Five Things I Can Do Without
There are things and gadgets I cannot do without but there are some things I really don’t want in my home. They just clutter up my home but apparently I need them in my life.
On top of my list sits that square one-eyed monstrosity with his flat face connected via cables to a DSTV decoder, DVD player, and speakers. All I ever watch on it is the odd game of rugby and a bit of cricket when I can find the time. I may as well get rid of it and watch the games in a pub but this is the main attraction that makes my house the preferred venue for rugby parties. The only advantage in that is that I don’t have to drive back home.
Next on my list are smart phones and tablets. All I want is a device that I can use to make and receive calls. To hell with the camera, music player, and all other gadgets on it. My daughter gave me one as a present but I never use it. It sits on my desk, only she knows the number, and I still use my old phone.
CDs & DVDs with the associated racks and players are next on the list. They just take up space. All my music and movies are on a fat external hard drive and the music I want to listen to at the time goes on a USB memory stick. Small, tidy, out of sight and it even works in my car.
A conventional stove is another thing I don’t need but without it, the kitchen looks bare. All I ever use is the oven. What I need is an eye-level oven. Between the electric frying pan, electric steam cooker, electric pressure cooker, and microwave oven, I get everything else done.
Then, in conclusion, the last thing I need in my life is a nagging wife!
My late mother was a compulsive nagger and as a child, I had to listen to it from the morning to the night. Now that I have a choice, I refuse to listen to it. The quickest and surest way for a woman to get rid of me is to start nagging. Then I run for the 
I suppose there are many other things I can do without but these are the things that bother me most. Now don’t sit and fry on it as I sometime do. Get rid of the things you don’t need in your life, you’re better of without it.
A great day to you all.
Comments (43)
A young lady can be an very expensive overhead. I suppose one could argue that a sewing machine - on the other hand - generates revenue.
Why don't we just dump him and go alone.
My wife bought it new (it wasn't cheap I was told) before I met her. It seemed to be a nice machine. She used it a fair bit when we were married and it never gave her any problems that I noticed. With hindsight, of course, I wish that I had her teach me how to use it. It is heavy and it has a cover with a lift handle for moving it around. In the years since her death there have indeed been rips in my clothes which I know, were she alive 2 minutes on the machine and the rip would vanish.
What I learned from Google is Japanese made by a company that had vanished by 1990. They had several generations of machines and this one seems to be somewhere towards the end of the line. I can presume that when new it had a manual. I am assuming the little snippet of paper my wife long ago glued to the machine's top is all she kept of the manual. So the cased machine sits in a corner and I wish I knew more. The buttons on both sides of it intimidate me from experimentation.