I am haunted by this iPod shuffle.
I won a green 4GB shuffle (3rd gen) at our work Christmas party. It is very small and cute, but I don’t need it – I got my coveted orange 16GB nano for Christmas, which holds all my music and then some (not to mention the 12+GB free I now have on my iPhone). I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it as Ed doesn’t want it and it seems silly to keep it for no reason. I tried to exchange it at half a dozen stores, but you can’t actually return iDevices without a receipt or proof that you didn’t steal it from somewhere. Since I can’t prove I’m not a criminal mastermind, I’m stuck with this cute little thing I have absolutely no use for.
So that’s where the internet comes in.
If you or someone you know desperately needs a new MP3 player, leave a comment below. Saddest sob story wins. Are you still using a 1st gen device? A Zune? A portable CD player? You poor, poor soul. Tell me all about it, and I’ll give the iPod shuffle to the neediest commenter. You’ve got until January 7th to make me feel sorry for you – go!
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Oh God, me. The only way I can sleep in the same room with my husband who SNORES is with music directly in my ears. And my current source of said music just died :/
I’d beg but….
Okay, I’m begging.. lol
I currently have an ipod mini from 2004. Its cute, turquoise and named Bluebelle but alas doesn’t work with many of the ipad docks, speakers and alarm clocks. It also weighs a disgusting 3.6 oz. My arm practically falls off carrying it around. The ear buds were lost on a savage greyhound bus trip to Calgary and alas I’m using cheap buds bought at the bargain shop. The left bud regularly cuts out.
I’m having cybernetic metal bits surgically removed from my ankle this spring and a perky little froggy-green shuffle would be perfect for my walking rehabilitation.
Pretty please hear my plight…
:)
I drive a car with… sob… a CASSETTE PLAYER!
I really, really need a small music-playing device in my car… I make many trips to ArKansas, and all of their radio stations are Xian… I think that it’ll hook up to my radio.
Have mercy on me, save me from the silence!
my kids have better gadgets than I do, in fact my 8 year old god-daughter has an ipod and I, alas, do not. I don’t even have a portable cd player. And like Heather, I am forced to drive a car with only a working cassette deck. Who the hell still has cassettes?!
plus I have three children under 4. I live in hell. That has to count for something ;).
I’ve never owned an iPod. Ever. Yes, ever ever. I was always strapped for cash and so was at the mercy of getting fancy electronics via presents. My brother works at Microsoft so I’ve been gifted Zunes three (!) different times! I’d love to have an iPod shuffle, so small and sleek in comparison to the mega Zune. And so much cooler.
(C’mon, I just admitted to owning a Zune x3. If that isn’t the saddest thing, I don’t know what is)
Wow I thought I was a contender, having never owned anything other than a piece of shift sony mp3 player, but your other entries here take my cake. I vote for Amber – she seems the least advanced, musicalgadget-wise. Also, anyone who can exist in a home with 3 under 4 needs our sympathy and support.
I will make do with my android, clunky as it is.
I’m getting the extremely short end of the stick in my divorce, and all I possess now are my clothes, some CDs, books, and DVDs, and as of two weeks ago, a suitcase, some plastic tupperware, and two black-out curtains. But I am much happier than when I had a car and a bed, so maybe I don’t need it.
I am a sexually frustrated twenty-five year old male who suffers from small chubby cock syndrome.
Dude, that is gross. Either it’s true, in which case it’s way TMI and kinda pathetic, or it’s not true in which case, er, why!? Creepy. Either way, what the crap does that have to do with getting an iPod? Perhaps the blue balls are clouding your judgement or something, I don’t know, but: not cool.
Sorry.
Amber gets my vote, too.
What the hell is an MP3 player?
*cue the old guy, kids get off my lawn rant*
I’m so tired from lack of sleep I almost forgot I entered this. Hubby has a cold and snoring has been taken to the next level… Save me!!
PS. Kinda feeling sorry for the person with the cassette player in her car….
I would love to win your shuffle! I have many many many reasons why I think I should win, but I will only list some since the contest is ending so soon!
– I do not have an Ipod, no not any kind of Ipod! The only way I listen to music on the go is overhearing other people’s blasting in their ears or people singing to themselves on the street. I am so behind in technology gadgets, even my cell phone is an old old flip pay as you go cell that charges me 25 cents a minute so I don’t even answer it…ever (just ask any of my friends) The main “wow” feature of my phone is that it has an alarm clock and this phone is the biggest technology gadget I own (actually, maybe it is so old now that I cannot be considered technology!)
– I have a diskman that is probably 15 years old. It is black and very large and hiding in a storage box in my house somewhere. I would not even attempt to use it to enjoy my music on in public because I think people would laugh and teenagers would wonder what that box I was carrying around was…sort of like when I was a kid and we would see old men at the beach carrying around boom boxes….ewwww!!!
– I don’t have the funds to buy cool new things/technology now. I just finished 6 years of university and job hunting…so this win would be amazingly helpful when I am searching for a job or taking the bus (yes, I take public transportation now because someone wrote off my car and I can’t afford to get another car! (not even crap off Craigslist!) So listening to music on the bus instead of hearing other people’s conversations or listening to someone snore, would be amazing!
Hmmm…I could go on but I am hoping this will be good enough for the entry! I could tell you more in person if I won :)
Thanks!