Has anyone gone more analogue and loved it?

This! I don’t pick up any phone in the week as it is always scam. I love Sundays as I get a lot of calls on the landline. I just picked it up and got a really nasty man doing market research. I started politely and then as his tone became more arrogant I am afraid I told him to bugger off, he was probably a bot😂. I will keep the phone but am going to look at the caller number in future!

a pencil that's fits into the tape cassette inorder to wind it back if needed...
IYKYK..

I know! I don't miss untangling chewed up tapes.

I've still got my stacking hi-fi system, tape cassettes and, this is where the fun part was, a pencil that's fits into the tape cassette inorder to wind it back if needed...
IYKYK..

I'm basically still in the 90's, with possibly a touch of the 70's thrown in. I do have a desktop, the one I'm typing on now and obviously the internet. I also have a mobile but only use it for work or emergencies. I haven't got any apps on my phone and I don't have Whatsapp. I just use the thing to make calls and occasionally text if I have to. I can't even imagine texting someone I live with (I've often read of parents texting their children upstairs in their bedrooms, or wives texting their DH in the garage for example - wtf!) I have a huge collection of DVD's so most of the films I watch are on those or sometimes I'll watch one on TV. I don't have Netflix. For music I listen to CDs or the radio. I love listening to the radio in the car. I catch the news either on TV or the radio. I don't shop online and I buy all my food and clothes in store. If I book a holiday I go to a travel agent. I read proper books - I don't have a Kindle. I still have a landline with an answer machine. I've never worn headphones and I would really hate to because I like to stay connected and be aware of what's going on around me.

I've settled into a hybrid. I'm not parting with my smartphone and the fact that we don't have a landline/phone in the bedroom means it goes to bed with me. I have health problems and can't be without a phone of some description, upstairs and down. (I'm not convinced it's wise or safe for anyone to do that tbh.) I like telephone banking, the NHS app, shopping, reading the news and social media and I'm a big user of Kindle, audiobooks and Spotify. But I love and value paper books and like using paper and ink. I'm writing my PhD up and have to do my amendments by hand before committing them to my laptop. I'm still attached to phone conversations, but they aren't necessarily better, especially if you need a paper trail. The way some big organisations are fading out contact by email in favour of the phone and chat services is bewildering and may not be in the best interests of customers/service users.

It's a complex picture. I agree that there is solid evidence that not having your phone attached to you 24/7 is better for your mental and physical health, but detaching ourselves might be easier said than done - and a lot more expensive, clunky and inconvenient.

I have two social media accounts... on here, and FB (but that is rarely used now, and I'd delete it if it wasn't for certain people that live very far away!).

I attend language classes in person, I have so many books that I probably own more than the local library, read paper books over Kindles, have a paper magazine subscription, write letters to my deaf grandparent (that way, we can communicate reliably!), and I avoid the news as much as possible (it's very depressing, otherwise!). I also try to use cash or store cards (rather than phone apps) when shopping... mainly because some are so far out of civilisation that signal is unreliable. My car is manual and has a CD player.

I don't have a landline, because it used to only get junk calls, and I spend more time at work than I do at home. It means that home is very quiet, and I don't get pestered.

It's also rather niche, but I don't have a TV, either. It regularly freaks people out!

I still do somethings like this, went back to some others and tried to go back to some others but failed.

I still have a paper calendar and diary/notebooks. Things just do not stick in my head in the same way unless I have physically written them down with my own hand.

I have gone back to listening to the radio after the Alexa dot in the kitchen died and I have no desire to replace it. Also gone back to writing the shopping list on the blackboard that is on the wall and/or paper.

I tried to go back to a nokia dumb phone a while back, but that ship has sailed for me. The kids wouldn't call and actually speak to me, because, who does that? 🙄And it was so slow to text compared to swype that the kids would message me again when I was halfway through composing a reply to see if I had read their first message. It got very frustrating. Also, I use it a lot to look up information. I could fire up the laptop if I had to but it was slower. The yellow pages and thompson local is now a thing of the past and I can't imagine having to go to the library now, every time I wanted to know something, and hoping they happen to have a book with the information in. 😆

No need for me to go back to DVDs or VHS because I have gone back to the days before tv and films were a thing and just don't watch them. That's just a personal thing as I have no interest in them.

I don't want to change my car unless I can get a cd player as can't be doing with this streaming and paying for music I own thing.

I really would like to get rid of my phone. My brain is totally fried.

So true, I’ve been reading way more actual books and doing more crochet and just sitting watching the kids etc since I quit instagram. I feel more serene. I never had TikTok and only use FB for my kids’ school class pages. I need to crack Mumsnet as am here too much! But it’s handy and amusing and sometimes I do need a way to be LESS in the real world, ie I need to dissociate from the kids sometimes ha. It’s a balance I guess!

