As far as these items go, we're in the 50-60 dollar range, so it would be not so big wad of cash.

Thanks for the input on the smoker. It sounds like its not worth getting.

I'm guessing we all like audio too much to have tried the boom box, but we'll see. Assuming the wife thinks it would be good to have one of those for the room, I'll probably just go that route. Some feedback would be helpful though. I'm sure it doesn't sound great, but how bad is bad.

Maybe Axiom should make one and they should offer that instead!