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on March 16, 2009, 3:24 am,
by RT Cunningham,
under
Shopping.
There are all kinds of washing machines being used that are either top load washing machines or front load washing machines. If you can see the tiny picture to your left, what kind of washing machine is that? It's a top load washing machine that shouldn't even be sold anymore, but it is.
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Japan,
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korea,
maytag washing machines,
samsung,
washing machine 30 Comments »
Posted
on December 29, 2008, 7:28 pm,
by RT Cunningham,
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Philippines.
The little picture to the left depicts a modern kitchen in a Western home. Unlike the picture, my custom kitchen isn't a modern kitchen. It resembles a modern kitchen, but that's as far as I would go with the word "modern".
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kitchen counter,
kitchen design ideas,
kitchen sink,
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plywood,
pressed wood,
solid wood,
steel cupboards,
US,
western,
wet wood 40 Comments »
Posted
on August 8, 2008, 7:11 pm,
by RT Cunningham,
under
Philippines.
My wife and I decided on building our house in the Philippines after our arrival in April of 2006. It wasn't an instant decision and there were a lot of factors involved. The best way to explain everything is to allow you to follow along as I describe everything that happened, from start to finish.
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olongapo city philippines,
pesos,
rain,
rock,
santol tree,
savings,
slope,
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Posted
on March 19, 2007, 5:21 am,
by RT Cunningham,
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Technology.
This post is directed at people younger than I, many much younger. I'm only going to list things that I lived without at some time during my 46 years of age and I'm only going to list those things that I can remember. If they're already obsolete, I won't bother to list them. Here we go and in no particular order:
- Television remote control
- Cordless telephone
- Cell phone
- Microwave oven
- Automatic drip coffee
- DVD player
- Computer
- Internet
- Color television
- Video game console
- Frost-free refrigerator
- Cable television
- Satellite radio
- Automatic washing machine
- Automatic clothes dryer
- PDA
- Mp3 player
- Camcorder
- Digital Camera
- Printer
- Copier
- Scanner
- Blender
- Electric Mixer
- Rice Cooker
- Refrigerated water dispenser
- CD player
I could go on, but I won't. Many of these things existed while I was young but were not affordable to the average family. If you're young, you probably can't imagine what life would be like without all of these advances. In my opinion, life was simpler and more fun.
Edit: Are there any items on the list that I failed to mention and you would like to elaborate on? Feel free to add them to the comments. The base date I used was the year of my birth, 1960. Anything prior is digging too far back.
