I'm just a consumer, I've been suckered by advertising

[mrsbrown]

1. Facetious thought:

If I were on the Atkins diet and I ate a peanut butter sandwich on wholegrain bread, combining amino acids to make a whole protein - would that count as a protein or a carbohydrate meal?

2. Consumerism

I want to buy a pda. It costs $350. With $350 I could buy;

most of a new vacuum cleaner
a new computer for J
a welder
rooms at the hotel my sister has decided that the guests at her wedding have to stay at (its in the country)
or I could pay off some of my large and capacious credit card debt.

But I keep catching myself thinking... I want that pda.

I can justify that it won't actually cost me $350, but $100 because I can use my credit card points for $250 of it.

But with my credit card points I could get;

a return flight to the destination of my choice and budget
a cafe style sandwich griller and a stainless steel pressure cooker
$250 worth of vouchers to use for groceries, or books, or anything else I might like at Coles, Kmart, Myers,etc or HMV.

so I think of all these things, and I feel guilty, but I want that pda.

so the pda:

It's an ipaq h1930, this one and Myers have it for 10% off.

I could play mp3's through it while I'm walking to work, and if I buy it before the end of Jan I can also get a music kit

It's small, it's cute, it's got a backlit colour screen, I could listen to music with it, the battery charging would be simpler than my ebookman and I'd be able to read my ebooks on it too. Then I could give my ebookman to someone else.

BUT I don't really use my ebookman as a pda - why would that change if I got a new toy. Oh god! Here we go with the circular argument; I shouldn't get a new pda, there are so many better things to do with my money. But it's cute and I want it.

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