One Month Countdown & 2 New TVs?

So I guess today begins the one month countdown. We are scheduled to close at 9am on Wednesday, April 22nd. I'm a little impatient, as is Matt, about getting started on the house so we called Janet to see if we could possibly reschedule for the 20th. It's only two days sooner but I'm on vacation that whole week so it would make a big difference for me. I hope it works out to be the 20th. I'm not as patient as I thought I would be. I just want it to get here already!

As we get closer and closer, we're trying to get everything squared away that we need. This weekend was supposed to be dedicated to finding paint colors. That took all of fifteen minutes in Home Depot. The bedroom colors were easy. The difficulty comes in deciding on colors for the spare bedroom and the office and agreeing. We'll figure that one out as we get closer. The other purchase of the weekend was a new television. Matt's wanted a new television I think since we moved out of the apartment. He's done all sorts of research and watching of sales and prices and he finally found one that was a great deal with great financing so to Sears we went on Saturday. We ended up with a 52inch LCD. I think it's a Samsung. I'm not sure about all the details but I do know that it's a $2,000 television and we got it on sale for 1399 with 24 months interest free financing. Amazingly we got the 52 inch in its box in the back of Matt's Mazda Speed 3. I didn't really think it was going to fit but Matt had faith and, well, as it turns out, Matt was right. Haha.

Of course if we're getting a new television with all this High-Def capability, we need something to play high-def movies on, and so enters the PlayStation 3. At Sears in Peabody, there weren't any in stock so this adorable salesman at Sears sold us our television with the promise that we could pick up a PS3 at another Sears and add it onto our financing. We drove back home, dropped off the television, and headed to the Sears in Saugus at Square One Mall. At this Sears, we were told by the man that in order for him to get the financing to go through on both purchases, he would have to return the television and rebuy it in the computer system. It made sense and sounded easy enough. It was all on paper, no moving of TVs so whatever. Off we went down to merchandise pick-up to get our new PlayStation 3. I scanned our receipt in the kiosk and out came a man with a 52 inch television for Morrissey. Matt and I were both speechless for a minute. Here was a chance to get a second television for no additional money and just walk away with it. It was their mistake and we could have had 2 new TVs! However, after only about 10 seconds of thought, Matt and I did the right thing and told the man that we already had the television and that we only needed the PS3. He actually questioned us (only once) but we left without the television. I figure that has to be good karma for something. One can only hope.

So in the end, we have only one new 52inch television, a new PS3, and hopefully, if all works out, a new closing date!