Why I can't save Amazon vouchers

Well, my plan to save up all the Amazon vouchers I seem to collect and buy something nice isn't turning out too well. Every time I get one and add it to my account, I then spot something else I'd like which I can afford and spend them all on that.

Just won £15 of vouchers last week (from telling people what I watch on TV). Brings the total of free stuff for this year to £40. But then spotted the new Frank Black CD/DVD package. So I bought that. (Lots of him playing some of his old songs on his own, including some Pixies songs. Plus a handful of new songs, including one that consists entirely of about 20 layers of vocals and nothing else. Very odd).

And I finished reading Cell, so I need a new book. (Good book, Stephen King back to his more trashy writing, which isn't a bad thing. Bit too much like The Stand, but that was one of his best books anyway. Just that this time, the virus comes through phones and not some deadly escaped 'flu. And only 500-something pages, so a quick read).

Phil also had a slight mishap with play.com. He somehow tried to buy the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 2DVD+2CD fancy live box of joy. Using his old card details. So they pointed this out to him and he gave them a new, non-expired card. At which point they sent two copies of it, charged to the new card. Rather than send it back, I now have it. Which means the money I'd saved up from Ciao for answering their surveys and reviewing some DVDs had to be extracted from them. (Luckily, they just transfer it straight to your bank account, so it's easy). That's another £14.49 from them, bringing the total to £54.49 this year. Not bad going so far then. Oh, wait. 5 quid Amazon voucher for not doing much with my website. Makes £59.49 then.

It's a rather good DVD though. Must be heard in the full DTS sound, at loud volumes. Slightly odd choice of songs. 10 from Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus, which makes sense as the tour was to support that double album. And 4 others. Lacking The Mercy Seat. And several others you might expect. But you also get the second DVD, with more songs, and videos. (15 minutes of incredibly silliness for 1 of them!). And 2 CDs of more live stuff. Over 500 minutes of stuff in all. In the most stupid box ever. Why do people put DVDs in boxes that they can easily escape from? It's already annoyed a cat, by leaping from the box onto the poor thing as she wandered past at the wrong time.