I need a laptop! Options

[Ashley_Brook]

Ok so I have always shared computers with friends and stuff. Right now I live with my best friend and we only have one computer which is hers and it's located in her room, we are sharing the internet bill though. But I am hardly ever able to get on because she's always in here doing stuff or her boyfriend is asleep in the room. So I was trying to save up for my own laptop but I am always running into more important things to do with money. Like right now, Christmas, so I have $0. And I want a really nice one too.

I was just wondering if there was any way I could get some kind of a loan or something but I don' really know what kind of loan or how I would go about getting one. Any ideas?

[Ashley_Brook]

The reason I'm broke is because

1. My parents, even when I did live with them, have never once helped me pay for shit. Growing up, they of course took care of their basic responsibilities by paying the bills and putting food on the table. Ever since I was around 16, I had to pay for my cell phone, clothes, and anything else that I wanted. And now that I live out on my own, they don't help me financially at all. They refuse to, and I kind of like it that way. I am not going to be some spoiled kid who has to depend on mommy and daddy.

2. I am living on my own with my friend and I'm paying electric bill, my phone bill, half of the cable, land line phone, and internet bill, plus paying off another credit card, and helping out with groceries...on a min wage job. And you're probably thinking, "Well then get a better paying job." I am. But I have no car right now (because parents never helped me out with that) so I'm very limited there. I have a writing job waiting for me that I can do from home on the comp, which is the reason I need a comp of my own.

And it sucks because the comp I'm on right now is my friend's comp and I'm paying half of the internet bill and the only time I can get on here is when she's at work.

All I do is pay bills and buy food for this place, There's not a whole lot of money for me to just pay around with, and now since it's Christmas time, it's even harder. So that's why I'm in the situation I'm in.


Haha and yes, I stood in line in the snow last night at best Buy from 11 pm to 5am, because they had this insane deal on laptops for like 300 bucks, all for nothing. BUT I guess they were sent more later this morning so I'm going to go see if I can sign up for a credit card and then pay as much as I can on that every month or week.

Thanks for all your help, guys!