I salvaged it from the cottage when my grandma upgraded to a touch-tone phone many years ago. My kids used to play with it when they were small, and we actually have pulled it out to use during power outages when the phone lines were fine but our cordless land-line was rendered useless. Aden has taken to spending more time on the phone with friends lately, and as a result we can never find a receiver, so I told her we could set up the rotary phone in her bedroom to use as her own.She's very excited about it, and actually likes the fact that it's tied to the wall and she can't lose it.
I'm always amused by those lists and clips that circulate around the internet periodically, showing all the now retro things we grew up with that people are convinced today's children have never seen before. My kids know all those things. They play records. They've messed around with tape recorders. We still watch VHS tapes for movie night. Before it went flukey we played Pitfall 2 and Frogger on our Atari and the kids loved it.
It's not that we're opposed to new technology. I have an iPod shuffle for listening to podcasts, I enjoy Netflix streaming, I don't like to be without my laptop for very long, the kids have an iPad they share that they got for Christmas from their aunt.... But we are holding out of on certain things.
