Ten on Tuesday

Ten Inventions That Have Made Life Easier.  Whose life?  A housewife in the fifties?  The early settlers?  Teenagers of today?  Hmmm.....  There were a couple of angles I was going to take, but now I'm running out of time for the history of telecommunication inventions and witty little comments, so you get the following.  I'll bet not many will have the same on their lists.

1. Toilet Paper.
2. Flush toilet.  Yay, somewhere to put the toilet paper. 
3. Chapstick, creating yet another thing you can become addicted to.  Really, people are.  Heh.  I may be one of them.
4. Sliced Bread.  Without which, what on earth would we measure all other inventions against?
5. Greeting cards.  The beginning of the decline of letter writing.  Why write it when someone else puts the sentiment in much more poetic prose?
6. Ball point pen.  Just when we are losing the will to write letters, it becomes so much easier!
7. Tea bags.  I know, while I totally prefer to brew loose tea, it is darned convenient to haul it in little bags in my purse.
8. The pop-up toaster, thank goodness or we might never have had the Pop-Tart.
9. The credit card.  Now, that makes live easier, doesn't it?  Now we can all keep up with the Jones's, afford it or not.  This invention led to the invention of the 'you can have it all' mentality.  Yay.
10. Google, without which this post could not have been written.

One hundred ninety to go. What fun invention makes your life easier?

Comments

[margene]

Electricity...instead of sleeping we can read, knit or watch TV.
You crack me up.

[claudia]

What Margene said. Central heating is good too.

[Carole]

As someone who goes back in time occasionally I think there are two great inventions of our times. One is indoor plumbing and the other is aluminum foil.

[maryse]

i like your spin on it. i wasn't going to do this 10 on tuesday, but now i will.

[Laurie]

Love the off center take on this, as usual. I think indoor plumbing. Changed our lives by controlling lots of diseases.

[Manise]

The mechanical pencil! No more sharpening, just breaking of leads at inopportune times :-)

[Jennifer]

Yeah Google!! I just heard that Google is causing us to be stupid. We let Google do all our thinking. (But I LOVE Google!) It's probably just another way to cut into our creative writing by letting Google work for us. Heck - we can even Google thank you note samples and penmanship lessons so we can learn how to write our very own thank you notes.

; )

[Lynn]

That's odd. We were just commenting at lunch at work yesterday that we were really, really glad for having toilet paper. I think we were discussing the cleaning habits of cats at the time. I don't think non-biologists should ever have lunch with us.

[Norma]

Birth control!

[Lucia]

Good ones! I went a completely different way on mine, but I like yours, except that I remain agnostic about credit cards.

How about disposable diapers? Oh, and the washing machine, the one we no longer need to wash diapers in.