Old Fashioned

Retractable clotheslines are used here too, they usually have several rows of lines, I just thought 2 pictures was enough.,

paperpudding wrote: »

Fixed line clothesline

I've never seen one like this.

Mom's three clotheslines just go from the house to a tree, or tree to tree.

We are putting in a dryer when we move it. We are also putting in a cat fence, which will kill one of the clotheslines. I think my brother will switch to the dryer, in which case there will be plenty of space for my mother on the remaining two lines, but if not will put one of these free standing lines down in the field.

I love my thirteen year old Smart car because it’s so basic, and it’s fun to drive. I would go insane with dashboard consoles, integrated smart functions, electric seats, and buttons galore. When we rent cars with those things, we are all aflutter with confusion and distraction.

Get in. Turn the key, and drive. The only decision is top up, or down?

@yirara our “new” house has a tiny kitchen, with half the storage and counter space our old one had. I’ve gone through several times and brutally gotten rid of stuff. It seems a lot easier to manage with fewer appliances and gadgets.

My favorite “old fashioned” kitchen implement is a hand beater. I use it every day. It’s oxo’s brilliantly engineered version, though. And I still use the dollar store wooden spoons the girls gave me for Christmas when they were little. Man, those things are old as dirt, now that I think about it!

Rotary clothes line here as well. After my traditional T pole base rotted, I went rotary. It can hold three large loads of laundry.

Well, I use modern appliances for cleaning my house (to save me time) but I don't really shopping for groceries because I grow almost everything on my farm....And I also make homemade lotions so I know that it doesn't contain any unwanted ingredients)))))

springlering62 wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

@springlering62 I usually have about 3m kitchen space. If I'm lucky. My latest place only has about 2.5m, including a dishwasher. That's just too little and so I need to find a cheap solution to put a few more cupboards in. The workspace is just about sufficient, but the kettle needs to go somewhere, a microwave, plus all my pots of spices and herbs.

Our daughter’s previous kitchen in a German attic was about that size and was a one sided galley kitchen with a blank wall on the other. The kitchen formed a narrow walkway into the bedroom.


We hung some of these for spices and other small items and it didn’t eat into the walkway too much.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bekvaem-spice-rack-aspen-20487175/

Now that I’m looking at them I’m having a hmmmmm moment. I wonder if I could stick these inside the pantry door with Command Velcro strips. Spices take up darned much room.

While looking for a meme for "too many spices" I found this and now can't get the song out of my head

springlering62 wrote: »

I love my thirteen year old Smart car because it’s so basic, and it’s fun to drive. I would go insane with dashboard consoles, integrated smart functions, electric seats, and buttons galore. When we rent cars with those things, we are all aflutter with confusion and distraction.

Both of my vehicles (car and truck) were 2000 vintage and I found the technology leap a bit much whenever I was suddenly thrust into a rental that looked more like the cockpit of a small jet than a car. Worse, this usually happens on a work trip so I'm leaving an airport and heading out on a highway, learning at high speed.

Ummm, no. If i could cram more things into my dishwasher, or get more machines to do my bidding, I would. Give me modern conveniences any day!!!

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MsCzar wrote: »

My parents were children of the Great Depression and were young folk during the second World War. Self-sufficiency and frugality were the order of the day. So I still:

Dry clothes outdoors, boiler room drying in the winter.
Home can my own garden which I grow from seeds
Make my own pectin
Bake my own bread
Use an old fashioned gas cooker
Hand grind bread crumbs
Make my own yogurt
Drink stove-top percolated coffee
Dry herbs from my garden
Don't have a smart phone!
Newest vehicle is 10+ year old
Use paper maps
Pick wild berries, forage greens & mushrooms
Make my own laundry detergent
I can (but don't) sew my own clothes

I know how to do most of those, and have actually done them in the past, with some consistency. (Exceptions: I know how to make pectin, haven't done it. I'm not sure what an "old fashioned gas cooker" is, but I cook on a gas stove routinely, and have cooked lots on a propane gas stove, including at home during power outages. I 100% have a smart phone, and would dislike to do without it. I've never made my own laundry detergent.) I've done all the rest, for fairly long periods of time, including a period when I made a large fraction of my own clothes.

I don't choose to, now, mostly. There are comparable-quality commercial options, and I feel truly fortunate to be able to afford them, though I'm not by any means wealthy.

