modern conveniences
Today's household luxuries
Modern conveniences are labor-saving devices and amenities that make daily life easier—running water, electricity, central heating, appliances, indoor plumbing.
The phrase often appears when noting their absence: The cabin had no modern conveniences.
What counts as modern shifts over time; today's conveniences become tomorrow's baseline expectations.
- refrigeratorFood-cooling household appliance
- plumbingWater and waste infrastructure
- microwaveRadiation-based kitchen heater
- electricityEnergy from charged particles
- electric lightCurrent-powered illumination device
devices · creature comforts · smartphone · appliances · contrivances · dishwasher · air conditioning · vacuum cleaner · tools · consumer electronics · central heating · climate control · home automation · washing machine · running water · hot water · kitchen gadgets · smart home
modern conveniencesmanual labor
Work done bodily
primitive tools · hand tools · outhouses · washboards · chamber pots
modern conveniencesfrontier life
Existence at settlement's edge
roughing it · off-grid living · subsistence living · wilderness survival · homesteading
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