<p>My main problem with multiple TVs: why on Earth there should be 4 remotes for each TV in the house? :eek: Thank goodness the Mirror TV only has one!</p>
<p>Me: “Six TVs and Five XBoxes in ONE HOUSE!!!”
H: “Only 6? How many laptops?”</p>
<p>I looked around and counted… 5 laptops. H carries 2 iPhones, one work-issued for business calls and one personal one for me to text him important stuff such as the latest hit cat videos (he is prohibited from using his business phone for personal purposes).</p>
<p>The cable bill doesn’t necessarily change with more TV sets- it depends on how many use the cable box extras. We have an old analog TV we haven’t gotten rid of yet, the old rear projection TV that was put in the basement in front of the treadmill when we upgraded several years ago, plus the bedroom TV that replaced that analog set. So, 4 TV sets but only 2 used at a time. We gave away an older computer last summer but still have an extra one to for H to play with Linux. You can accumulate electronics when you upgrade unless you get around to finding a new home for them. </p>
<p>Likewise with books. Either you buy new bookshelves and find a place for them or you periodically need to cull some. Painting a room is a good incentive to do that as you have to empty the bookshelves in order to move them away from the walls. Next incentive will be when the house finally sells.</p>
<p>We have one 1990s era TV in the basement. It gets about an hour of use per week. We have no X-Boxes. We do have a lot of computers though, at least half of which are no longer in regular use.</p>
<p>We do have a nice bench and weight set through.</p>
<p>BTW, it appears that Apple is going to start selling their own branded televisions in 2012.</p>
<p>Our family of five has six televisions, three laptops, one desktop, five ipods, three gaming systems, three Kindles and one Nook. We also have hundreds of books.</p>
<p>We have a weight bench, barbells, dumbbells, resistance bands, a stepper, a treadmill, and many, many, many pairs of athletic shoes.</p>
<p>No judgement here, but it’s interesting to see what others have in terms of home electronics. I sometimes think we have too much, but it’s not like all the devices are on 24/7. And, it’s just a fact of life that we don’t all want to watch the same thing at the same time. With our family of 4 - 2 teenagers - we have a wide variety of interests and we all have certain things we like to see and places where we prefer to watch. But, we do all sit down and watch some things together. We have 3 newer (flat screen) TV’s of various sizes, 2 older (box) TV’s - one used just to watch DVD’s (not hooked up to cable or anything), 1 xbox, 3 laptops (school now requires students to have a laptop), 1 desktop used as the host for wifi, 1 ipad, 2 iphones, 2 work issued blackberrys, 1 ipod touch, 3 non-touch ipods. We recently subscribed to AT&T u-verse. While talking to the technician about the number of devices we have, he commented that we were mid-range of what he sees.</p>
<p>If you count D, who no longer lives here, the four of us have 3 TVs (22", 32" and 55"), one desktop computer, 3 laptops, one netbook, 3 smart and one dumb phone, and one Xbox. No tablets or e-readers. Well over 1,000 books, though.</p>
<p>TV’s don’t break very often, and in a large house, an old TV can be put to good use in a less-frequently watched location. with a decent A/V distribution system. Our house has 7 TV’s but two of them are 20+ years old, three are 10 years old, and two are the newfangled LCD’s. </p>
<p>Gaming consoles, we have an Xbox and an Xbox 360 and a PSP. </p>
<p>Computing power, more than many small companies I’m afraid :-).</p>
<p>We have a dream…something*, various Game Boys, a nintendo 64, a gamecube, a Wii, PS 2 and 3 (lost the handheld PSP!), and every iteration of the x box.</p>
<p>Interestingly, this same family of 5 was profiled in the Times a few years ago when they moved from FL to Manhattan for the younger son’s asthma and were having trouble finding something to rent in the 10- 24K month range. They ended up in a 4 story brownstone and a half ( included the two upper floors of adjoining brown houses, full kitchen and roof deck). I don’t think the number of TVs (or X boxes) they own is anyone else’s business, but I do find it very weird that they want it to be.</p>
<p>Who cares what anyone has in their home. There are people who though we were crazy for spending the money we did on college educations and I think they are crazy for not spending it if they afford to do so. </p>
<p>The number of TV’s a person has does not have anything to do with how much TV they watch. It has everything to do with convience of being comfortable in your home. I never walk around anyones home noticing things like this. I do notice if people have wonderful charming children and great families.</p>
<p>I suspect families have a lot of TVs because they don’t know what to do with the old ones.
We have one in the garage with a picture tube & rotary dial! I keep telling H to get rid of it. ;)</p>
<p>My D had a HUGE tv in her old house that they finally had to give away ( like 52"-58"), ( it was given to them by roommate parents)-then the two guys who took it away dropped it.</p>
<p>Getting rid of old televisions is a PITA, true, but around here (upstate NY) you can bring them to Best Buy. They used to charge $10 per set as a disposal fee, but lately have been accepting them for free.</p>
<p>I believe I heard the other day that in Illinois you can no longer place TVs (and other electronics) into the trash. You have to dispose of them in some specific manner-- costs money to get rid of it!</p>
<p>One of some 400,000 new laws that go into effect today across the nation…</p>
<p>^ Where we live, the ‘recycling fee’ is added to the price of all electronics. We just dropped off some old electronics to the recycle station…seeing all those old TVs and computers, it makes sense it costs to dismantle them and take the toxic material out of them. And if they charge the fee at the point of disposal, that is actually a disincentive to recycle. And someone has to pay for it so it makes sense to me that we charge the user rather than everyone (as would be the case if it just came out of general govt revenue). </p>
<p>Aside from the parts, the big environmental issue is the lead, mercury and cadmium found in these things.</p>