Ha! I don’t feel such a dinosaur now! Still use a ‘book’ diary. Still use CDs mainly audiobooks, as my car is old and only has cd player and radio….non of this Bluetooth stuff! Still have a landline, as mobile signal is terrible. Still meet up with friends / family , never do ‘digital’ meets ups, as I hated it during covid. Still carry cash around, which has been very useful this week, as one of the towns we visited had a problem with the WI-FI / phone signal and non of the parking apps or card readers on the machines were working….glad I could pay in cash!

I seem to be the odd one out here, but I don't see the appeal of going back to a time where things were more time-consuming, expensive and complicated.

Some things we've never stopped and others we've gone back to, some more we're thinking of because we want to set good habits as DD is going up to secondary in Sept and thinking about a phone.

We all read paperbacks and magazines.

We use the library very regularly.

We recently got our old DVDs out of the loft and the kids have been enjoying having something physical to choose! They now love Mary Poppins and back to the future!

I've stopped recording my swims because I just thought, what am I doing with this information?! It just goes onto the cloud where it's stored forever, what a waste of carbon!

I'm going to ask for an analogue watch for Christmas. A radio alarm is a good idea.

I've locked a lot of my apps 9-5 and been putting phone in a different room when we're watching a TV show as a family.

I have a bit! I've deleted all my social media (except mumsnet, which isn't exactly social media but I'm thinking of leaving here too). I play records on my record player for me and the children, and that has actually massively increased my musical literacy. I've gone back to a paper newspaper subscription instead of news on my phone.

It is good for my mental health to be a lot less online, I find, and to engage more consciously and physically with what I read / listen to etc.

I still have a working VHS player, but the problem is that the tapes degrade with age and are unwatchable. DVDs are more reliable.

Yes I neeeeeed school to go back to paper notes! So many apps and none of them fit for purpose.

We never had vinyl in the first place - too young - so we’re building up our collection now. It’s shockingly expensive though! Any CDs of mine that survived to today would be scratched to shit and things like B*Witched and The Cartoons. When I was a teen, mp3s were already around.

Things I do love about technology and wouldn’t be without:
• google calendar - I was a Filofax girl until this time last year but Google calendar is soooo much easier with a husband and 3 kids!
• Apple Pay/pay by phone - I rarely take my wallet out anymore

We have vinyl, cd, dvd & vhs.
We still buy paper books and use paper maps. I write in a journal and we have a notice board in our kitchen.
We don't have Alexa or ring or modern kitchen gadgets.
I only got my first smartphone last Christmas when we decided to get rid of the landline, but I hardly use it. I don't use it for music or games or shopping, it's more or less just for taking photos of the dog and making an occasional call.

If it wasn't for my partner having work computers in the back bedroom and me having this tatty old laptop, our house would appear stuck in a 1980s time warp. Rather like us, truth be told.

I drive a 2014 Acura tsx with 203,000 miles on it and will until it won’t run anymore because i love listening to books on dvd and it has a cd player.

im about to change 3 analog clocks to “fall back” daylight savings time. I rarely use my phone for time.
i love to read and only use library books or used books
im pretty tech savvy but i just held on to these lifetime habits primarily because of costs.

lifetime list maker. What to do where to go chores projects things to buy. I actually don’t like to have my phone out in stores.

Oh the irony of someone 'living like the 90s' making a big show of it on TikTok.

The 90s was my young adult decade, there's lots of things I did then that I still do, because I don't see the digital/online version as an improvement.

We still use our landline, in that, if one of us is working away, we ring the landline phone to call home.

I still buy a newspaper at the weekend and have a paper map in my car, that I use regularly.

I pay by card not my phone and use cash for small amounts, because in the 1990s, everyone hated those who used cards (or more likely cheques) to pay for anything under about a fiver, and a lot of shops/buses etc wouldn't accept anything except cash.

I use paper for shopping and to do lists not apps and I always use a paper boarding pass where possible, far easier than faffing with a phone.

Yes!! I have CDs in my car now instead of the radio, and I have a rapidly building dvd collection! I’m really working on my phone addiction though :,) starting colouring and draw to try to combat this

I found my old Filofax recently and what a beautiful piece of stationery it is, too! Brown leather, still pristine. I’m going back to that as I hate the iPhone rolling calendar. I’d also love to go back to my old Nokia or Samsung phone. Basic. I bloody hate these all these group chats that someone’s have generated. I also listen to my Roberts radio all day, every day, but it is DAB 2😊

This would include

Writing letters
Sending birthday cards & Xmas cards in the post or making your own

Playing board games

Meet people physically to socialise

Go to cinema

Buy paper road map or paper map or book if on holiday

Join library

Use a typewriter, tippex in a bottle or tippex paper

I do still have a landline but I'm thinking of getting rid of it as most of the calls I get on it are from dodgy scammers.
Yes to analogue clocks and having to remember to change them twice a year.