During a recent visit to my parent's house, I made an interesting observation: they have too many televisions. Now, being an avid television watcher myself, I would normally think that it's impossible to have too many televisions. I like to think of my TV as the background music to my life-- it's on pretty much all day in my house while I fold laundry and clean up after my kids. In fact, in my own home I wish everyday that I had a small television in my kitchen so I could watch "Oprah" while I'm chopping vegetables for dinner. So to me, you really can't have too many televisions-- there's always room for one more.

The exception to that statement is my parent's house. Now keep in mind they still live in the same four bedroom house that they bought in 1963. After raising a large family in that house, it is now just the two of them. Except for some reason, they have more "stuff" in that house than we ever did when I was growing up.

I noticed the other day that there is a television in nearly every room at my parent's house. The reason I really noticed it on that particular day is because "Fox News" was running a special report and I could hear it-- in stereo sound-- throughout the house because my parents had three televisions on, all set to the same channel.

Yes, my parents have televisions everywhere. In the kitchen. In the living room. In the family room. In their bedroom. In my dad's office. In the guestroom. MY dad even owns a tiny, portable black and white set that has been known to be watched while he's in the bathroom.

But the kicker came the other day, when my Dad came home with a brand new 13 incher that he got a great deal on at one of those big discount warehouse stores. It was a TV/VCR combo and my dad thought it would go great in my mom's sewing room.

But even my mom thought having another TV was unnecessary. After all, there are only two people that live in their house. They already owned six televisions, this new one would make seven. And why did he buy a VCR combo when all they watched were DVDs?

I told my Dad to take the set back and he got mad. It was a great deal, he reminded me and besides-- he wanted it. So he set it up in my mom's sewing room so she could watch "Fox News" while she sews and does crafts. And guess what? Despite her resistance, she does watch it.

So I guess it's fine to have TV's in every room-- I mean, we all want to stay connected to the world. But in this day of high tech, plasma technology, you'd think my parents would at least own one flat screen, high definition TV. I'm almost fearful of the day that my dad discovers the new technology-- I can see him methodically replacing each set, one by one, with a high tech, flat screen alternative.