I doubt you remember but a while back I wrote a post about how my husband is saving his change for a new TV for our living room.  Well, all that saving finally paid off.  He’s been putting all his change into a five gallon water bottle in the closet for almost 5 years and about two weeks ago he went out and got himself a shiny new TV.

We got this one.  That might not be the exact model number, but that’s basically it.  It was on sale for about $1,500.  My husband had $900 in change saved up.   He got the rest of the money from a pool of money him and some friends had been saving up for a trip to Vegas.  They have been saving the money here and there for about a year.  Unfortunately, everyone that was going on the trip got laid off, except for my husband.  So they decided they would cancel the trip and all split the money evenly.  So between his share of that and some slush he had in his personal checking account he was able to come up with the balance.

But the costs don’t stop at the TV.  Our old entertainmet center wouldn’t work with the new TV.  So we needed to buy a new one of those.  And we pretty much needed it right away.  Target happened to be having a sale, so I found one that works for $160.  And of course we can’t go without the HD service now that we have an HDTV.   Which we didn’t even have digital cable before, so it’s quite the upgrade.  I even splurged on the DVR service, which we may or may not keep.  I will give it a couple of months and see if it’s worth the money.  But all in all our cable bill went up $25 a month.

pic by: Kecko

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