Ho Ho Humbug
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, and the majority of our wealthy spoiled society have all gone out and spent billions on both useful and useless gifts for friends and loved ones.
I am certainly included in that batch of listless consumers with too much expendable income. I did the inevitable and placed an order for almost everything on my Christmas list on Buy.com due to a great deal I discovered through digg.com. If you place an order of $50 or more, you get $20 off your entire order when you checkout using Google’s (semi) new service, Google Checkout.
I placed two orders, one totaling $70, another about $55. I save $20 on both orders since I split them into two transactions. Plus they ship via USPS so I don’t have to wait for a delivery guy to show up at my house.. I just go to the post office and pick it up.
Since I had been so good and actually been able to buy everyone a gift this year, I decided to reward myself with a little “Merry Christmas To Me.”
I had plans to pick up the Nintendo Wii, but ultimately changed my mind. I want it.. pretty badly, but it’s just not cost-effective for me to shell out all that money on a console system, despite being the cheapest one out there. I’ve bought consoles in the past and eventually got burned by them once I lost interest in the few games I ever played on them.
Instead of the $350+ I’d spend on the Wii core system, Legend of Zelda, and a second Wii-Mote, I saved myself $50 and plopped down the money on a video card upgrade (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb AGP to a ATI Radeon X1300 256mb PCIX) and a new monitor (Viewsonic 19″ CRT to an Acer 19″ Widescreen LCD). I figure since the majority of games I play is on PC, then investing in better hardware for those games will pay off better over the long run. The upgraded video and the widescreen display should make City of Villains/Heroes run REAL nice.
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