Stuff My 8 Year Old Has That I Didn't In 1979

Generali

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

So like a frying pan, but with a mini built-in cooker? I've never eaten home-made ice cream, so glad you are getting use out of it.

Yup, precisely. A flat plate of metal with a raised ring around it with a heating device below and an on/off switch.

Home-made ice cream is delicious and very healthy for kids because of all the dairy & fruit. It's cheap and simple to make: eggs, milk, cream and some fruit puree or vanilla pod. Sorbet is even easier and you don't need an ice cream maker to make it.

I make an excellent Christmas Pudding ice cream even if I do say so myself.

Generali

Idiophreak wrote: »

Basically, yeah...something like this:

That's the one, only a different brand.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

angrypirate wrote: »

6 computers
Why

Interesting thought, actually.

I've just thought about the computing power in our house.

We have.....

2 x work issued laptops
2 x personal laptops
2 x ipad
1 x imac
1 x Mac Pro
1 x old desktop PC
2 x personal i-phones
2 x work issued smartphones
6 TB of external hard drives
4 x printer/scanner etc
Plus various games consoles, media interface, airports, etc, on the home network.

Other than the ancient desktop pc which is only kept around as part of my ongoing but occasional task of converting boxes of old media to modern formats, the rest are used pretty much daily.

I have no idea why.

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Interesting thought, actually.

I've just thought about the computing power in our house.

We have.....

2 x work issued laptops
2 x personal laptops
2 x ipad
1 x imac
1 x Mac Pro
1 x old desktop PC
2 x personal i-phones
2 x work issued smartphones
6 TB of external hard drives
4 x printer/scanner etc
Plus various games consoles, media interface, airports, etc, on the home network.

Other than the ancient desktop pc which is only kept around as part of my ongoing but occasional task of converting boxes of old media to modern formats, the rest are used pretty much daily.

I have no idea why.

I think we have found an apple tart

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I think we have found an apple tart

Yep.:o

Guilty as charged.

The current personal laptops are pc based, but when they expire, they'll be replaced with MacBooks.

My first Mac was a G5 about 10 years ago, the road to full conversion has been rocky, with mostly PC's along the way until the last 2-3 years.

But Apple products are now just so good, it's hard to go back to working on the PC during the day.

angrypirate

Idiophreak wrote: »

Basically, yeah...something like this:

Frying pans on a hob are SO yesterday

PasturesNew

Stuff your kids have now that I don't have:

Generali wrote: »

- 2nd & 3rd TV
- 6 x computers
- 2 x smart phones
- Foxtel (Sky) with digital recorder x2

- Ice cream maker
- Pancake maker
- E-Reader
- Second Freezer on top of the fridge freezer
- Fancy SLR camera plus a couple of hand held ones (my son has 2 cameras he's had as presents!)
- A squillion toys (kids today have a lot more toys and books than I can ever recall having - the Generalissimos have had from school mates what I would have thought a pretty decent present from my Parents as a kid)
- Air con (ok, fair cop. I live in Aus, I guess it replaces central heating)
- Foreign holidays: A trip to Aus would have been described as a 'once in a lifetime trip' when I was a kid. Now I moan about only going back every couple of years.
- 2 x games consoles
- 2 x hand held games machines

Never mind a 2nd freezer, I don't even have a first one.
Never mind foreign holidays, I don't even have a UK one.

My portable TV is borrowed and I have no systems/consoles/games/gadgets etc.

:P

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Stuff your kids have now that I don't have:

Never mind a 2nd freezer, I don't even have a first one.
Never mind foreign holidays, I don't even have a UK one.

My portable TV is borrowed and I have no systems/consoles/games/gadgets etc.

:P

You don't have kids.

I can cook for myself after work in my own time but for the kids to eat decent food during the week and get enough sleep I have to cook and freeze stews and curries.

Ready meals are super expensive here so I save money over all.

I would guess that your lifestyle is unusually frugal PN although I have no stats to back it up. If everyone in the UK converted to your lifestyle tomorrow the country would go broke in a year or so!

Generali

angrypirate wrote: »

Frying pans on a hob are SO yesterday

It's a family thing. The kids had an Au pair that made them crepes so they got me a crepe maker for Father's Day. It cost $10. They want to get me something and that's as good a thing as any.

dryhat

It's weird how people measure progress/quality of life in terms of how much "stuff" you have or haven't got.

Standard of living and quality of life are two different things.

But consumerism and the dream of perpetual growth have merged the two over the years and people now assess their lives in terms of possessions and call it progress.

The American dream?
Yeah, you have to be asleep to believe it.