Got you guys beat!

I remember using a sickle mower, hay loader, dump rake to put loose hay in the barn. Milk was cooled in large cans in the well house, chickens were living above the dairy barn. I wore rubber boots for almost everything. Grain was cut and stacked in stooks of sheaves with the local threshing machine coming to our place in turn to thresh the grain for the grain bin.

My parents gave me a portable typewriter as a graduation present and I used it through university for essays - got quite good at typing.

Shoes, appliances, radios, clothing, etc., lasted forever and could be repaired rather than today's built-in obsolescence and disposal.

I was just saying to DD2 that as a 67 year-old woman, I have had the most wonderful life - had a healthy family life and successful career, lots of travel, diverse adventures, seen how the old life was doable and thoroughly enjoying the new technology as well.