..Must be funny
...In a rich man’s world

Okay it’s post Christmas and New Year ... okay, okay, it’s well past both of those but here’s the thing ... usually at this time of year I am skint. No money except for life’s essentials, spending over the festive period has wiped me out and it’s a little balancing act between income and bills for a month or so.

I’m sure many people are in the same situation as I’m usually in. What’s makes this strange though is that I have money. I have far more money than I should have which made me think I’d missed a couple of bills or so but no, no impending “pay now or we’ll break your thumbs” letters on their way. I have a few hundred quid and ... it needs spending.

I could attempt to save it but I know all that would happen is that I’d spend it on ‘treats’ like magazines, ‘special’ food and other generally consumables. Essentially the money would just be frittered away on stuff and that’s just no good; it needs to be spent on something I can look at in a few months time and think “Damn, why did I waste money on that?”.

So I’m looking for a gadget, but what? Could get something for the PC but I really need nothing for either of them, nothing I can think of anyway.

I could buy a Mac Mini because it looks sooooo cute! But no.

Current thinking based on nothing else coming to mind is an mp3 player. I don’t need one but it would be nice for trips and I could also use it as a standalone device for playing music at home. Unfortunately there is waaay too much choice and I’m not getting any closer to owning any. A lot of them have annoying UI quirks, the iPod has the battery thing, so one I was looking at had a nice replaceable battery and was a 5GB model but then I started thinking “I can get a 20GB model for the same price” and I’m back at square one. Gaah!

Help me spend my money (no not on you!).