Buy Buy Baby!

A lot of people ask me for consumer advice. And i give it, whole-heartedly. But the thing about money is, the less you have it, the more you want to spend it! And that's the biggest problem! You go to the markets and check out something really good, like a watch, stilettos or a sports jacket! Then you dip your left hand into your bottom right pocket to take out your wallet and you open it only to find a couple autographs of the governor of the reserve bank of India worth exactly 10 percent less than have the price of item you're interested in buying! Your handy little credit card is of no use either because you exceeded the credit limit in buying the thing which you did not need but, oh so wanted! So you work harder and you save! You save like a mangy little raccoon saving food for the winter! But then after a quarter of a year, when you go back to the same market, the same corner, the same store, with just the right amount of money, what do you see? Them cost of the illusive 'thing' has gone up, and adding insult to injury is the fact that right next to it is something else, which is 10 times prettier, 20 times more useful and 30 times more expensive! Unless of course if the thing you fell for was a cell phone! You see, cell phones are the reverse indicators of the economy! While the cost of everything in the world escalates, the cost of cell phones goes down like a snowboarder skiing down the alps! The rate of descent increases a trillion times if its YOUR cell phone! and as is the case with every other piece of merchandise in the world, the loss is even greater if it's MINE! My shopping cart is usually like a graveyard of all things crap and worthless. Like my cell for example. It is that 'its not just a phone, its who we are' bullshit. but i wont lie, my phone is brilliant! In fact, it is so astonishingly good that the company stopped producing it after 6 months of introducing it and went on to say NO-KIA. But i kiya'ed! and I'm proud of it, since I'm one of only 3 people in the world who have this cell! One's a guy who adds LOL at the end of every statement and deserved to be smacked at the back of its head! The other's a chick who thinks that the Virani family actually exists and that Ekta Kapoor is a distant cousin of Charles Darwin! My buying sense is so messed up that i could have my own show on the telly, What To Buy And Repent! Now i have a fair bit of knowledge about cars, so you'd think that my dad will have the best car he could afford? Right? Wrong! He has a Civic. Now its a brilliant car, but its just so daft, so boring! and, I hate Hondas! So why did i let him buy it? I don't know, i guess a leprechaun was mating with my right ear when i was telling my dad what to buy! Its the same with my watches, one won't tell me the time and the other one tells me australian standard time, even if i re-calliberate it! My UPS works only when there's power, and my ties match more with my neighbours clothes than mine! So, if you want to buy something, spare yourself the agony of complete depression, and just come and ask me what i'd suggest, so that you could just go ahead and buy something else! Come on come on, try it. What do you want?! :D

Anand