Michelle's Musings with Michelle Muller

Cords, cords, cords and more cords. I am so fed up with cords! I feel like they are taking over our house like a noxious weed, slowly strangling me as they infest every part of my home.

There's they cord for each and every iPod in our house. That's three. Then for each and every mobile phone. That's four. The IPad cord. The Kindle cord. The husband's tablet cord. The cord for the portable phone charger. The cord for the bluetooth speakers when charging.

Then there is the computer and printer, Wi-Fi cords, the camera charger cord, the laptop when working from home, not to mention the cords in the car. The Bluetooth speakers' cord. The TomTom cord, the Parrot Mini cord, the MP3 player cord. The charger for the mobile phone when-on-the-go cord.

Then you bring into the equation the cords that are attached to the headphones. That's three sets. Then the ear buds for when they can't find their headphones – too many to count. The list goes on and I haven't even got into the cords that belong to every appliance in the house. Electric toothbrush, iron, hair drier; then all your whiteware.

When I look at the list I'm surprised I haven't accidently hung myself or tripped myself up. If I linked all the cords together I wonder where in NZ they would get me too? Long gone are the days where one power point per room was sufficient. I think I have more power points in each room than I do pictures on the wall.

There is a lot to be said for the benefit of technology, but if only we could find a way to not need cords. Then the next step in technology bliss would be to find a universal login and password for each and every device, app, website and online membership that we every encounter!

There are more of those than those noxious cords!