Mobile phones 

I grew up in a house with no telephone at all, at least during my younger years. I remember going to the nearby post office with my mother where there was a public phone whenever my mother wanted to call some one. And that happened not often. But eventually my parents decided to get a landline telephone. I thought it was a marvelous bit of technique. But with it came this urge, the urge to pick up the horn when it was ringing. Some one needed to talk to one of the household and they can't be left waiting to long, or even worse, letting the call to be unanswered. This was also one of many conditionings i was subjected to.
Years later when i was living on my own i thought that i needed a landline telephone. Again years later i thought i needed a mobile phone. Soon i got rid of the landline telephone, at least i didn't think i needed both! With that mobile phone the conditioning of picking up when it rang was even stronger, i picked it up whenever and wherever i was. I never realised that it actually can be very rude to others to just pick up the phone while being in the presence of others. But hey, everybody else does it too, it seems to be accepted. Later my wife pointed out that it's not acceptable behaviour. (my wife is very good in pointing out how much i am conditioned) After thinking about it i realised two things. Yes, it is rude to just pick up a call when in the presence of others, especially when being in a conversation. And i asked myself why do i need to pick up the phone when called? Can't i just decide for myself whether i want to talk with some one on the phone or not? Can some one demand to speak with me whenever they want it? Isn't it an intrusion of my privacy? Yes, it is, and my privacy is my own. Whenever the phone is ringing i look on the display who it is and decide wether to pick it up or to let it go. Sometimes i don't even bother to look who it is, especially when i'm doing something. They can leave a voicemail if it's important. When i'm not at work my phone lies on my desk at home and doesn't come with me whenever i go out. And yes, i'm probably one of the very few who dare to go out without a mobile phone, at least for someone of my age and younger. It's nothing to worry about, as before i ever had a mobile phone i went out without a worry too. It's actually quite relaxing. Oh, and i never got into texting. I never was interested in a smartphone or iphone or whatever mobile devices with millions of functions there are. No apps for me or mobile internet.

Life without a demanding phone. Life can be so simple.

No soap.

A while ago i decided to stop using shampoo when having a shower. Again, using shampoo is also a thing of conditioning, while i never thought about why i was using it. When reading on the internet about people not using any shampoo i gave it a try. I can say that it's great, i still get clean but now without smelling like a chemist shop. And yes, the smell of shampoo is terrible. Every time i got out of the shower i stank like a chemical factory, and got smelled at by the dogs. All that is gone now. Another good thing is that my skin is less dry, especially noticable on my feet. My hair feels better too and doesn't tie so much anymore then it used too. Of course, the cosmetics industry would recommend me several products against dry skin and bad hair. To me they are just useless products made only for the profits of businessmen, not for the good of humanity.
And even longer now i stopped brushing my teeth. The dentist has not seen me for years either. This has made a great difference. My teeth are not rotting away, despite what dentists say about not brushing teeth. Even more remarkable, i have a tooth with a hole in it. Now and then i rinse my mouth with salt water and that is all.
I like to put dentists and the cosmetic industry on one heep as they seem to work together. The last dentist i was going to made this really obvious. After the regular checkup i was told (not asked) to go next door to the mouth hygienist, who then told me how to clean my teeth and with which products. She could sell me this amazing electric toothbrush for a reduced price and highly recommended it. It was like being in a toothbrush commercial.
The dentist that i had twenty years ago was totally different. A practice at home, no hospital white interior whit lots of equipment, just the nessecary things and the dentist with a little light on his head instead of these annoying big bright lights hovering above your head. It was always a one or two minute thing, the dentist looked in my mouth and when there was no hole in any tooth he just said to me "see you next time". No lecture on how to brush my teeth or what products to use, just plain simple checking and only doing something when it was needed. Dentist appointments didn't cost me much back then. Then i moved to another place and got the opposite. This dentist worked together with a collegue and both of them tried to earn as much as possible on me, including convincing me that i needed crowns on all my teeth. They managed to fuck up most of my teeth, or tried to and got me one crown before i left them. What they also did was removing hardened plaque from my teeth with a drill or something. After their treatment i had very sensitive teeth and i noticed that here and there bits of teeth were braking off. I left them and moved to my current dentist being more reluctant to swallow all their bullshit. They have removed some damage done by the previous dentists, which has cost me several teeth, and after that i stopped going. Now i have no sensitive teeth anymore and healthy gum. All that talk about plaque that needs to be removed because it causes your gum to become infected and retracting from your teeth is nonsense. Nature will sort itself out and your saliva will take care of your teeth and gum, not chemical cosmetics.
Just out of curiosity i was googling a bit about this subject and came across some more nonsense, apparently aimed to make people afraid. There are several newsreports/articles about not brushing your teeth can cause heart disease. Some researchers did a little bit of research and came to the conclusion that bad mouth hygiene can cause heartfailure. There are no hard facts that this really happens. I can give some hard facts. My father has never in his life brushed his teeth, half his life has been smoking, and became 83 years old. He died of cancer and in his last days there was nothing left of him, but his heart just didn't stop beating. My father's parents never brushed their teeth and died well into their nineties, having a very healthy heart. And as i am doing reasearch for making a family tree i discovered that most people got very old, 80 years or more were no exception, and i went as far as the fifteen hundreds! None of them have brushed there teeth like people do now. So there is my conclusion on the subject. Any scientist can try to prove me wrong, but they can't. If they want proof i'll show them any family tree that's published on the internet.