[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.

Top Text: “Ipads as presents”

Bottom Text: “For 9 and 10 year olds”]

I work for a big box electronics retailer… and I’ve gotten this far too often this holiday season.  As someone who didn’t own his own computer until he was 21, this seems absurd to me.  I don’t know if it’s a symptom of consumerism or just a manifestation of where I work, but… it seems absurd that children are getting $500 faux computers as presents this holiday season.  I can’t even AFFORD to buy a tablet for myself and it kills me that parents think of them as disposable toys, citing their children playing “games on their (the parents’) phones as a reason to get their kids an Ipad.  Ugh, I think I’m ranting, but… yeah.