LIFESTYLE: My 24 Hours Without Technology
Tuesday, 22 July 2014
Last week, Insurance 2 Go
challenged me to try and go 24 hours technology free! This was one of the first
emails that I had to have a serious think about before I accepted! Both my mum
and Andrew laughed at me when I told them what I was going to do!
I decided that I was going to
replace my phone with a notebook, this was my best idea - I wrote over 7 pages
of notes!!
I started on Saturday night at
around 9pm, probably not such a great idea as my parents were out, Andrew was
out and my brothers spent most of the night in their rooms eating pizza so it
was just me and Molly. Luckily for me, one of them had left the TV on (as per
usual) and American Pie was about to start, it doesn't count if I didn't touch
the remote right?! So that was me sorted until Andrew arrived at 11pm -
prearranged of course!
I stayed at his house as the next day
we were off to a big family event for Andrews baby cousin!! In the morning
while he was showering, I did miss reading all the stupid news stories that get
posted on my newsfeed over night - the day before I spent 45 minutes reading
about a
woman who spent 14 hours in TGI Fridays to see how many mozzarella sticks she
could eat - she only managed 32! But today, I had to settle with an actual
newspaper, not so fun!
In the car, on the two hour journey,
I realised that Andrew was near enough ignored me, I looked around to see him
messaging someone on his phone, or what he now likes to call it, his
technology! I didn't realise we spend so much time on our phones when we were
together! He wasn't very pleased when his signal disappeared - You don't need
any signal for a notebook!!
Once we arrived the rest of the day
flew by and I didn't even notice I wasn't using my phone! We watched the
ceremony, had a few drinks, a yummy BBQ in the beer garden, cake and then it
was 5pm already! I got home by 7 in the pouring rain, chatted with my mum for a
while, got myself sorted out and by the time that was all done it was 9pm!!!
Things I Missed
5 Tweets
40+ Junk Emails
3 Important Emails (One about a Job!!)
3 Snapchats
3 Facebook Notifications
36 Instagram Notifications
6 Kik Messages From Andrew (Who knew I was on the ban and was just trying to annoy me)
Times I touched Technology
I watched 4 hours of TV - I didn't touch the remote though.
I picked up my phone countless times though the day but stopped myself.
I texted my parents to let them know that I was going out at 11pm because I
forgot to tell them before they went out for dinner.
I posed for a few photos and asked
Andrew to take a few so I had some for this post - but didn't take them.
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