Well I found a shop that will fix my iPod screen for £35.
I had to leave it over night so I left the shop patting my pockets. I almost felt naked without it. They warned me that they would have to prise open the metal to get the screen out so I should expect a slight screwdriver Mark. No problem I thought. I have just collected it the day after and when I used it I found the one button on the front really sunken into the body. Then I tried to clean the screen and five scuff marks remain where it's been scraped whilst being put in. It's not great at all but I tell myself that it's not cracked and I haven't a need to buy a new one. It still has all my things on though so Im not going to get too down about it.
Something else that I'm doing now is taking two xbox discs to Blockbusters to get repaired for £2 each. I actually pulled one of these out of the bin to get fixed, so if this service works I have saved re buying them.
Also today the case of the missing ice age 3 DVD was solved as I tried to rethink how it was there next to the tv and then was not. I went straight to it. Under the amp under the tv was a space where you could slide a DVD case in and there it was.
So today three types of things are back usable. It just shows that I should be wary of throwing things out in a mood when they might be saved somehow.