tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post2891185151263198517..comments2024-01-03T01:40:26.911-08:00Comments on Life Drawings: 5 September 1956 “Comments Continued…”50sgalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-78031739516300875052011-01-01T06:08:14.839-08:002011-01-01T06:08:14.839-08:00This is a test to see if I can actually post a com...This is a test to see if I can actually post a comment.<br /><br />I love your blog. I was 5 years old in 1056 so there is a lot I can identify with.<br /><br />I love your attitude and appreciation for those days.Squashpantshttp://www.facebook.com/home.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-47240322742270450292010-09-10T11:07:48.918-07:002010-09-10T11:07:48.918-07:00The iPhone is the single most overrated "cool...The iPhone is the single most overrated "cool" thing on the planet IMO. I hate that thing. I really do. I also strongly dislike all the Mac-Heads that live and breathe the stupid thing. It's a crappy phone, it honestly is! The only reason people buy it is because it's Apple and Apple is "cool". The new iPhone is finally a decent phone, but every single one of them has a design flaw where if you press on one certain spot it quits working. Steve Jobs knew about it, denied it for two months, and refuses to truly fix the problem. But there are other phones out there that are way better than the iPhone from a phone standpoint, like mine. Mine's only a mid-level phone, it's not all tricked out.<br /><br />I do have a smartphone, and it was bought for me out of fear. I was in a dangerous position at the time and my parents wanted to make sure I would have a phone and Internet access. It also has the ability to password protect it, so I was able to lock him out of it. I'm out of that situation now and I do really like my phone. It's an Android phone, which means it syncs with all my Google stuff automatically, which has actually made a lot of things easier to keep up with. <br /><br />Do I take advantage of all its features? No. Do I keep it in my pocket all the time? No. Unless I'm out of the house, it stays on my bedside table. It doesn't work very well in the house because of our metal roof. I did use it when I was out and about yesterday, to check on my kitty who's at the vet with a snake bite, and used the Internet to double check a movie time. Am I always on it? No. And I hate people who are always on their phone. There are more important things in life.<br /><br />I will never give up my paper and pens! There's way too many fun ink colors out there to write with.Rachel Leigh Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16004728242824462126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-24907519944503916992010-09-06T13:00:36.578-07:002010-09-06T13:00:36.578-07:00Right on, especially your views about a cell phone...Right on, especially your views about a cell phone. Give me a to do list and a paper calendar any day over the complicated mini-office cell phones are today. I appreciate technology but sometimes nothing beats simple paper and pencil organization!Republic Monetary Exchangehttp://republicmonetaryexchange.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-80743333695107589832010-09-06T06:47:18.744-07:002010-09-06T06:47:18.744-07:00Bravo...I join the revolution. I wrote a small pos...Bravo...I join the revolution. I wrote a small post today about gardening and why people of ages past did not have weight problems. When you had to prepare all your food from scratch, grow it, harvest it and so on..there is no room for gorging. EVERYTHING in our society today is about bigger, better, faster, cheaper!!!! I hate it.<br /><br />I just bought a 1946 house that has remained unchanged since then. I want to keep it that way. I am purging and getting rid of much unwanted stuff. I have never been a consumer but I have been given and handed down a lot of stuff. This is the hardest to part with as I am sentimental. But I will try.<br /><br />I am with you 100%. I was at a yard sale yesterday and as I looked at all the things I openly stated to all that were present that we do not need one more thing manufactured in this country. We have it all. It is overflowing out of each and every crevice of our lives. Let's use the things that were created years ago, with quality, instead of the crap being thrown at us by all this advertising and consumerism. I do not go to Walmart and other box stores. I just won't. I wish the mom and pop stores still could exist.<br /><br />I do not own a cell phone. Both of my children for a time only had them and no land line, my son bought an iphone and had no reception even though he lived in a medium sized city. He had to install a land line just to talk to people from his home. I worry so much about what this is doing to our planet. This throw away world we live in.<br /><br />The man who owned our home before we did had a mop and instead of buying a new one when it tore, he stitched it up. Who today would do that? I could rant myself about all of this and if you don't mind I will link to your posts and rant more on my own blog.<br /><br />Maybe THIS is how a revolution starts. Count me as one of your bubbles.Sassy Lassies Vintage Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537761367611783397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-5611490885860091362010-09-06T04:21:10.958-07:002010-09-06T04:21:10.958-07:00You said: “It is cheaper to make my own clothes an...You said: “It is cheaper to make my own clothes and keep and maintain their sturdy construction by me”<br /><br />May I add, wearing vintage is also cheaper in the way that you have your wardrobe for most of your life. I have many things in my closet that are at least ten years or even older, and I still get spontaneous compliments wearing it. Wearing vintage, you don’t have to follow the mainstream fashion trend, you create your own style and stick to it.<br /><br />Great post as always, although it was replies to other comments.SANNEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12973437247117000140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-52698478956652134992010-09-06T03:18:48.804-07:002010-09-06T03:18:48.804-07:00Oh well said!I loved reading your comment to Jenny...Oh well said!I loved reading your comment to Jenny & the one following.I felt like standing up & applauding you(although i'm sure i would have looked a little silly :) ) Your words are so true & so very inspiring.I really do hope you publish your book & that it has these words of wisdom dotted throughout.I would love to have a copy that i could keep in the kitchen or beside my bed so i could pick it up any time to be inspired to continue on my journey of simplifying/vintagifying :) my life.<br />Thankyou!:)Mrs Cleaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06835255790994645503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-65812866795783562182010-09-05T10:56:30.913-07:002010-09-05T10:56:30.913-07:00Being cool and keeping up with Joneses is more imp...Being cool and keeping up with Joneses is more important than ever before!<br /><br />My husband and I watched a student at my sons' college violently throw his cell phone on the floor. When we asked our sons what that was all about, they told us, "Oh, he's trying to break it because he wants a new one, and his parents won't buy him one, but if it's broken...then they have to buy him a new one, and he wants the latest cool one!"<br /><br />Honestly!<br /><br />Our sons had cheap, non-cool cell phones, and (gasp) we made them use them year after year! Of course, when my oldest went in the service and out on his own making his own money, he dispensed with the one we bought him and got a "cool" one.<br /><br />We always taught them that "cool is of the devil" and that cool is expensive, but peer pressure is very strong and advertising is hard to resist.<br /><br />I, too, wish things could be like "back then," -- at least the good things about back then, and there were many.Roxannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196747496651546918noreply@blogger.com