So, for today’s Sacrifice : I’ve got some Monster 14 Gauge Speaker Cables with bi-wire banana connectors at one end.

Stupid Purchase of the Day.
Today’s stupid purchase was some fancy remote control that was the size of a small cat and cost me $158.00. When I was more interested in home theater and movies, this mattered much more. Now, not so much. The bummer is this remote is now sitting in a drawer in storage (along with my cassette tapes!) and probably still isn’t paid for. As we’ve assessed, that works out to about me paying for it twice. And now it’s got a very small value. Time will tell, it’ll be upload here soon enough. Hobbies. They’re all expensive. And even moreso when you end up charging it.

and of course…

If I had your money

This Harmony Remote control looks pretty nice. If you do have a lot of electronics or hate programming remotes, this one is the way to go. You plug it into your computer and tell it what components you have. The software asks you some questions, and then programs the remote control. It takes a bit of getting used to, but when I had a home theater (and, a home) I was able to push a button and my screen would drop, all the components would come on and even the lights dimmed. It was a great ‘show off’ toy, I have to admit. Now, I’m paying for it…but that’s another story for another day.

Logitech Harmony One Advanced Universal Remote

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Today’s Sacrifice
Today I’ve got a 30gb iPod up for auction with a whole bunch of accessories too. I’ve got the iPhone, and my needs for an iPod are rare and random so I’m going to sell this and put the money towards the debt load. If I do need just an ipod again I can pick up a little nano or even a shuffle. I wonder, with the iPhone being pretty much everywhere these days do you need to have both an iPod and and iPhone? I guess it depends on your needs. I like the ‘all in one’ of the iPhone.

Here’s what’s up for grabs today:

It’s an Apple iPod 30 Gb with base, charger, firewire to ipod cables x 2 (one apple, on no name)  another cheapo third party ipod cable with both USB  and Firewire connectors, plastic stand, and a firewire to mini-firewire adapter.  It all starts at a $1, so bid often.

Stupid Purchase of the Day

I a way, this was stupid as I’m still paying interest on it, but in another way, I’d pay probably twice whatever it’s cost me as I use it everyday: Back in August 2003,  I bought Transit by Panic Software and it’s been an invaluable tool for both ramseeker.com  and  other  projects, including this one, and many more failed projects so even though I may have been paying for it this might even be considered ‘good debt’ as I’ve used this pretty much every day for six years straight. My Visa Balance back then was $2900, so it could have been the start of my debt slide downhill.. so if that’s the case, then my purchase for $35.90 is now up to $70.86. Still chump change and I use it every day but I can think of much better things to spend $30 and up of interest on . Over time, you’ll see my financial history with credit card spending is just little things like this. And before you know it, you’re up to a $22,000 balance.

and lastly..

If I had your money

I’d buy a little netbook so I could do this from starbucks. Wait, maybe that wouldn’t be a good idea. I’m close to lattes and they’re five bucks a pop, and those little buggers add up. But this little Samsung Netbook seems to be the top seller currently at Amazon. its on sale as I write this at 21% off.

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