There’s an old saying…
A fool and his money are soon parted.

I come down in the fool side when it comes to buying stuff.

As a firm believer in “He who dies with the most toys wins”, I have an obligation to maintain my status as a leader in that race.

Then today my fool got a rude awakening.

Apple came out with the details of their new Watch.

I like electronic stuff and I was a proud owner of a Pulsar watch many years ago.

It’s was cool and that made me awesome.

I need all the help I can get.

Back to Apple.

You have got to be kidding me with those prices.

There’s three classes of watches.
The Sports watch with funky bands starts at $349.
More when you add the band.

The stainless steel watch – which I like – is $549 and depending on what band you want to come with it, the total could hit $1099.

We won’t even get into the gold watch that starts at ten-grand.
You got that much money then be my guest.

Buy me a stainless one, please.

I’ll write nice things about you.

Now, I’m an Apple fan and have the iPhone since the first one came out.

Every two years I schlep to the Apple store and get a new one.

But my wireless carrier subsidizes much of that cost.

No one is gonna help me with the watch.

And a couple of years from now when the thing has more goodies inside I get the buy another one because there’s no way to upgrade.

At full price.

I’m a fool.
But I’m not stupid.
Unless it comes to something like this.

Imagine how happy the wife was to hear I was going to pass on it.

I’m grumpy over this.

UPDATE: Sigh, I bought one.
I love it.

I was smart – I bought one for the wife too.
She loves it.

Now she can’t complain.