Sometimes a woman has to stop and realise ‘my god, I bought way too much stuff’. On a sidenote, this trait is no longer only characteristic for women. However, my sin isn’t shoes or make-up, but hardware and gadgets. Because I started getting an income in April and my geek side has been browsing for gadgets since the dawn of the internets, I kept thinking ‘well I have the money’ so I bought lots of stuff.
Let’s recap. I started off this year with a Wii, which is the most awesome console around in my opinion. For that Wii I bought five games in total. Then I laid low for a couple of months, after which I got me a PC (the old one was quite dead). I bought another game, Age of Conan, an mmorpg which I wasn’t going to play for long since it’s not very good. I bought a big Samsung flatscreen for my PC, since the old screen (an Acer) was dying on me – it burned in everywhere and it got dead pixels.
So I thought, enough should be enough. No more buying stuff now. Really really. Then I had a financial break of around 500 euros, and I thought of that Nintendo DS I really wanted for my long train trips. I bought it that next Monday, and I got 5 games for that as well by now. In the mean time I got Wii-points for all of those games and both consoles, so I got me Mario 3, Zelda and Megaman 9 for my Wii as well. I have thirteen games for these two consoles now and they all need finishing.
Then, Apple released a new series of macbooks. Really, I wasn’t going to spend anything anymore, honest, but I’ve been drooling over the sight of the Apple store for a couple of years at least, and the introduction of NVIDIA made it irresistible for me to become a switcher. Also, my Acer Aspire 17″ widescreen notebook (which isn’t handy for carrying around anyway) is dying on me as well – the screen is half dead, the power button needs a slight touch to make it turn off and the keyboard has always been utter crap (no, this year was not my year for Acer). So now I’m getting a macbook 13″ (2,0GHz), and a free iPod nano to boot. They arrive in November.
Me? Shopaholic? Never.
I don’t know if we should label you a shopaholic. I reckon it’s more realistic to say that you’re thoroughly enjoying the fact that you finally have a steady income of your own :) The first few years of my career I still lived at home and I spent way too much money on anime, manga and games. It’s normal :)
Just make sure that you’re saving up money as well! You will definitely need it Real Soon Now ™.