Are you one of those people with an "Appliance Graveyard" at home?

lol... 'Appliance graveyard' is my thing James. I used to have a lot of those lying all over the places until my mom got me a storage at the attic. And guess what, what a mess of gadgets and appliances and money it is!! Some times I wonder, DID I REALLY BUY IT! DID I REALLY HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY!!...Many are gifted as well. What a waste it is! Its full of obsolete gadgets, tight from pagers to CPUs, to palm tops, to defunct DCs. Then there are toasters, sandwich makers, hair dryers, epilators, mixers-grinders, juicers and even old irons!! It's a graveyard in the true sense. Sometimes I digg into it to find out more defunct ones so that I can get rid of those. But some more adds on! It's constantly replenishing! What alarming is the huge waste of money! May be the global slump would deter me from buying reckless.

Applaince graveyard ! I think i would most aptly call my home an applaince tomb ,where i can still see valve radios,record payers,amplifiers cassete players, toasters,cordless phones..maybe even call it a junkyard. The thing here is James both my brother and Dad are in the line of electronics and theri hobby ranges from servicing to building new designs from of amplifiers, speaker designs to testing equipment. And the strange part of it is that nothing ever leaves the house. It just goes on accumulating and accumulating. Then there are those spare parts boxes full of them , most of them obsolete. Can you imagine those valves which were used in the radios. I mean other then display them in a museum what use would they be of today . I've tried time and again to convince these two to get some of it but nope , just cannot convince them to. I guess will be mumified along with them one day. And yes i would use them for anything possible that i can and now i'm training my nephew on this.

Until June I had a gadget, appliance and car graveyard. We had a 96 Lincoln and 96 Jeep Cherokee that ran. Then there were the non running cars. A 93 Buick Regal, and 89 Honda Prelude and an 89 Honda Accord. Why? Because my husband had to have all this stuff including the sandwich makers, etc.. Going to fix them up, might use it once every five months, might need the spare parts from that computer that was 10 years old. What changed? He left for Iraq and I cleaned house! :) We are down to one car, no gadgets, no spare obsolete electronic parts, no appliances that don't get used. But hey, atleast now I can use my garage!

Of course I do, Darlin. But, they are not in the house, they are out in the yard. Old refrigerators, stoves, microwaves, washing machines, dryers. And not just appliances, we have a couple of old toilets, a sink or two, 3 or 4 bath tubs. Not to mention 3 old cars that are nothing but shells. Hey, I am a Texan, we are all a bunch of red neck, hillbillies, doncha know? Just kidding, that drives me crazy to see something like that. I do have a couple of things under the counters that I don't use. But, I didn't buy them, they were given to me as gifts. I used them two or three times, and decided that it was easier for me to do things the old fashion way.*L*

Hi James, its nice you have started but really i am not like so. I invest and buy those which is regularly being used by me and if its for just grace and then i really wont even think to buy as the decision of buying is in my hands but still the dreaming of buying is in family members.

Tread lightly, James... I wish you'd pay more respect to a graveyard and all those lovely appliance souls in it who may or may not have lived their lives to the fullest (use). Boyfriend got me the Magic Bullet because it would be the infomercial I'd be watching over and over again at 2am when I can't sleep. He also got me a blender and a baking mixer, both of which haven't seen much use lately. We have Foreman's grill but it still is in its box. Now, I'm eyeing the Nu-wave! Poor soul.

We have very few appliances and that is the way I like it. We have the normal blender, microwave, sandwich maker, hand blender, toaster and crockpot. That is about it here. I hand things down to my kids when I dont want it no longer and if they dont want something it goes to the Salvation Army or somewhere else that it can be given or boughten for someone elses use.

Hahaha! Well, we have some hand me down appliances at home but still works though. Like the baking oven that my dad bought from his friend, still at its good condition and still useful so I don't think it's a part of the graveyard list, lol. Some are old yeah but not one of those appliances that are just... there. Most of our really really old appliances have been given away and have been thrown away also since they can't be fixed anyway. Some of our appliances have been bought just a few years ago so it's all good!

I was like that once but now I cannot afford to buy lots of appliances so I am trying to hand on to my old ones for as long as possible. We do still have a few old appliances hanging around but we got rid of a lot of stuff when we moved. Moving is great for dumping things you really have no use for anymore.

LOL Mine is an appliance hell because it seems once they enter my house, they are destined to break and/or die. As far as buying appliances I don't need, I usually resist the urge to buy them. I can honestly say that I use about 99.4% of the appliances that I have bought (as long as they still work that is)

I have never bought any of those things. My husbands aunt one the other hand use to buy every single thing! She ended up giving me a rotisserie! One that you can see it going around and a around.. With the idea that you set it and forget it.. I love to watch it LOL.... how is that saving any time? LOL

I have a couple of them in a graveyard, when I bought them I thought they were the appliance that I just had to have now they are stuffed in a closet, a cabinet wherever I could find room for it. I have some that are really handy. I try to stay out the appliance area now.

No I do not get continued use out of appliances I buy, but i do dispose off unservicable gadgets in the junk yard. I do not collect unservicable items at home. There is no space to store junk at home.

i used to be like that, but now im trying as much as possible to atleast use the appliances once in a while... :)