No Interest, No Payments

So, my husband and I aren't exactly what you would call "tech freaks", we don't have Iphones, or employ various applications to our devices in order to make our lives easier, no Playstations or Wiis. In fact up until last Christmas our TV was the same one I was watching in my parents house when I was in fourth grade. In addition to the wood paneled moving picture box, we also were in possession of a terribly old and cheap DVD player that I had won years ago in some silly raffle. This player was so bad that we actually avoided renting movies because the picture was completely blown out. No matter what you were watching, it looked as if the actors were about to enter the pearly gates of heaven.

Thanks to the words "no interest, no payments" all of this has changed. Have we crossed the line? Quite possibly.

It all started on Christmas. We were gifted a new DVD player, finally. One of those things we need but never want to spend the money on ourselves. It isn't the principal of it, we just never think "Hey, let's go buy that new DVD player that we need so badly". At any rate, there was some cable that we needed in order to hook the player up to the television. Keith is pretty good at this stuff, for me, this is where I exit stage left. You could tell me all day long that red connects to red and the elevator doors in my mind close. Electronics are, and always will be as foreign to me as calculus.

Off to Best Buy we go to get nothing more than a $10 cable so that we too can view new releases and take advantage of Netflix. This is when things started to get "excessive". My digital camera, I also won, in the same silly raffle a few years back. It is a terrible, terrible joke of a camera. It might as well have been made by Fischer Price. Anytime I am in Best Buy I slowly gravitate toward the camera display, picking each one up longingly, dreaming that one day it might be mine. This is when we heard the words of the floor salesman. "We are offering no interest, no payments on all purchases over $249.00 through tomorrow". Keith and I looked at each other and I simply said, "We need this for the baby". I did. I went there. I used our future offspring as an excuse to buy myself a new camera, but hey, we NEED good quality pictures of the baby. Not ones that make a polaroid shot look amazing.

He agreed and after that it was all over, down the rabbit hole we went. We both have Ipods, we need a Bose sound dock. Our computer speakers just aren't loud enough to saturate the house and our fellow neighbors homes with the sweet, sweet sounds of Wilco or AC/DC when I'm cleaning house. "Hey, we need some new studio headphones too, those other pairs we own simply don't cut it".

Upon returning home with our glorious new purchases, Keith made the brilliant discovery that our new Bose not only had the ability to play our ipods, it also was able to run all existing sound in our home including the TV, DVD and record player into surround sound......... all we needed were a FEW more components and cables.

Two more trips to Best Buy, one to Ikea, two to Radio Shack, four miscalculated drill holes in the wall, eight hours of manual labor and it was "alive, alive"!!! Getting extra crafty Bob Villa style, we breathed new life into our old 90's stereo speakers by adding them to the mix, one on each side of the couch. We officially had our own surround sound in the living room. Now, when it rains on TV, it motherfucking rains in the living room too!!