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may be getting close to the photo limit but yeah, here we go:

(so im gonna go chronological in the order i bought these)

so my first ipod was my fourth gen shuffle (left), which i got in store in 2014 or 2015. my mom bought it for me and i was actually very disappointed because i really wanted a 7th gen nano, but they were 200 bucks or something so that wasn’t happening. but i ended up using this thing religiously through middle school and into freshman year. i’d load it with podcasts and listen to it on the bus. shuffles r really great and i love that they don’t have a screen, i think they’re very cute :-)

then i got the fourth gen nano (right) off ebay refurbished in 2018 or so. my dad bought it for me because i really wanted to “upgrade” from the shuffle. unfortunately the thing got the spot™️ like two months after i got it (these nanos are so thin that when the battery swells with age it pushes against the screen! very unsafe, definitely a fire hazard), so i went back to the shuffle. lucky me though up that i found the nano earlier this year under a pile of junk

so this is my classic 5th gen (30GB thin model)!! i bought him myself in summer of 2023 and i love him so much :D usually i have him in a hard plastic case but i replaced the battery a couple days ago so he’s free at the moment. my favorite favorite thing about him is the engraving

ITS SO CUTE 😭 HE WAS AN ANNIVERSARY GIFT!! the misspelling of wife 😭😭 the “Love, me” (why didn’t you just put your name?!?) it’s all fantastic. silly and interesting engravings are my favorite and this is the funniest engraving ive ever seen imo so i think i definitely lucked out on him.

NEXT ARE MY MINIS!!! I also bought these on ebay, but I got these in august and september of this year respectively. the pink mini is a 4GB 2nd gen and the green one is a 4GB 1st gen. there’s no major differences between mini generations besides some minor cosmetic things and an improvement in battery life

these two have names! the pink one is named shirley and the green one is named cricket :-) i imagine they r fashionista besties

shirley needs a new battery (her battery life only lasts 20min :( ) but she does have music on her from the original owner. I bought cricket refurbished (new batt and hard drive). cricket is very interesting because they are actually produced in korea, which is why I bought them. not exactly sure how rare of a find korean ipods are here in the states

^ see the different labels :D very very cool!!!

ok so these are two black 5th gens (30GB models again), the right one is a 5.5 gen tho so it has a search bar. so I bought these in september because i recently started an ipod ebay page myself, mostly so i have an excuse to buy and repair them. unfortunately i am unemployed atm so I can’t keep everything i get, and i want the ipods i sell to go to loving homes. it’s not about the money at all for me. ANYWAYS i flash modded these two with iflash solo and 256GB samsung SD cards (plus they got new batteries and screen replacements). i need to test the battery life on them and then i will list them and eventually send them to their new homes </3 i actually have a third black 5th gen in my drawer rn but bro was having motherboard problems so I’ll have to deal with that eventually :/

THIRD GEN CLASSICS R SO PRETTY THEY ARE MY FAV IPODS AESTHETICALLY I THINK!! I actually have three of these but two r open rn so im going to show you the nice semifunctional one. this is suzy (didn’t come up with that, that’s just the name in it), and she is lowkey haunted because when I was testing the drive she made the most unholy loud noise and idk where that noise came from because ipods don’t have speakers!?!?! anyway she’s a 20GB model (all my 3rd gens I have are), and she still has music on her (and old recorded spiritual radio shows from the 2000s!), i would love to look through her properly to see what’s on here but she’s unfortunately mac formatted and I don’t have a mac. she also needs a battery replacement which ill do eventually. im saving my third gens for last with the repairs because they r pretty finicky

I LOVE THE LIGHT UP BUTTONS AND THE BACKLIGHT!!!!

ok so technically I ALSO have 17 4th gens sitting on my floor in a box but I will not show you them right now because it will take much too long and i’ll probably go past the photo limit. i bought some batteries recently so I will be working on some of them next for repairs :-) i am going to keep three of them but the rest will go up on eBay but probably not for months and months

omfg i haven’t used this blog in like eight or nine months because im scared for some reason oh geez

uh anyways. objectum ppl, do y’all like ipods? I know we all love computers obviously but what do you guys think of smaller electronics. because personally i love a single-use electronic and I especially love mp3 players :-) they r all my little besties and i am like their surgeon who takes them apart and gives them organ transplants (new batteries)

im rlly bored rn so im gonna post my ipod collection. I’ll have to go take pictures tho it might take a while LMAO

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omfg i haven’t used this blog in like eight or nine months because im scared for some reason oh geez

uh anyways. objectum ppl, do y’all like ipods? I know we all love computers obviously but what do you guys think of smaller electronics. because personally i love a single-use electronic and I especially love mp3 players :-) they r all my little besties and i am like their surgeon who takes them apart and gives them organ transplants (new batteries)

im rlly bored rn so im gonna post my ipod collection. I’ll have to go take pictures tho it might take a while LMAO

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YIPPEE i just found a bunch of stuff i lost!!

i lost my beloved yellow ipod shuffle that i had since 2015, he lives in a little altoids mini tin with all the connectors for my apple pencil

AND my ladybug spinner ring which i was really sad about losing because i thought i’d lost it at the beach

BUT I FOUND BOTH THINGS TODAY :-) still need to find charger box though idk where i put that i checked everywhere

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SPEAKING OF i fucking love the i don’t smoke country version. it’s awesome. best version of the song.

i don’t smoke was a song i always really wanted to like, but my godddd i hate the mixing on the studio version so bad. it’s the only mitski song i feel that way about. it’s too loud? and not in an intentional-sounding way imo, the instrumentals just drown her out i think

i feel like people don’t understand the point of live music tbh. like i haven’t been to many concerts really, but everytime i see people online get mad at artists changing how they perform a song live i’m like “???” cuz. that’s the entire point? if you want to hear the studio version just stay home??

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i feel like people don’t understand the point of live music tbh. like i haven’t been to many concerts really, but everytime i see people online get mad at artists changing how they perform a song live i’m like “???” cuz. that’s the entire point? if you want to hear the studio version just stay home??

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oh my fucking god next leap day i’m gonna be TWENTY THREE that is so evil

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thinking of what to put in my pinned post has me feeling like it’s the first day of school. “tell us your name and three fun facts about yourself 😊” girl i. i don’t know. i’m scared. i want to go home.

soooo hi tumblr. just wanted to let you know that i’m a real person and i just haven’t set up my blog yet. here are those three fun facts for now until i make a real intro.

1. right now im eating some absolutely delicious chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

2. i’ve honestly never really had a social media presence in my life and have the social skills of a rock so i am trying my very hardest to be normal™️ and talk to other people. i’m probably gonna make a new discord account or revamp my old one soon. but on here my asks and DMs are open. so feel free to message me whatever cuz i’ll definitely respond :-)

3. i just learned to make those string friendship bracelets last month, they’re really fun but MY GOD do they hurt my arm after working on one for too long 😭

(also please forgive any wacky formatting i am on mobile atm i will fix it later)