Wahoo!!!
Bought myself a Christmas present yesterday! I never ever buy anything for myself ever and I've been saving up for a few months so I could treat myself to a new digital camera. I've had the same one for 3 years. It's great and I love it, but it was just time for a new one.
You'd all laugh at me if you see what I go through before buying something. Did the same thing for my camera (do it for everything big I buy). I create a huge spreadsheet (camera one is 17X22). It has about 14 different cameras on it across the top and all features down the side. I then filled in all the features of each one, highlighted the ones that were really good and the ones that were really important to me and then I counted all the highlighted sections for each camera. The cameras with the highest scores from me and the highest ratings became my top "contenders".
Confusing? I know. This is what happens when you're an engineer.
- my kids get a kick out of all my spreadsheets and have a great time showing their friends how nuts their mother is.
. The one for my camera was hanging across the kitchen cabinets, so it was hard to miss. (You should have seen the one I had when I was shopping for my new car!
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Anyways - so I wrote down the top contenders (no I didn't take the spreadsheet to the store!) and I decided to go play with them yesterday. Well the one I liked the best while playing with it actually wound up being the one that got the top score on my spreadsheet! Then - the lady tells me it's on sale!
, then she tells me I get some free photography classes, free paper, free photos, etc. with the purchase.
.....then she tells me I get a free photo mini lab printer!!!
So....of course I went from playing with it to buying it!! Merry Christmas to me!!!!
Oh - and do you believe this. I came home with it last night, went to take pictures with my old one (since the batteries weren't charged on the new one yet) and my old one died! Do you believe that!!! Suddenly last night the zoom won't work, it won't turn off. It was fine till I brought the new one home. It's like it knew it was being replaced.
So now I just hope I like this one and it lasts as long as my other one.
Bought myself a Christmas present yesterday! I never ever buy anything for myself ever and I've been saving up for a few months so I could treat myself to a new digital camera. I've had the same one for 3 years. It's great and I love it, but it was just time for a new one.
You'd all laugh at me if you see what I go through before buying something. Did the same thing for my camera (do it for everything big I buy). I create a huge spreadsheet (camera one is 17X22). It has about 14 different cameras on it across the top and all features down the side. I then filled in all the features of each one, highlighted the ones that were really good and the ones that were really important to me and then I counted all the highlighted sections for each camera. The cameras with the highest scores from me and the highest ratings became my top "contenders".
Anyways - so I wrote down the top contenders (no I didn't take the spreadsheet to the store!) and I decided to go play with them yesterday. Well the one I liked the best while playing with it actually wound up being the one that got the top score on my spreadsheet! Then - the lady tells me it's on sale!
So....of course I went from playing with it to buying it!! Merry Christmas to me!!!!
Oh - and do you believe this. I came home with it last night, went to take pictures with my old one (since the batteries weren't charged on the new one yet) and my old one died! Do you believe that!!! Suddenly last night the zoom won't work, it won't turn off. It was fine till I brought the new one home. It's like it knew it was being replaced.
So now I just hope I like this one and it lasts as long as my other one.