Household Fund

I often tell the family that we have a "family fund" to pay for purchases that would better out household. Normally I encourage Momoko and the kids to propose items that we all could use. Now the actual payment from this fund is my pocket. But hey. It is nice to be able to get some useful items once in a while without worrying how to pay for them.


Little Kat has caught onto how handy this is. I encourage him to come up with creative pitches to sell me on some goods he wants me to buy. Sometimes he has outlandish ideas for expensive items that only he would benefit from. Those get shot down. But if he gives a good argument with a straight face, I don't might shelling out for some treats for him now and then.


Late last night I got an email from Little Kat. He wanted me to purchase an Enermax USB card reader. The thing seemed a bit pricey at $40. I tried to talk with him before he went to bed. But I did not catch him. I did some research on the thing. It has good marketing. Essentially it is a device that can give you a bunch of extra USB ports on your computer. I was concerned that it was not like the cheap ones that you plug into an existing USB port. You got to install this thing into your computer.


I spoke with Little Kat today. He knew that this was a device that took up an internal bay like a CD-ROM or disk drive. What the heck? Let's go for it. Little Kat's angle was that it would help him use memory sticks to store stuff quickly. I figured it would give him some good experience modding his gaming rig. His package arrives Wednesday.