A day without the Internet: I tried this disposal of digital toxins and flourished

Are you thinking about going a day without the Internet? I did and tell you why. Better, allow me to draw the picture for you.

I stood on a series of hills in the mountains of Sandia near Albukirk, New MexicoIt is surrounded by red -colored pinyon trees, and listening to TRILL from the dark juncos that competes with the brush. Amid all this beauty, my phone is harmonious. And thread again. Put and the good whistle.

Send an Instagram link. Uber offered to eat a deduction deal. TARGET was a voucher to clean products. He drove someone with a ring door bell camera. enough! It is time to challenge. It is time to embrace a day of calm – the day of disposal of digital toxins without the Internet. Can I do that? Will I enjoy it?

Initially, I was mysterious in the idea. No continuous interruption? No news? No email messages? Looks great! Then, achieve a complete scope: No Security camera Alerts. No traffic updates. There is no remote monitoring of the incubating cat rays. Do not flow east and down. So it was with a mixture of anticipation and fear that I prepared for an internet -free day.

The basic rules for removing toxins online

The Internet is so intertwined in my life that I had to check the online toxins. I thought about my childhood, even the death of rotating phones and how my parents track the appointments on the wall calendars and planning car trips using paper maps. My experience will be like traveling through time, and returning to the old days. Therefore, sound calls were in. Everything was outside.

Here is what you did at 10:30 pm on the night before the disposal of digital toxins.

The Internet portal T-Mobile 5G has been separatedThis disrupts my internet, including Alexa devices, TV flow applications, Dooning Ring and My Iz security cameras. Gold the bottom Wi-Fi for my computers, the thermostat and smart plug. And it waved a temporary goodbye My online experience at T-Mobile 5G.

It turned on the focus modeI passed all of my applications and added to my Android focus (located in digital well -being settings). One franchise was audio calls. I can make or receive audio calls, but this was the extent of the permitted phone. There are no text messages.

The day of the experience of getting rid of toxins online

The day of the two halves started well. I have connected inside alarm clockSo I woke up on time. Instead of answering texts and passing through political news, Facebook and Abuquerque Subreddit, I read the Luiz Benny puzzle with my morning coffee. He was calm and bound. My daily digital interests have been raised.

It was easy to stay at home and read a book throughout the day, but I needed to deal with the world to understand the meaning of an internet empty day. My husband and I have to explore real estate sales. We have presented a list of addresses the day before. In that morning, we went out of the Bouquer Rick map from the 2002 Road Atlas. With silent phones and a feeling of optimism, we got to the road.

I miss my Google maps

My husband traveled and moved, moved in small printing, deporting through the street index and tracking the network on the map. The first sales went well. The third was more challenging, located outside the city in a place that my map does not cover. The first real obstacle to the day of not entering the form of a traffic congestion on I-40. With the lack of traffic alerts, we escaped on the highway and found an alternative method on the old road 66.

What came after that was a turning point in the wrong neighborhood, and some unexplained roaming, then, finally, a solution. People called for the sale of real estate. Glory to the United States yesterday to write contact information. A real estate sale person offered to send a text message to us on a map, which we rejected. Instead, we got some ancient verbal trends.

I worked. Between the instructions and some signs of green neon, we found sale in a society far away. I recorded an old glass egg panel for a few dollars. We wandered all over the nearby mountainous cities, discovered in the scene and stayed away from the highway to return home.

My night without flow

I am not the total Addicted. I usually have one or two subscriptions at one time. Currently, this Prime Minister and Max. I am on a discount with Max, so I am burning with my interest before canceling when the deal is running out this month. With no flow, we turned into a classic method to reach entertainment: antenna.

Mental hovering in a state of flash in childhood while passing channels, skipping through paid programming, police offers and shopping networks. “This absorbs,” I thought about myself. I couldn’t check the online TV guide; I just hit the remote control.

When Bruce Springstin sang “57 channels and nothing”, we ended up on an old Western film channel to watch Willie Nelson wandering around the city with a painful expression on his face. Mostly, we worked on a panoramic puzzle.

Willie Nelson has turned into Kenny Rogers and saved it early to play with the cat, read it and go to bed, and my phone was not more than the weight of the chopped paper in a table. This was not a regular night for me, but it was a completely beautiful way to end a day without the Internet.

The effects of my internet disposal day

The best part of the lack of internet for this day was to depend on fine interruptions-all the small things that steal attention: neighborhood alerts, store sales and email messages that you need to delete. I enjoyed so calm that I did not turn the home 5G internet gate until Sunday morning, 36 hours after the start of the Digital toxins.

As far as I was concerned that my security cameras became dark in an era Pirate The small theft was not a single day problem. I don’t want to go forever without them. Instead, I reset the discovery of my camera movement to reduce random alerts of cars and dog pedestrians. I have followed this Tips to reduce annoying smart camera alerts.

What I have noticed is the number of times I reached my phone for trivial reasons, to feed the strange, strange questions that emanate in my head throughout the day. How can I open the unconventional tab closing the Costco Bagel bag? Do you sell Whole Foods Cronuts? Who performed a rainbow song in the dark? I succeeded in this well without answers.

Certainly, I made a fragmentation of the baking bag, but this is good. Instead of punching on Google Information on my phone, I discovered things. I embraced opinions. I talked to my husband about New Mexico Road flights. I lived life, but shortly, without a digital crutch.

Final ideas: Just say no notifications

I hold some lessons from the day not to buy forward with me. It has become more harsh about the notifications. Sorry, eating Uber, the notes of the target and the ring – you are outside. Weather, text messages and calendar alerts are allowed to survive.

I am working better to reach my phone to everything small. Now that I have canceled the full power mode for the focus mode, I can put it in the service. I can get my quiet moments over the mountain where the only alerts are the squirrels that calls from trees.

I have already developed a sense of nostalgia to want free from the Internet. It is a pink memory of enjoyable times in the car that listens to the classic rock station on the radio, and we do not know if we will find our destination, and do not worry that it is important.

The Internet could have eased our path and made our day more efficient. But I did not miss anything. We have moved. We enjoyed ourselves. The world did not end because I did not answer an email on Saturday. I even forgot to do so Wordel.

I still love a lot that the Internet can do for me. I just do not need to sit on my shoulder at every moment of waking up, whisper indefinitely in my ears.

So here is my heartfelt recommendation. Sometimes it closes it. For one day. For a few hours. Get a map. Go to lead. Watch an old movie with an antenna. The Internet will remain there tomorrow.