I Wanna Go Laptop Shopping Too!

Electronics Shopping — By Shopping Blogs on September 2, 2009 7:14 am

The summer before college all of my friends were going laptop shopping. It was so depressing for me because my parents told me that I would have to make do with the desktop we had because we did not have the money to spend on a new laptop. It was frustrating because I would see all my friends’ sleek and shiny new laptops and I was super jealous. I wanted to go laptop shopping too.

Having a laptop just seemed so much more appealing than my clunky old desktop. They are so much easier to transport and work with. I arrived at college and I tried to come to terms with the fact that I was not going to get to go laptop shopping and I was going to have to make the best out of not having a laptop. After all, campus has computers everywhere. It’s not like I needed a laptop when I had access to a computer lab in almost every building on campus.

Dealing with this was difficult though. Signs for laptop shopping were being displayed everywhere, and freshmen with their parents were walking around with new laptops in boxes daily. After a few weeks at school though, the signs eventually disappeared and most people had finished their laptop shopping for that school year. This made the fact that I did not get to go laptop shopping and have my own laptop a little easier, but it was still difficult to deal with not having a laptop especially between classes when all of my friends would gather in the commons with their laptops. I would sit with them as they checked facebook and their e-mails and worked on their homework on their laptops. I would sit there and be sad and jealous and try to bury myself into a conversation or a book. Wanting a laptop, though, was always present in my mind.

When I went home for winter break, my dad asked me to bring my desktop home. He said he wanted to work on it; I had no clue that he really was going to take me laptop shopping. By this point, laptop shopping had become a far away dream that I had accepted was not going to happen. Nothing did happen until Christmas morning. One of the last gifts I opened was a tiny box; I expected a pair of earrings or a bracelet it was so small. Instead, I found a small piece of folded up paper. It said: this coupon is redeemable for one trip to go laptop shopping.

I was ecstatic! I asked my dad if he was sure; did we really have enough money to go laptop shopping? I knew that they were already spending so much on my tuition and everything else they did for me. He told me that he had received a Christmas bonus and he knew how much it meant to me to have a laptop.

Although I was so anxious to go laptop shopping, we waited until the next week when all the after Christmas sales were happening. At the store, I looked at all the different laptops I could choose from and I was in heaven. I did not get the most expensive or nicest laptop; we did not have the money for that. That did not matter to me though. I finally had a laptop!

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