Buying advice: New iPod.

I find myself in a quandry.

I already have a second-gen 10 GB iPod that's perfectly usable. Thing is, I don't use it now that I'm not taking the bus to work anymore, because the best integrated in-car charger/transmitter solutions are all for the dock-connector iPods. Even the fact that my library will shortly become too big for the iPod isn't the emergency it should be, because I hardly bother to sync it anymore. It still gets the full eight hours of battery life, too.

Now, if I bought a new 4G 20 GB iPod, I could get one of the charger/transmitter thingies for it, and the dock/speaker combos like the OnStage, and then I WOULD use it, everywhere, all the time.

So the question is: How do I justify spending $600 for something I'm not using on the theory that if I spent the $600+, I *would* use it? My cheapskate soul resists the idea that I must spend money to make a thing I already essentially have use-FUL, especially when it's perfectly use-ABLE. 🙁

I don't have a cassette deck or a home stereo, actually. Who needs a home stereo when you have iTunes? 😛 🙂

It's ironic to be cheap and yet have expensive tastes. I don't just want an iTrip and separate charger, I want one of the doohickeys that does both, and through the dock connector for best sound at that.

It all just comes down to spending the money.....good idea, though, to look for deals on the accessories. I don't think I'll get much for the old iPod, though--it works astoundingly well, but is less than cosmetically perfect and doesn't have the dock connector.

Thanks for the responses. 🙂