Dumb decision
For some reason, it is taking a lot of willpower for me to write this. I really do want advice, but its emotionally taxing for me, I guess because its a dumb situation that could have easily been avoided except for the part where I was lame.
Most of you know I've been looking for an inexpensive laptop for quite some time. I'd like to be able to blog from home, and that desire is more pressing now, or at least in the coming months. So I told my mom that I was looking for a laptop and for my birthday we went shopping and I got a nice purse. I told Stephen I didn't even want to TALK about purchasing one ourselves until January because I might still get one for Christmas. He said that we should look and if we got a good deal, we would just tell her to get me something else. Well, we did look, and I got a second-hand one for $350 at the Tacoma Dome in some strange trade show a few weeks ago. I haven't said anything here, because its not up and running yet, and I wanted my very first post about it to be written ON it, you know? It doesn't have a wireless card and we haven't gotten a chance yet to take it in to see if its compatable with one or not. (It also doesn't seem to hold a charge, which is also lame.) Anyway, Stephen insisted that my mom wasn't going to be getting me a laptop from Christmas, so I was just sure he'd talked to her about it. He used the "Don't ask any more questions about this" voice. Well, of course, (do I ever write stories on here where you DON'T see the ending coming a mile away?) he hadn't talked to her, and didn't after we got it, and neither did I because I thought that he had, and so she got me one. And its really nice. A lot nicer than the one I got. Of course.
Well, crap. So he wanted to bust it open that night and I was like NO! I don't know if the one we got can even BE returned and if not, we will probably return the one from my mom. Here's the thing. I really like her's better - duh! But we just cannot keep both of them. That's a lot of money wasted. Stephen was like, "Well, we'd use both of them!" mfkldajfkdlamgfee,a (insert frustrated noises here). OK, sure we could use them both just to fool ourselves into thinking that we didn't make a stupid decision in keeping them, but that's insane. We don't need two, just one. And to not recap the money from one of them is just dumb dumb dumb dumb. We need money. That's the point in getting the laptop in the first place!
So. Choices:
a) keep cheap one, return nice one.
b) try to return cheap one
c) resell cheap one, probably for not quite as much as I paid for it. it does have a dvd burner and player and seems to work well enough other than the things I mentioned. It' s just older technology ...
d) keep them both
(Word to the wise, don't say D unless you have a very compelling reason.)
I am so frustrated that this happened. I am the No. 1 proponant of never buying anything for yourself in December and never buying anything big for yourself if someone else is willing to get it for you ... dammit dammit dammit.
Most of you know I've been looking for an inexpensive laptop for quite some time. I'd like to be able to blog from home, and that desire is more pressing now, or at least in the coming months. So I told my mom that I was looking for a laptop and for my birthday we went shopping and I got a nice purse. I told Stephen I didn't even want to TALK about purchasing one ourselves until January because I might still get one for Christmas. He said that we should look and if we got a good deal, we would just tell her to get me something else. Well, we did look, and I got a second-hand one for $350 at the Tacoma Dome in some strange trade show a few weeks ago. I haven't said anything here, because its not up and running yet, and I wanted my very first post about it to be written ON it, you know? It doesn't have a wireless card and we haven't gotten a chance yet to take it in to see if its compatable with one or not. (It also doesn't seem to hold a charge, which is also lame.) Anyway, Stephen insisted that my mom wasn't going to be getting me a laptop from Christmas, so I was just sure he'd talked to her about it. He used the "Don't ask any more questions about this" voice. Well, of course, (do I ever write stories on here where you DON'T see the ending coming a mile away?) he hadn't talked to her, and didn't after we got it, and neither did I because I thought that he had, and so she got me one. And its really nice. A lot nicer than the one I got. Of course.
Well, crap. So he wanted to bust it open that night and I was like NO! I don't know if the one we got can even BE returned and if not, we will probably return the one from my mom. Here's the thing. I really like her's better - duh! But we just cannot keep both of them. That's a lot of money wasted. Stephen was like, "Well, we'd use both of them!" mfkldajfkdlamgfee,a (insert frustrated noises here). OK, sure we could use them both just to fool ourselves into thinking that we didn't make a stupid decision in keeping them, but that's insane. We don't need two, just one. And to not recap the money from one of them is just dumb dumb dumb dumb. We need money. That's the point in getting the laptop in the first place!
So. Choices:
a) keep cheap one, return nice one.
b) try to return cheap one
c) resell cheap one, probably for not quite as much as I paid for it. it does have a dvd burner and player and seems to work well enough other than the things I mentioned. It' s just older technology ...
d) keep them both
(Word to the wise, don't say D unless you have a very compelling reason.)
I am so frustrated that this happened. I am the No. 1 proponant of never buying anything for yourself in December and never buying anything big for yourself if someone else is willing to get it for you ... dammit dammit dammit.