a week and a half ago, tommy won a $50 amazon gift card from our utilities company. how amazing is that?! they were doing some sort of giveaway on their facebook page and tommy actually entered it and actually won. true, it wasn't the ipad or other much cooler and more expensive prizes, but we've never really won anything before. so this was really awesome.
so we were talking about what we should buy with this $50. we mentioned diapers or some other real necessity, but it feels like a crime to spend a free gift card on something so mundane and not exciting. and that's what we usually do with gifts of money anyways--we save it or use it for something necessary and boring, because we're poor like that. but this time, we decided to buy something frivolous and fun.
we thought about buying Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Cataan--two board games we like but have never bought because they're around $50--but then i saw that a regular plain old kindle was only $69.
now, i am kind of anti-e-readers. i'm all about reading a real live BOOK and i love, love, love having bookshelves overflowing with them. but i have always kind of longed for a kindle while traveling, when i pack four books and have to lug them around in my backpack for a month even if i never read them or even after i finish them all. it seems kind of silly to buy one just for the one or two months a year we're out of town (yeah, we're out of town a lot) but if we have a gift card, that's not too bad, right?
so anyway, as we discussed buying a kindle, we started talking about the kindle fire as well, which was about $90 more, and how it would be really useful to have that while traveling (especially with dane, as he gets older--i'm really nervous about flying with him FIVE different times this summer) . . . and one thing led to another, and--
we bought one! last night! a kindle fire HD, no less. (yeah, we totally fell into the amazon gift card trap and spent way more than the gift card was for. i know, i know. but we felt like it was going to be a worthwhile purchase.)
this is a big deal. we have always fought the inevitability of getting smart phones (still stuck with our cheap plain old phones, and happy with it), we bring our plain old heavy scriptures to church, and we only have a TV because someone in our ward gave us their old one for free. but we just bought ourselves a tablet, and i'm getting really excited about it. we'll get it before we leave on our trip in a few weeks, and will have it all set up and ready to go for our month and a half of traveling. just think about all the books i'll be able to read this summer without having to cart them around! my back is already thanking me.
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