Needful things

I guess the U.S. has good advertising policies that have a huge influence on consumers and fine way to instill your mind with fixed ideas. Seems like all Americans are surrounded by a lot of things that they think they need because of the power of suggestion, but really they don’t. The fact is that just everybody has the THING and you feel like you have to possess it too. And the ad pressure is so intense that you find yourself feeling almost like an outcast if you don’t have something. For example, the toaster…the Bread you eat is already baked. Why should you cook it one more time? Or you think maybe it’s very useful for you to eat heated bread? Not, at all. If nothing helps, and you want it so badly that you are even ready to move back to U.S.; then you can prepare it using a pan or in the oven. The other option, of course, is to buy a toaster at a supermarket.

Clothes dryer, what in hell is that? As far as I understand it even needs its own room or something? I don’t even know whether you can buy it here or not. But why do you have to pay more if you can just hang everything out or up? Many washing machines also have a built-in dryer, so it doesn’t take a lot of time to make your laundry dry. And you have to agree that there is nothing to compare with jeans which can just stand in your corner, because they have been frozen after being hung out in the cold weather. It’s just amazing!

Air conditioners aren’t useful for your health. They make the air drier and cause a big contrast between the temperatures inside the building and outside, so you can get sick in the middle of summer. Also not-having conditioning makes you stronger and you feel like a survivor when the temperature is about +110F (+40-45C) as it used to be last July and August.

But, really, I have nothing to argue with air conditioning, this thing obviously won the prize of needful ones. Without it your brain is just melting and doesn’t work. I also remember last year I felt like dying in a train on my way to Moscow in July…not only because of absence of conditioners, even windows could barely be opened But I think our trains are another topic John wants to discuss. So let’s hang that up in the air for some time in the future.

Posted by Helen