Tuesday Tip

I read a small article on MSN about ten old fashioned things we should no longer be using. Quite a scary perspective I must say, it included things like a fax machine and dvd disks. In answer to that I feel we have to cling on to some of them. Just in case.
The typewriter - how will you write the next great novel if the electricity goes off?
Fax machines - yes, I do like to have human writing on pieces of paper that I've transmitted.
Landline 'phone - here's where the suspicious me comes in to play, I like to think the person I'm calling is NOT of "no fixed abode".
Instant camera - well, I'm a sucker for a picture I can hold in my hand and return to whenever so yes, an instant photo is quite cool and also, see my first point about no power.
Disk drive. You see, the love of my life and I have been collecting DVDs, yes, we buy them and then either watch the movie or file the disk away for later. The theory being that the day will come when we can no longer afford to pay for television and so, in our dotage, we will have lots of old movies and series to watch.
The remaining five on the list
Telegrammes - only if Kevin Costner delivers them on horseback.
Turntable - only if there is a ready supply of stylusses (?)
Cash register - I almost kept that one but I couldn't think why.
Tube TV - well, to me a TV is a TV so I don't care whether it has a tube or not.
CB radio - truth to tell, we do still have one but surely it has to operate through some sort of radio transmitter and I don't know if the ones disguised as pine trees would work.
My tip, be careful what you discard, who knows what we'll need after 2012!
10/4 good buddies.