Who Does NOT Have a Large Flat Screen TV

[Lulu]

Bath - I finally remembered what stopped the fiddly-fingers!

When we got my beloved Foxtel, if the kids mucked about with either the remote or the telly itself they usually knocked it off the Foxtel channel, which resulted in the fuzzy screen - REALLY LOUD. So aversion therapy worked in the end....

[Salsa]

...dont have, dont want.
I hate tvs being the focal point of a lounge room let alone the whole house!

I also only got a mobile phone about 7.5 years ago cause someone gifted me with one but DH only got one a year ago, because he was looking for a new job. And we both have the most basic cheap ones.

[fionas]

Talking of fiddly little fingers - why doesn't someone invent a TV that has an extra button that acts as a child lock? Y'know like the dishwasher.

I'd buy one of those.

Mind you, probably out there already. Haven't shopped for a TV in years so might well be stating the obvious.

[JCE0810]

We have 52" flat screen TV which DF bought last year, and i didnt have a problem with him buying it.

DF gets annoyed if Sophie touches it, he just wants to teach her not to touch it but he isnt anal over keeping it clean or keeping Sophie away from it. Once we buy a house we will wall mount as far out of Sophie's reach as we can.

I might add that we only upgraded from the previous TV we had because DF said he wanted a bigger TV to watch Bathurst 1000 on last October and also to watch the NRL once it came back on. Boys and their toys.

[Astrid]

I want a child lock on the remote! Bubs has an obsession with ours and is forever putting it on the program guide.

[Willow]

I don't have one and don't want one but DH does.

Our current TV is one we brought off a friend for $100 when our last one died.

We think this one is on borrowed time but I am seriously concerned about (a) spending that much money on a TV when I hardly watch it and (b) spending that much money only to have the kids trash it.

DH and I have talked about it a few times and I've said the only way I'd let him get one is if it could be mounted on the wall out of the kids' reach.

[Tinks]

Talking of fiddly little fingers - why doesn't someone invent a TV that has an extra button that acts as a child lock? Y'know like the dishwasher.

I'd buy one of those.

Mind you, probably out there already. Haven't shopped for a TV in years so might well be stating the obvious.

My old TV had a child lock on it but our new LCD doesn't. You'd think they'd invent something like that on all tv's these days wouldn't you?

[Inertia]

The new new LED would probably be better power wise. LED uses up to 40% less power than LCD. Plasmas are power hungry.

[Mak]

No big flat screen TV here either....DD1 has been pretty brutal with our TV despite also being pretty well behaved (well as toddlers are I guess).
We have 3 friends whose fancy tellies were trashed by their kids - one drawn on in crayon and pixels ruined, another tried to fixed it with his Dad's tools (completely broken) and the last shorted the fuses in the TV as well as the whole house (TV dead)! Not a good strike rate!

[Fleur]

We don't have one...Dh wants one, I don't.

Actually it's probably one of the few things that he wants & I don't.

my 2 reasons are:

1. The one we have is about 57cm & just fits in our cabinet. Where on earth would we put a huge flat screen? We rent, and there is barely enough room for us & the (soon to be) 4 kids

2. I can think of waaaaaay more things to spend money on than a TV. TV is just not my fave thing, end of story.

From reading some of the others posts, and from what I hear from friends...is it a 'boy' thing?

[Bathsheba]

Wow! I'm blown away now by the sheer quanity of people who feel ambivalent about big flat Tvs

Tinkerbell: for some reason the fact that your tellie died during Big Brother really tickled my funny bone!

Fiona: Yep: I wanna child-lock one too...and a child lockable 'fridge!!!!

[Tinks]

Tinkerbell: for some reason the fact that your tellie died during Big Brother really tickled my funny bone!

I was quite peeved. I think I am the only person in Australia who enjoyed Big Brother!

[AliBaby]

We only just got one and my mum bought i for us.

i never would have bought one myself.

Our old tv (that was 20yrs old and from my parents old house -good old Panasonic) died when mum was here visiting so she bought us a flat screen LCD. I never would have bought one but she got it on sale and it is only a small one. I do worry that DD will push it over when she is crawling and pulling herself up on things.

[krysalyss]

We don't have one and will never ever ever get one. Even if we were offered one we would never take it.
Waste of electronics, money, energy, and brain space.

[Bathsheba]

Oh but Kryss you look so good up there on tellie! So glad you gave me the heads up...was it last year??? I had my three kids gathered around the TV watching "Are You Smarter Than A Grade 5-er" feeling so in awe that you were brave enough o go on TV!

[Nettie]

Don't have one and the only reason I would get one is to wall mount it to save space..

If you look hard, you can still find the old type occasionally.

The only reason DS doesn't play with the TV is that we have a playpen wall blocking his access... One day that won't work and I don't know what the heck I'm going to do!

[krysalyss]

Ha ha Bath! I think I looked large enough without a wide screen tv. LOL

[Bathsheba]

Awww no way Kryss! You looked great! Seriously! You could become one of those career Tv game show contestants!

Well speaking of TV I had better wander out now and switch off the Eagles vs Hawks footy game... and get to bed!