Buying the Right TV for the exact wrong reasons

I bought a really nice 42 inch LCD 720p Samsung HDTV over Christmas. Off Ebay, basically news with the stickers on. It retails at Walmart at $1299 and I got for $780. Great TV, incredible picture and NFL in the HD in quite amazing.

But I should have never bought the TV. Here is why: My wife saw a 42 inch HD flat screen at her uncle's house over Christmas. She really liked it and could see very well. We had talked about getting a HD TV at some point but I had been resisting the need to do so until we had better HD channels. But I fell for it. I went out and found this TV.

Every since we got it, I had struggled with it. I could not place my reason on it, why I was so tormented. Then this weekend Mike Moses really put his finger on my issue. I lacked the discipline in buying this. Instead of waiting until the time was right, when Ginny and I had talked through it and made the decision together, I went off an made a splurge purchase. And went way big. My guilt was consuming me. Did we have the money, yeah we had the money. But that was not the issue. I needed to show the discipline to not buy this.

I bought a air purifier for $400 two years ago. same story. And same guilt. I need to resist temptation and not impulse buy.

P.S. As we bought the TV, we decided to move our furniture around, and then as we moved the furniture we realized that the walls needed to be painted. So we painted the room, which was the last room in the house to be painted. So to get the TV and I had to paint the room.