I recently changed offices at work and made the mistake of allowing my new neighbors to see my ancient cellphone (pictured, left). (I can’t even recall what year I got it. It’s only slighter smaller than Julia Roberts’ in My Best Friend’s Wedding, but it takes calls and lets me make them, and that’s all I need.) Then, I made an even bigger mistake: I admitted that I still use a CD Walkman (also pictured). It’s not that I don’t want an iPod, it’s just that I’ve survived without one — mainly by hiding my Walkman in my purse when I’m on public transportation and looking somewhat like a terrorist, I suppose, as I try to slide my hand into the bag to adjust the volume or skip a track while remaining undetected.
Now I know the only reason I wasn’t escorted from the building was a well-timed decision to inform my coworkers that I do, in fact, own a flatscreen TV and a DVR. How ashamed should I feel? You can judge me — but only if you admit your own techie deficiencies below…
My husband insists that we do not need cable, and we actually still use those hideous rabbit ears. It’s so embarrassing when people come over, and of course we only get 6 channels (and never all of them at the same time). I’m so glad that we’ll be forced to get cable by next year!
I don’t have a plasma TV and I still have a stero with a three disc changer and double tape deck.
I don’t have a plasma TV and I still have a stereo with a three disc changer and double tape deck.
I don’t know how to text message and don’t want to learn how.
I have a 25 year old 19″ TV; rotary dial phone, no ATM card, no IPOD, and an ancient cell phone that stays in the car and doesn’t have any bells & whistles on it. I use a cassette tape player when I go walking, not a walkman. Life is good.
I have no cell phone and proud of it!
I don’t have a ipod. My cell phone is a pay as you go (60 minutes will last me three months). I just got a computer that runs on something other than windows ’94, and I just got the internet at home today (I’ve been surfing at work).
Don’t worry, my cell phone is one step down from yours! Even when fully charged, the battery dies after about 6 minutes of talk time, it has no camera/internet/games/etc, and the 5 key doesn’t work. Yet thanks to the Nazi regime that is Sprint PCS, I am stuck with it until September under penalty of death!
No LCD or plasma tv. No DVR. My oldish tvs are still going along quite nicely, and despite forgetting what I have on which VHS tapes, I can’t bring myself to get rid of the VCRs just yet.
I confess that although I do have a fairly up to date cellphone I’m still only using its text and phoning functions. Watching tv or videos on its itty-bitty screen, playing games, or using it for taking grainy pictures(sorry PXTs!)just don’t appeal. Shoulda just kept the old one.
Easy…i have not one, but two VCRs in my place. I’ve tried DVR and its ok (though it’s incredibly annoying when some shows overrun and I miss the last few minutes of “Lost”), but, for some reason I can’t let go of my VCR…and my friends laugh and laugh.
Dont have a cell phone or i pod.
I also have a CD walkman, mainly to listen to NPR while woking out. I don’t download music, chat, use an Ipod, have a plama TV (who’s going to spend that money?), have a cell that doesn’t take pictures (they were VERY annoying at my brother’s wedding) and have only text messaged when my sister-in-law sends me a message.
Ready
I have NO cell phone, no home computer, no tv’s made in the last 10 years, no electric gadgets of any kind I hardly even know what an I pod is. Forget a digital camera or just about anything in the Best Buy ad. Really I am just about 1 step away from being amish
No DVR and no flatscreen. I don’t care about the DVR but a flatscreen would be nice. Simple cell phone with voice mail but no camera and I don’t do texting. I did get an MP3 player but haven’t loaded it yet.
No flat screen, no DVR, and I still have a mighty fine collection of movies on VHS. Only because I buy new movies that I don’t already own for my DVD collection. Then again. Soon we’ll all be saying “No HD or Blue-ray DVD player.” I’ll be keeping my DVD/VCR until it dies or we’re forced to buy something new.