We Caved

Our 20 year old TV conked at the beginning of the year, and we've been making do with one my dad bought about 15 years ago, but whose tube has gone slowly darker and darker - until we can barely see a blessed thing!

So, sitting in the bath Saturday morning I thought, "Stuff this! We're getting a new TV". You see, I've been hanging on to that we-might-be-moving thing, and not daring to replace anything that breaks etc. But we might NOT be moving any time soon, or ever, and I'm tired of living like that.

Yesterday we trotted on down to the mall, knowing that we were about to spend more money on one item than I've spent on anything other than my car - and that buying a TV precludes random trips to the Spur for lunch, spending of whatever's in the wallet and such. We're on strict rations for the rest of this month! But it's not a problem - we're stocked up on food and petrol, so won't starve or get stranded anywhere. Just hope there's no major emergencies requiring large amounts of cash....

We ended up with a Logik 54cm PureFlat TV. I'd carefully measured the gap in our wall unit, making sure that what we bought would fit - unlike my brother, who got a huge TV and then had to replace the wall unit because it was too big! :)

What a pleasure it is to have a set that doesn't randomly jump channels (we ended up tuning the old one's channels to the video machine so if it jumped it would end up on whatever channel we were watching via that!), that doesn't have a "tube about to go" line across the screen, and that is light enough to actually see what's on the screen! The flat screen is a pleasure. We don't get reflections from other windows/doors in the room. And it comes with a 5-year guarantee, which is a very good thing.

Of course, the best part of the new TV was the box it came in... Give a kid a box, and watch them have hours and hours of fun. My son put himself in it, put the dog in it (who wasn't amused), put a couple of friends in it, used it as a table for his supper, scooted it across the carpet (while sitting inside). 101 uses for a box!