I was napping, as I do too much of these days and I was awoken by someone at the door. When I answered the door, I was still a little groggy and it took me a while to figure out he was trying to sell security cameras.

When I realized it, I explained to him that we are living on Social Security and we are looking for ways to save money, not how to spend it. I went on to explain that I had no money in my little budget to buy security cameras. Then of all things, he asked, “No money at all?”

I said, “Look, let’s get down to basics. The reason you are talking to me is that you are trying to get my money. But you are wasting your time, being as I have none.”

I am sure he would have continued to figuratively hit his head against the wall but I turned and went back in the house. Only then did he leave.

I really don’t much understand him knocking on my door anyway. A quick look at my house will tell you two things. I don’t have much money to go buying things I don’t really need and I certainly don’t need some expensive security system to protect what little I have. As a side note, I have about come to the conclusion that the cameras don’t do much good anyway. It seems every night on the news, I see someone has been robbed and they have some video to prove it. However, beyond that, I don’t see the video doing any good.

At any rate, we never got around to discussing price. I had no need to. No doubt in my mind that the guy was going to tell me that he had a real bargain for me. The problem I’m sure would be that his idea of a real bargain and mine would likely be miles apart. I’m sure that for one of my Social Security checks he could have put together a good security system.

Obviously, the question comes up, how do I eat? I have come accustom to that, you know. Who is going to pay the electric bill? If I don’t pay the water bill, they will turn it off and it will cost me a bundle to get it turned back on.

Okay, we aren’t that bad off. We might have even been able to pay for the security system. Still, I don’t see the point of it. There are dozens of places close by here that have systems as good or nearly as good for half the price. And, as I said, I’m more interested in finding places to save money than finding places to finding places to squander it. If I really want to throw my money away, I may as well buy a lotto ticket or go to one of the near by casinos. At least I can have have fun doing that, or at least that’s what all the TV ads say.