People Who Lived Before Smartphones And The Internet Are Sharing The Things We Lost Along The Way, And I Never Thought I Would Miss Boredom But Here We Are

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“Ordering from paper catalogs. It was a whooole process. The arrival of the catalog. Thumbing through all the pages. Going back through and marking what you wanted. Thumbing through all the pages again to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Asking your mom what you could actually order. Filling out the order form with page number, item number, item description, size, color, quantity, price, and weight of the item. Figuring out the total. Getting your mom to write the check. Sealing everything in the envelope, putting a stamp on the envelope, and walking it out to the mailbox.

“Then you waited six to eight weeks for its arrival. Every time you heard the UPS truck come down the road, you ran to the front door to see if it was stopping at your house. Rinse and repeat until the joyous day when your package finally arrived, then you’d revel in opening the much-anticipated package.”

—u/all-mashed-no-taters