What modern convenience could you not live without?

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  1. cirdellin

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    Things not necessary but still extremely important to you.

    Automobile, microwave. air conditioning, whatever?
     
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    My car, phone, air conditioning...my caffeine!!! Lol
     
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    Unfortunately my phone, not by choice, it was forced on me by the industry in which I work.
     
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    Having lived in California and Salt Lake City and the Midwest US in summer I can assure you that life without AC is truly a slice of hell :)
     
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    I live in Phoenix...so I know lol
     
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    My creature comforts are my big reclining cushy chair, refrigerator/freezer and A/C.
     
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    These places are not fit for human habitation in the summer without AC. I’ve been in Houston in July. A 10 minute walk leaves you having to wring out your shirt!!! :)
     
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    Hahh! Come down here to Florida, our heat index has topped 110 recently, might only be 96 but the humidity.
     
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    And you have those chiggers and a world of mosquitoes and it doesn’t cool down at night.
     
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    And hurricanes and two annual plauges of lovebugs, they LOVE highways and eat paintjobs, it gets tolerable at night, compared to the day though. But you still sweat.
     
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    And hurricanes and two annual plauges of lovebugs, they LOVE highways and eat paintjobs, it gets tolerable at night, compared to the day though. But you still sweat.
     
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    I forgot about the hurricanes.
     
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    Internet is useless on its own. You need some type of modern convenience to access it like a computer or phone. 8)
     
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    I was just thinking 'I bet someone says the internet'...

    But yeah, the internet.

    I argue a computer or a phone without the internet is useless.

    I almost never use my landline, but never stop using the wifi.
     
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    Air conditioning and a dishwasher. Everything else has a work around. Well, technically dishwashers do too but that is like real work.
     
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    Yes, without this, some places wouldn't be so inhabited.
    I was just thinking about the washing machine and laundry Vs. delousing stone age garments.
     
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    Oh it rains enough around here that I could just hang my dirty clothes on the line and pretend they are clean after the storm
     
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    I also couldn't make it without my laptop. The cord on my laptop recently broke and it took about a two days for a new one to arrive. I thought it was the end of the world. LOL In fact, I ordered two new cords just in case. Oh, and the internet.
     
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    Plumbing, and for good measure, hot water.
     
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    I don't think that's modern, I think Ancient Egypt had cold beer on tap. ;)
     
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    I could live without modern conveniences, but I would miss hot water on demand the most, and go to great lengths to get it.
     
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    I just knew that pharaoh dude knew what he was doing.....but still a top 5 invention of mankind.
     
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