to want to bin his hifi?

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DH is not the sentimental type - I am. But the stereo he bought when he was 15 (15yrs ago) has now died. I took it to the menders who said it would cost c.£200 for a new laser to get it working again!!! It's not even a good stereo (one of those AIWA midi-systems). He wants to go ahead; I want to bin it and get a new thingy that our ipods will go into etc etc

On one hand I think it's nice that he's so attached to it, esp as he's normally the logical one. BUT- £200, that's just daft, isn't it?

AIBU?

No, YANBU. Why would you want something like that which takes up space? You could probably buy a new one if you don't go for the docking thing. I am saying that as someone who has a silver midi thing knocking around that we don't use. The attraction was the message you can programme into it when it starts .

I paid nearly £100 to have a very good quality CD player fixed... but that was about 15 years ago and there's no way on earth I'd ever have paid £200 to have the CD player in a midi system fixed. It wouldn't have made sense when it was 10 years old and certainly doesn't make sense if it's 15 years old. Bin it and get a really good iPod dock.

You say you are sentimental. Does DH indulge this? If so, fix the stereo. If not, then don't.

To cure his sentimentality you could suggest he replace it with a Fatman iPod dock.

Sorry but YABU. It's his hifi, not yours. I wouldn't be impressed with anyone trying to bin something of mine that I was very attached to.

Show him all the different sorts of hifi he could get today with £200 with all the newfangled technology to make the sound better, play mp3s, ipods etc and suggest you both go out on sat (or whenever is good for you!) to look at some and enjoy choosing a new one. Remind him how much he enjoyed choosing his old system and how ch fun he will have choosing a new one.

Then promise you won't chuck out the old one but he can use it as bookends or something... then when he is happy with the new one you can slowly move old system to a cuboard and when he hasn't noticed it has gone for 6 months you can throw it out for him or give it to him to take down the tip

Ohhh, good compromise zipzap. The hifi has been in a bag in our hall for a good 6 months now though.

I take on board SGB's and Readywithwellies's points though - I hate it when people make me chuck MY precious tat away. Hence the dilemma....