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Yesterday I lost my shitty, screen cracked, three year old chipped and scratched all-over iTouch and I'm bummed. It was just an incredible gadget, I know we all like to rag on apple products and with this one exception, I do too, but man this touch was great. It was my music player and dictionary and calculator and notepad and agenda and on-the-go internet (I don't have a smart phone) and more for three freaking years, without a days rest. Even after dropping it and falling on it and constantly constantly putting it in harms way. Even after I dropped in one too many times and it happened to land corner first on concrete and the screen spider webbed it still worked like a charm. Uglier, maybe but 100% as functional as it was before and 100% more functional than it had any right to be.
I was always expecting it to stop working one day, that eventually it'd run its long over due course and I'd have to get a new one. Not to lose it, I feel so... guilty. Like I couldn't even protect my faithful friend, like I had broken some promise to an iPod. I don't know, maybe its just human nature to grow attached to our things or maybe I'm just a big floopy noodle but I feel loss. Growing up I never had that many things but I never lacked. On my birthday in July and during the holidays I'd get something nice. So after half a year of coveting I'd get to pick one thing. Senior year of high school I cashed both of them in for that iPod and it was so worth it. It's not like I can't get a new ipod and I probably will, but it won't be my shitty iPod. One thing I think I'll never understand is people who are always getting the newest gadget, how do you grow to appreciate your things if you're always replacing them the second a new one drops and if don't appreciate them, whats the point of having them?
So anyway, here I am on thanksgiving making a flyer that's reads:
Lost: Black Cracked Screen iPod Touch
Reward Offered!
Details: Lost in Frelinghuysen Hall last Tuesday (11/20). The screen is spider webbed and the plastic screen cover is riddled with airbubbles. If it still has charge, some of my playlists were: filtered, ghhfh, mean, and train. It's a real piece of junk but its my piece junk and I love to get it back. Many thanks.
Contact: My email
Happy thanksgiving everyone
 
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I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving.
And maybe the people who constantly get a new gadget are appreciating their tool as a constantly evolving piece of equipment, rather than static.
Or perhaps what they appreciate is not the tool itself, but the gratification they feel from purchasing something perceived as having value.
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On November 23 2012 03:30 Qwyn wrote:
And maybe the people who constantly get a new gadget are appreciating their tool as a constantly evolving piece of equipment, rather than static.
Yeah maybe, that's a good insight
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I understand your stuff: i've had my cowon j3 for 3 years and a half now, it is not as in bad shape as your beloved ipod touch but the screen is scratched at 2 or 3 different spot, but, even though i am waiting for it to randomly die anyday, If i was to lose it i would feel damn bad, i am way too attached to it.
Ho and i feel the same for my headset, once i let it at some friend's place where i was crashing by, and her dog chewed it till it was unrecognizable while we were going out.
I felt i had lost a piece of me.
I guess these things are kind of "companion cube", they entertained you when commuting, waiting, made you feel good when needed etc...
I hope you will find it back and wish you have nice Thanksgiving.
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Man, I totally understand. We, as humans, get attached to stuff. Similar to a kid and their teddy bear, totally understandable. I still hold on to a lot of stuff from when I was younger, mostly out of nostalgia.
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I lost mine over summer and still have not replaced it 
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I lost my Sansa Clip+ 2 mths ago and till today I have no idea where the fuck I last seen it
Bought another Clip+ and Clip Zip to replace it though 
Why replace something if it works fine just so you can have the latest and newest? Totally agreed. No point chasing rainbows of having the newest and latest when one should appreciate what one already has.
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Um yeah I'd rather not.
I hope those are supposed to be searchable keywords, not keywords you found in this thread, though, because nowhere in any of the threads in which you've posted do I see a mention of all those fake IDs/licenses/diplomas/etc.
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LOL WTF is up with that post. Jesus christ. No Singaporean passport to sell eh?
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What a coincidence: I accidentally bought two ipods on ebay the other day!
Anyway, I know what you mean. I also own things that are downright outdated or in real bad shape. But when something happens to them (or get lost or stolen), I weep for them. When I washed my first ipod nano, it was like when your first fish floated upside down in the little bowl. Mr Fishy nooooo
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I've had this sex machine since 2009.
It's cracked at the bottom, and this picture is mirrored, but I don't care and it works like a boss. My iPod Touch is fantastic.
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/hClc7.jpg)
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