She died. Just last month…
Our trusted 15-year old Samsung television, who wept with the whole family as we watched Schindler’s List, gasped with the children when they thought Experiment 626 aka Stitch will die in the second movie, cheered for R2D2 in all six movies of the Star Wars saga, finally couldn’t be resuscitated.
For two weeks, we had been prowling across Abenson, SM Appliance and other stores to look for a replacement. The Duplitos had been resistant to temptation so far. The object we are trying to resist – a P199,900 Samsung plasma television set with Ultra FilterBright, deeper black and dark images and clearer vision 18 bit color processing.
Charged to my credit card, that’s only P11,000 something a month at “0%” interest (yeah, yeah) and P370 per day (blech!).
See how happy they are? More space means more harmony in the family… (am I really this gullible?)
Must resist…must resist…
What do you think guys? Are the marketing guys going to bag another victim? Help!
August 1st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
earth to salve, earth to salve, treat yourself to Plasma TV… i think it won’t make a big difference come retirement time… it will be worth the fun! mwahaha
August 1st, 2007 at 9:59 pm
ayan naglabasan na ang mga donya buding
August 1st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
No big deal. I have eight Louis Vuitton bags for a grand total of $6,500+++ vvvv
so what’s shocking these days. It’s a matter of you-haves or you-don’t-haves. Hahaah
August 1st, 2007 at 3:45 pm
such a nice tv, indeed
but i won’t go into debt just because of that
August 1st, 2007 at 12:52 pm
“I think a 199,000 TV is not worth it. Like any other new fancy expensive gadget, you’ll get tired of it soon.”
We all go thru this stage of salivating over a luxury so badly only to do a post-audit afterwards and feel the remorse later. Nasa huli ang pagsisisi, ika nga. Books and blogs can never substitute for actual experience.
After my TV show I went to HK for $350, clothes and gadgets for $300 now in my attic, and a videocam for $750 which I rarely used and became obsolete. At 26/$ then that’s P 36k.
Investing it in my mutual fund instead it would have quintupled to P 180k. That’s the cost of my three-week, six-country European escapade, which I obviously enjoyed more (yes Salve, my Friendster pix lifted out of Ratatouille
). And Europe costs less than that Plasma TV!
No regrets on my teenage splurge though. I learned my lesson well: if friends advise you’ll regret it in the end, might as well keep the splurge within five figures