| January 27, 2004 10 things I hate/love to buy 10 thing I hate to buy 1. Shoes -Every girl in America is claiming my insanity right now, but it’s true. I hate buying shoes. I mean why should I have to spend upwards of $70 (i see that snicker) on a pair of shoes that the manufacturer purposely makes crappy so I have to come back each year to buy a new pair. Come on people, we have the materials science technology to make a shoe that would last a lifetime, but it would put Nike and Co. out of business so they give us degradable fashion. 2. Toiletries -Why I don’t buy a couple boxes of deoderant, aftershave, and Q-tips at The Price Club is beyond me. Why do I only buy like one or two?...I’m just gonna have to come back for more later on. 3. Car Insurance -Ok, maybe I put a little too much stock in my driving skills, but come on, I’m too good a driver to have to worry about getting in an accident! Plus car insurance is overpriced and because I have older cars...even though they’re worth a lot on the market...the stupid insurance companies only give em the low Blue Book value. Those terds! 4. CD’s -Why am I paying $15 for a CD that cost 13¢ to make?! Sure, I wanna give the artist their due, but I don’t feel like paying the record company and the RIAA $10 just so they can act like @$$holes and sue people who share music online. Get it through you head idiots! The reason sales are down is cause you’re a bunch of white-collar rats that charge too much for an inferior product! 5. Obligatory gifts -What’s more demeaning than receiving a gift from someone who you know didn’t really want to buy it for you but did anyways out or obligation or tradition? How superficial. I’d rather not receive a gift at all than one that wasn’t purchased out of love. So I hate lowering myself to that simpleton level of social conformity. 6. Tips -What’s this? What is this?! I already bought my food/drink, why the heck should I have to give this guy money who didn’t do anything other than act like he/she likes me when they could give a rat’s @$$ about me and give me the food I already paid for? Courtesy? Riiiiight. The most annoying thing about this is principle based. If you’re a good looking guy/girl you’ll get bigger tips and that’s fact....something isn’t democratic about that. At least do it like the French do (one good thing they do) and automatically add the tip to the bill and save us the chagrin. 7. Taxes -Ok, I know government wouldn’t work without taxes and I appreciate them fixing potholes and plowing snow and I understand it’s a necessary evil and I understand we elect representatives to manage the money, but there’s just something disconcerting about knowing that the money I pay to taxes, that some of it goes to killing innocent little babies so people can live life the way they want to and not the way God wants them to. 8. Tickets -Parking tickets, speeding tickets, court fees....they’re all craptacular. The worst part is when I get tickets cause cops like to harass me and my bad@$$ cars! Yeah, you know they are ; ) 9. Food/drinks/anything inside a stadium/arena/theme park -Um can we say “highway robbery”??? Gee, I just bought a 20oz. Diet Coke at the MCI Center for $4!!! Can you believe that?! They jack up the prices so high it’s not a monopoly, it’s Monopoly: Deluxe Edition!! I understand you need to make revenue from things other than ticket prices, which are insanely high to begin with, but raising prices for a soft pretzel into the ionosphere is just plain nefarious. Alas, our insatiable desire to stuff ourselves prevails in the face of capitaistic empires and remians the comoon man's undoing. People are stupid though...just eat before the outing. 10. Loans -There’s just something not right about borrowing money from someone else. I mean this is America; we should all have the chance to make a living debt-free. Yeah, I understand sometimes loans are a necessary evil, but it’s just yucky to know someone else owns you basically. Some say taking a loan will humble you, but I think it more disappoint you realizing that your job doesn’t pay well enough to live debt-free. Sort of a career failure. My ideal financial status would be to buy everything with a suitcase full of Benjamins or by wiring money from my bank account in Zurich. 10 thins I love to buy list.....coming soon...so check back often! Haha, I love to leave you guys on a thread :) |