Daddy’s Little Girl

First and foremost, I am happy to report that mom is all better from her pneumonia! Yay!

Well I treated myself to a little gift… well a BIG gift. I have always wanted a flat panel TV. After the discussions of more than likely getting the job offer, I decided to buy one on credit and help build my credit in turn. I wasn’t going to do it unless I could at LEAST get 12 months no interest.

I began my search to find a “deal.” I got lucky because it was fresh after the new year. Conn’s electronics had an AWESOME deal that I couldn’t refuse. Once I found the deal, I tried searching for almost 2 days to find something comparative, but no other deal even came CLOSE. It was a package deal for a 55” inch LG LED-LCD TV, 1080i and Wi-Fi ready. It also came with a wireless media box (which you plug all your components into and it transmits a wireless signal to your TV so you don’t have a ton of cords hanging from the TV) and a wall mount! I won’t say how much I paid, but let me just say that I tried even finding a downsized deal and even a 47” inch TV BY ITSELF was costing more than I paid for this package!

When I went to Conn’s I was told the most I qualified for in credit was 10% down with 6mos. no interest. I pretty much told the guy to forget it. Then he says, well I can try for 12 months at the most. I told him, “If you can do 0% down and 12 months, then it’s a deal.” Funny how he came back and miraculously got it. Hehehe… you can’t sell this salesman!

Now, because I got this TV, that meant I had to get rid of my entertainment center I have had for years because it wouldn’t fit in it. It is big and heavy. This also meant I had to buy some sort of cabinet for all my components. My stereo, DVD player, and cable box. I also wanted something large enough to put my pictures on top. So I bought a pretty little wooden cabinet at Wal-Mart.

I was beginning to think that maybe buying this wasn’t such a great idea. First thing when bringing it home, the stand it came with had the wrong part. We were going to hang it anyway, but wanted the stand to stand it up until we got around to mounting it on the wall. Well they had to order a whole ‘nother TV to replace the stand. So for the first 2 days I had to watch it standing up in the Styrofoam in its box.

The day the new stand came in, Dad started to mount the wall bracket. Boy, that was a nightmare! The mount was 16” apart to go in studs. Well my studs were 24” apart! So had to go to plan “B”. Dad had to cut two 1x6 pieces of wood, get them parallel on the wall and mount it. By 3:30 a.m. it was done!

The next day my stand came in.

Later, I did decide to go ahead and get a surround sound system with a Blu-Ray player. I found a really good deal on that also. The only reason I did this was because my poor 13-year-old shelf system stereo did not have the right input/output ports to get the TV to play all the components through surround sound. If I was going to go into all of this, I wanted it to be “right.”

So here is the final reveal! Well, minus the new surround sound.

I love my dad, he worked SO hard setting all of this up and it was NOT easy.