Has anyone gone more analogue and loved it?

Definitely re. the alarm clock. I’m trying to banish my phone from my bedside.

My weakness is audiobooks, and scrolling. I think I don’t have time to read actual books, so I listen to audiobooks and posdcasts all the time. This is wrong! I would do far better to read books and newspapers instead of scrolling on my phone, and I could do with switching off the constant noise and getting used to a bit of mental silence again.

This is my new year resolution and I’m going to start it now to ease into the habit!

I've got 2 turntables and never got rid of my records. I had one up in our summer house but one of the feral cats didn't like me playing music. He passed away recently and I cranked the stereo up and put some old 90s stuff on. Fabulous.

I have another one in my downstairs study which I am using to do pottery in, and that's where most of the vinyl is kept. So listen to that whilst I'm potting.

I have a journal style diary which I am using, and as I am learning French I am doing it in French and making myself write what I did that day in French as part of my learning. I go to classes in person not online, and watch French quizzes every evening. I do all my homework long hand, and am a bit miffed to have to type this week's out to hand it in.

I’m interested in this and genuinely thinking of downgrading my phone to just a phone with no internet on it.
However I need the apps for the schools to contact me, I suppose in theory I could just not go online only phone. That’s would save me a lot of time and money!

I never stopped with some things! Have always used an alarm clock, normal watch, paper diary, actual books and my camera occasionally.

DD has a record player and building up a collection of vinyls.

Really considering getting a landline and telling everyone to change my number to that. I never get calls now though so don’t know why people would switch from messaging to calling my landline!

Weve recently got a record player, play them through the Sonos speakers but they sound sooooo much richer than Spotify!

Really considering getting a landline and telling everyone to change my number to that. I never get calls now though so don’t know why people would switch from messaging to calling my landline!

Weve recently got a record player, play them through the Sonos speakers but they sound sooooo much richer than Spotify!

Yes, this.

Although technically we do still own CDs they are all sealed up in a box on the garage. DH ripped them all on to the laptop. Same with the vinyl we own. I got him a turntable that can play the records and record them to a memory stick at the same time. Trouble with using them directly is the space they take up.

I don't think we have any VHS still and if we did god knows where we would get a player. We still have quite a few DVDs but play them through an external CD/DVD player connected to the laptop which is then connected to the TV.

However I will never compromise on books. We have hundreds and yes they do take up space but that's just how it is meant to be. Books just smell right. We still buy a newspaper and the occasional magazine too.

OP, you need to go a bit further back if you're going to go properly analogue: vinyl records and VHS tapes. CDs and DVDs are the early digital stuff.

There's plenty vinyl still around (try going to a record fair), not so much VHS though!

I do still read paper books rather than digital ones, and shop in actual shops in preference to online. 😀

Yes, trying to in some ways! I downgraded my phone to something that technically is a smart phone but in practice isn't great so it puts me off using it!

Phone stays in the kitchen evening and overnight.

I was actually looking at streaming a film last night and it was going to cost 10quid, so I'll seek out second hand dvds instead.

I got rid of most of my CDs though and don't really have storage for a new collection, so will need to stick with radio and spotify.