The guilt should come before you do or buy something, not afterwards.

It sounds like a practical item to have, but if you did not buy it because of these other expenses, then maybe it will have even better features when you do buy it. Any time I have any money ahead I end up with repairs.

The thing is that this was the only time to buy it. I would have had to pay more for a data plan. Also those repairs and fixing up things are there from before and I usually have money set aside from them. I think it is everything coming at once and I go by the theory that if I had not bought it then, then when I save money for it the next time, things will go wrong because it was not taken seriously that I needed it.

The thing is that I did not argue with myself and considered whether I needed it or not or whether it was a waste of time. What happened was that I water a particular item that could do several things. Now last year and the year before, that item could not do the things that I wanted. For instance, I wanted it to include a camera and also be easy for me to read. I wanted it in case I had to go on a trip to be able to accommodate the Lite data plan, but as I sometimes say in 2011 it had not been invented yet. I also wanted something that would substitute for a laptop and also could accommodate a book and especially a Bible, so if someone had poor eye sight, I could hand it to them so they could read rather then take along a book that was very heavy. It was just when I had the money to buy it, I got a knock on the door with a summons to appear in court and I would be fined so much for something that happened back in January, I got an email from my sons that I owe over $3,0000 in income tax, I had planned to go on a retreat, but they wanted the money a month ahead of time instead of me bringing the check along since it was for the middle of May. And the latter, I did not know about booking and pay8ing ahead of time when my friend told me about the retreat and there were friends who already went to the first retreat, and no one informed me. So you know why I ask upset. I have bought junk stuff, and I expected for something to go wrong then. I will not go on what happened when I had to get my tooth fixed. Seems like with most people, when they do something wrong and buy something junky, they get in trouble, bit with me it is buying necessities.

Now had I ordered the iPad and I did not get a summons about a fine, if my sons had phoned or emailed me and said before that IK may have to put money aside for income tax, if I had been told about the women's retreat, and if you cannot afford all it it, we will back you up, etc. and then I felt regret because really I did not need it, then it wold be because I did not. Byt the only way I was; upset was that I may have to pay a fine, I had to use the money saved for the basement for the income tax, the money for the retreat came ahead of time. So I am; ;thinking it was false guilt and not the real guilt.

I often wondered that, why would anyone know if I went and bought something. I have to go to pay the fine today (I was so busy with other things, the retreat, the rent money coming, the potential trial date if I could prove that it was an error, the offerings to my church that I missed, the printer running out of ink, income tax, ) well a whole lot was on my plate, that I forgot to reread the summons. Oh and I had to buy some ground round and two chicken parts for soup because I ran out. Everything happened at once. On top off that I have no small change, because unlike others with credit cards, cash burns a whole in my pocket, so now I need a ride down to the courtyard. I keep wondering whether that was deliberate, the summons coming whenI had just downloaded the money for the iPad. I was expecting something like that in January or early February, not when the new iPads came out.

You did not get it. I am sure no one did. Getting the iPad was not something I should regret. It was that I had bought things I regretted, like as seen on tv, or junky clothes, but did bad things happen then? No.

I am going to scream!,,, My buying the iPad was not bad. What was bad is I bought things I did not need then I would have expected after I felt guilty, that I would have gotten bad things happen, but the did not. So should I return the iPad back to apple since you all assume it was a bad thing for me to buy?

I did not feel any guilt before buying the iPad. It was not like when I considered going on a cruise or buying a 3d tv. Then I thought can I really wanted this? So I think that if you want something, you should get those feelings that will determine whether you will get something . For instance if I said to myself,I. Would like an iPad to show off, that would be different then I would have the guilt regret before. I would feel guiltv about beings envious to others who have what's I want. I also had the feeling when I was younger that anyone else could do something,but not me.

Sort of. It was something I had planned and had budgetted for. I had no guilt or maybe I should not have , but figured that knock on the dor and that I would have to pay a fine was meant to make me feel like that . I had expected that I might have to pay a lot on income tax and had money put away for that, but not the fine. It was a bad unexpected and of course, had I bought something foolish, I would have deserved to feel guilty . Yes and how dare the alarm company decide that I had to ask them permission to get th iPad or in your case, how dare someone or some company consider that your trip to Montreal was not something you needed.

It has nothing to do with buyers remorse, it has to do with things going wrong and unexpected expenses coming up at the same time so yoiu think they are related to what you bought after saving for it. So I really love my IPad and if I decided to save for a cuisinart, I would use it and like it as well, but I sure would not likes it if after I saved for it, that' the income tax people' would want an audit, ot that I would get an unexpected fine or bill especially when they gave no advanced warning. And I would like if I saved for something silly and I did not get unexpected expenses then. The trouble is when after you get something you need and these unexpected fines or things go wrong, you are more likely to buy the junk. I O

I did save the money for it. After I downloaded the money for it, I did put the item on my credit card, but just to get the air miles and because well get a record of what I bought and then immediately transferred the money from my checking account to my credit card. Get it? Do I have to repeat it. Good. I did and am using it, The thing is that I have gone and bought stuff that is utterly wasteful and bad for me such as cookies, boxes of chocolates, some stupid as seen on Tv that I knew I idid not need, and did the bad things, the other bills, summons, or what ever come out after that? By the way, when I had my filling for my tooth to be crowned put in, bad things happened after that. So it seems the message given is A G can buy stupid wasteful stuff and it is all right, but if A G buys something she really needed and could use, then a knock will come to her door and she will get a summons, the water heater will break down, thereof will spring a leak, a nation will invade us t. And they things are all practically new so will not happened. But there is always the stove even though it has a ceramic top, it was one of the first ones -- the front room Tv already went and it is around ten years old.

The thing it is it was not a time waster or something that I would never use. It was something I had planned to get and it was not a mistake, and this has happened before when not because someone else had it, but because I really needed and could use it, then something bad happened after I purchased and it got this thought. Everyone else with my income and my experience in life can go and buy a ---- but A G cannot go and buy it. She is the only one in that tax bracket and that income bracket who must not ever ever ever get a -----. And had things gone as planned, that is, if I had not gotten that summons right then, or been asked to go on that retreat and if they told me that they want the money ahead of time, I could have made plans. I could have said I wold like to go and cannot afford it, and I would have said to the summons guy, the thing happened in Janaury, why did you wait until I had the money to buy what I bought to bring the summons. I figured that guilt was false guilt. The thing is that false guilt is the worse kind and made me decide that now I will go and buy things I really cannot use or do not need with no cumplulctiion. If those things had not come up, I would have decided to maybe not go and buy that DVD or go and buy that stupid ASseenonTv stuff. But now since I get in trouble financially by buying something I really needed and saved for, hmm maybe instead of getting the free apps, I will now pay for them, and maybe I should pay for my storage on the cloud or maybe buy AppleCar right away instead of waiting for a few months.