Occasionally, I bake bread. (Not a big bread eater.) I use whole bean coffee, grind it at home, but don't like perked (I use a pour-through porcelain drip thingie). I mostly use the garden herbs fresh. My only motorized vehicle is a 2009 model. (The oldest non-motorized one here was made in 1913. 😉😆).

quote="MsCzar;c-46325191"]The dishwasher is the one modern convenience I will not do without. [/quote]

I've never lived anywhere that had one available to use. Still don't. Sounds good, though. That's one thing, through the pandemic: I'm pretty bored with washing dishes, TBH.

springlering62 wrote: »

yirara wrote: »

@springlering62 I usually have about 3m kitchen space. If I'm lucky. My latest place only has about 2.5m, including a dishwasher. That's just too little and so I need to find a cheap solution to put a few more cupboards in. The workspace is just about sufficient, but the kettle needs to go somewhere, a microwave, plus all my pots of spices and herbs.

Our daughter’s previous kitchen in a German attic was about that size and was a one sided galley kitchen with a blank wall on the other. The kitchen formed a narrow walkway into the bedroom.


We hung some of these for spices and other small items and it didn’t eat into the walkway too much.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bekvaem-spice-rack-aspen-20487175/

Now that I’m looking at them I’m having a hmmmmm moment. I wonder if I could stick these inside the pantry door with Command Velcro strips. Spices take up darned much room.

I have about 1.5x4m left in my kitchen. Thus I could easily put in some second-hand kitchen cabinets. Or some second-hand Malm or similar Ikea cabinets. If all fails, I'm a total fan of Ikea Knoxhult: fun to build, and lots of worktop and storage space. That's better than drilling holes into the wall to fit spice cabinets as I need to fix this all when I move out again. Plus I have about 40 spice pots!

Hmm, on these, I am decidedly not old-fashioned (which I already knew):

MsCzar wrote: »

My parents were children of the Great Depression and were young folk during the second World War. Self-sufficiency and frugality were the order of the day. So I still:

Dry clothes outdoors, boiler room drying in the winter.
Home can my own garden which I grow from seeds
Make my own pectin
Bake my own bread

I like my dryer (my favorite thing about getting my first condo years ago was having in-unit washer/dryer and I've never seen anywhere here that has a washer and not a dryer), and have never had any desire to use a clothesline. I don't eat jam or jellies, so have never thought about making pectin, but I do have a garden (size and success varies, I have very small yard compared to many), and I have considered learning to can things. I have baked bread in the past, but I don't eat that much bread otherwise, so basically stopped when I started losing weight. (I also spent years perfecting my pie crust and now have probably lost the skill since I rarely make pie anymore.)

Use an old fashioned gas cooker
Hand grind bread crumbs
Make my own yogurt
Drink stove-top percolated coffee
Dry herbs from my garden

Gas cooker instead of an oven? I have a gas range, but it's basically just the standard kind of oven most people around here have.

Re breadcrumbs, I never have bread on hand, but I've made my own bread crumbs (it's just not something that comes up that often). I do make my own yogurt, although I also buy it, and like Ann I grind coffee beans and do the pour over thing and use the herbs from my garden fresh. (I bought a book about drying stuff and was planning to dry fruit and some herbs to make herbal teas, but that was a covid project I never got to.)

Don't have a smart phone!
Newest vehicle is 10+ year old
Use paper maps
Pick wild berries, forage greens & mushrooms
Make my own laundry detergent
I can (but don't) sew my own clothes

I love my smartphone, but my only car is 2008 and I lived for years without one before getting that one. I love paper maps, but also love GPS/computer maps (like google maps). The latter can be great for mapping stuff all over the world easily without having to go out and buy lots of expensive maps that take up room.

We picked wild berries when I was a kid and my dad does that and his wife forages mushrooms, but all that is just not something I'm into. Do not make my own detergent (and can't see myself doing that). I learned to sew to some degree as a kid and did various repairs, but no interest at present. (When I took dance as a kid the mothers all were expected to sew the costumes for recitals and my poor mom did it, but I knew she hated it so.)

Notreadytoquit wrote: »

I'm not that old fashioned. Thank God for modern appliances, I work hard enough running a homestead. This week it's Chestnuts. Chestnut soup, chestnut croquettes, marinated chestnuts, roasted by the fire chestnuts, gluten free chestnut flour ... and the squirrels and deer won the harvest this morning.

We had our first chestnuts at a German Christmas market a couple years ago. We were sitting on a bench eating them and saying to one another,Well, these just aren’t all they’re cracked up to be”, when we noticed parents urging a child not to stare.

That’s when we realized, after looking around (and at the shell littered ground at our feet), you’re supposed to peel them before you eat them.

Coming from peanut country, you’d guess we’d have thought of that right away. But no. 🤦🏻‍♀️