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Over the last few months, I have been itching to buy a gaming laptop for £950.
I have my iPad Air 2 for most internet use, but it isn’t the same as having a keyboard and mouse. I also want to play high-end video games, because frankly I miss playing on consoles (but I don’t want to buy something expensive for nothing but games and games are more expensive on consoles). Learning from the past, I intend to keep this laptop completely porn free, so all I’ll be using the laptop for will probably be video games, creating documents and e-mails, printing stuff and feeling somewhat sophisticated (even though the last part is bollocks). I also like the idea of not falling too far behind technology.
Where I and the girlfriend are, is a studio flat that we are currently renting, hence why my ten year old desktop and damaged monitor has stayed in the car). I am saving for a mortgage for my first property and should have £4000 by the end of this month. There will be a subtraction however, for hotels in Tampa, because we are going there for fourteen days in late November.
I also want a motorcycle, which probably won’t come until I have my own property, due to not being able to put it anywhere, and I also want to go to Japan next year. I can get free tickets for three years, due to affiliation with a close friend who used to work with a major airline.
I can put away £300 a month, but thirty hours overtime boosts it to around £600.
I can buy on finance, though I can only find it with 19% apr and the missus objects to the idea of it, saying that it will screw up my credit rating (I already have finance on my car and a phone).
I was relatively spoilt as a child, by a struggling mother. I didn’t get the most high-end stuff but she bought my consoles for me, spending more on me than I deserved really. I struggled as a teenager and adult, working minimum wage for years whilst living in shitty bedsits, working to live, being isolated and depressed as hell. It gave me a real appreciation for money and now that I have a better job, I cannot even bring myself to buy myself a pair of jeans because I don’t want to spend on material goods. Buyers remorse strikes before I can even buy it, hence this stupid post. USA is the only thing that I’ve spent on myself in years, aside from takeouts and a car that doubled as personal growth and a skill (I wanted to drive trucks at one point, as filling up my driving licence with skills seemed like a good idea).
I’m probably a massive twat for typing this post.
Sorry.
I have my iPad Air 2 for most internet use, but it isn’t the same as having a keyboard and mouse. I also want to play high-end video games, because frankly I miss playing on consoles (but I don’t want to buy something expensive for nothing but games and games are more expensive on consoles). Learning from the past, I intend to keep this laptop completely porn free, so all I’ll be using the laptop for will probably be video games, creating documents and e-mails, printing stuff and feeling somewhat sophisticated (even though the last part is bollocks). I also like the idea of not falling too far behind technology.
Where I and the girlfriend are, is a studio flat that we are currently renting, hence why my ten year old desktop and damaged monitor has stayed in the car). I am saving for a mortgage for my first property and should have £4000 by the end of this month. There will be a subtraction however, for hotels in Tampa, because we are going there for fourteen days in late November.
I also want a motorcycle, which probably won’t come until I have my own property, due to not being able to put it anywhere, and I also want to go to Japan next year. I can get free tickets for three years, due to affiliation with a close friend who used to work with a major airline.
I can put away £300 a month, but thirty hours overtime boosts it to around £600.
I can buy on finance, though I can only find it with 19% apr and the missus objects to the idea of it, saying that it will screw up my credit rating (I already have finance on my car and a phone).
I was relatively spoilt as a child, by a struggling mother. I didn’t get the most high-end stuff but she bought my consoles for me, spending more on me than I deserved really. I struggled as a teenager and adult, working minimum wage for years whilst living in shitty bedsits, working to live, being isolated and depressed as hell. It gave me a real appreciation for money and now that I have a better job, I cannot even bring myself to buy myself a pair of jeans because I don’t want to spend on material goods. Buyers remorse strikes before I can even buy it, hence this stupid post. USA is the only thing that I’ve spent on myself in years, aside from takeouts and a car that doubled as personal growth and a skill (I wanted to drive trucks at one point, as filling up my driving licence with skills seemed like a good idea).
I’m probably a massive twat for typing this post.
Sorry.
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