The Great TV Find

This morning my husband got a notion to clean our bedroom. Not just pick up dirty socks or clean off his dresser...he decided to move the bed, move everything out of the "womb" (I'll explain that in a minute) vacuum and even use the carpet cleaner on the carpet (which he's never done btw).

*Womb explanation*

Our bedroom is a finished attic made up of two rooms. It's really cool actually. The main room has a hardwood floor, and it has our dressers, a kennel, my dressing table and 2 open closets. The smaller room- which is actually a walk in closet that never got finished is what we call the "womb" ...because it's small and cosy. Instead of the bedroom, it's the bedwomb...ok corny I know. Anyway, it's big enough for our king sized bed, and tv and tv stand...Sophie's homemade dog bed and 2 bed side tables.

Ok, back to the story. In the course of him moving out the furniture...he pulled out the cable cord from the back of the 19" tv. Not just the cord but the whole piece that attaches to the cord came out of the tv. So my husband is beside himself because he has this nasty habit of watching tv every night before he goes to sleep (I hate it). Never in my life until I married him have I had a tv in my bedroom and frankly, I could do without it. But he can't. So he informs me that he's been saving his "allowance" and wants to go replace the tv asap. Our bill account is not being touched for anything but necessities these days because we are saving every extra penny. I'll tell you why in a few weeks :) He knew, that I didn't care enough to authorize using the bill account, so he had to pay for a new tv with his own money. Well being the cheap bastards we are....(and I love him for this btw)...he wants to get a 19" $120 special. Not Plasma, not LCD Flat bla bla bla. If/When we make that transition....it'll go in the living room anyway.

Our first stop was Best Buy. There were only 3 "old style" tv's being sold there and the sales lady informed us that they are going all flat soon and that's all they have left. Really? Are we that behind the times?? We decided to go to Wal-Mart next because I'm always seeing commercials about their electronics dept. Wal-Mart had 4 choices on "old style" tv's and TONS of flats. Nothing really exciting though so we decide to go to Nebraska Furniture Mart. Let me just say what a waste of gas that was. They had ZERO. I was really feeling like a dork by that time...so we left there and I said "honey, why don't we go home and you look on craigslist?" . He did and guess what he found? A 32" SONY for $100. Yep, this tv is freaking huge. We decided to put it in the living room....and take our old living room tv which is 27" and put it in our bedroom.

I'm pretty happy with the outcome of our day, although we could have saved some gas.