So far, no one has told me to shut my pie hole and go away about the advice I am putting on my blog so I guess I'll just have to tough it out for the rest of the 31 days.
COMPUTERS - They are a wonderful tool and are getting cheaper each year. They have a lot of good software out there to help you do your daily tasks. The bad news is they die. When they do, they will take with them to computer hell everything you have worked so hard to put on them. The moral to this story is to have everything you really need backed up on an external hard drive. For a couple of hundred dollars you can have your data and read it too. Failure to do that will result in loss. The only question is when not if. You can apply this to cell phones, microwaves, no wait, microwaves die and just don't work. They won't take a slice of your life with them. Our Microwave died this week and I didn't realize how much I depend on one when I cook.
Wait, that is a good lead in to the question of extended warranties. For years I would never purchase an extended warranty and this year when I got a new LCD Samsung flat screen TV I bought one. Yep, it died and they fixed it. Moral of the story? It is a gamble and if it is something critical in your life and something you can't fix, it just might pay to have the coverage. It also helps if you have a Geek Squad son that can buy the warranties at his discount rate. It is like being Electronically Jewish, you can get it wholesale.
MUD
I've never bought an extended warranty in my life and have never needed one, either. Of course there's always that first time... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI was gonna take exception to your post on cars but held my peace. But... FWIW... some of us still look at cars as more than transportation, which is why I own a six-speed, manual transmission, tautly-sprung, high revving. two seat roadster (as in: convertible). A day up in the mountains on back road twisty-turnies in the summer is both exhilarating and reaffirming. It ain't the same in a Crown Vic. And it's better on a mo'sickle. ;-)
Yo Buck, I ride a bike that has no motor and love it. I would ride a big boy's toy but mixing it up with sporty little cars and big trucks scare the crap out of me. The wife hates high places and unless or until she says go away we travel the Interstates as much as possible.
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