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  • I live out in the sticks and the only thing we don't get is a full-speed broadband connection, but I have friends who live in a larger town and their water is delivered by tanker.
  • Right now we have everything where we stay . The infrastructure of the city where I live is great :-)
  • I don't have: a touch tone phone (I still have a rotary phone), cell phone, the latest up-to-date computer system (mine is going on 8 years), cable TV, designer clothes, microwave oven, automatic dishwasher, coffee maker, juicer, electric knife, exercise machine, air conditioner or humidifier. I just don't buy into the philosophy that we all need these things desperately. Think about what people got along without 50 years ago. Why can't we get along without these things today?
  • Several times a week, we go without electricity.
  • I can not think of anything. I do not own a bread maker, it is easier to go to the store and buy some. But other than that I think I have just about all of it, computer, phone, dish network, game systems, dishwasher...
  • I dont have subscription tv (cable, satelite, etc), or even an antenna.
  • Luckily none, although my Home Broadband is not as fast as it should be but I do live in a village on the edge of town
  • We don't have cable or satellite television. We use an antenna when we want to watch public television. When it all goes digital next year, we plan on NOT getting the box and simply going without tv all together (aside from dvds of our choice).
  • I just received cable for television and internet a year ago. That was tough, dial up, and maybe two TV stations on a clear day!
  • We do not have internet at home. And I still don't know how to text message. I just got a dishwasher a few weeks ago and I love all the other things I get to do now instead of standing in front of the sink!!!
  • No mobile phone. But I wouldn't call that one a convenience to begin with, so it's an intentional boycott.
  • By choice I don't have a mobile phone or beeper (people can leave a message on the machine) or cable or satellite (it's from the antenna or not at all). By laziness I don't have a dishwasher because I haven't gotten around to replacing the dead one. :)
  • Microwave over, cellular phone, iPod, Blackberry, PDA, GPS, iPass, anti-lock brakes, dishwasher, and my favorite most useless invention of them all, an electric stapler.
  • Ummm....Nintendo Wii and any other playstations? lol! When something new comes out, I am the first to get it. :)
  • I was 13 hours yesterday without electricity. It was AWFUL!
  • as far as I can tell the only modern conveinience I don't have is cable tv
  • I don't have my own aeroplane.
  • Right now, I pretty much use them all. But in the 70s, for about 6 years we lived without electricity or full-time running water, or phone. We had an icebox for refrigeration during the summer and 'outside' for winter. We had propane to run our stove and oven and heat up some water. TV we watched one channel maybe for one hour using the energy from one of two car batteries that we would swap each day. We only got one channel back then, even with an antenna. Of course no trash pickup as we lived far from the road. Our house was almost a mile from the road, a long dirt road that we had to walk in the winter due to the mud and creek. We did use horses to pack in supplies and bring things out.
  • I don't have a cell phone, That was hard at first but kind of nice now. The only time i wish i have it is when i am stranded on the side of the road.
  • I don't have a cell phone:)
  • To many to name.......
  • We have a septic tank instead of a public sewer system.
  • Have gone without Central air conditioning my whole life.
  • We don't have a dishwasher, air conditioning, or an oven (I do all my cooking with a stove-top, microwave, and a deep-fryer). Also I don't have my own cell phone, but it's only because I haven't bothered to get one yet since I moved (my iPhone in the states doesn't quite work in Europe...yet).
  • I do not have cable or satellite TV. It has been over 6 years since we had it.
  • I refuse to have a cell phone at this time. We were using a service called Revol. They have flat rates for unlimited use. We were paying 47 dollars a month flat rate for unlimited talk, text and pics. Then we moved about 30 miles south, to where revol doesn't have service yet. I refuse to pay over 50 dollars a month for cell phone service, especially if it leave me going over the amount of minutes on my plan.
  • Cable, microwave, dishwasher
  • No cable/satellite, no dishwasher. I also don't have any iPod or MP3 player, no GPS system, and no air conditioning in my apartment as of last summer. I'm trying to live a relatively simple life, I don't really need any of that stuff. Ok well, maybe I could use an air conditioner.
  • My old analog television only gets free air waves ... no cable or satellite . Here is a picture of my tiny fridge/stove/sink combo with NO oven. .
  • satellite tv or radio...

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