Credit Card Used For Health And Minor Indulgance

I’ve been having some trouble with shin splints. Things were improving after having a three day weekend, but having talked to a few people I decided to get a proper pair of walking shoes. I’d been walking 30 mins each way to work and back for the last few months in a pair of deck shoes, great for on the boat, not so good for pounding the pavement.

Not having bought a decent pair of shoes in some time I was prepared to pay around $200 get my shins back into working order. I managed to get away with it for $119.

Bargain I think, I’ve practically prevented $100 extra being put on my credit card and I haven’t been to the doctor either, so I’ve probaly saved another $60. So I wander out of the shoe shop, down the street a little, and into the mobile phone shop.

You can probably see where this is going but I’ll try and justify it anyway. My old phone is a piece of crap. It turns itself off for no reason, it has tiny buttons that make texting a nightmare, and my biggest hate is that it doesn’s sound like a phone at all. The closest sound that’s like a real phone is a recording of an antique phone from the 1930′s. I hate it, but it did like the way it made people look up and say “What the F$@#??” everytime it rang.

So at the end of the day I bought a new Nokia, that sounds like a phone and all for the princely sum of $199 which went onto gold visa one, along with the shoes.

I justify it thus.

I saved $160 by getting cheaper shoes and not going to the doctor. The phone came with a $30 prepaid card that a can sell, so I’ve really only put $9 on the credit card to buy a brand new phone, that comes with a 12 month warranty.

Which reminds me I need to get the credit card out again to pay my overdue cell phone bill, Doh !!