How to Live a More Analog Life: 5 easy, cheap (or free) ideas

Is going analog the new hipster obsession? That’s my prediction . You’ve heard of digital detoxing, dopamine fasting, and other go-screenless battle cries that ironically begin and see their heyday mostly on people’s screens. But one thing I can really get behind is going analog.

Like many people, I stare at my screen all day long for work (and too often, for pleasure, too), so I’m making it a point this year to rid myself of as many unnecessary machines as possible and live life more in the slow lane.

And I don’t just mean intelligent machines like your smartphone or whatever creepy smart device has recently memorized the layout of your living room—I’m talking basically anything that uses power.

Arbitrary as it may be, this is my new goal: to ditch the digital for the old-school and the manual—and, just maybe, cling to my sanity in our overflowing world of kaleidoscopic distractions.