My dad is driving me nuts!

[Artesia]

I don't even own an e-reader.  I don't think I would like one.  But then, I am a librarian's daughter.

And I am probably the only person in North America who uses her cellphone just as a phone.

Raises Hand.

I use it as a phone only as well.  I have a laptop and a tablet for internet surfing, and an xbox for gaming.  My wife put some stuff on it.  So, occasionally, it beeps at me for something.....God knows what.

[Laurie]

My grandma doesn't even use a cell phone.  My dad got her one but she never turns it on. Its just buried in her purse. She uses a house phone. The only thing it does is make phone calls and its like attached to the wall. You actually have to stand there in front of it to talk on the phone. It doesn't have a screen or anything and you can't even see the number you dialed. And she has this thing she calls a roller desk on the counter under the phone. It has handwritten names and numbers on little cards! I give up on her.

  Julia you are showing your youth. First off it is called a rollo desk and it was a very common item for keeping contact information handy.. You are too young to remember rotary dial phones and party lines. Ask you grandmother about them. The first "cell phone" was a monstrosity the size of a military walkie talkie. and was not light. Home phones were commonly attached to a wall or sat on a desk in a common room.. You need some history lessons girl. I remember all of these myself. I'm a product of the good old days.

Lol & Hugs,
   Laurie

[JulieOnHerWay]

Julie you are always such a trip.  So young, so wise and so nice but girlfriend, like Laurie said all that wall phone stuff is not that old.  My mother would have been the same with a cell phone.  No need and said she would be the last person to own one.  She was high tech though.  Had an answering machine.
I remember that we had a party line phone at first.  We shared a common line with other nearby and if you were sneaky you could listen in to what others were saying.  LOL.
Somewhere in my stuff is a analog bag cell phone from the 80's.   A monstrosity.  Huge phone and huge battery that had a shoulder strap.  It must now be worth more than the TV I traded for it.

[rmaddy]

We all grew up with those, Julia.

[Julia1996]

We all grew up with those, Julia.

When I was little we had a house phone too but you could walk around the house with it and it had a screen for caller ID. You couldn't go that far outside with it but it wasnt attached to the wall. It had kind of like a charging mat only it was kind of big. That plugged into a electric socket and it had another cord with a weird little plug thing that also plugged into the wall.  I've seen those first cell phones. OMG you would have looked like such a tool carrying around something like that. Lol.  I'm so glad we have normal cellphones now. I use mine for everything.

[rmaddy]

Our phones where all larger, sat on a countertop, and had a dial rather than buttons.  Yeah...I'm that old.

[Tammy Jade]

My grandma doesn't even use a cell phone.  My dad got her one but she never turns it on. Its just buried in her purse. She uses a house phone. The only thing it does is make phone calls and its like attached to the wall. You actually have to stand there in front of it to talk on the phone. It doesn't have a screen or anything and you can't even see the number you dialed. And she has this thing she calls a roller desk on the counter under the phone. It has handwritten names and numbers on little cards! I give up on her.

Julia - now your even making me feel old.

Then again Australia has always been behind when it comes to phones. I blame Telstra (oh wait I work for Telstra.. probably shouldn't do that) - feel free to ask ur BF and I bet he can't find a single positive thing to say about good old Telstra

We called those wall phones a T1000 or the earlier ones a T100 we still have one as do my parents.

As for the old rotary phones I can remember both my grandparents having them right up until the mid 90's

Working in the phone industry I suppose you get to see a lot more then most people but the number of people who hang onto their old phones is surprising and a lot larger the most people expect

Back to the books tho, book boxes worked amazingly for us, me and mum were close to walking out and finding a new place. Not so sure about the furnace idea but it would make them easy to store

Good luck! 


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[Julia1996]

My grandparents are just the kind of people who keep everything and don't update. They still have apple green ankle deep shag carpet in their living room. Not only do they still have actual records , the turntable they play them on is hidden in this huge wooden cabinet thing. You open up the top and there is a turntable in there. I told her it was weird to have something so big just to hold a turntable and she said only the turntable still worked but it was a TV too and she slid open some doors and there was a big, fishbowl looking TV screen built into it! WOW! She calls that thing her " stereo " .  lol

[Lady Sarah]

My grandparents are just the kind of people who keep everything and don't update. They still have apple green ankle deep shag carpet in their living room. Not only do they still have actual records , the turntable they play them on is hidden in this huge wooden cabinet thing. You open up the top and there is a turntable in there. I told her it was weird to have something so big just to hold a turntable and she said only the turntable still worked but it was a TV too and she slid open some doors and there was a big, fishbowl looking TV screen built into it! WOW! She calls that thing her " stereo " .  lol

My last foster parents had one of those "stereos". So, I thought I was super cool when I got a Knight Kit 2000 stereo with turntable, that had tubes that lit up to almost white hot when I had it cranked up to Deep Purple, or Black Sabbath. These days, everything is digital, and I'd have no clue how to repair one.

[Artesia]

My grandparents are just the kind of people who keep everything and don't update. They still have apple green ankle deep shag carpet in their living room. Not only do they still have actual records , the turntable they play them on is hidden in this huge wooden cabinet thing. You open up the top and there is a turntable in there. I told her it was weird to have something so big just to hold a turntable and she said only the turntable still worked but it was a TV too and she slid open some doors and there was a big, fishbowl looking TV screen built into it! WOW! She calls that thing her " stereo " .  lol

My Grandma had one of those, but she called it the HiFi.  They were awesome to play with.  To bad the TV was broken, but everything else worked.  I couldn't imagine that you could get a signal on the TV part now anyway.  Thing is probably worth a pretty penny now too.  It was sold as part of her house when she passed.