Not Amish to the extent of letting the men eat first, and wearing drab attire. BUT in the way of simplicity! Sometimes (not often) I just wanna throw the cellphone in a lake, say "screw you facebook!", disconnect the tv (can't throw it cuz that's just wasting money ;p), sell the dvds (crying in the process), and just live simply.....yea....I'd sure miss air conditioning though...and microwaves....BUT that's not the point! Yea there really isn't a point......except we're all kinda spoiled, and really would die if we didn't have electricity for a month. Cuz this is what would happen..."AHH! NO electricity! How will I know how to do anything if I don't look it up on the internet!!! *twitching*"
Also a little bit Amish is knowing a lot of good trades. Like carpentry! Steel work! Gardening!
Baking from Scratch and not from a box (though it's faster and I want my brownies NOW)! Quilting by hand! Clothes making (though I'd want a little pattern)! Farming! Carrying for livestock! I really want to make a fabulous dining room table out of old barn planks.....rustic.
A little bit Amish is also ALL about family. Love that. Love. Cuz they are just so dependent on each other to keep everything rollin' smoothly. So much respect and love......yea....
I wanna be a little bit Amish......sometimes....
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I've been thinking that a lot lately, especially since I don't like dishing out the cash for the internet every month, LOL. I had a draft note on facebook a few days ago that I never published cuz I didn't feel like sharing with the world but it was basically this. Remember before the internet when you couldn't just google a question and find 1000 solutions (999 of which make the problem worse) but we found our own solutions? I feel I've lost some originality and creativity along the way and made no fewer mistakes, just more of everyone else's!! But of course I still like allrecipes.com and finding cheap/different ways to solve things. It just gets me that I almost never call up a friend or two when I have random questions about a recipe or how to f'ing sew. lol.
ReplyDeleteSaid very well Carlie! :D
ReplyDeleteYou should do one of those "unplugged" for a week things when you unplug your net, phone, and TV and live without it for a week.
ReplyDeleteMe, I never have this wish.In fact, I wish for more technology so that I don't have to deal with real people. ;)
I should try! buuuutttt Internet I need to talk to Todd. Maybe just turn off the phone and tele for a week. ;)
ReplyDeleteYeah I know I couldn't get Dennis to actually not have internet, even for a short period. I'd have to somehow discipline myself to not use it, HA. right. What's the point if we're paying for it anyway, lol. ;)
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