The Analog Home: A Return to Real Things

Inside: Small ways to bring the physical world back into your home and go less digital on purpose.

a timer and a cookbook is a great place to start

There’s something about the digital world that feels full of promise. The apps, the timers, the organized folders. Photos in chronological order, sorted by face and location. The automation, the efficiency, the apps that control your apps. The trackers, the chatbots, the everything-at-your-fingertips of it all.

But here’s the danger (or really, just the reality… the digital world has become the world we live in. Not a tool for our real lives. The life itself.

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This year…what if you stepped back from it? Not because it doesn’t work. Not because the screen time is giving us headaches. But because we want something real.

You probably already know where to begin.

Print the recipe. If you find something online you want to make, print it. Stick it in a binder or a drawer. Use it with flour on your hands instead of tapping a screen to keep it awake.
Stop worshiping efficiency. Let go of the apps that connect to other apps. The automations. The trackers. Not because they don’t work—but because you don’t have to care.
Cancel the music subscription. Listen to the radio. Let a song find you instead of curating the perfect playlist. Enjoy what comes.
Go to the bank. Or the grocery store. Talk to a person. Ask a question. Get help from someone who isn’t a chatbot reading a script from a screen three states away.
Bring a book when you’re waiting. At the orthodontist, at practice, in the carpool line. Let your kids see you turning pages instead of staring at a screen.
Set a monthly photo date. Order prints. Hang them up. Put them in an album. Make it a habit instead of a someday.
Buy the paperback. Not the Kindle version. Set it on a shelf. One day your kid will pick it up and fall in love with something you forgot you left there.
Pick up encyclopedias at a yard sale. How else will your kids stumble across something they didn’t know existed? You can’t search for what you don’t know to look for.
Shop for a gift in person. Ask the salesperson what they’d recommend. Tell them about the person you’re buying for. Let them help you. Thank them like you mean it.
Use a paper calendar. Hang it in the kitchen. Write on it with a pen. Let everyone see what’s coming.
Keep a notebook. For ideas, lists, meal plans, whatever. Something that doesn’t need a charger.
Send something handwritten. A thank-you note. A birthday card. A “thinking of you” with a stamp on it. It takes two minutes and it means more than any text ever will.
Make the call. When the text thread is getting long. When the topic is complicated. When you just miss their voice. Pick up the phone and talk like people used to.
Wear a watch. Even a smart one. Anything that tells you the time without pulling you into your phone.
Use a kitchen timer. The kind you twist. Because every time you set a timer on your phone, you end up checking something else and forgetting why you picked it up.
Get an alarm clock. Even if you just like the way it looks on your nightstand. It’s one less reason to sleep next to your phone.
Try cash envelopes. For groceries, for fun money, for whatever category you always overspend. There’s something about watching the envelope empty that no app can replicate.
Keep a family address book. So when your kid needs Grandma’s address, they can go look it up themselves. You don’t have to be the keeper of every piece of information.
Buy a dictionary. When someone asks what a word means, point them to the shelf. Let them flip through and find it. They’ll see ten other words on the way, and maybe learn how to spell!
Buy your kids CDs. You can find them for almost nothing on Facebook Marketplace. They get music they can own, and you don’t have to worry about what the algorithm plays next.
Same with DVDs. No suggested videos. No autoplay rabbit holes. Just the movie they picked, start to finish.
Write your grocery list by hand. Organize it by aisle. You’ll move through the store faster and you won’t be staring at your phone in the produce section.
Memorize a phone number. Try learning your best friend’s phone number by heart again. Even if just to prove you can.
Turn on the TV for news and weather. I know this sounds ridiculous, but there’s something cozier about TV than scrolling on your phone.
Go inside the store. Even if it’s just Walmart. Park the car, get some sun, brush your hair. Say hello to someone. See if it cheers you up more than clicking “add to cart” ever did.

You don’t have to measure it. Don’t calculate the time saved or the money spent. Just try one thing and see how it feels. A little calmer, maybe. A little slower. Not everything at your fingertips…but something real in your hands.