Gadget Barter

For Christmas, my sister gave my mother a used iPhone 4s. The problem is that the phone is still locked with the US carrier. It never occurred to my mom until she put a micro sim on it. Well, the phone is still really usable. My mother being not used to very small screens finally decided that she would barter her iPhone 4s to my iPad Mini. I consented on one condition: have the iPhone unlocked! A few days ago my iPod 4th Gen died and I really needed to have an mp3 player. My goal this year is to reduce the gadgets I have. There was a time that I had a computer, an mp3 player, a phablet, a camera, an iPad. They really made somewhat dazed when they are all being charged at the same time. There is just too much stimulation from them and all I want is to reduce the consumer electronics I own and live in a simple way as what Thoreau once wrote:

“Simplify, simplify, simplify.”