If I have this straight, sdr thinks my owning “3 TV’s” in my house situated in a “lower middle class neighborhood at best,” (lol) have somehow “skewed” my values. FWIW, when I moved in over ten years ago, I only had the 1988, with rabbit ears. I bought the 2nd TV for one of my kids ($160) and they used rabbit ears as well. I didn’t get cable until a year after that. The first year or so I owned the HDTV, no HDTV channels were even available in my area! It was an out-of-the-box floor display and I bought it for half-price at the time. (Similar-sized flatscreens at that time were $3500 – $5500.)
When I DID finally hook up an HDTV box to it, I got only four HDTV channels for the first 3 years of svc.
In March of 2010, I turned in my box and shut my cable service off, because it became too expensive. In April of this year, I had the cable and box reconnected, when made a good offer by the cable company. Up to this day, I have only watched about one hour of TV per week (and sometimes not even that). My TV’s were/are for my kid(s).
When my last kid leaves for college, I will promptly be turning in my cable box and shutting my service off.
The $$ I could get for my old TVs (in combination with my “good looks”) could possibly buy me a decent haircut, lol!
And sdr, you have NO IDEA how “partially-employed” I am …. or not. I could say the same about you. Did you ever consider that it is entirely possible that I can post on blogs, chew gum and “work” all at the same time? To your benefit, this just happens to be a “working weekend” for me :=]
