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I made a trip to Staples to buy my parents a new mouse. They are still in the stone age and outright refuse to bother buying an optical one. I figured I'd buy them one and make it a present. Everyone loves presents, right?
Well, it seemed that Staples had a really outstanding sale on a really outstanding mouse.
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This is a Logitech MX-510. The MSRP is $59.99, and Staples offered an instant $30 rebate and a mail-in $10 rebate, bringing the final price (pending the mail-in rebate) down to just under $20. How could I lose? This was a great deal. I bought it.
When I got home, I figured I'd try the mouse out just to be sure I wasn't going to be giving my folks a dud. The mouse worked just fine. In fact, it's completely awesome! It's a much nicer mouse than my 3 year old Microsoft optical. I've decided to be a very bad son and keep the Logitech MX-510 for myself and give my parents my old Microsoft one.
The Microsoft optical is still a nice mouse and has served me well over these past few years. It works just as well as the day I bought it and has survived 3 computers. It's 100x better than the noname ball mouse sans scroll wheel my parents use day after day. I feel pretty good about giving them my old mouse, but I really feel hella guilty about keeping the gift I bought for myself.
Have you ever bought a gift for someone else and keep it for yourself?
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Sometimes when me and my brother give each other stuff it works out that way. I got him "SWAT" for christmas this year and ended up being the one watching it. This happens with gifts from anybody though.
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Nah, don't feel too guilty. All them new fangled buttons on that logitech contraption, just end up confusin' 'em! Way too much mouse for a couple a greenhorns like your parents. ;)
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jahcs,Mar 25 2005, 12:54 AM Wrote:Nah, don't feel too guilty. All them new fangled buttons on that logitech contraption, just end up confusin' 'em! Way too much mouse for a couple a greenhorns like your parents. ;)
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And my friend didn't believe me at first when I told him to get that mouse!
I've been using the MX-500 since about when it came out. It's awesome, and the 510 makes it obsolete :)
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I have the blue version of the MX-510. That mouse rocks.
You made the right decision. You will appreciate it more than your parents. Your parents will learn how nice optical mice are, even though it is a hand-me-down.
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Don't feel guilty, you're still upgrading their mouse for them.
On a side note...
(The best mouse I have used, next to the worst keyboard I have ever used)
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DeeBye,Mar 24 2005, 11:07 PM Wrote:I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK!
Now I feel a hundred times better :)
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Obi2Kenobi,Mar 25 2005, 01:32 AM Wrote:Don't feel guilty, you're still upgrading their mouse for them.
On a side note...
(The best mouse I have used, next to the worst keyboard I have ever used)
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Yes, I own the world's ugliest mousepad. Go ahead and make fun of me. Don't make fun of my computer table though -- it's over a hundred years old.
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03-25-2005, 05:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2005, 05:57 PM by Swiss Mercenary.)
Hey - I bought that mouse (With a black and silver exterior, but still) from Futureshop, also for 19.99$ - Aparrently some poor guy, who intended it to be 10$ off 59.99$, bringng the price to 49.99$, has accidently labeled it to be 40$ off, bringing the price to the aforementioned 19.99$...
And the mistake occured in the Futureshop National flier...
Needless to say, I've picked up two.
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I bought my father the 3rd season of Frasier, but when it got in the mail I thought "he probably won't like it" (despite him being a huge fan of the show), and put the DVD-box set in my book-case next to season 1 and 2 :P
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03-25-2005, 08:15 PM
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Fer shame, even !!!! .
Justifying theft by claiming the victims are too stoopid ?? That's a long climb out of that hole you're digging. :whistling:
Try this instead. Buy a second mouse and justify it with the standard "But it was on sale" mantra.
If that still won't appease your guilt, then just use the dark side. Buy 3 for the price of 1 and sell the third to an unsuspecting friend for $40. He gets a new mouse for 2/3 of retail, your parents get a nice new mouse, and you get a free one for your efforts.
What ?? No, I don't feel guilty at all. B)
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DeeBye,Mar 24 2005, 11:37 PM Wrote:Have you ever bought a gift for someone else and keep it for yourself?
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Yes. I bought a stuffed animal for my granddaughter, but she and I sort of bonded and I kept her. Went back and spent some time with the the other eight or so identical stuffed kitties and selected another for my grandaughter. Usually when I get a present for a grandchild I feel guilty about keeping it. The solution is to go out and get another for myself.
But this does not always work. Last year I was shopping for a doll and fell in love with one I met. I made no pretense whom it was for. There was a similar doll available who was a blond, like my granddaughter, and though she had to come from Germany, I paid her passage.
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Unfortunately or fortunately she and my granddaughter had a falling out, so now both dolls live happily with me.
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LavCat,Mar 25 2005, 09:28 PM Wrote:photograph
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Why does that doll have her hand up her skirt?
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DeeBye,Mar 27 2005, 01:34 AM Wrote:Why does that doll have her hand up her skirt?
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I wondered that myself. In real life at the moment she has her arm around her brown haired friend.
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DeeBye,Mar 25 2005, 07:09 PM Wrote:Yes, I own the world's ugliest mousepad. Go ahead and make fun of me. Don't make fun of my computer table though -- it's over a hundred years old.
Ehhh... Those optical mice even work brilliantly on carpet, so why have a mousepad?!
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whyBish,Mar 28 2005, 05:31 AM Wrote:Ehhh... Those optical mice even work brilliantly on carpet, so why have a mousepad?!
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It just doesn't feel right without a mousepad.
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DeeBye,Mar 29 2005, 07:41 AM Wrote:It just doesn't feel right without a mousepad.
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I'm so with you on that!
'sides, it scratches the table :P
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