Guelph, Ont. family winds the clock back to 1986

It's 1986 in the McMillan household, complete with mullets, a moustache and jean short cutoffs.

The Toronto Sun reported about the Guelph family that, frustrated with the stranglehold of technology on their lives and those of their kids, decided to wind the clock back 27 years. Maps, encyclopedias and the original Nintendo console are the newest items you'll find in this household until April 2014.

Blair McMillan, 26, and his girlfriend, Morgan, 27, chose this temporary time-warp after their son, Trey, refused to play outside with his dad because wanted to play with the iPad instead, according to the Sun.

Big mistake, little one.

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The family has removed all technology from the house that didn't exist in 1986 — the year Blair and Morgan were born — with the exception of their 2010 car, according to the story. People have donated the family cassette tapes, VHS tapes and other relics of the twentieth century.

But even though Blair has been writing resumes in cursive and faxing colleagues, the family told the Sun they felt closer without buzzing screens all around them; Morgan reads more books and they spend more time talking.

Others have unplugged, including the hesitant family of Susan Maushart, who wrote the book The Winter of Our Disconnect after taking her family off technology for six months a few years ago.