Why Do I Keep Fighting The Urge To Buy A Netbook?..

I’ve had a netbook before – for those of you whom don’t know what a netbook is, it’s basically a laptop – but very much smaller, and more limited. The biggest difference generally is the lack of a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM player in it. They’re pretty slick and I keep thinking that I want one… the problem is – I’ve already had one and I sold it due to the fact that I didn’t use it!

Why do I want one now then? Well, for one.. the deal on it is pretty sweet! It’s on sale for $249.99 at Shoppers Drug Mart and I just happen to have enough Optimum points to get another $75 off of that. Another reason that I think I want one i the portability for when I’m blogging or on the road. That said, I have to ask myself, “Am I on the road that much?” or “Am I away from a computer that often?”.. the answer is “nope!”.

So today I went as far as asking the cashier about the computer, played around with it, checked out the specs – and like a good little frugal shopper – I left the store without said computer.

I think the reason that I find it so intriguing is that I can use my $75 from Shoppers to buy the silly thing! Sure it’ll cost me $175+ taxes but come on.. that’s pretty cheap for a netbook isn’t it??

*sigh* I will try to resist.

There is also the sad fact that most netbooks.. well.. suck! They are under-powered as compared to even the most inexpensive laptop, they have a tiny screen (less than that of an iPad) and depending on which battery you get (the one at Shoppers is only a 3-cell which is pathetic) – you could get in trouble there too!

I guess I’ll perhaps put the $175 I would have spent towards a netbook in my and Liz’s iPhone fund which I wrote about before when I was having this “spending urge”. I think that I may go with that option.

I think it may be a lot easier if I spent more time catching up on the shows I love so much like Entourage (you can get the latest season 5 on DVD from buy.com right now for $23.49) and stop thinking about ways to spend money. After all, I don’t need anything – and I still have debt…

Ok, this was a good self-motivating blog post – I now no longer want to spend that money. *Phew*