I can't imagine life without...

hershey bars
contact lenses
caller ID
tampons!
a DVR

Cars
Television
Computers

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Reading is Fundamental.

Indoor Plumbing

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Cecilia

"We must love them both--those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it."
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Birth control pills (not for everybody, I know)

The HUGE variety of feminine hygeine products we have today - remember the belts of the 60's? {{{{{{shudder}}}}}}

Computers

Automatic kitchen appliances - dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer, microwave

I'm sure there are other inventions that greatly improve our everyday lives but my brain is foggy right now.

microwave
cable tv
remote control (my dd would die if she had to get up off the couch and change the channel like we did)

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I've never lied to you. I've always told you some version the of truth.

I always thought caller id was a silly waste of money.....but my phones died and the new phones came with them....then with cable phone caller id is free.
So every time the phone rings I get a message on my tv, and my phone announces loudly who is calling.
Cracks me up every time. You'd think I was 108 and amused with these "new fangled inventions".

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Internet, cell phones, PCs, cars, purses, hair color, high heels, ovens, washers and dryers, indoor plumbing, electricity, cheesecake, chocolate, music.

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Faith + Love = Happy

I would agree indoor plumbing I love love having my own private master suite bathroom, and honestly I literally hate public bathrooms, like they say nothing like home, other then that of course television and cell phones, especially for emergencies its nice to know just in case you know you can always reach someone... Peace. Catherine

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in memory of my beloved beautiful brother Sonny who is now an angel in heaven

How could I have forgotten tv?!!

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Faith + Love = Happy

The Internet.

my cell phone and the computer!!!

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Brianna

The other day I was thinking that I had to get to Publix before the sale was over to get some boxes of 2000 flushes. I waited until the last minute and they were all gone. I got thinking about how cool I thought it was when I was a kid and my Mom would put the tablets in the toilet that would turn the water blue or green. I never see green now (and who would want it...it would look like pee!), but I have seen purple. Anyway, this is where this is leading...I'd have to say colored toilet cleaner tabs (or whatever they're called)...Some more things that come to mind...
ATM's, Coca-Cola, garage door openers, the Ped Egg, air conditioning, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, razors, White Out...
~Lisa

thumb drives!

oh and remote control everything...I remember back in the 70s/early 80s, my neighbor used to brag about their tv and remote control...and it was one of those controls with like, a 30 foot cord connected to the tv, LOL remember those days?

cordless phones. I always hated saying "hold on, I have to....."

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"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."

John Lennon

computer
dishwasher
air conditioning

I have a 96 year old friend I kind of look after from time to time because her boys live elsewhere. Sometimes we will talk about her growing up and how things used to be. I think anyone in her age group has seen so very much in the way of change and inventions.

From getting a party line to cell phones, from harnessing the team of horses to a car to walking on the moon, from having your own garden and livestock (being basically self sufficient) to buying everything. I could go on and on.

Additionally, getting new things wasn't so automatic that when something new came out you just got it like people do now. Money was tighter and people were more cautious. She said they didn't get a tv until they knew the sets were reliable. Also, people didn't get "just to get".

It is always a nice trip down memory lane when I talk to her and I learn a lot. I've also learned a lot from my grandparents, aunts, and uncles. There are so many things we take for granted and yet a generation or two back, they sacrificed just to get a Frigidaire or an indoor flusher.

dl

Window screens-I would be eaten alive without them. Definately the indoor plumbing.

bug spray, advil, car, indoor plumbing/bed (after camping for 3 days, it's nice to have), a/c, alcohol

As of today it"s Preperation H lol

Hands down it has to be the PC!

I'll wash clothes with a washboard, sweat my arse off with no A/C in summer in Texas at 105° (like yesterday), use an outhouse at night in the middle of a winter snowstorm, rip open cans with my teeth, and use my TV as a post-it board. But take away my 'puter and I'm likely to just shrivel up and blow away.

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Mary

AIR CONDITIONING!!!! I swear I would die without it. I do remember those pads and belts for that time of the month - nasty!!!!