Big TV.

Monstrous TV in a tiny house.

We received our tax return a few weeks ago, and for several reasons it was a bit bigger than usual. Church, debt, savings, vacation, and our home all were allotted certain amounts of money.

I was (am) very excited about spending money on our home. Keith and I joke that we decorate our home $30 at a time . . . We decided that we wanted to purchase areas rugs, and a TV. Our old TV is upstairs in our loft, and we love having it there, especially in the winter when it is nice and cozy upstairs. However, we thought it would be nice to have a TV downstairs for several reasons: the kids when I am making dinner; for our guests (Keith's family loves to watch sports when hanging out); for the summertime when it is too hot to watch TV uptairs; and for when we plan to have another baby (I get very sick for much of the pregnancy; at that time it would really serve the kids to be entertained).

We decided to buy a 32 inch TV. Shopping around we found that the prices were all too high for what we wanted to spend on a TV. Yesterday, Keith was doing something with the cars outside and he was thinking about what we should do about the whole TV situation. He ran into our neighbor, Tim, who just happened to mention that his father-in-law was selling his 50 inch flat screen TV and just wanted to get rid of it. Tim was trying to sell it for his father in law on craigs list.

Needless to say, we bought it. It wasn't exactly what we were looking for, but it was $200 less than we budgeted for a TV. It doesn't really fit with my sad attempt at french country decor, but we'll make it work.

As you can see in above picture it is HUGE!

Again, not exactly what we were looking for, but looking forward . . . it'll be great whenever we do get a single family home. Not to mention I have more money to spend on my area rugs.