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No Way Sprint. Keep Your IPhone.

Now that Sprint has released the IPhone we have toying with the idea of allowing our daughter to change out her phone for one.  What I didn’t know was a lot of information that my mother gave me the other day.  From my understanding the IPhone requires a special protection plan, and on top of that when something goes wrong with one then you need to take it back to a Apple store.

This has caused me to rethink the entire situation.  I have enough nightmares with the Sprint store in Brick, NJ.  I don’t feel that I should be getting a phone from Sprint, and having to take it to another retailer for servicing when necessary.

This is direct from the Sprint site…

$99 for 2 years Applecare.

-Includes 2 accidental repairs & $49 service fee on top of each of those 2.

The original situation came because my daughter wanted a IPod Touch 16gb.  This was only because her friends have IPod Touch units.  She has an Android phone.  It does everything that an IPod does.  I just don’t understand the mind of my child.

My Kid Is Very Strange

My daughter likes to collect shells, and other dead sea products that she finds.  When we go to the beach, like when we went on our cruise, she won’t go into the water because she doesn’t like the fish.  She seems to think that they are going to nibble on her, or eat her.  I have tried explaining that they will not do anything to her.  They are just like her goldfish at home.

She refuses to listen to us, and when we go to the Bahamas she sits there chasing the fish away.

 

Coins Are Gaining Some Value

I was once a stamp collector, and I did a little coin collecting.  My daughter has picked up where I left off.  Whenever she gets a chance she tries to get any unique coins that she wants.  When we went to the Bahamas she requested a dollar worth of coins so that she could put them in her collection.  She has found many other odd coins.  I told her to put them away in a safe place and down the road she may want to part with it.

She doesn’t understand that coins in a bank aren’t safe.  Whenever she cashes her change in for dollar bills she realizes at the end that she has her collectible coins in there.  She has since asked for a collecting book of some sort.

This only comes up because my daughter has been searching the web for places that buy, and sell coins.  She found one site that lists prices, and even sells coins that are ungraded.  I told her to just buy Morgan dollar coins after I looked through the site.  The are old, and look like they may have a great value in the future.