In this age of computers, video games, and too much television, it’s nice to spend an evening enjoying a classic board game. Last weekend, my wife and I had a good time playing Scrabble. She won. The Low-Tech Times highly recommends Scrabble. In addition to a new, rotating Deluxe Turntable Scrabble game, Amazon.com offers Classic [...]
Model railroading is a wonderful American tradition that I fear is losing ground in today’s world of computers and video games. One key value of model railroading is that it is very educational, teaching design, construction, electronics, history, art, and transportation operations. Additionally, building and operating a model railroad is a lot of fun. I [...]
Old-fashioned toy trains are something you might expect to see recommended on the Low-Tech Times site. However, I cannot recommend Thomas the Train products due to multiple recalls this year of Thomas the Train toys made in China due to harmful led paint. Fortunately, I found a great alternative… hand-made, lead-free Thomas and Brio compatible [...]
Sledding is an old-fashioned, low-tech sport that should continue for future generations. Both young and old can enjoy gliding down a good hill in the snow and also get some needed exercise walking back up to the top. I remember sledding on Flexible Flyers when I was a kid and I am pleased to find [...]
Amazon.com offers some old-fashioned toys that might make good last-minute Christmas gifts or, for that matter, good gifts for anytime of the year. They even sell a book on how to make old-fashioned toys: Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = [...]