I have the cutest, grooviest little gadget I never saw myself owning: an iPod Shuffle. My mother bought it for me after the theft of my briefcase (with laptop and mp3 player inside) to cheer me up. I can fit all the songs from every CD I ever bought with my own money on this .5 inch device.

But the tragedy? I seldom ever have the time to use my iPod. I can’t rock out with my ear buds on around the house, as the kids will stage a coup. What I need, I’ve decided, is a full-size iPod, and a Bose iPod SoundDock Music System, so I can listen to my playlists AND stave off the toddler revolution at the same time.

I’m justifying the owning of devices that I don’t really need, aren’t I? I mean, I could always play CDs on my DVD player and have my music play in through the TV. OR, I could just invest in a cheap CD player and plug it in anywhere. But it doesn’t sound as… appealing. It’s undignified. It’s just far too 90s.

Yeah, I’m caving in to mindless consumerism, propelled into the buying of tech gadgets I don’t need in some eternal pursuit of quality and geek cred. I admit it. Just point the way to some obscure holiday so I can justify buying my household an electronic treat, and witness the demise of my hippy counter-culture idealism.

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