On Jun 9, 4:11*pm, "Jean B." > wrote:

>
> Ah, but just yesterday or the day before I was thinking I should
> go back to using such a thing. *I don't know why we now have so
> many electric and battery-operated devices when we could be using
> manual things. *(Of course, I recognize the fact that some would
> find that a hardship.)
>
> --
> Jean B.

"time saving devices"........by the time you plug them in, use them
and clean them up you've used up more time than if you did it by hand,
usually. I think we all have a pantry full of electric 'devices'
that we seldom use....toys mostly.