Old Ways

I am sure many people do this, try to imagine what life was like for some older generation. Sometimes I think back on actual how it was before some gadget became the everyday thing that never leaves our sides. Before flat screen TVs and cell phones. They become such a part of our everyday lives it is hard to remember they didn't always exist.

Last night I had such a moment when I was drying my hair after a shower. As I flipped my hair to dry the underside, I was thinking about changing the area of my room where the hair dryer was and how there weren't really any empty  plug spaces over in that area. Then I thought about a power strip and how many things I can plug into each strip and I immediately thought, what did people do before power strips? Did they actually unplug things? Ludicrous

There are any number of things that I keep plugged in to make my life function. Just in the living room alone I have the Xbox and TV, a light and a couple other things. I came to the conclusion that maybe back in the day not only did they unplug things they also didn't have a DVD player, VCR, cable box, TV, game console and sound system that all connect together and need to be plugged in. Simple thought, probably true, kind of makes you think about what we might be able to get by without in our lives and creating simpler times.