| With all the appliances at our fingertips today, we | | | | However, you wouldn't have much of a choice. I |
| just seem to take them all for granted. Even the | | | | suppose you could resort to a barbecue but that can |
| dear old seniors don't relate back much to the days | | | | be pretty miserable standing out in the rain or snow |
| when they didn't have all these commodities. | | | | trying to cook a meal that is a necessity. |
| Sometimes though it can be a real eye opener if we | | | | So what other home appliances do we have to be |
| allow ourselves to envision being without the many | | | | grateful for? Of course, there is the washer and |
| items that we have that makes our life so easy | | | | dryer. Now the dryer we really can live without. After |
| when it comes to daily living. | | | | all many people, choose to hang their clothes out |
| Let's take a look at our fridge for example. The | | | | where they dry in the nice fresh air. However, there |
| most praise we give it is when it manages to remain | | | | is a dryer sitting in the laundry room for backup for |
| clean for a few days. Think about if you didn't have | | | | those rainy days. Taking a look at the washer though |
| it though. Your food bill would go through the roof | | | | makes the thought of not having it as almost |
| because there would be no way to preserve your | | | | unbearable. It is unimaginable to think of having to |
| cold drinks, left overs or ice cream for that matter. | | | | wash our clothes by hand. Yet the materials of today |
| These would be things you would just have to do | | | | would be lot easier to wash by hand then the heavy |
| without. Unless of course there is one of those old | | | | linens, wools and denims of years ago. |
| icemen still around. This was the guy that would | | | | Therefore, we have talked about the major home |
| deliver big blocks of ice to the homes so people | | | | appliances and just why we should appreciate them |
| could keep their perishables for a day or two. | | | | and perhaps not take them quite so for granted. |
| OK so if worst came to worst the fridge would | | | | How about all those miscellaneous small home |
| maybe be one of the home appliances that we could | | | | appliances though? I think they should be in our |
| give up for a short time. How about your stove? No | | | | appreciation thoughts as well, I know that they are in |
| baking, no cooking in luxury. Yes, you could turn to a | | | | mine! |
| wood stove, but that really would be roughing it. | | | | |