We like ours. The dogs seem a bit skittish of it.
I don’t have an Ipod and feel no desire to get one. When I travel long distances I take a book or my knitting.
We don’t have a TiVo, but I record the shows I want on my VCR.
I must have a windows mobile 6 pda, with a keyboard, and smaller than my current wm5 pda.
I also must have GTA4. I would kill the PM for GTA4.
Can I wait for it to come out on the PC? Only time will tell.
I have a printer but I stopped buying ink for it. If I quit my job and start the business we keep talking about, I’ll have to buy ink, because there are some times when you need to print.
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I would say that’s a must-not-have. Why would you want to eat something that requires an electrical appliance to be carved?
Which is why it’s still in the box and has been for the past 5 Christmases.
One day I’ll foist it on somebody 
Perhaps I haven’t understood, but wouldn’t a DVD recorder be just what you want? I got one last year and it’s superb. It isn’t connected to the internet. It has an in-built Freeview box (gizmo that decodes several dozen free digital channels here in the UK, no fees or subscription required). It can record from any of the free-to-air terrestrial channels or the digital channels. Programming is the simplest thing in the world - call up the on-screen TV guide, click to the show you want and hit the button… that’s it, it’s done. Records to any blank DVD format you care to use, re-recorddable or not as you wish.
Back to the OP. I have never had a dishwasher and never will. It’s just easier and quicker to wash stuff after use, especially anything you’ve just used for cooking. And they take up too much room, and use up too much water. I have never had any sort of personal organiser, from Filofax to Blackberry. I don’t need one, and there are too many horror stories of people who cram their device with Filofax or digital gizmo with data and then lose it or the batteries fail or it stops working… and they lose it all. I don’t own an iPod or, indeed, anything with an Apple brand on it. I don’t have any TV channel I have to subscribe to. The fact that electric can openers or knives even exist just astounds me. Then again, I don’t even have a regular can opener because I never buy any food that comes in cans.
No I-Pod, Blackberry, Tivo, gaming console or car ‘SatRad’. While I do cave a cellphone, it’s pretty much only for emergencies and, of course, grocery lists. I would, however, refuse to live in a world without dishwashers. Heck, I even married one.
snort - So did I!
I have microwave, computer and cable at work, but not at home. The real reason I come to work is for the microwave, computer and cable.
I don’t have my computer speakings hooked up at work. I would never get any work done if I could listen to music and watch videos all day.
I don’t have a car or license, never did, never will.
I confess to being flummoxed by the amount of people who are charter members of an internet message board who don’t own computers.
I’ve had a dishwasher and microwave and found both to be of no use. I have neither now. The dishwasher was more hassle than it was worth and used too much water and harsh chemicals. Any food which went in the microwave was yuk (technical term) compared to fresh food cooked well. Don’t use a clothes drier either. But then again, it never rains here! (Constant complaint in drought ridden Victoria).
No cable, although I would like some of the documentaries - but you can only get cable here with lots of sports channels and other things which don’t interest me, so it’s too expensive for what I would get. Not sure what a Blackberry is, except I do get emails from them. I have a paper diary without which I would cease to exist. Everything is in that diary!
Confession time: I’ve had the iPhone demonstrated when I was in the US last year and am longing for one. They are released here in Australia soon. I use a big heavy camera because I never know when a photo might be useful for a book or article (I’m a professional writer and need to photograph in very high res, often macro), but it would be great to have a little light camera for snapshots on my mobile phone. Plus I’m hooked on Google Earth - that was the clincher, when they showed my home outside Melbourne on the iPhone in Palo Alto!
An iPod. I held off when everyone else was first getting one, and noticed that they tended to self-destruct after 12-18 months. I have an MP3 player, but it’s a Sony thumbdrive model that has no relation to the Apple gadget whatsoever.
The thing I don’t own at all is a radio. I think technically the MP3 player has an FM tuner but I’ve never once used the function. There’s nothing to listen to locally, and the non-local stations I’d listen to stream over the internet.
Yep. Though, if you’re in a hurry, it can be kind of a pain in the ass, at which point you remind yourself to get a microwave oven soon, then you keep forgetting to get one, probably because, deep down inside, you know it’s just not that important to you, then you have to heat up left-overs on the stove again…and the cycle continues. :smack:
I also don’t have:
*a dishwasher (I’m not a homeowner, and my apartment doesn’t have one, but I wouldn’t buy one if I were a homeowner–I live alone, so not too many dishes to wash)
*an Ipod (though I do own a SanDisk mp3 player w/an FM tuner)
*cable TV (I get good reception for the broadcast channels, I don’t watch enough TV to justify the cost, and I subscribe to/love Netflix–I’d **totally ** lose my mind, seriously, without my stereo, though )
*a car (there’s adequate public transit where I live, so I’m glad not to have the expenses of car ownership–and Avis is there whenever I need/want to drive somewhere)
*a washing machine (though I **wish ** I did–too many people, too many hyper kids, and not enough hours at my local laundrymat)
We are a two person household and don’t tend to have leftovers. But on the odd occassion, yeah we tend to stick the food in the oven (wrapped in foil) to reheat.
We have a lot of leftovers - also two person home. I tend to cook enough to last a few days. Can’t see the need for a microwave, though. We have saucepans and an oven.
Yet another person living happily without an iPod. Actually, I do have one. But only because my husband insisted on giving it to me. Left to my own devices, I’d never get one.
I don’t have a cell phone or an Ipod. Don’t want either.
I wanta a Roomba partly because it will scare the (limited) wits out of the cats, but I’m mean, and tired of trying to make everything fear-free for them. Especially for the one cat that’s afraid of the floor. There’s only so much “There, there, dear” you can do before you start deliberately freaking him out.
GPS navigation
MP3 player/IPOD
DVR
A car. My house is 30 seconds from a bus station which takes me to within a 5 minute walk of my work place. I will buy myself a bicycle in the summer; there is a cycle path at the end of my road which goes directly to my work place and the town centre. We have good public transport around here, which we paid a lot of money for… For once it was well spent.
An iPod/MP3 Player. I use a digital radio at work, online radio at home. I do want a personal MP3 player with digital radio but can’t find a good one.
A Cable/Satellite package. I used to but found myself watching repeats non-stop. I can do that with Freeview. Instead I have a LoveFilm subscription (think Netflix). Currently going through the entire Babylon 5 collection. Awesome.
That’s all I can think of.
I know this would make absolutely no difference to you (that’s fine with me 
), but the current generation of videogame consoles is the seventh. The third generation of consoles was typified by the Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, and the Atari 7800.
I do have an electric can opener and use it often. Same with a dishwasher and microwave. They aren’t just gadgets to me, they are things it would be a hardship for me to do without.
I don’t need an iPhone. I have a phone with video capabilities, web browser, camera, and all the other gadgets in it that cost me about $400 less for the same functionality.
Ah. Shows how much I know. “Third generation” just had a familiar ring to it, so I thought that’s what it was what was being used.
Well, the only games console I actually have ever had in my life is my PS2, and it’s been about six months since I used that. Video games have lost me.