{"id":37990,"date":"2013-11-29T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37990"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:58:25","slug":"the-blue-friday-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=37990","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Friday haul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I said to a friend of mine that one of the grueling challenges that I would have to endure this holiday weekend was trying to get out of it without making one major electronic purchase.\u00a0 Because I am a compulsive consumer, somewhat easily swayed by the pressure and the hype of Black Friday electronic sales and advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, my primary television has an entire line of dead pixels on it.\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s maybe ten pixels from the top of the screen, and it\u2019s just one pixel on a 51\u201d screen, so it\u2019s really not that offensive and hardly affects any viewing, but as far as I\u2019m concerned, it\u2019s a permanent blemish, and the first sign that the television is going, and that I should consider a new one, immediately, on Black Friday.\u00a0 Even if it meant dropping anywhere from $500-1,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving Day, I found myself mentally wrestling with myself, flip flopping on whether or not I should just do it and buy a new television.\u00a0 It would be nice to have a brand new nice television with no blemishes, but it would likely have cost $500-1,000.\u00a0 But then when was I going to do with my otherwise still functional and practical HDTV?\u00a0 \u00a0Not to mention that I have a major trip coming in January, and I can see potential for future, actual necessity spending, when I likely have to replace at least two tires on my car.\u00a0 Furthermore, there was no guarantee that I would have been able to give gotten a television without having to brave the AM hours and fighting for it, because it was looking like a lot of online deals were being snatched up immediately.\u00a0 But to have a\u00a0bigger<\/em>\u00a0television than what I currently had!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the dilemma solved itself, because as I alluded to a few days ago, I really felt a need to do some clothes shopping.\u00a0 And pretty much every retailer that I would have bought things from decided that they were going to essentially put their entire inventories up online, at their Black Friday discounts, as early as the day before Thanksgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n

And\u2026 I went a little nuts.\u00a0 Easily, I spent over $300, maybe possibly $400, on a massive variety of new clothing from several retailers.\u00a0 Most of it was done online, and as has been somewhat of a tradition over the last few years, Jen and I scavenged at the mall well after the crazy hours, and I managed to pick up some more things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, I spent a couple hundred on, of all things, camera accessories.\u00a0 My nifty fifty 50mm lens, and since I actually do aspire to take better pictures in the future, I bought an external flash, that actually came available in a sweet bundle that has a bounce and diffuser.\u00a0 This excites me for future use.<\/span><\/p>\n

But by doing such, I basically overloaded on the budget where I might have considered dipping into for crazy extravagant electronics, like a new television.\u00a0 So in a way, I succeeded in having my Blue Steel Friday, and avoided getting a gigantic television that I simply really would not have needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I may not have a brand new television and still have a slightly blemished television, but at least I can think I feel more fashionable than I did prior to the holiday season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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