[Lendal]

Go and live out in the country for a few months. Take nothing with you but the clothes on your back. You'll be amazed. You don't really need all the stuff you think you need. From my perspective growing up in the 70's if you had a microwave, a sewing machine, and an Atari machine, you were wealthy. This video is good evidence of that.

[SoftTalker]

Very true. Growing up in the 1970s, we did not have a computer. I wrote papers and reports for school using a typewriter. We did not have a microwave. We did not have a dishwasher. We had a 14" TV. Home music system was a record player. No video games at home. The phone was mounted on the wall, provided by the phone company, shared by everyone in the house. We were very much middle class, my parents were probably more frugal than most but this was pretty typical of all my friends.