An Age of Magic

Stepping back in time 2

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I was talking recently about a visit recently to an elderly relatives house and how it was like entering a time warp walking into the her house. They never bothered with staying up to date with all the new gadgets and developments yet have always been happy with their simple but old fashioned house.

Just looking through their kitchen cupboards was interesting in itself; remember when biscuits came in fancy decorative tins…? yep, she has held onto all of them with some going back forty and fifty years. I am sure they must count as collectors pieces now.

Even the bathroom with it’s ancient bathroom faucets and cast iron bath tub.

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Stepping back in time

We recently stayed at the home of an elderly relative for a few days and entering the house was like taking a step back in time. This is a couple who never bothered to stay up to date with the latest technology; no CD player, no stereo except for an old transistor radio which has to be 50 years old if it is a day.

The TV is showing signs of wear and tear too - knobs instead of remote control and no home theater furniture at all of course. It was interesting to see how some people are happy to live their lives without all the modern gadgets that are ‘must haves’ in everyone else’s homes.

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The ways they get you in…

We like to get around the various tourism and business expositions that are held in our region each summer and one thing we particularly like are the free give-aways you get as you walk around the wide range of stalls. Actually they are getting really ambitious with what they give away free to those browsing around…

We have scored free glasses of beer, soft drink and fruit juices at these fairs; then there are other nice things in the form of promotional products such as the usual pens & writing pads - but when we happened upon a dairy company giving away free ice-creams we thought we had really hit the jackpot.

Many of these companies got our contact details so that we could follow-up with some business for them…but they haven’t contacted us since.

So maybe the freebies really were just that…!

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