My wife was cleaning out the bonus room in preparation for turning it into a play room for our daughter. (There goes my last refuge at home.) She found my old palm pilot and asked me how much we should sell it for in a garage sale. I started thinking. How much was that gadget worth to me?
To be honest, it never was worth very much. It was difficult to enter data into and I never used it. Now there are cell phone/palm pilots, usb storage you put on your keychain, and of course the iPod is all the rage. These gadgets seem to complicate my life and they inevitably end up like the palm, discarded in the bonus room. What is the attraction to these gadgets? Is it just the cool factor of being the first one to own it or does it really improve the quality of life? Maybe I lack the patience to learn to appreciate them. Maybe the killer gadget that I can't live without hasn't been invented yet. Maybe someone out there could clue me in.
I got one word for you: ebay. It's amazing what people are willing to buy there.
ReplyDeleteIndeed - I sold a visor prism ($400, circa 2001) for $100 on ebay recently.
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