The wives and girlfriends of the wealthy stockbrokers and bankers facing economic woes!
Fewer mani-pedis! Less lunches out! Reduced baby sitter hours! No more Ferragamos!
Oh the humanity!
Thankfully these poor souls have taken to the blogosphere to find relief (and hopefully a book deal! Reality show? Anyone? Anyone?)
Check ’em out at Dating a Banker Anonymous.
Bring a box of tissues.
Yanno, I’m really ticked at the economy. Sure, I have a good job and a paycheck, but I’m finding that saving a few more of my shekels is a grand idea.
“Cash is King!” or so shouts all of the financial hacks who think they know better. Those same ones who told us all to invest in real estate.
Bah!
The problem with this financial austerity is that there are still lovely things in the retail world that entice me. Sing to me. Make me want to break out my paid off credit card and charge, baby, charge!
The latest little gem that’s got my eye is this:
(click photo for specs)
This is Polaroid’s latest entre into the world of photography.
It’s called a PoGo and is a digital camera. But it also has built in an inkless photo printer so you can instantly print photos of your choosing, when you want.
Now…this baby is only 5.0 megapixels, so it’s not wowing the photographic world.
But I love me a Polaroid camera. And by love, I mean LOVE. I had one as a kid. I own several now.
I was a *fool* for Polaroid’s I-zone that made these teeny sticky photos. I carried that thing everywhere.
I have tiny photos ALL over my journals from around the early 2000’s.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my high end camera and the gloriousness of the photos I can take. The depth of detail is amazing.
That said, I want the PoGo bad, because it’s FUN and *boop*, there’s a photo print.
Want!
Here’s the ouchie part.
It’s not available until March and I think will have a price point of $200.
I feel like two hundy is a little high for a Polaroid, but maybe if I’m very good and save my pennies, by this summer I can be shooting and printing and generally giggling over my new Polaroid cam.
My folks taught me that if you want a big ticket item, you gotta work a little for it.
So ok. Back to work. I get paid this week. After rent, end of month bills and credit card payments, there won’t be much left. But maybe I can put away a few.
Damn, I’m so fiscally conservative it makes my teeth hurt.
When really, I just want to be like Animal from The Muppet Show.
“CAM-ER-A!!! CAM-ER-A!!!! ME WANT!!!”
I paid two dollars and thirty-three cents a gallon for gas today!
I almost wept! Given that gas was touching five dolla’ a gallon not that long ago, this was AMAZING!
Ok, to be fair, there was a forty-five cent surcharge for using my debit card at the pump. But that’s ok. On twelve total gallons, that brings my price to two dolla’ and thirty-six cents a gallon!
Look!
Unbelievable.
I procured this petrol while out running errands. I have enjoyed going out to stores on quiet weekdays rather than busy weekends.
I’m actually not seeing a slow up in spending. I’m guessing the economy might be doing ok, people are still spending with reckless abandon.
I personally provided my own “stimulus package” to the economy by spending WAY too much money over the past couple days.
Retail therapy always cheers me up!
In other news….from the retail front lines…why are leg warmers back? I was at Target and they had a full rack of leg warmers. They also had also neon colored baby doll socks (perfect for wearing with your patent leather stiletto heels).
When exactly did my HIGH SCHOOL years return to fashion? Look, I wore the rhinestones and vintage clothes and armfulls of black rubber bracelets back in the day. Sure, I was into it.
But looking back on my own personal fashion…well. It is best left in the past.
But no, Target sees fit to return it to me.
Just. Ugh.
Who the heck is this Dow Jones fella and why does he keep taking all my money?