Material Stuff

Whenever I was supposed to be studying, my mind sometimes wander to other things and recently I thought of what stuff that I need to get rid of before moving overseas.

I realised that I easily buy stuff that I want but do not use those stuff soon after the purchase. Here are the list of those stuff:

1. Home Gym -Elliptical Machine http://www.aibifitness.com/pdt.php?pid=1&cid=10
Bought it for $1K so that I have no excuse not to exercise. I could use the machine whenever i watch TV, rather than sitting in the sofa, to burn extra calories. After I got married and moved to a new house, my husband did not allow me to put the machine in the living room and it is sitting in our spare room which is occupied by my husband's uncle now.
I feel less guilty coz apparently my FIL sometimes goes to the spare room and uses the machine.
Need to sell it or move it back to my parents' place.

2. Home Gym - Gym Leg http://www.aibifitness.com/pdt.php?reload=true&cid=6&pid=167
I asked for this as my recent birthday present.
Also with the excuse that any one of us could use it while watching TV and only 1-2 minutes a day. How hard can it be? Well, everybody soon forget abt the machine as it is tucked away behid the sofa. My excuse is that I am not feeling well lately (2-3 weeks of cough) :P
I think the machine is small enough so I could bring this to Australia :)

3. Portable DVD player
I used to take long ride to work so I thought (silly of me) that i could actually use it to watch some DVD while going to work. It attracted too much attention in the train hahahhaa.. But good thing is that it was being used at my best friend's wedding. It's quite handy so maybe I cold bring this there too.

4. Sony Handycam
I bought it for my honeymoon as I prefer video to camera. Captured some Flamenco dance performance when we were in Spain. I think it could still be useful but it is an old model using tapes. I wish I could change the model to the one with DVD.

5. Dance stuff
Over the years of trying different type of dances, I now have 2 pairs of Latin Dance shoes, a pair of Standard (Ballroom) dance shoes, a pair of Flamenco dance shoes (ordered from Spain directly) and 2 Flamenco skirts. I intend to continue (someday, perhaps) Latin and Ballroom dance so those pairs could still be usefull, but what am I gonna do with the Flamenco shoes? I also have a pair of made-to-measure wedding shoes that are dyed from white to black so could be used as Ballroom shoes but the heels are so high I think I would just use it for party wear.

6. Magic Mic Karaoke http://www.magicmic.com/
I really like this Karaoke set as it is a plug-and-play version and is small enough to be portable. All I really need to do is to plug the 3 cables to TV and it's done. It has a lot of songs inside the mic itself and I could buy songchips for songs in other language or additional English songs.
I would probably bring this to Australia as it is quite good for entertainment :p

Looking at the list above, I realised that I am an impulsive buyer but luckily they are mostly related to sports (including dance). I think it runs in the family coz I noticed my parents have a lot of junks at home too. By comparison, my husband's family seems to buy less stuff and live simpler lifestyle.

Right now, I am thinking of buying Wii Nintendo coz I read in newpaper yesterday that it is good for old people. So I was thinking of buying it for my parents so they could exercise at home. If they don't like it, I could bring it home to play.