When you open up your email, and you have 24 unread emails from Amazon from the past week describing the shipping and delivery dates of your purchases, it makes you think that perhaps online shopping is a little too easy. So today I’m going to go through everything I bought on Amazon in the last couple of weeks, and decide how much of it was a good decision.
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – $19 – I actually read this book, I consider it to be a worthwhile buy.
- Accounting for Dummies – $39 – I work in a job where people would expect that I know a thing or two about accounting, and yet I felt the need to buy this book. I should have checked beforehand which accounting standards it used, because I am now having to return it because it uses US accounting standards. I’m going to return in tomorrow and I feel like a bit of a dummy.
- Phillips PowerLife Steam Iron – $65 – Completely worthwhile buy, before this I had the cheapest iron from Kmart and it was just nowhere near as good, also it has melted polyester on it from a shirt I bought in Vietnam that claimed to be 100% cotton.
- Sunbeam Ironing Board – I don’t want to say – I spent a lot of money on an ironing board, I spend a lot of time ironing so I thought it was worth it, time will tell.
- Anker Wireless Charger – $30 – My phone got sand in the charging port from a game of beach volleyball that I got a little too excited about.
- The Big Four – The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly – $24 – Haven’t read it yet, excited to read it
- Hailstorm Folding Reverse Umbrella – $26 – I’m not even really sure what a reverse umbrella is but I got rained on this Wednesday and decided I needed to buy an umbrella the second I got into work.
- Newdora Windproof Travel Folding Umbrella – $26 – I’m really sick of my umbrellas going missing and then having to go somewhere in the rain, so I got another one, I hope one of them is good.
Overall I stand by my purchases, I’ve recently decided to buy stuff that is higher quality if I think it will last me longer, so I don’t feel bad about the expensive items in the list. I really need to start reading more books if I am going to be buying this many.
