Saturday, December 23, 2017

Christmas buying with the Girls

The Girls wanted to buy their mother an Apple Watch. We went about a week ago to the Apple store. It is a place I have come to hate. It is in some respects easy and to like, checking out after your purchase. And in other way it sucks. All there displays are meaningless to me. They show a bunch of Apple product. There is not description of the product, no features AND the big one NO PRICES.
     When You walk into the store a greeter greets you. I'll never get used to it, it just seems so phony. You look at the person and you know they would rather be doing just about anything else in the store then accosting customers as they walk in the door. This poor soul has an other job too which is a little bit helpful. They take your name and tell you how long the wait will be before you are helped. As I said earlier, there are displays of products but nothing to read so I scan the products, which mean nothing to me because they are just different colors and shapes and I am not current on the products, because I won't buy Apple's over priced, hyped products.
     We are helped after a little while and the sales person uses his phone to show off the products. He knows his stuff and lists the points of the watch and the differences of each along with the prices. Last Week We were in the store browsing, waiting to see if Teri's IPad would be able to be fixed. Later that day they saved it, so yesterday We were on a mission to purchase a watch. After the sales pitch and asking Elena to come back and make a decision with her sister, they decided to get their mom a series 1 Apple watch, the basic one. We didn't think she needed GPS or blue tooth at this time. Nastia paid for the watch, Elena would then go to the ATM and reimburse her. We got out of the store and went over to the Key Bank ATM and Elena withdrew the proper funds equal to half of the watches price. She gives her sister the money, which she immediately redeposits. They have both turned out to be really good savers. I'm so proud.
     Elena got back in the car and she didn't look very happy. I asked her if something was wrong? she said no. A little later, they are talking about the watch and I hear her say I just gave you one hundred and thirty dollars. I corrected her saying she paid for her half of the gift. I think she was mad at having to spend a good chunk of change. Again I am happy and proud.
     I don't want them to grow up and make who ever is on the twenty in ten years cry because they hold on to their twenties that tightly, but I do want them to be savers.