Things we take for granted

[Southern Elk]

Health, I know it’s already been mentioned.

My wife’s baby sister has ALS. 37 years old with a five year old boy and she’s going down fast. It’s heartbreaking.

 

[noharleyyet]

Health, I know it’s already been mentioned.

My wife’s baby sister has ALS. 37 years old with a five year old boy and she’s going down fast. It’s heartbreaking.

Just lost a great cousin to ALS…

 

[Nick87]

Health, I know it’s already been mentioned.

My wife’s baby sister has ALS. 37 years old with a five year old boy and she’s going down fast. It’s heartbreaking.

Sorry to hear that. That is heartbreaking.

 

[MTTW]

I have lived without electricity for a month or 2 at a time and the thing most missed was refrigeration. No freezer over the long term changes your life.

 

[Nick87]

I have lived without electricity for a month or 2 at a time and the thing most missed was refrigeration. No freezer over the long term changes your life.

Certainly puts it in perspective even when you lose power for a few days. Lot of money over 3 freezers here.

 

[Outlaw99]

Generac whole home generator. Best 8k I ever spent. I literally lose nothing during an outage. All the things previously mentioned like a/c, refrigeration, freezers, and lights continue working

 

[Rack Daniels]

Spare time…

Don’t know if I should or
This was my answer as well

 

[adoc65]

I took my Mom’s prayers for granted. When she passed I ask my aunts(Mom’s sister’s) who’s going to pray for me. They looked at each other and reassured me that they had it taken care of!

 

[redhaze]

Having superb grand children and even better when they pick their mates for life and then the neatest great grand child one could have appears.

 

[Hammsolo]

AC is still the single biggest improvement we take for granted, imo .

There’s some amazing research out there that backs this up. I can’t remember the exact numbers, but there’s a direct correlation between job performance and temperature. Quite simply the hotter it gets the worse the performance is, and if I remember right it starts to be clear around 78 F.

 

[Hammsolo]

Never knowing hunger and being able to pick anything from the thousands of items at the grocery store or restaurant that tickles your fancy on any given day.

Connected to this… refrigeration. I was at the antique store in Wallace the other day, and they had all sorts of equipment from an ice delivery service. It’s crazy to think this was happening around a hundred years ago.

 

[JohnCushman]

Divorce lawyers...

 

[Charlie Bob]

There’s some amazing research out there that backs this up. I can’t remember the exact numbers, but there’s a direct correlation between job performance and temperature. Quite simply the hotter it gets the worse the performance is, and if I remember right it starts to be clear around 78 F.

My aunt would say AC changed how we interact to our neighbors . Before AC everyone sat outside on the porch until after dark when it was cool enough to go inside .
They knew their neighbors and interacted with the whole community . Made it hard for kids to get away with anything .
Now we run home go inside and rarely come out . We might know the house next door or across the street but that's it .
I slept in the basement as a kid . I love my AC, , but it's just another example of how progress tramples over culture , in a way .

 

[hank4elk]

Generac whole home generator. Best 8k I ever spent. I literally lose nothing during an outage. All the things previously mentioned like a/c, refrigeration, freezers, and lights continue working

Yep, just today mine came on for a few minutes. CSNY never stopped playing.

 

[44hunter45]

I have lived without electricity for a month or 2 at a time and the thing most missed was refrigeration. No freezer over the long term changes your life.

There you have it. I assume my freezer will be there keeping my meat and such ready to eat for eternity.

We will have the mother of all cookouts WTSHTF

 

[Letthemgrow]

My wife just finished chaperoning a study abroad program through Sardinia, one of the world's blue zones. They got to chat with multiple people aged 95+ and 3 centenarians. One of the questions they asked was what change or invention effected your life the most? Every person answered electricity.

 

[Straight Arrow]

A peaceful night's sleep.

 

[BigHornRam]

A good healthy bowel movement.

 

[Charlie Bob]

A good healthy bowel movement.

Too much Taco Bell ?

 

[BigHornRam]

Too much Taco Bell ?

No. Miralax dependence. Which could someday lead to depends dependence!