I don’t know what the deal is lately but I find myself yearning for stuff. Unfortunately it isn’t cheap stuff either. In the last week I have been looking at:
-A new laptop
-A new desktop PC
-A GPS unit
-Granite counters for the lake house
-A different truck
I definitely don’t need a new laptop. No question about that. If I end up buying a laptop I need to be taken out to the woodshed. Luckily I haven’t actually seen an Iphone in person either or I’d probably be lusting for one of those too.
A new PC? This is probably the most realistic purchase that I could make, but I don’t absolutely need one. I’m getting by with the one that I have. Yeah, I peak out on memory consumption and find myself waiting more than I’d like as the processor cranks away but it’s very useable. There are a few excuses running around in my head working hard to justify spending the dough on a new desktop PC but I’m not sure if they’ll win or not. If Dell has a really good sale in the next little while, I may be vulnerable.
I really don’t need a GPS unit. If you recall, awhile back I posted about the fact that GPS units are dropping in price fairly quickly. I’m seeing them in the $150 range. Sooner or later, we are going to pick up a cheap one. It’s just too handy not to have one.
As we continue work on the lake house, we are getting to that point that we will really start shelling out the dough as we have to buy the bathroom and kitchen fixtures and cabinets. Since these items are the most visible in the house and we’ll have to look at them all the time, I don’t want to skimp on them. The only question is whether we really want to throw caution to the wind, or be a bit more conservative with some tile, or laminate counters. Time will tell.
Don’t even get me started on the truck. I’m probably not going to move on this at all. I think I punish myself now and then for having so much money tied up in my 2006 Toyota Tacoma. I paid cash for it when I bought it new (broke the rule of never buying new). I suppose if the truck had been built well, I might not be feeling this way but I’m extremely disappointed in this truck. The quality is not nearly as good as my previous truck and I’ve had a couple chronic problems with it that really make me regret the purchase. I’ve considered selling it and buying a little older truck for half the money. We could really use the extra cash on the lake house but I’d really be taking it in the shorts if I sold it. If I could just get Toyota to fix the problems, I’d feel much better about it.
Anyway, that’s my week in review from a “I want, I want, I want” perspective. Somehow I managed to fend off these purchases even though my wife and I went to Fry’s electronics on Friday night. We walked all through the store admiring various things. In the end, all we bought was an Ipod charger, and Ipod case for the Ipod Nano that my wife seems to have inherited from me. Of course this is twisted and wrong. When a coupe goes to the electronics store together, it’s supposed to be the husband that buys something…….. :)
At one point in my life, I had your problem: plenty of money for anything I wanted.
Having been at the other end of things for a few years (involuntarily), I would like to say:
Do something for somebody else.
Don’t be like the rich man in the parable in the Bible who said, “I’ll build more barns to warehouse my stuff…. etc. etc.”. Help someone else whose kitchen is antiquated and who could never afford ANY countertops, let alone granite. Be good to somebody.
At one point in my life, I had your problem: plenty of money for anything I wanted.
Having been at the other end of things for a few years (involuntarily), I would like to say:
Do something for somebody else.
Don’t be like the rich man in the parable in the Bible who said, “I’ll build more barns to warehouse my stuff…. etc. etc.”. Help someone else whose kitchen is antiquated and who could never afford ANY countertops, let alone granite. Be good to somebody.