Gadgets you could live without...

[MK Shrimper]

What do you lot reckon? I don't have a games console any more (well apart from a Wii that I use for nothing more than Netflix) and maybe a mobile but the rest....over my dead body!

You?

 

[londonblue]

We have a Wii, but haven't used it in years. In fact my wife had a go at me for buying it and not using it until I pointed out I bought it for her as a "sorry" present.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

TV and the laptop for me.The rest I can do without.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Bugger, voted Kindle instead of Sat Nav - line was slightly askew! I don't possess a games console of any kind and have never played on one ever apart from the old table tennis thing on the tv a zillion years ago! I have a couple of games I play on my PC, and am content with them. I am perfectly able to use a map if I need to get somewhere, and if I had then we wouldn't have been directed to a dead end street in York when trying to find our hotel, which was around the corner. Kev however uses his all the time in the cab, not to find a road necessarily but to just keep an eye on where he is....not quite the same thing. The other thing is the bloody juicer I bought for that juice diet that fbm got us all excited about! Didn't work for me in the slightest and now gets used once in a blue moon if I have a lot of some fruit or veg that wants eating quickly, so I suppose as the old meal replacement it's ok. Coffee machine would be another, and a fondue set (if that can be classed as a gadget). Sold mine on ebay couple of years back, not regretted it in the slightest. If I want a good coffee I'll use the cafetiere, fondue? Well, I have a little one perfect for doing chocolate fondue, the Le Creuset was a wedding present first time around and had never been used!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Bugger, voted Kindle instead of Sat Nav - line was slightly askew! I don't possess a games console of any kind and have never played on one ever apart from the old table tennis thing on the tv a zillion years ago! I have a couple of games I play on my PC, and am content with them. I am perfectly able to use a map if I need to get somewhere, and if I had then we wouldn't have been directed to a dead end street in York when trying to find our hotel, which was around the corner. Kev however uses his all the time in the cab, not to find a road necessarily but to just keep an eye on where he is....not quite the same thing. The other thing is the bloody juicer I bought for that juice diet that fbm got us all excited about! Didn't work for me in the slightest and now gets used once in a blue moon if I have a lot of some fruit or veg that wants eating quickly, so I suppose as the old meal replacement it's ok. Coffee machine would be another, and a fondue set (if that can be classed as a gadget). Sold mine on ebay couple of years back, not regretted it in the slightest. If I want a good coffee I'll use the cafetiere, fondue? Well, I have a little one perfect for doing chocolate fondue, the Le Creuset was a wedding present first time around and had never been used!

Didn't include kitchen ones, mainly because I havent got any redundant ones. From my potato ricer to pasta maker, they all get used at some point!

 

[Benfleet A1]

Clicked the lot. Now stop bothering me, this cave won't clean it's self.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Clicked the lot. Now stop bothering me, this cave won't clean it's self.

Hope you're using a fluffy bunny and not a hoover then :smile:

GHG...you still there.....hello.....

 

[jassyfa1]

Can do without a television as there is never anything on that the Mrs and me can agree to watch together, so obviously she wins and I end up watching repeats of Only Fools and Horses, Come Dine With Me and the bloody shopping channels.
I don't need a game console as I have an Ipad, and I prefer books to a kindle.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I can do without any/all of them.





sent from my iPad, sitting in front of Sky TV while playing FIFA 2012 on the PC as the kindle recharges.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Breville sandwich toaster

 

[Jam_Man]

Not a big phone person, find them handy but not one to be queuing outside the Apple store to by a slightly better version than I have.

Do use a kindle for convenience but actually prefer a real book.

Kids have taken over the Xbox so barely use that.

TV is the biggest one, do watch quite a few movies so wouldnt give it up, but dont really care that much for 99% of TV.

Satnavs are great, take most of the stress out of driving, dont know how we did without them.

My PC you can have over my cold dead body....

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

We have a Wii, but haven't used it in years. In fact my wife had a go at me for buying it and not using it until I pointed out I bought it for her as a "sorry" present.

Please tell me she said 'just apologise, don't give me this sorry excuse for a present', because I know that is what I would hear!

 

[Beefy]

Couldn't live without my iPad but that fulfills the role of most of the gadgets in the list anyway. The only TV show I watch is Soccer Saturday and I've barely played my PS3 in six months (until I discovered The Last of Us a couple of weeks ago anyway).

 

[Crawliano]

No need for a Sat Nav now phones do the job (much better too IMO)

 

[Jam_Man]

No need for a Sat Nav now phones do the job (much better too IMO)

My samsung does as a decent job, but they keep messing around with the app.

Only downsides for me is the sound quality.

 

[RobM]

I could do without all, but life would be a tad different for sure!

 

[londonblue]

Please tell me she said 'just apologise, don't give me this sorry excuse for a present', because I know that is what I would hear!

I wish I could, but she actually chose the present!

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

I wish I could, but she actually chose the present!

Mine asked for a rampant rabbit

 

[MK Shrimper]

Mine asked for a rampant rabbit

Did you need the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

Never one to miss a Python reference......

 

[BaileytheQuitter]

As long as you have a smartphone you don't really need much else.