encyclopedia or dictionary
11) A CD based music player, for example a discman or hifi
12) A cartridge based fountain pen that isn't an antique
13) A rocking chair
14) A telescope
15) A whittling knife
16) A flower press
17) A reloading press
18) A soda making machine
19) Any cobbling tools
20) A magnetic compass

This is more for fun than anything else.

All but 9,16,17,18

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Um.... All the above. Plus many more unlisted. I rather large tv antennae that still works on the chimney. Thinking of converting that to radio. A typewriter made of cast iron or lead from 1920's. A clothe line and crank rolling pin ringer for clothes. A phone passed down that you hold a bell to you ear and the other piece you hold to your mouth. I still have a spare line for a house phone that I have a fax machine running on 👍😆

a reply to: AaarghZombies

1) A non-smart watch that cost under $50 (Not a Rolex or an antique, just a regular one)
2) A rotary can opener
3) A non-smart phone
5) A flashlight
6) A standalone video camera
7) Any means of recording a live TV broadcast to keep (Not a rented cable box)
8) A film camera
9) A boot scraper
10) A paper encyclopedia or dictionary
11) A CD based music player, for example a discman or hifi
12) A cartridge based fountain pen that isn't an antique
13) A rocking chair
14) A telescope
15) A whittling knife
16) A flower press
17) A reloading press
19) Any cobbling tools
20) A magnetic compass

Everything but 4 and 18 it looks like.

I own all but 16 17 18 and 19. But we have an homemade ice cream machiene. My fountian pen has been dry for about a decade lol our vcr still works which is awesome as we have over a hundred movies recorded off movie channels back in the day. I still use my cd player at the house occasionally. Weve got quite an extensive library, fiction, non fiction, refrence ya know a library lol

I have about half of the items in the list.

I still have a cassette recorder player and a few unopened blanks. However I love my smartwatch as it makes paying for things too easy.

I didn't even know what a rotary can opener was, had to look it up. I still use our hand turn can opener, and I have an older one, for bottles, and the triangle end on the other side.

Love my rocking chair.
And nothing beats an 8 D battery mag light. As good as a bat.

For the most part no one has actually had a "land line" phone over the past 10-15 years. Maybe and I mean maybe, in the most rural areas copper hasn't been replaced yet someplace on the pole but I'm willing to bet it has.

Just having a phone on your desk, on your wall, in your kitchen that is TDM (Time Division Multiplex or think non-voip) only means you are a landline up to where it leaves your house. The idea that its still POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) from your house to your ILECCLEC (Incumbent Local Exchange CarrierCompetitive Local Exchange Carrier or think phone carriers) to the CO (Central Office) to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and then same route to the calling destination is simply wrong.

Once you get beyond your house most if not all phone services eventually hit a VOIP network somewhere. Analog services such as fax also route this way. So for all the people that hate technology dont point to your desk phone or fax machine as being some link to the past because chances are its not.

Outside of that I have 3 of the things on the list.. lol.. a cd player, telescope and rotary can opener. =)