New Hamster

So my bank has this nice little scheme: Not only are they trying to steal my hard earned doubloons by charging me fees for nearly everything, they are also trying to create the impression as if I was earning something when paying their fees by giving me some "points" in return. Those points, each of which cost me around 2 cents, can then be utilized to buy massively overpriced rubbish in their shop. Like an iPod nano with 8 GB for around 1000 dollars worth of points (current price at Amazon.com is 135 dollars).

Anyway, at the end of last year I had to get something as my saved points were about to expire. Yep, not only are they nearly worthless, they also expire after some time. It appears that I made quite a deal here.

I finally decided to invest my points in a gift card for a local garden center where I used it to buy this cute little dwarf hamster:

Commander Norton. Total cost of acquisition: 135 dollars.

Now, I wonder how long it would take him to become profitable by selling hamster wheel power to an electric utility.