What are three "invented needs" you cannot live without?
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November 21st, 2010
With invented needs I mean things and gadgets that manufacturers sell to us as if they are things we really need and couldn’t live without. Such as cell phones (I mean, we did fine without them 15 years ago, didn’t we?), laptops (what happened with pen and paper?) and so on.
So, I guess I’ll start then :)
Three things I can’t live without that I should be able to do fine without:
1) My cell phone (arrrrgh!)
2) My desktop PC (bleh!)
3) The Internet
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1) My car. I like being able to drive to go visit friends and family when I want to.
2) My cell phone. I have it with me 24/7 and it’s the main mode of contact I have with my husband right now.
3) My laptop. It’s my secondary means of communication with my husband right now.
Mint flavored toothpaste
Wine
bread
I’d add cheese but that’s too many.
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portable music player
computer
indoor plumbing
1) My Coffee
2) My cell phone
3) My car
Nothing, really, although I seriously appreciate the invention of AC and heat!
Refrigeration
Indoor plumbing
Car
Eye glasses
Treadmill
Kitty Litter
My Blackberry
Cantaloupe
Skype
Jello
Mountain Dew
Red Bull
Nothing much. I mean, I would really miss a lot of things if they suddenly became unavailable, but I could adjust. Things I feel like I would still sort of need are
Books
Phone or internet (some form of instant communication)
Tylenol
Already shorn, spun and dyed wool, so many colors of thread that I can’t even count them all, readily available fabrics to create gifts and clothing.
I have experimented with spinning wool (not shearing it though) and dying it with natural dyes, but it’s way more trouble than it’s worth. I wouldn’t even begin to know how to spin cotton into thread.
1. Internet
2. Cell phone
3. Computer
Crack, black licorice, and Ukranian hookers
Takeout Mexican food
Hand sanitizer
Toilet paper
soap
indoor plumbing
clothes washing machine
1. Fluther (I’m such a suck-up) LOL
2. Grunge music
3. Remote controls.
Actually…..I had to have medical intervention when I was 6 months old. Had a hip bone that didn’t grow. They had to put me in a pillow splint for 6 months. Then, in 3rd grade, my eyes started going bad. I was getting a new script ever 6 months. By the time I hit Sr. High there were some concerns of me going blind altogether….but then I got contacts and that stopped the astigmatism. Then my teeth were really awful crooked, and I got braces. Without those “invented things” my life would be very, very different. I’d be a blind cripple with horrible teeth. I’m sure I would have been treated as retarded….might not even be alive now.
Paint, my computer and literature.
before “i“t was invented “it” wasn’t. so i suppose minus food, water, and other people i could get by fine. i am slightly addicted to my computer. although if we were talking life or death; obviously I’d be OK without allot of things. i suppose i would have to get inventive.and so it begins…....
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