How much money in electronics do you own?

[AVAFREAK182]

I'm 18 and about to move out on my own to college next fall.

TV, 360, headphones/headset, laptop, desktop, server, phone, ipod, and car stereo (yes all paid for by myself), I figure about $3500.

You?

 

[Mike Gayner]

One hundred billion dollars.

 

[mizzou]

sort of accounting for depreciation

$1500-1000 in computers and computer equipment
$800 TV's
$1000- 800 TV related equipment
$500 in kitchen electronic gadgets


You know what, not as much as I thought I did. The other big step in expenses are motor driven products. After that it's static items like furniture.

most of my items i collect over a small period of time and they come in as like christmas or birthday gifts

 

[mizzou]

oh and some advice , I wouldn't take 1/2 that stuff to you with college.

Go w/ just ipod and laptop and phone

 

[rcpratt]

Desktop (~$2000 with all peripherals), TV ($1200), iPod ($400), PS3 ($500 w/ games)...so about $4000 I suppose. About to graduate and move out of college.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Do I count the wiring in the walls? Or my toaster? What about my floor fan, car battery and outside flood lights?

 

[DanDaManJC]

oh and some advice , I wouldn't take 1/2 that stuff to you with college.

Go w/ just ipod and laptop and phone

meh, id be careful about the dorm. but if you have your own room or apartment id bring everything

 

[AVAFREAK182]

I wont have a dorm, rather an apartment, so I'll be taking it all and adding to it

 

[Tiamat]

I'd consider renter's insurance. After I exceeded 10k in electronics (stereo), I got some renter's insurance. The insurance covers replacement cost for 13k$ and costs 80$ per year (USAA), but the cost depends highly on where your apartment is, and what kind of security/fire/doorman type features your apartment has.

 

[FoBoT]

about $3.50



maybe $42

 

[Colt45]

almost everything i own worth anything is electronic.

 

[mjrpes3]

In a thread a while ago I did a sum of my newegg purchases and it was $16000 since 2000. If I add in money I've paid for musical and digital camera equipment, it's probably well over $30000. At least glass holds value much better than a computer. Very sad to think about this really.

 

[RedCOMET]

Most of my computers are too old to be worth anything (think IDE hard drives, only PCI / agp 4x).

My home theater gear, speakers, reciever, projector, etc have are probably a couple of grand.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Over 9000, give or take.

Computer cost me about 1.5k to build, my main server costed about 2.5k, my backup server was maybe about 1k, I have an old server I use as a test environment more or less, that probably was a good 2k originally as it was my main server. So now we're at 7k, and we're not even considering the network side yet, various electronics around the house, and spare parts. Maybe not quite 9k but most likely close enough.

Now I'm basing this on what it actually costed me, most of what I have would barely sell for 2k by today's standards.

 

[lifeobry]

Probably a little less than $1000 if I got fair used prices. Maybe not even that.

 

[Taejin]

4000000000000000000000000000000000

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

I'm going to post this publicly, $100

 

[cyclistca]

He who dies with the most stuff wins

 

[masteryoda34]

eleventy billion dollars

 

[brblx]

more than all of yous guys.

+1 e-penis.

 

[nageov3t]

renter's insurance is so cheap, there's no real downside to it.

I'd estimate around $5,000... 2 large screen lcd tv's, 2 laptops, netbook, 2 ipods, xbox 360, top of the line desktop, 24" lcd monitor, digital camera..

 

[olds]

Guessing, around 20k.

 

[sjwaste]

renter's insurance is so cheap, there's no real downside to it.

I'd estimate around $5,000... 2 large screen lcd tv's, 2 laptops, netbook, 2 ipods, xbox 360, top of the line desktop, 24" lcd monitor, digital camera..

Is that fair market value or purchase price? My stuff would be worth a lot based on purchase price, but I'm not sure now. My 42" plasma is at least 3 years old, most of my PC components are the same. Macbook is fairly new, as is my 24" monitor.

I won't even count our DVD-VHS deck or 34" tube TV. Haha.

 

[fatpat268]

too much

 

[ajikan]

As a college student:
MBP + LCD/TV + iPod Touch + 2TB External Mirror HD + PS3 + dSLR + digital camera + Z-2300 and a few things here and there.. $2.5k?