Community Service

I am slowly gearing up for the move into my new house. It is still about 2 weeks away from me being able to move in, since it doesn't make sense for me to set my things up when the tile and carpet need to be put in. Two weeks when compared to most lifetimes is a short amount to be waiting, but really I've been waiting since April when I first decided I was going to move, and I'm not a patient person. I try to find methods of coping with my with my impatience, and the best way seems to be thinking of things to put in my home. I have been browsing craigslist daily, and have even went to a few Goodwills, to try to find diamonds in the rough...let me tell you though, most Goodwills are all rough...no diamonds. My plan in the next couple months is to try to find nice things for cheap, and failing that, just buy the things I need. I keep trying to think about practical things that I'll need, like a desk, or a BBQ. BBQ doesn't sound that practical but when it's 90 degrees out every day you don't want to be cooking in the house that often. I'm going to need bookshelves, tables, chairs, shower curtains, and all those little things...but I can't seem to think about any of it, until I get the most important thing organized...the living room. Really it's all that matters to me in a house. How big is the living room? How will I be able to set up my home theater, and couches? These questions keep me up at night. So I finally just concluded that until I figure out what I want and need for the living room I'm going to be unable to think about the rest of the house. So I've been looking for a TV stand or an entertainment tower, since I stupidly decided that mine was not important enough to be one of the things I could fit for the move here, and let me just say that it is impossible to find a decent setup at a decent price. Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to spend my entire furniture budget on a TV stand, but it just doesn't seem right. I've been shopping the usual websites, craigslist, Bestbuy, Target, Froogle, searching for a decent stand and have come up with nothing. Everything is to ugly or to expensive, but mostly not in stock. Apparently Austin had a surge in demand of entertainment centers, as they are hard to find. Especially if you have a 50 inch Plasma. So today I decided to give up on the search for entertainment centers and instead decided to buy some speaker wire and other cables I thought I might need. And this is where my community service comes in. If you're like me you've been buying you cables and speaker wires at the store. I know when I bought my Ps3 I paid 70 dollars for a 3ft HDMI cable. It was the cheapest they had at the time. They tried to push the 90 dollar version but I thought I was to smart for them. You see I know that HDMI is a digital signal and unlike an analog signal Digital signals pretty much work, or don't work...so buying the souped up version of an HDMI cable really does you no good. So I was a genius for buying the 70 dollar version saving myself 2o dollars which meant I was going to buy one 30 dollar BluRay DVD. My math is sound unless we are talking electronics...then logic goes out the window. So about a year ago I found a website, www.monoprice.com which turns out is the greatest website known to man. I just bought 3 super duty 6ft HDMI cables for like 4.50 a piece. So the price came to like 13.50, plus 6 dollars shipping, so I bought 3 of them for under 20 bucks...At Walmart I think HDMI cables are 30 bucks...best website ever. I also bought 100 ft of speaker wire...I don't really need it, but it was so cheap I figured I might as well. I also bought 2 speaker stands for 12.50 (for both). They are like 70 in the store. I've even considering buying a wallmount for the TV. I don't particularly like wallmounts. They are very modern and nice looking, but I've been known to randomly decide to move my entire living room around for no reason, and having my TV stuck to the wall would limit this possibility. So yes...go to monoprice.com if you ever need any time of cable or anything for a TV.