These Bear Blogs seem to have a trend of listing the sorts of items that you own/use. The Protestant part of me worries that this may be materialistic, but the manly part says "Oooooooh, tools!"

Watches

• Timex Weekender: This is a huge, loud, handsome-looking silver-and-white watch built for interchangeable NATO-style straps. I usually wear it in public.
• Timex Expedition: This is a beat-up, green plastic watch that's survived a run through the washing machine. It's also the most comfortable watch I own, being paired with an old, soft Weekender strap. I wear it to bed when I'm not using my FitBit for sleep tracking.
• Casio A158W: The metal version of the vaunted F-91W. This watch looks way more expensive than its $25 price, and is a bit of a statement piece. I usually wear it when I have a dress shirt on.
• Some Chinese counterfeit of a Casio F-91W: I absolutely adore the F-91W, but I apparently have a thing for leaving them in hotel rooms (It's happened twice). When I ordered my third one, I ended up with a knockoff instead. WHY ON EARTH a watch whose primary trait is cheapness even has counterfeits is beyond my comprehension.

Knives

• Swiss Army Knife Tinker: I bought this (IN SWITZERLAND 🤯) while on my honeymoon in June 2015. It has my name etched into it, and a chip knocked out of one of the scales. I carry it the most, because it has more to offer than any other knife I own.
• Imperial Frontier: This penknife was the first knife I was ever given (at age 7). I've lost and replaced it with an identical model twice.
• Imperial Barlow: I bought this because Barlow knives are cool and manly. It has cheap-looking plastic scales, but feels sturdy in my hand. Others have replaced the scales with custom wooden ones, which may be worth trying.
• CRKT Squid: My brother gave me this cool-looking little knife for my birthday in 2019(ish). It has a great stonewashed finish on the scales and blade, but its thick, hollow-ground blade can be hard to work with.
• Kershaw Injection 3.5: I'm not a "big knife" sort of person, but this one feels cool to hold. It usually comes out for hiking or camping purposes. I liked it well enough that I gave one to all four of the groomsmen at my wedding.
• Old Timer 18OT: I don't actually carry one, but I've bought one of these little penknives for each of my sons. They're great first knives because they're too small to do any real damage, and the blade locks open to avoid that sort of injury.

Technology

Modern(ish) Technology

• Motorola Edge (2023): I like cheap phones. Having expensive tech in my pocket is not a risk I like to take, and I'd have used my $70 Samsung forever if web changes and app updates hadn't ground its performance down to nothing. So I replaced it with a new old stock device from Woot!. It's much faster, but the battery life isn't as good and the curved screen annoys me.
• Lenovo ThinkPad E470: This laptop came out in 2016, and I spent several years using one at my last job. It performed miserably with all of the corporate spyware, but I loved the keyboard so much that I bought my own (for $50 on eBay) a couple years ago when my 2013 MacBook Air started showing signs of failing. I currently have it running Arch Linux, but I'm likely to switch to something else at any given moment.
• My Wife's Grandpa's old Compaq Desktop: This runs Windows 10, and is for when I need to run Microsoft Office and/or Affinity Photo, or can't find my laptop.
• Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020): These are constantly on Woot! for $30. It mostly gets used when I want to read a PDF or to play the kids' lullaby CD on trips.
• FitBit Inspire 2: I like real watches, but also like tracking steps and sleep. The Inspire 2 does both well, with an optional pocket mode for when I want to wear a real watch.

Obsolete Technology

• Sony Walkman D-E350 CD Player: It doesn't get better than loudly listening to a well-mastered Dire Straits album on this thing.
• Nikon D300: I like photography, but don't do it well or often enough to put any real money into the hobby. This upscale model from 2009 offers enough power for what I want, but only cost $100 on eBay.

Museum Pieces

Most of these sit on a shelf behind my desk. It's an interesting backdrop for video calls, if nothing else.

• Briel Computers' Replica 1: This was a DIY kit for a replica of the Apple I. I built a housing for it at one point, though now I only have the board.
• Timex Sinclair 1000: Bought on Facebook Marketplace for $30 a few years back. I've never managed to get it to turn on.
• Apple Newton Messagepad 100: The first PDA. It's huge, and the handwriting recognition is as bad as everyone says it was. But it's also a great-looking piece of hardware.
• Palm IIIxe: This is the third¹ best-looking of the Palm OS Devices. I carried various Palms in high school and college, and still wish there was a good reason to carry one.
• Sony CLIÉ NX70V: This was the craziest of the Palm devices. It could be used like a flip phone with a full keyboard, or a traditional handheld with or without a Graffiti writing area. AND IT HAD A CAMERA! It was a very cool device, and I got so many "What kind of phone is that?!!" comments throughout my high school years. I try to take it to church one a year on Palm Sunday, just to make myself laugh.
• iMac G3 (tray-loading): This is my second²-favorite computer model of all time. I found one on Facebook Marketplace late last year, and sent it to my mom with a "Since I never know what to ask for for Christmas..." message. It's the best. It's running Mac OS 9, and the kids occasionally use it for playing old educational games.

Vehicles

We are a second-generation homeschool family. Having two nearly-identical vans comes with the territory:

• Kia Sedona (2012): Our first minivan. It's a blandly basic as can be, and I love it for that. These days, it serves as my "pickup truck" and (should the other van be in the shop) a backup with enough room for all three (soon to be four) car seats.
• Kia Sedona (2017): We liked our first Sedona so much that we bought a second. Unlike the first one, this was near the top of the line. Heated and cooled seats in the front and middle rows (not that the carseat-riders can tell), zoned climate settings, Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, a birds-eye view for parking, and automatic sliding doors (which I kinda' hate). It's a great vehicle, but don't tell anyone. I want used Sedonas to stay cheap so I can buy more.