Awesome Stuff #2: The satisfaction of a "grown-up" purchase

No, it’s not an Xbox, nor is it a Yamaha. It’s not a trip to Mexico. Yet you find yourself a little bit excited. Maybe even a lot excited. In either case you’re more excited than you thought you would be about something that a mere 10 years ago you would have dismissed as thoroughly boring and unimpressive.

Yet here you are eagerly awaiting it’s delivery, or its completion, or trying to find the English side of the instructions. It’s probably something you’ve put a lot of thought into, maybe even researched. You might have struggled to save up some chunks of paycheque for it. You booked a day in your schedule to go pick it out, maybe sought help from an advisor who’s done this kind of thing before you. Likely there were two or three options you had to painstakingly way the pros and cons of.

You went through the drawn out decision process, tickled your bank account and now you are the proud owner of an adult purchase that will marginally improve your life. Not long ago you would never have considered spending your hard-earned, minimum wage cash on such a mature and responsible purchase, but now that you’re a homeowner and like to think of yourself as a “grown-up”. . .well, you can’t help but think of it as
AWESOME!