So how many gadgets is too many?

[glatt]

You buy them over the years and don't throw them away.

About a year ago, I paid to get rid of two old Macs. They had built-in monitors and so I had to pay $15 each to get rid of them. I had a couple external CD burners that I also got rid of, and a flat bed scanner that had the wrong cables to connect to anything I still owned.

I just picked up a broken laptop and a really old laptop from my dad, so now I have 3 old laptops (1 is broken), 1 old desktop, 1 work blackberry, 1 old iPod, and 1 GPS for the car. So that's 7 items. My wife has a smart phone and my daughter has an iPod Touch. So that's 9 gadgets. And I just got that fancy new thermostat, so that brings our household up to 10.

[limey]

Originally Posted by glatt

You buy them over the years and don't throw them away.

About a year ago, I paid to get rid of two old Macs. They had built-in monitors and so I had to pay $15 each to get rid of them. I had a couple external CD burners that I also got rid of, and a flat bed scanner that had the wrong cables to connect to anything I still owned.

I just picked up a broken laptop and a really old laptop from my dad, so now I have 3 old laptops (1 is broken), 1 old desktop, 1 work blackberry, 1 old iPod, and 1 GPS for the car. So that's 7 items. My wife has a smart phone and my daughter has an iPod Touch. So that's 9 gadgets. And I just got that fancy new thermostat, so that brings our household up to 10.

So how come what your wife and daughter have is classified as "yours"? Surely you have 7, wife has 1 and daughter has 1.

[glatt]

Well then none of the computers are mine because we all share them, and the phone is a work phone. So I guess the old iPod and the thermostat are mine. And I suppose my wife would say the broken laptop is all mine. Come to think of it, my wife uses the thermostat more than I do, so that's really hers more than mine, even though it was a gift to me. So really the old iPod is mine. And the broken laptop. I have 2 items.