Willa wrote:It is completely the same in Canada. Like neighbours have giant tv's and multiple PC's but none of their kids have bicycles, do sports or any other outside activities like crafts or Girl Guides. But they all know how to use a Smartphone.
I am seriously scared for these kids. Way too much internet and popular culture with a lack of proper socialization and exercise and no critical thinking abilities whatsoever. Neighbours refuse to give their cat medication that costs $0.50 per day but mother loves their Keurig coffee maker with the expensive coffee pods that generate loads of garbage v.s. buying a loose pound of coffee...
Thus: vinyl siding and giant puffy furniture that gets thrown out and replaced every ten years.
Oh my gosh. I've never heard the term puffy furniture, but I had an instant image in my head when I read it.
Even in our respective families, we have folks who think us "oddballs" because of how we live. Funny that you mention scouting, because we both were scouts too.
As dire as it sounds, I am seriously scared for humanity in general sometimes. Idiocracy and Wall-E don't seem that far off, humor aside.
I know it's not so much a generational thing because we're considered "old fashioned" for our generation, even though some of why we live the way we do is because we were part of the rat race early on with tech and having to be on call 24/7 then, and we said, "nope" to that later--relieved to live this way even if it is still tough sometimes because the work we did after instead later got replaced by tech/downsizing creating huge out of work pools to compete against. That's how Sean wound up at the post office, and I'm now back to pick up work until I get certain bits done with the house. Later, I hope to start doing more practical crafting to sell sorts of things, which includes refurbing.
And speaking of what is considered old fashioned oddball-ness, the washer stopped and I've laundry to hang out on our clothesline.