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Toilet paper, especially 2 ply.

a chair at hunting camp.
when i was young, a log or cooler would suffice.
not now

cordless drill/driver

And cooled seats. Don't know how I ever lived without 'em and wouldn't own a vehicle now that didn't have 'em.

Never had to do without running water, so can't chime in, there. Lived with all sorts of heating systems, from central forced air gas fired, to coal stoves. I could go back.

The one thing I would struggle without is the refrigerator. Even with a root cellar, that would really change my life....

Good shoes and boots.



mike r

High speed internet. DarnTough socks. Satellite radio, inverter, microwave, and 12V freezer in the truck.

I use the hell out of my smartphone. Use it for navigation, research, pay submittal, pay verification, communications, entertainment, tethering, banking, shopping, lists/memos, photos....... It's a great tool.

On one of my "vacations" to aghanland I was at an international market and had a local ask "Is it true you Americans bathe in drinking water?"
I know we are blessed as I have been in twenty-some-odd countries and realize how spoiled we are... but his question really put it in perspective. Before we arrived over there, many of those folks never had candy, ice cream, bottled water, etc. Things we don't even think about when we pull into the gas station with our fifty-thousand-dollar trucks and drop fifteen bucks on ice cream, jerky and cheese-its just to hold us over till we get to the restaurant.
Those folks wait for the rainy season just to build their mud huts they live in by hand. A well with clean water is a luxury to them.
In the Phillipines in the 80s, the locals would scrounge our MRE (waterproof) boxes to build their huts with. They would also steal anything, especially food, that they could get their hands on. A plastic bottle was not thrown away after one use, but would become a utensil or container for the life of the object for them.
In jungle survival school, I had a local.S.F. guy get so angry with me I thought he was going to kill me in my sleep... over throwing away birds feet into the river while field dressing one. They eat everything and nothing goes to waste.
Kind of crazy how different cultures have developed... or not developed over thousands of years.

I downloaded a voice app to my GPS that sounded like The Gunny.

First time my Ukrainian wife used the GPS she came home all flustered and said “Some man was yelling at me!!”

I had a 48 Ford coupe that had push button start and a little honey to warm up the seat.

I did without flush toilets for the first 11 years of my life, and another year 10 years later in a faraway land. I would really miss flush toilets.

I get along wonderfully without a smart phone.

A Ronco pocket pussy.

Fleshlight?

Page 3 and the most obvious can't do without luxury item has not been mentioned!!

The T.V. remote.

Wet wipes are great until they freeze as some guys found out north of Nome.

Wtf.....

Mine looks like Jenna Jameson,s poontang an actual life like molding of it.

Not something from the Rocky Horror Picture show....

They got all the villains, change em out

Alien, Predator, dennis rodman, etc

You fellas seem to know all about them things?

They got tables of them at the gun shows there?

Geno

One of the trucks I learned to drive had the floor starter button - it was a PITA to hold down the gas pedal AND push the starter button for a kid with small feet!

Menard's has everything.

THIS ^^^^^^^^