More hamster for the buck

Apparently I was wrong in my initial assessment that the price of my hamster was 135 dollars because it turned out he (well, she to be correct) was pregnant. She gave birth to a litter of six and while I might not be able to make much money with my new hamster wheel power production facility, I actually made a better deal than expected.


Total cost of acquisition: 135 dollars (or around 29.39 dollars per hamster).

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.