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February 9, 2009 4 Comments

Make-Do Mondays: Remember Video Cassettes?

makedomondaysMake-Do Mondays is a carnival dedicated to sharing the creative, frugal or even humble ways we’re making-do.And please forgive me for running late today.To participate, simply explain some way that you’re making do. Join in the discussion via the comments or Mr. Linky. The Mr. Linky for WordPress.com is pretty lame, but I’m using it anyway. Here’s how it works:Click on the Mr. Linky icon, and a separate page will pop up where you type in your name and paste in the url of your new Make-Do Mondays post. Click enter and it should be live. If it doesn’t work, just include the link in the comments.To visit people’s posts, click on Mr. Linky and when the page comes up, click on a name. You should be taken right to the page that they provided.Make-Do Monday Participants

  1. Like Mother, Like Daughter (Tutorial for making new linings for gloves)
  2. A Glass of Blessings (Make-Do Puppet Theater)

Make-Do Mondays with the KroekersRemember the video cassette recorder?videorecorderVisitors to our home marvel that we still use a VCR in an age of TiVo and DVRs.Don’t get me wrong — They sound like an efficient way to manage commercials and control what you want to watch (and when). We’d love to have one of the new recording devices.But we don’t.What’s more, we only have bare minimum cable (basically just our local channels and major networks) because our antennae reception was so terrible (I confess, however, that we do have a high-speed Internet access; I’m not making do with dial-up). We have very few channels — which means we watch very few shows.So we record the few that interest us on the major networks and don’t really worry about what we’re missing.On occasion, we’ve asked my parents to record a special show that we can’t get.Otherwise, we’re just making do.How about you?

Filed Under: creativity, Make-Do Mondays, simplicity, slowing

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  1. Leila says

    February 9, 2009 at 11:05 am

    I dread the day the VCR breaks…there are so many old faves!

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  2. MB says

    February 9, 2009 at 9:34 pm

    We still have our VCR too. We watch something on it about once a week. I buy VHS tapes at Goodwill as Christmas presents for my husband and kids. So much cheaper than a dvd. And who really needs to spend hours watching a special feature about how a computer generated volcano was made?

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  3. Stretch Mark Mama says

    February 10, 2009 at 12:27 am

    We still have our VCR, but it eats tapes. Been that way for a while, just sitting around, trashing up the house, mocking me. We don’t have TiVO or DVRs or whatnot either. But by golly, we’ve got our internet hooked up via IV! Straight to the bloodline! High speed!

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  4. Micaela says

    February 11, 2009 at 9:46 am

    My VCR broke down last fall, and we sold quite a few cassettes at the yard sale. Makes me sad when I can’t watch something I’m in the mood for. But I am not limited to my basic cable (20 channels for $12.00 a month). There’s the library or two in town for free checkouts (and no fines in the academic library I work at!). And my daughter introduced me to Hulu.com for watching on my computer… at first it seems a bit solitary, but then my hubby snuggled up to watch a show with me, and now it’s my favorite!

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