I really admire my ancestors for living without...

[Gadget]

Great fun wasn't it Gadget 

Sharon

GREAT

[MrsLizzy]

I remember when my stepfather was made redundant from Ford's in Dagenham, and he and my mum went out shopping with the redundancy money.  Among the things they bought were a microwave oven.  I can remember thinking (I was 15, I think) "We've managed all these years without a microwave oven.  Why do we need one now?"  I still think microwaves are not that much of a blessing and think they should have used the money to pay off their mortgage.  They live in Lincolnshire now, in a village called New Bolingbroke, about halfway between Boston and Horncastle.

[GRACELAND]

Microwaves , and loads of kitchen gadgets that fill the cupboards in yer kitchen ,and how many of them see the light of day again after that first use ??
            i will say though we bought an egg boiler and that works great and we do use that 
For 1-7 eggs
Degree of boiling from soft to hard
Clearly marked filling/measuring jug
Egg piercer
Buzzer tone indicates when eggs are ready
Illuminated on/off switch 

and we use this but we have loads of stuff we never bother with as its easier to use less and save on washing up .
         

[PassionPlay]

loads of kitchen gadgets that fill the cupboards in yer kitchen ,and how many of them see the light of day again after that first use ??
            

My breadmaker.... gorgeous bread but it gets used once a year at Christmas 

BUT I still regularly use the breadknife I remember my Aunts using when I was very small, which looks as old as the hills (as they would have said  ).

Steph.

[GRACELAND]

Yep we got one of them Bread makers ok but not used enough 


More Egg boilers here

http://search.ebay.co.uk/egg-boiler_W0QQfcclZ1QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1

[linmey]

I keep my kitchen as low tech as possible, apart from washing machine, freezer etc. I had one of those food processors once. Couldnt be bothered to read the instructions and couldnt be bothered to clean it afterwards. Now I have a little hand held mixer and a hand held blender. Perfect.

[MrsLizzy]

Yep we got one of them Bread makers ok but not used enough 


More Egg boilers here

http://search.ebay.co.uk/egg-boiler_W0QQfcclZ1QQfclZ4QQfnuZ1QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1

but making bread is such a doddle, why use a machine to do it?  I made bread rolls yesterday in a vain attempt to impress my man!

[otters]

It isn't only our ancestors that had to live without electricity, running water, bathrooms etc; I did.
I am still in my 50's (not that old really) and the house I was brought up in had no electricity until I was in my late teens. We had no running water inside the house, just a tap outside that froze every day in winter as did the toilet that was outside in the yard. No garden either. We had to chip ice off the tin bath that was kept outside to bring it in and fill with water heated on the gas stove, it took ages. Then after we had had a bath it had to be bailed out, so that the bath could be turned on end to get it back through the back door and into the yard again.
No central heating, we just had a coal fire downstairs, so upstairs the windows had ice on the insides.
Those were the day's!!

[MrsLizzy]

I don't envy them for the lack of access to education that we have - not to mention plumbing!  And medical care and anaesthetics etc!