Trying to Find My iPhone Charger(s) in a House Full of People: A Treatise on Keeping Your Electronics Charged in a Large Family

Having a large family will be a joy. The home is all the time full of life—kids scream from the moment they get up to the time it’s time to go to bed, unless they’re teenagers, in which case they don’t get up until dusk and only speak when vital. Siblings develop their very own language and rhythm, after which use those things to try to circumvent the principles and thwart parental authority in any way they will. You also get a lot of perspective on the identical things, and there are all the time enough players to make all board games feel like a maxed-out experience. And don’t get me began on UNO, the cardboard game made for giant families and huge family arguments and debates. Plus, there’s NOTHING like hitting one kid with draw-four after draw-four and watching the pure joy of the remainder of the players having no selection but to still love one another at the tip of the sport. Seriously, large families are a joy.

There’s also the opposite side of that joy, which is the frustration of being part of a large family that’s all about technology. Everyone in my family has no less than one device. My daughter, the oldest, has two—an iPhone and an iPad. That means we now have three phones and 4 iPads. We’re an Apple home near Jackson HQ, which suggests all of our chargers work with all of our devices.

I’ll inform you a little about myself. I don’t lose things. I don’t lose keys. I don’t lose chargers. I’m not a loser—I’m a winner. When I open the box of a latest or upgraded device, I ensure the charger and device stay together (for so long as possible). I’m a little OCD about it. Maybe it’s a holdover from slavery, where I don’t like to separate things that were in the identical package. I also realize how ridiculous this sounds, but unfortunately, it’s my truth. If I lived alone, I might never have problems with devices and chargers.

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Now let me inform you a little in regards to the other five members of my family – they don’t care about a single… single… query about whether chargers wander off and even whether or not they’re kept with the devices they got here with. They also don’t care about MY desire to keep all of our chargers and ensure that our family can get up, as a whole, with fully charged devices each day. I do know this because my wife and youngsters lose their chargers (or forget them somewhere; I do not know how), after which they take mine, after which they lose them. And then when I’m going purchasing for latest chargers – that are needlessly expensive, mind you – they take them and lose them.

For example, immediately, as of this writing, there are TWO chargers in my HOUSE. Keep in mind that there are AT LEAST seven devices in this house, which suggests we should always have seven chargers, but we actually must have ten since I’ve replaced three devices in the past yr. And yet, we’re left with TWO, and neither of them are actual chargers that include an iPhone or iPad. No, the 2 we currently have are alternative chargers and cables that I ordered online, which don’t work in addition to the products directly from Apple. Sigh. I ordered more cables. I expect all of them to be gone and gone inside the week. I’m not a gambler, but I’d bet anything on that taking place. That’s just how the chargers work in this house.

I hear you me… Panama, what did YOU do to stop this? Well, I attempted to institute a giveaway system as if my house was a library of device chargers. That didn’t work. I attempted to threaten everyone that if all chargers became black history, no latest chargers would come into the home. This went on for a day until I spotted that if people couldn’t charge anything, everyone would lose their minds. I considered attaching the chargers to a surge protector, but that seems extreme, what if for some reason I had to carry them from place to place? As you possibly can see, there are not any optimal solutions. Especially since I actually don’t understand WHY we keep losing them. How can someone leave the home with chargers and are available back with a phone that is not charged AND WITHOUT a charger?

I do know my family isn’t the just one coping with this pandemic. What’s the worst part about it? When I ask who took MY chargers—those I take advantage of every night to charge all my kids’ iPads—nobody knows. No one has any idea who took them, but nobody in my house has taken the chargers…from my house. At the identical time, everyone seems to be adamant that we don’t have ghosts. I also seem to be the just one who’s concerned in regards to the lack of charging devices. It’s funny how I’m trying to help everyone else, and I’m the just one frustrated.

Make it make sense. Oh, the thrill of a big family.