Moving In

I'm almost completely moved in. Isaac helped me move some of my big furniture stuff a few days ago, and now it's just a matter of me going back and forth getting the rest of my stuff. I really can't believe I was able to fit so much junk into such a small space before. It just doesn't seem to make any sense as I'm starting to fill a much larger apartment with stuff that filled a tiny room. Oh well.

Extended Warranties
Okay, this is something that has been bugging me for awhile, and only now am I actually starting to understand why. First of all, I think there's something seriously wrong with products today where they can't protect them with extended warranties anyway. Paying additional money to protect something you've bought that falls apart because the company made a lousy product really seems like I'm paying the same crook twice.

Today, as I was moving my stuff, I never realized how many boxes of "extended warranty" stuff I still had. One of the little requirements of these extended warranties (and I'll use my Xbox as an example) is you have to keep the freakin' box. I have zero need for an old Xbox container, yet in order to honor my extended warranty, I have to keep this box and the packaging within it. What a stupid policy? No wonder people collect so much crap in their lives. They're collecting trash from warranty boxes that they don't need, but they're not allowed to throw them out.

I'm making a new policy. No extended warranties on anything. If something breaks, I buy a new item, preferably from another company than the one that made the product that broke.

Stumble It!