I have money to spend. Dilemma time..

Blogged on April 26th, 2007 at 8:05pm

Following yesterday’s earnings of in excess of $50, it’s meant that my AdSense earnings have rolled past the $100 mark. For any web geek or AdSense enthusiast, that would suggest that sometime next month it’s payday for me. Payday with payments of $120, which make about £60 given current exchange rates, perhaps a bit more.

AdSense is the only reason why I semi hope the dollar gets its own back on the rest of the world markets. Unfortunately this probably won’t be the case before I get paid, but £60 is a lot of money to a 16 year old, or at least me, anyway.

I’m stuck on what to spend it on. Earlier in the day I bought a 5.1 sound system as well as a dual headed graphics card, which means in the future I’ll be able to connect another monitor up to my current dream machine. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on which way you look at it, my dad offered to slap them on the plastic for me. Another £40 in debt thanks to eBuyer dot com. He didn’t even accept any form of payment from me, but I slipped him a tenner in his coat pocket for the good deed. Hopefully he’ll spend it on something productive, like a VCR player to play the 12 hours of Frasier I bought him at Christmas.

I’ve told myself many times that it would be a good idea to get some new clothes. Since college is coming up in September, which believe it or not is only four months away, I’ll need to wear more diverse clothing than tshirt and jeans. Infact, the word “diverse” in style terms right now means “more than one choice of tshirt in a week.” I’m trying to kick the habit of black tshirt and jeans, and so far I’m doing quite well. My conscience is yelling out to me “wear something other than black, you wannabe SAS moron!”

I guess I have the incentive to buy a new monitor now anyway. However, I’ve become a bit of a power consumption headcase. I turned down buying a dual core processor earlier because the wattage rate almost doubled. “Where am I going to plug in that second socket for my monitor?”, I ask myself. Ah well, I’d probably better give that a miss.

So, back onto clothing. I need more of it. However, my underwear selection is pretty good: I have about 14 pairs of boxers.

I could, on the other hand, just purchase some advertising for my supercool new websites. Overall I will have something like £130 in the bank, not including the change scattered over my floor or under my carpet.

Well, there’s my dilemma for you. Throw stuff at me. Well, not literally please.

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