I don't really need a cellphone.
I bought a new cellphone about a year and a half ago from Telus and it worked really well, except it had a bad habit of refusing to boot up if I ever turned it off or the battery was allowed to die. As a result, I always had to make sure it stayed on and the battery had at least 25% charge left, just to be safe.
A few weeks ago, I went to Calgary for a NIN concert and I took a few photos when my phone was already dangerously low on battery life. Sure enough, before the night was over, my phone was completely dead and it wouldn't turn back on, even if I plugged it in.
After some googling, I found out this is a pretty common problem with this particular model of phone, and apparently Telus offers an extended warranty for this specific problem that will last until October or November 2008. The only catch is that they can't do the service locally, and I have to mail my phone away for 2-3 weeks.
So after some more searching I found that you can force a reboot if you plug the phone into your computer via USB if you have the proper cable (CA-53), which I had, but threw away a couple months ago while thinking "I'll never use this".
So it's been 2-3 weeks since I had a working phone, and I could have shipped it to Telus and gotten it back by now, but I am too stubborn to do something like that. And in this time, I've realized that apart from the occasional text message I don't really use my phone very often. It's just sitting on my desk collecting dust. One less uncomfortable brick in my pocket.