{"id":63,"date":"2018-10-22T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-04T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T20:27:39","slug":"value-vs-value-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Value vs Value-to-me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been known to ramble on about tech device overload. That&#8217;s what I call it when I have too many gadgets that get too little use. I was avoiding selling them because of the loss that I would incur (new vs used price).   <\/p>\n<p>I had a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, and a smart phone. The laptop and tablet saw very little use. Most of my time is spent at my desk at home in front of my desktop computer (when I&#8217;m not at work). And the times when I am out and about, the last thing I normally want to do is tote my larger tech devices around with me. I mean the idea is to get away from it right?&#8230; and be with actual people.  <\/p>\n<p>My wife and I recently upgraded our smart phones to Apple&#8217;s latest. As I was working out the details I had a thought. And the thought was, I am putting so much money into this device, perhaps it should be my only mobile device. After all, it&#8217;s very capable right?  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when I put my laptop and tablet up for sale on <a href=\"https:\/\/swappa.com\/\">Swappa<\/a> and cashed them out.  <\/p>\n<p>Now I have only two computing devices. My desktop computer and my smart phone. The items I sold had a fair amount of value. But they did not have very much value to me. And by no longer having them in my mobile device mix, I have increased my smart phone&#8217;s value to me. So getting rid of stuff for cash gave something else I had more value. And I will actually get more use out of it. I like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been known to ramble on about tech device overload. That&#8217;s what I call it when I have too many gadgets that get too little use. I was avoiding selling them because of the loss that I would incur (new vs used price). I had a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, and a smart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moondog.org\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Value vs Value-to-me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}