子供のころ、両親や祖父母からお年玉をもらうことは、お正月の楽しみの一っだった。もらったお金で漫画やゲームなどを買うこともあったが、貯金をすることのほうが多かった。
今から20年以上も前になるが、中学2年のとき、お年玉で前から欲しいと思っていたラジカセを買うことにした。その年のお年玉だけでは足りなかったので、貯金をおろさなければならなかった。そのラジカセで、勉強するときも寝るときも、毎日大好きな歌手の歌を聞いていた。ラジカセは、①いつもわたしのそばにあった。しかし、高校の入学祝いにCDプレーや一をもらうと、ラジカセは使わなくなってしまった。
そのラジカセは、誰にも使われないまま、10年以上わたしの部屋にあった。ラジカセを見ると、いっも母は、「これは②必要のない買い物だったね。もうちょっと待っていたら、CDプレーヤーをもらえたんだから。」と言って笑っていた。しかし、私はそうは思わない。自分がそのときに本当に欲しい物を買ったのだから、いい買い物をしたと、今でも思っている。
AI translation, cross-checked between two models.
When I was a child, receiving New Year’s money from my parents and grandparents was one of the pleasures of the New Year holidays. Sometimes I used the money I received to buy manga or games, but more often I saved it.
It was more than twenty years ago now, but when I was in my second year of junior high school, I decided to use my New Year’s money to buy a radio-cassette player that I had wanted for a long time. That year’s New Year’s money alone was not enough, so I had to withdraw some of my savings. With that radio-cassette player, I listened every day to songs by my favorite singer, both while studying and when going to sleep. The radio-cassette player was ① always by my side. However, when I received a CD player as a gift for entering high school, I stopped using the radio-cassette player.
That radio-cassette player remained in my room for more than ten years without being used by anyone. Whenever my mother saw the radio-cassette player, she would laugh and say, “This really was ② an unnecessary purchase, wasn’t it? If you had just waited a little longer, you would have received a CD player.” But I do not think so. Because I bought something I truly wanted at the time, I still believe even now that it was a good purchase.
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