Tablecloths, Cookbooks, and Treadmills: Items You Won’t Find In Modern Homes

The average American household has roughly 300,000 items inside it.

Many of those items, like vacuum cleaners or toilets, have been necessary for decades and will likely continue to be important and useful for another hundred years. Some of those items are specific to each household and have varying degrees of importance. And many of those things are essentially pointless in the 21st Century.

Here are a specific few items that will likely go the way of the Dodo bird in the years to come:

Tablecloths

According to Realtor.com, families are eating together less often, which results in fewer people buying tablecloths all over the world.

“Convenience is key in this day and age, so tablecloths have naturally been going out of style as families would rather easily wipe down their messy table after dinner, rather than washing a nice tablecloth after every meal,” said Carson Yarbrough, of Offers.com. “Many new tables seen in homes today are designed to be pieces of art on their own, designed to be exposed.”

Gas Stoves

Homebuyers are done with gas stoves and are looking to induction cooktops instead. Will these futuristic stoves become the new standard in our modern world?

“These provide quick and even heat distribution, which reduces the time it takes to heat a pan or boil water,” added Elle H-Millard, industry relations manager at The National Kitchen and Bath Association.

Treadmills

There are college students in the U.S. right now that have never seen a treadmill before. Millennials are much more inclined to enjoy their Fitbits and smart watches and run around outside than walk on a big, bulky machine. Wearable technology will likely end up replacing treadmills in every home as Millennials slowly replace Baby Boomers.

Cookbooks

Did your mother or grandmother have a treasured cookbooks, or twelve, stuffed full of handwritten recipes and notes? Cookbooks once were a great addition to every home in the country. They looked nice above the stove, they were a great addition to coffee tables, and they were actually very helpful for people who wanted to learn a new recipe. Now, pretty much every cookbook is two clicks away on the Internet.

Technology is changing the world more and more each day right before our eyes. Hold on and appreciate these items as long as you can, because you never know what’s going to go obsolete.