Do you find that your passion for posessions is gone once you've got them?

Goodie said:
*looks at xbox 360*

yup
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I resisted temptation so far, I just know I will be disappointed if I buy one so I resist it so I can still think it is a big leap in technology.
 
Mmm.

I call it a gadget-itch.

My current itch is for a laptop, namely an iBook.
But I know I don't need one...

...a gadget itch is normally characterised by months of reserach, then a fixation on a particular brand/model, then lots of casting around on eBay, then bank account checking and looking at finance options...

I've managed to stop the finger hitting the 'buy' button by promising myself it if I land the job I want - which I probably won't know about for a couple of months yet.
 
I remember when I was little and was so happy when I got a new game for my Commodore64 and I used to play each game for months
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This is soo true :) , and you didn't mind waiting 3/4 of an hour for it to load up :D .I remember when i was very young and my dad came home from work with a new game, Robocop for c64, the box even had a big robocop poster in it. We couldn't believe it when after the picture had loaded up of robocop,1 line at a time, it actually spoke and said "ROBOCOP". I played that game for months, it was great at the time.

Mark
 
I think, when something (or someone) is out of ones reach, one wants it, simply because it stands as the unobtainable, which in the minds of a lot of people is highly desirable. It's seductive and hypnotic. But, once everything is obtainable and within ones reach, the lure and mystique of the unobtainable has vanished. Eventually, one begins to want less and less. I think this is why 'new money' tend to be very flashy and 'old money' tends to be understated and more reserved in behaviour.
 
sara said:
Mmm.

I call it a gadget-itch.

My current itch is for a laptop, namely an iBook.
But I know I don't need one...

...a gadget itch is normally characterised by months of reserach, then a fixation on a particular brand/model, then lots of casting around on eBay, then bank account checking and looking at finance options...

I've managed to stop the finger hitting the 'buy' button by promising myself it if I land the job I want - which I probably won't know about for a couple of months yet.
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Exactly, I used to do it constantly with computer components, checking my bank account, checking the best prices, and seeing if I could justify it, I don't do it as much any more, as im happy with my PC. I did do it just after christmas with a laptop though, its sitting in its case, and here i am using the pc....
 
Yup! Or at least I did until I realised that I had loads of stuff that I wanted but didn't need or use. That's when I decided to wait a month or so between seeing something and buying it. If I still wanted it and had a use for it after that month then fair enough. If I hadn't thought about it in that time, or it was just an "Oooh, shiny thing!" reaction and it would just be a dust magnet, I don't bother.
 
Sort of:

I wanted an mp3 player with lots of storage and I ended up being given a mini-ipod and Sony Ericsson w800i at the same time. Now I just never bother listening to music while i'm on the go, I think the interest in doing so just kind of waned away.

I think the same is with women;

God knows who said:
...dangle a string in front of a cat and it goes mental, drop the whole ball of yarn at its feet and the bugger loses interest and walks away!
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You guys with unused laptops - sure you'll find uses for them out in the garden when the weather gets warm enough :D Thats what I want one for (as well as just being dead cool) - revision in the sun, mmmmmm...
 
Yep, I used to want a pair of mixing decks with a passion.

Bought some earlier this year and have had about 10 hours use out of them. It's not all it cracked up to be (and I'm not bad at it either).
 
Dutch Guy said:
I resisted temptation so far, I just know I will be disappointed if I buy one so I resist it so I can still think it is a big leap in technology.
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soooo much want an xbox 360 :D but i know i will get a few weeks use out of it and the rest of the year it will collect dust :(
 
sara said:
You guys with unused laptops - sure you'll find uses for them out in the garden when the weather gets warm enough :D Thats what I want one for (as well as just being dead cool) - revision in the sun, mmmmmm...
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nah, i'll prob take my pc outside into the garden instead
 
For me, it depends what it is.

My mobile phone was one where I bought it and then started to hate it after a short while of loving it. Playstations/xbox etc went the same way.

My camera is something I still enjoy the same amount as I did on day 1. My hifi was somewhere in between. Now I have spent a couple of thousand "tinkering" with it over the years it still makes me grin every time I use it (for most of the day, every day).
 
To some extend yes, the feeling usually last for quite a bit thou. My latest one would be my Canon S70, i still pick it up and look at it now and again. My Philips 20" Widescreen monitor is less so, because i am staring at it all the time practically but i know i will miss it if i am not using it. But you are right about them all being intergrated into my daily life, it's less wow once you've got it for a while. It is only natural I suppose, human beings are greedy, always wanting more, this is a capitalist society.
 
I get an inital buzz researching an Item and then have fun with it for about 3-4 days once I get it through the post. If I use if for more than 30mins a week after the first week, it escapes getting sold on ebay. And i have sold absolutely everything electrical that I got fed up with - so lost very little money on the stuff.

Thats why it doesnt bother me when I start drooling over the next gadget that comes out and then gets purchased without really assesing the need for it.
 
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