Headphone Problems

Hello!

Today was one of those painful days where I had to part with money and invest in a new set of headphones (or earphones, whatever you call them!). 

I honestly feel like all I ever do is buy headphones. They seem to break within a month of me having them, and that's if I'm lucky!

I have two sets of headphones that I use regularly, ones that are just cheap from B & M, I think they cost £1.99 or somewhere along that line and I use them for listening to music when I'm going to sleep and the other pair are slightly more expensive, although not by much. The pair I just bought were £10.99 but I know that I'll have to buy new ones sooner than I think. It's sad. These ones are pink, too! I don't want them to break.

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I have managed to combat the quick breakage of my headphones to a certain extent, though. I think they broke a lot because I would use them to listen to music when I was going to sleep and I'm a right wriggler in a single bed (give me a double bed and I'll stay completely still - go figure!), so I decided on the cheap pair for bed and I have to say it's worked to a certain extent. The headphones that I use during the day last closer to two months now! Wowee. I also have a pillow that has speakers in it and I can plug my iPod into it - sounds weird, I know, but it's amazing! I usually use that when I'm at uni but obviously when I'm travelling home it would be a little bit awkward to carry a pillow with me through the three, sometimes four, different train stations I have to change at.

I've tried every type of headphones possible, although never the super expensive ones. I'd be too frightened they would break, or if they came with a guarantee I'd probably end up losing them or breaking them in such a way that the guarantee wouldn't cover it - I find myself in those situations a lot. Every type I've tried though don't seem to last any longer than the last pair. The best ones I ever had were by Phillips or JVC, I cant' remember which. I also can't remember what the actual specifics of them were but they were a marshmallow-foamy-type thing and they lasted me a record three, nearly four, months! Then they were discontinued... Story. Of. My. Life.

I have really funny ears, too - I don't mean like funny looking ears (or at least I don't think so), I mean like only certain headphones will actually fit in them. For example, I have loads of the ones that Apple give you with their iPods, iPhones, etc. lying around but they don't fit in my ears properly. They just fall out or, if I manage to get them to stay in, they hurt. 

I'm sure I'm not the only person that has problem with headphones but it's definitely one of the difficult struggles of life - finding the perfect headphones! ;)

Katie x