Another day older and deeper in debt.
Apr. 5th, 2002 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaOur computer is dying. It's a few years old, but I think it's mostly the fact that the harddrive space is practically all used up, and maybe the internet connection (Road Runner cable modem) is... I dunno... using too much RAM or something? Well, the bottom line is it keeps freezing, we can hardly use internet for more than half an hour before it starts going berserk and randomly performing illegal operations all over the place. My computer should be jailed for how many illegal operations it's done!
So we decided we need a new computer. But my parents (what with the increased monthly payments now that they're paying a mortgage instead of rent -- that's from $750 a month to $2000 a month) don't have the money to pay off the computer each month, nor the money to pay for it all in one lump sum ($1750 including tax & shipping, and after rebates). So I offered to pay for it. It'll be $50 a month (which I can afford) for 4 years (which is a fucking pain in the ass). Good thing I have a steady job. Well, a steady part-time cheap-as-hell job, anyway.
The only thing that bugs me every now and then is that the new computer won't be in my room. Hidoi, ne? It sucks; I'll have to go up 2 flights of stairs just to use the computer, and chances are Liz will be on it doing homework (read: talking to friends on AIM). But whatever. And I'll get the "old" computer in my room. The "deal" is that I'd pay for the new computer, but when my parents have extra money they'd pay to get the old computer fixed (with more harddrive space added, I'm thinking at the very least, 20 gigs) and then we'd switch -- the new computer (my computer) goes in my room and the old computer goes back in the computer room. I can wait for that. Even if it does take another year, it's not so bad.
Aren't I nice and giving? Ah, it makes me sick.
So now I have a monthly bill of: $50 for computer, $12 for Yahoo, $63 for Metrocard, and approximately $33 for my cell phone (unless I go over my alotted minutes, of course). That's $158 a month. That's not so bad. I'm lucky not to have to pay rent or anything, but of course, that doesn't take into account money for food, which is really expensive when you're in the city all day.
I hate bills.
So we decided we need a new computer. But my parents (what with the increased monthly payments now that they're paying a mortgage instead of rent -- that's from $750 a month to $2000 a month) don't have the money to pay off the computer each month, nor the money to pay for it all in one lump sum ($1750 including tax & shipping, and after rebates). So I offered to pay for it. It'll be $50 a month (which I can afford) for 4 years (which is a fucking pain in the ass). Good thing I have a steady job. Well, a steady part-time cheap-as-hell job, anyway.
The only thing that bugs me every now and then is that the new computer won't be in my room. Hidoi, ne? It sucks; I'll have to go up 2 flights of stairs just to use the computer, and chances are Liz will be on it doing homework (read: talking to friends on AIM). But whatever. And I'll get the "old" computer in my room. The "deal" is that I'd pay for the new computer, but when my parents have extra money they'd pay to get the old computer fixed (with more harddrive space added, I'm thinking at the very least, 20 gigs) and then we'd switch -- the new computer (my computer) goes in my room and the old computer goes back in the computer room. I can wait for that. Even if it does take another year, it's not so bad.
Aren't I nice and giving? Ah, it makes me sick.
So now I have a monthly bill of: $50 for computer, $12 for Yahoo, $63 for Metrocard, and approximately $33 for my cell phone (unless I go over my alotted minutes, of course). That's $158 a month. That's not so bad. I'm lucky not to have to pay rent or anything, but of course, that doesn't take into account money for food, which is really expensive when you're in the city all day.
I hate bills.
