simplerich

This is how it all started over at smartypig. Well, that’s not how it started, that’s how it ended. The smartypig savings goal was reached and I cashed it out into amazon gift cards. I didn’t have to wait for the cards, they e-mailed them to me.

Rich,

Congratulations on closing your “Kindle” goal to
Amazon.com!  Your gift card codes are as follows:

Yep, that’s right. A personalized letter congratulating me on my success at savings along with the benefits of my savings. I immediately felt good about the whole savings thing. I enjoy saving money. But this money wasn’t saved to sit around in a bank for them to screw it up. I t was saved for an amazon kindle 2.

Next I got this e-mail from amazon.com

The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com:
1  Kindle: Amazon’s 6″ Wirele…

After ordering it I sat at home and waited to regret spending that much money on what is essentially a luxury item. I don’t do that a lot really. I didn’t though. Instead I had visions of my reading all the classics. Me sitting in a recliner sipping hot tea listening to light music. Me tearing through all those books I need to read that I’ve got added to my to-read list over on goodreads. I was pretty sure that the kindle 2 was going to solve all my problems.

No pressure at all on this chunk of plastic and circuitry that is currently whizzing it’s way towards me in a brown truck. All it needs to do is give me more time in the day so I can get some reading done just like my Google profile says I need! It will help me manage my time better, Google Calendar is helping with that when I sync it with my blackberry too. But this kindle… coming Monday I think? THAT will be the panacea that cures everything for me.

So… the summer of gadgetry is off to a good start. I’ve got another smartypig savings goal coming up in the beginning of September when I go buy myself a new laptop, a PC. I’ll let you know what I decide on. I’m sort of doing the PC challenge that Microsoft ads have been talking about on TV lately.

The Amazon Kindle: The Prequel by Rich Griffith, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.