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Say he buys these gadgets in a year:

  1 high end laptop - $1500
  1 netbook - $500
  2 phones - $500 X 2
  2 tablets - $500 + $250
  1 ereader - $100
  1 cool TV device - $250
  accessories $500

  Total: $390 per month 
It's a lot more than I spend but it definitely isn't super rich level spending. If someone spent $390 owning a nicer car, a fancier kitchen, slightly better apartment, a Harley Davidson, etc. you wouldn't even think about it. I knew students that spent $390 more than me (I spent 0) on clothes.

He has money. He likes computers.




To be fair, he also owns at least one desktop with several 30 inch screens and probably a nice TV. I admit, when you make it a monthtly cost it's not that high, but 390$ a month is still almost 5k a year, which means most people would be working full time for between 1 and 5 full months a year just to pay for gadgets.


Wow, you just absolved me of a lot of guilt over my tech purchases this year so far.


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