A.K.A. The Dangers of Disposable Income
A.K.A. The Manchild thread
A.K.A. Why isn't Macaulay Culkin dead
When Home Alone came out, I always wanted a Talkboy.
You remember the Talkboy, right? "Hi kids, we're home early!"
It worked so well, it could fool just about anyone.
Well, thanks to the internet, I can have one almost instantly.
Of course, this is the definition of useless crap. What am I going to do with this? I don't even own a single cassette tape! I can get one for 10 bucks on eBay, a fairly trivial cost, but "responsible spending" looms in my head as something an adult should always have in mind.
But still, I am tempted to buy one just to fulfill that childhood urge. Put it on a shelf as a trophy dedicated to the manchild urge, and a touchstone for nostalgia.
What did you want so badly as a kid and never got, that you can now buy? Do you think you'll ever own one?
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