This past Sunday, I purchased an Apple Cinema 20″ Flat-Panel Display which cost me the low low price of $759 including tax and shipping. It was the best deal I could find for it, and although it set me back some cash flow, it was necessary to replace my current monitor which clocks in on the scales at 80 pounds. It’s huge! Not only that, the old monitor is like a blast furnace during the summertime… so without central air in the Unsung Fu studio, it makes for difficult creative directing. And don’t forget that it flickers too.
Alas, the point of this all is that yesterday I found a Sears receipt from October 1998, when I had purchased a Kenmore washer and dryer set for my previous living arrangement (which I had to leave behind when I moved). The total cost for the washing duo (with tax) was… you guessed it… $759. Insert Twilight Zone theme here.
I found this coincidental factoid very interesting, even if my fiance did not agree with me when I announced it with glee. I guess I look at it as a personal growth of the non-epidermal kind, a glowing sign of advancement in my spending ways… that seven years later, I would make an equal purchase for something much less utilitarian to living, but far superior in terms of my creative uses on the computer. I would not have made this purchase then because I had no hope for being entrepreneureur or an artist. But now, I do. Which works for me.