#56: Buy a New Computer (with cash!)

So if anyone out there has been keeping track, you might have realized that I'm a little behind in blogging about completing my goals.  It seems I'm always writing about a goal I completed about a month ago.  I'm working hard to catch up, but life has become very busy the last few months.   I hope to be back "live" in a couple of weeks...it's a lot more fun to celebrate the goal completion when it actually happens!

So all that to preface the fact that we bought a new computer on September 2nd!  We were using the laptop Trevor got as a sophomore in college and it definitely had seen better days.  It took about 20 minutes to start-up!   I'd been holding out on buying a new one until we were done paying off our loans, but I finally caved when we got a pretty decent 2nd Quarter bonus at Sprint.  I mentioned to Trevor's mom that we were going to buy a laptop and they generously offered to give all of us kids some money for Christmas this year to buy computers since we all needed one.  So between those two blessings, we were able to buy a new laptop with cash!  Well, we actually put it on our credit card, but you know what I mean... :) 

We bought a Dell Studio 15 and we really love it so far!  We didn't get any of the fun colors in the picture....just the boring ol' black one.  We tried to talk the Best Buy guy into getting us the red for the same price, but none of the colored ones were on the really good sale they had going on, so it would have been $250 extra.  Hmmm...not too tough of a decision.

 

Side note: I'm thinking of getting the Adobe Photoshop Elements & Adobe Premiere software.  I'd like to have some more capabilities to edit photos and videos.  Does anyone out there have it, and if so, do you have an opinion on whether it's worth it??