To Buy, or not to Buy?

I was at Wal-Mart today. I happen to have saved up a nice some of money these past few months. About $50 in fact. I think I might be getting better at spending less of my money. But today at Wal Mart, I felt a sudden need to buy just about ever other thing I saw. Things I had never dreamed of having before I had entered the store. For example, I almost bought a liitle rectangular lamp that goes inside your closet so you can see how dirty it is in there...I don't even have a freakin' closet!
But then, I guess that's really the objective of all advertisments (especially the ones on the boxes)- to make you want to buy it for almost no reason at all. I mean, why would I want an air purifier in my dorm room? I'm not entirly sure right now. And then I end up having a whole debate with myself whether I should buy it or not. I'll be standing in front of someting resembling a toaster oven mixed with a frying pan, with an extremley strange expression on my face, wondering to myself questions like "is it worth it?", or "is there anything else I'm planning on doing with all this money anyways?".
Maybe I was better off having less money.

Cell Phones

Okay, chances are you knew what I was going to be saying here when you read the title to the post. If you thought I was going to sit here for the next ten minutes talking about how we really don't need so much fancy crud in an object that's supposed to be used to talk to other people, your pretty much on target. If you though I would be praising the advances we've made in protable technology in the last ten years, you're probably...well, you're wrong at least.
My roommate (the new one) jusst got a cell phone from his parents. I'm not exactly sure what the reason was, like in case there was an emergency or something and he didn't have two quarters to use a pay phone. I guess that reason makes sense. But then, he's got one of theose state of the art, top of the line cell phones with cameras, and camcorders, and wireless internet, and I'm pretty sure it bakes cookies too. Or is that next years' model?
I guess I should probably be jealous. I mean come on, I have to walk, what is it 8 blocks, just to get somewhere where I can check my email, and his cell phone, which he takes wherever he goes, can do IM in an instant. But I'm really not jealous. I might have been last year. Last year I loved gadgets. Last year I spent $210 on a palm pilot and a case. But I guess I've cooled off a bit since then. All I really want now is an MP3 player. That would be nice...but that's not the point!
I'm sure many of the people reading this can remember back to the day when cell phones where the twice the size of your head. Now they can practicly fit inside your ear! (they will, before you know it). I, for one, see very little purpose in taking movies with your cell phone. Have you ever felt a real need to vidoetape something while you were on your phone? I know I haven't, but then, I don't own a phone.