Back when we lived in Stoneham, we once ended up with too many packages of your basic Morton Salt. It was referred to as the Salt problem. Ever since then, when we have an excessive inventory of anything X, we refer to it as the X problem.

These days, I have the Headphone problem.

I have:

• (At least) two ancient corded (DiscMan era) headphones in my closet (I'm afraid to look, actually)
• A corded USB headset in my closet
• High end corded Sennheiser headphones issued to me when I joined Google (under the stereo downstairs)
• Sennheiser 550-X BT noise canceling headphones I bought when I moved into a zoo of an office after five years at Google (they now live in my largest backpack)
• Soundcore noise canceling headphones I bought last year when I had trouble replacing the ear pads on the Sennheiser 550-X (since fixed)
• A cheap Motorola BT headset at my desk
• 3 cheap BT earbuds for my smaller EDC bags (never mind I only have two smaller bags)
• A pair of PowerBeats Pro earbuds I didn't like and gave to Katherine.

But I mostly use:

• Kipsch wired speakers on my Mac Studio
• My networked Yamaha office stereo
• A Motorola HX550 Bluetooth Headset I use for iPhone calls at my desk.
• Altec Lansing BT Boombox when on my exercise bike