Financial advice is sound. Buy what you can afford. Also, good advice, don't buy necessities for gifts

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Sep 21, 2017
4:26:37pm

IceBlueCoug Playmaker

Birthday/Christmas gifts should all be fun or stuff you wouldn't normally buy for yourself.

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IceBlueCoug

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I'm looking to buy my wife a MacBook Air for her birthday.

TouchdownCougars

9/21/17 3:45pm

Holy schamoly $900 for a netbook and a pair of crappy headphones.

SandYFan

9/21/17 3:45pm

Would be good advice if the post said he hated his wife

TCuz

9/21/17 3:48pm

Give me a break. There are high quality netbooks that do 100%

SandYFan

9/21/17 3:48pm

Cool. He didn’t ask for a netbook.

TCuz

9/21/17 3:56pm

I for one, like something that lasts longer than a year

-C9-

9/21/17 4:01pm

Your bias is showing.

SandYFan

9/21/17 4:01pm

I know this is a lost cause but having owned multiple netbooks and chromebooks

supertux

9/23/17 11:08am

^^^Marriage advice expert^^^

GAINZ

9/21/17 4:05pm

If "buy your wife terribly overpriced things" is your strategy, go for it.

SandYFan

9/21/17 4:10pm

What about doing nice things for your wife? Not everyone wants to play Warcraft on some state of the art PC. I bet his

GAINZ

9/21/17 4:12pm

Well, the moment you slip a diamond on her finger you've already done that.

Tokolosh

9/21/17 4:14pm

Black Friday maybe

Nat Gas Man

9/21/17 3:46pm

Have you looked at Apple refurbished? We've always done that for our laptop

Junior Deputy

9/21/17 3:53pm

you'll get a little over 100 for the beats

BigYfan

9/21/17 3:54pm

Can you afford this?

Baron

9/21/17 3:55pm

student loans baby. pay for that thing WITH INTEREST.

Mayor of Cougartown

9/21/17 4:16pm

Check 9to5toys.com

Tokolosh

9/21/17 3:56pm

If you're a student, you probably haven't been married long: some advice . . .

2FarGone

9/21/17 4:04pm

This is terrible advice.

GAINZ

9/21/17 4:16pm

no. no it's not.

Mayor of Cougartown

9/21/17 4:21pm

RE: no. no it's not.

GAINZ

9/21/17 4:24pm

I love Apple products, but if poverty is your concern

2FarGone

9/21/17 4:34pm

what, you don't get it AT ALL. He can't afford a 900 dollar computer

Mayor of Cougartown

9/21/17 4:37pm

Can you cite where he said he couldn't afford it? I don't think he ever did.

GAINZ

9/21/17 4:46pm

reading between the lines is a thing. "I'm a student right now" code for poor.

Mayor of Cougartown

9/21/17 11:51pm

Financial advice is sound. Buy what you can afford. Also, good advice, don't buy necessities for gifts

IceBlueCoug

9/21/17 4:26pm

Really? /puts new broom in spare bedroom for Christmas/BDay present

YouPuntYouDye

9/21/17 5:09pm

My wife is runs our finances. She gets what she wants if she feels she needs it bc she's an adult

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