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I have 5 of them. Use them to monitor all my security cameras (with the Show), play music, control lights, my FireTV, listen to audible books, the news, build shopping lists, leave messages for my kid, etc. Essentially it has slipped into our lives.

Disclosure: Work at Amazon but am mostly just an Alexa fan.

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How do you get time to do all that from home? Do you work from home?

Not sure if that's a serious question or not, but it probably looks like this:

Wake up, Ask Alexa for the news, Alexa turn on lights and TV. Cook breakfast, set timer using Alexa. Leave message for kids.

Go to work for x hours.

Come home, Alexa news, alexa audio book, cook dinner, add low items to shopping list, doorbell rings, Alexa check security camera. Sit down to eat dinner, Alexa play Spotify. Alexa turn off the lights. Alexa wake me up at 6:30.

Pretty much! And I am not the only person in the house

EDIT: I misread your post.

Pretty sure OP meant five units of Alexa.

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