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Excuse me, sense of entitlement, the goal is to pay *down* balances
In other problematic news, I keep having conversations like this with my sense of entitlement.
Me: Woohoo! The store card is paid off, zero balance!
SoE: Hey, cool, you know what this means?
Me: What?
SoE: We could buy an awesome new computer!
Me: Wait, what? This one works just fine.
SoE: Did you know they sell laptops with four core processors now? That's eight simultaneous threads! Ooh! This one has seven and a quarter hours of battery life!
Me: I said, this one works just fine! How much does that cost any-- what! No, I'm not dropping 2K on a new laptop!
SoE: Seven hours of--
Me: NO! I just paid that card off. The whole point is to get to zero debt. Not get deeper in debt.
(SoE uses puppy eyes. Puppy eyes attack fails.)
Me: No. Maybe once everything is paid off. But not now.
SoE: If I wait can I have a laptop with an eight-core processor?
Me: Maybe.
SoE: Yay! (SoE does a Happy Dance!)
Me: Woohoo! The store card is paid off, zero balance!
SoE: Hey, cool, you know what this means?
Me: What?
SoE: We could buy an awesome new computer!
Me: Wait, what? This one works just fine.
SoE: Did you know they sell laptops with four core processors now? That's eight simultaneous threads! Ooh! This one has seven and a quarter hours of battery life!
Me: I said, this one works just fine! How much does that cost any-- what! No, I'm not dropping 2K on a new laptop!
SoE: Seven hours of--
Me: NO! I just paid that card off. The whole point is to get to zero debt. Not get deeper in debt.
(SoE uses puppy eyes. Puppy eyes attack fails.)
Me: No. Maybe once everything is paid off. But not now.
SoE: If I wait can I have a laptop with an eight-core processor?
Me: Maybe.
SoE: Yay! (SoE does a Happy Dance!)