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Before The Internet.
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How on earth did my parents generation cope with the boredom before the internet and multiple television channels, I even asked my 19 brothers and sisters and they didn't know either!
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My mother and grandmother could not sit down and do nothing. Darning, mending, knitting, polishing the flatware whilst watching TV or listening to the radio. Dad spent a lot of time in the garden or his allotments. When he wasn't doing that he was in his shed making, mending and brewing.
Housework took a lot longer, the laundry took up the whole day. Dad had to decorate the living room every year because the open fire and smoking discoloured the paint and wallpaper. Even having a bath was a massive job in the summer. No hot water so had to boil it in saucepans for the tin bath.
We have more free time than ever before - even before Covid - and many of us waste most of it.
Housework took a lot longer, the laundry took up the whole day. Dad had to decorate the living room every year because the open fire and smoking discoloured the paint and wallpaper. Even having a bath was a massive job in the summer. No hot water so had to boil it in saucepans for the tin bath.
We have more free time than ever before - even before Covid - and many of us waste most of it.
What this poster doesn’t realise is that not that long ago most people were kept busy doing basic chores. When I was first married, we had no central heating but coal fires and paraffin heaters. We had no fridge, fairly basic washing machine and often took washing to the launderette. There were no ready meals or microwaves, everything was cooked from scratch. We didn’t have a car, so walked places or caught a bus or train. We had much less free time and what we had was spent reading, watching telly, listening to the radio, going to the cinema etc.
Our parents and grandparents had no where near the amount of leisure time that we enjoy. Just about every waking hour was spent either working or doing the domestic chores and running repairs required to maintain good health. No labour saving devices, no cheap throw away clothing, no ready meals, no central heating or even gas or electric cooking devices. Believe me there were not enough hours in the day for them.
Ummmm some people have other hobbies than Social Media and Forums. I brought up 4 children without, thankfully, the need to put photos on FB of their every move and show the world how wonderfully well I was coping. The Social Media aspect of the Internet has, in my opinion, created more mental health issues than anything else in the 21st century.
Ummmmm neither could I. The Internet has been a Godsend for millions of people but the Social Media side of it has caused so many problems especially with youngsters trying to live up to their friends' lives, which for the main part are either exaggerated or totally made up. We see evidence of that on here, but some of us can see through it - young teenagers usually can't.
