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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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It entirely depends. Old is good when it comes to some things, and new is good for others.
You probably shouldn't use your 20 year old hot water bottle, for example, even if it's worked for 20 years. Your old boiler might be working, but it's on borrowed time with each passing year. You don't need a new phone, but it might do things better than your old one that you specifically like or need. That old chainsaw you've been holding onto might well just give up the ghost dramatically some time.
Something working doesn't mean it's working optimally. It's ok to want a better thing, or a safer thing, or a thing more suited to you, or even a new thing for the sake of it.
Yea, having a 60 year old fridge might be cool, but their electricity demand isn't.
A 15 year old computer probably doesn't work for most things, even IF planned obsolence wasn't a think. Heck, in my line of work, a 5 year old computer would be too slow.
Its fitting you did the chainsaw reference, I actually had a neighbor that thought his chainsaw was broken so he threw it in the trash. I took it out, PUT GAS IN IT and I am still using it to this day. Put a new chain on for 20 dollars.
I think the whole "I NEED NEW" breeds stupidity.