Reality Check by Dave Whamond for December 07, 2020

I don’t understand why you would want a $1200 or so Iphone when there are $100 or so Android phones available at Walmart that work just as good. and of course are far cheaper.;/ (I guess it’s what I like to call ‘paying for the privilege of using the brand name’. )

First-world problem indeed. It beats the heck out of worrying about survival.

Jessica not only needs to learn math but also financial responsibility!

First-world problem aside, stay as far away from a payday loan as possible.

None of the above!

Stand outside the phone store and mug someone who just bought the phone she wants.

How absolutely on the money with anyone under 40 ! We have a telephone via fiber optics home phone for everyday use that costs a few bucks/month to use and a cheap flip phone for emergency use. While most buy I things as status symbols, they are no better than the inexpensive versions. I’ve never felt so important that someone had to reach me immediately. Being all thumbs, I don’t see texting either and could never figure the rewards of sexting. Be well everyone.

…“DADDY”…

Or a new $80 LG flip phone.

D. Get a real life.

Seems to me that it would make more sense as a WORD problem.

Let’s put things in perspective. If Jessica up there said she wanted a $200,000 Maserati, you’d chuckle about kids who don’t understand the value of money. But instead, some of you are freaking about about the cost of high-end phones. To no purpose I can understand.

Jessica can dream all she wants. What’s she’s getting is a hand-me-down iPhone that her dad paid $399 for 3 years ago.

Does she already have a working phone? What is wrong with that one? One of my grandmothers told me once, “Wear it out, make it do or do without.” She went through the Great Depression and WWII. She made clothes both in 1930 last until 1950. Some of her appliances were still working when she passed away in 1990. Nowadays the speed of innovation causes electronics to become obsolete before you get it home from the store or before you take it out of the packaging if it is delivered. “Ifin’ it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Although this comic is not a great example, I do think every high school student should be required to take some type of course in Household Economics. Unfortunately, this would mean teaching kids something practical which probably wouldn’t go over too big with local school boards.

None of the above. She doesn’t need the status symbol…

Are we in the U.S.A. still in the First World? Just beginning to wonder, that’s all.

Or learn how to fake being hit by a car if she has real initiative.

Oh my gosh! this is such a tear-jerker! Maybe Santa (her parents, wink, wink) will come through?

First world word problem

Get an iPhone se. $399 My husband loves his & it’s not huge so it fits in your pocket easily