If you made your personal list of the appliances you cannot live without, how long would it take? Before you could even come up with the list, let us start with the question, how much do you really use any of these? Then you will have your list slowly cleared up. It is true that there is something you cannot even start your days without, such as an alarm clock, toothbrush, or shower. But there are some things you barely lay your finger upon such as a DVD player. Despite the fast tempo of modern living, with all the challenges, sometimes we get to overload our living spaces with devices whose purpose we barely identify. So, in this line, we made a shortlist of the devices we could barely live without.
The Washing Machine
If you are wearing clothes, common sense is the need to wash them and it is where the idea for building the washing machine originates from. Thousands of years from now, people used to wash their clothes by beating them on the stone in the middle of the river or spring near the house. Before the washing machine we know was invented, there were manual prototypes of the washing machines known as agitators. It was basically a tube where the dirty clothes were put and washed with the help of paddles treating the clothes and removing the debris. On the other hand, a modern washing machine uses a two-drum principle to wash the clothes. The inner drum holds the clothes near the agitator and the outer drum holds the water in the machine. The two-drum system is responsible for giving your clothes freshness and cleanness.
Kitchen Appliances
No matter if these are small or big devices, their role in our lives is immense. You can practically not cook without a stove, everything delicious already comes from the oven, you will never be able to deep fry once you try to fry chicken from the air fryer, you cannot make the dishes demanding specific measures without scales and measuring equipment, and what can give you speed as the microwave does. And, this is just the beginning. Let us start from the top, from the place where we store all the groceries-fridge. Besides the fact that this is the first thing we remember when we awake in the middle of the night, our living will be practically impossible without a big cold box. You would not have a place to store any of your food and keep it fresh and eggs, cheese, milk, butter, and meat are not really the fans of being left at the places exposed to microbes and warm places. These will spoil in no time. If you take an even broader image, there are some types of food that barely survive the path from the market to your home, and being let out of the fridge will lead to their utter spoiling. So, we add refrigerators to our list of essential devices.
Air Conditioning
We get to understand the importance of air conditioning during the summer when the heatwave hits hard. Some alternatives to this highly important home appliance are stationary fans and traditional ways such as draft. However, this can hardly help you stay cool during the summer season since these are just temporary solutions while air conditioning uses the technology of keeping the space cool for a longer time span. Also, this is not the only benefit of air conditioning since some people decide to get an air conditioner with multiple functions including heating as well. In cities, the most efficient approach for residences that are not linked to the town heating system is to utilize these devices to keep their rooms warm and adjust the temperature. When the production of these appliances started, in the initial phase, they were extremely expensive. After they were introduced to commercial production, the price of these systems started to decrease and today, because of their availability and use, these became one of the most used home appliances.
There are some inventions that made our world different and most certainly some of them are responsible for our efficient living nowadays. Truth to be said, sometimes we get to be addicted to piling these up without even using them, however, this is all the consequence of busy living and us orienting our lives towards quicker and more efficient dealing with the problems of the modern world. The main aim of appliances is to make our living easier but sometimes we should not tend to oversimplify it.
Northern girl Laura is the epitome of a true entrepreneur. Laura’s spirit for adventure and passion for people blaze through House of Coco. She founded House of Coco in 2014 and has grown it in to an internationally recognised brand whilst having a lot of fun along the way. Travel is in her DNA and she is a true visionary and a global citizen.