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Take a look around you; how many appliances are there in your daily life that you could do without. Well, you could probably do without most of them, but would you really want to?

Before you answer that question, imagine a typical day in your life. Did an alarm clock wake you this morning? Did you take a shower or brush your teeth? Did you grab a drink from the fridge? Has the heat or air conditioning kicked on yet to keep you comfortably warm or cool? Were the socks you put on fresh from the laundry room? There are 10 appliances we can’t live without in our opinion. Take a look at our list of appliances we can’t live without and see if you agree.

• The Clock: Knowing what time it is isn’t hard, but that wasn’t always the case. The first clock was most likely a stick partly buried in the ground. Accuracy was the real problem when it came to early man’s attempt to lock down short-time measurement. The sun was a great indicator, but the system didn’t work at night or when it was cloudy outside.
• The Refrigerator: Consider what life would be like without that big cold box. You wouldn’t have ice for your drink, and you wouldn’t be to keep food fresh.
• The Telephone: The phone has gone from a fixture on the wall that connected you to a switchboard and a party line to a wireless device that uses satellite technology to connect you to the rest of the world.

Full list at HowStuffWorks.com.

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