Someone recently called me a technology tart. I had to admit I am. I like gadgets. My phone is a Blackberry Curve and I can't wait to upgrade to the BB Bold. I recently found out I have some sort of preferred account with AT&T due to my job (way to go). My daughter ordered her new phone through this account and saved $100. I will be doing the same. I believe it has to do with the discount we get through work, which is 24%. Apparently the only discount better in my area is Coca Cola. However I digress.
My youngest daughter is a junior tech tart. She likes to have the latest gadgets as well. She has the ipod touch (which is finally working right) and a cool phone and she just purchased the new Nintendo DSi today. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet but it can access the internet, has two cameras, a bigger screen, an SD slot and it plays music too. There may be more but it will be awhile before I can get my hands on it. I haven't played for awhile but I do on occasion like video games. I own my own Nintendo something or other (one of the older hand helds) and do ok as a player if I do say so myself.
The older is less of a video gamer but does like to have an updated phone and like me has an ipod classic. How I lived without an mp3 player I will never know. The husband is another story. He has a razr phone, can't turn on a pc and has never played a video game. The man is an anomaly in my house.
What does this have to do with housecleaning? The youngest, is too young to have a job and her allowance won't cover the cost of much so in order to get the DSi she had to work for it. She vacuumed the whole house yesterday and picked up. This included the stairs and the bathrooms. Today she helped me clean the fridge, it had been awhile and since there was nothing but condiments in it, it seemed a good time. I won't go into the details, but it took awhile and she did a good job.
To help pay for the DSi she also traded in an old DS and some games she never plays. My share wasn't bad but I payed more than I wanted for it. And since I love housecleaning so much... not... she now owes me dusting and extra bathroom cleaning. Will I get this cleaning without a fight now she has her gadget, probably not but I will get it. I had a friend tell me I was lazy because I don't do much in the way of domesticity and to that I admit as well. My answer to her was, it gets done and the girls like the money, what is the problem?
The oldest has been outside cutting trees down with her father to earn some college cash... it works.
Now if only someone will pay me for my techie addiction....
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I'm old school.
Cell phone I use once in a blue moon..had it for two years, and for almost a year it collected dust.
Mp3..got a new one a month ago, and it's still sitting in the package unopened.
My kids, buy their own stuff, I refuse to make such purchases as I deem them not necessary.And chores around the house are simply expected of them to do, without reward as part of being in a family unit.
Just the way I do things.
They have some chores that are expected, but the extras they get paid for. And I really don't want to do them so it works for us.
As for the gadgets, to each his own.
And since I don't buy many shoes... :)
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