I Like My Old Thing

I don’t buy new things just because. If something I have works, I am keeping it. First because I already know how to use it and second, why add stuff to the planet if I don’t need to. I keep cars a long time, I keep phones and electronics forever and I keep shoes until they fall apart.

I still have, and occasionally use the same stereo I had in college, with the addition of a cd player three years later. I have all my old albums and CD’s. I wish I had the cassette tapes I made when I would record the Casey Kasem top 40 every weekend off my original realistic stereo my Dad gave me when I was 10.

I have five half sheet pans I bought in 1983 for my catering business and I use them weekly still. I know I bought them for $5 each.

I have had an IPhone X for the last seven years. I still have it, but recently the memory was getting filled up and it kept telling me it couldn’t save a photo or download mail. I cleaned everything off that phone I could, but the system data kept filling up.

I went so far as sleeping with the IT guy in hopes of his fixing it. Even Russ couldn’t he get it fixed. So off to the Apple Store we went. The genius cleaned out my Safari cache, I write that like I know what it means.

It made little difference. So Russ told me it was time for a new, bigger memory, bigger camera, bigger everything phone. I had been holding out for the 16, but I said I would give in for the 15 pro max. Pro Max sounds redundant.

Since I did not want to import any issue my old phone had, I am manually reloading my apps. This is one of the reasons I didn’t want to get a new phone. I have to unpair and re-pair everything. I have to remember all my user names and passwords for banks I rarely go to.

I am yet to take a photo with my much better camera because the only thing I want to take a photo of is the phone and it’s not so good that it can take a selfie of itself.

I will be happy to have this new phone for the wedding we are going to next month, but I don’t think it will fit in my evening bag. This might mean a new purse is required. Not good, I have a beautiful one I bought 25 years ago.

I got a new car this year,that was a hard enough change. Now a new phone. I may have to go lay down. So much to learn how to use. Now I have to sleep with the IT guy who bought me this phone.