Costco is awesome

I don't know about all you out there but I think that Costco is a great and wonderous place. When we lived in Washington state we had a Costco just a few miles from our apartment. The best part about that one is that there was a gas station on site with lower gas prices than anywhere else around there. We buy all sorts of stuff from Costco, did you know that you can buy a casket through Costco.com? I have an uncle that says, "If you can't get it at Ikea or Costco, you don't need it." I think he's on to something there.

So we went to Costco to stock up and they have their flat screen TV's on sale. I was considering buying one back in August but couldn't bring myself to spend the money. But the price had come down by $400 since then and I knew that once they were gone the new models would come in and the price would be back up. So... yep you guessed it, I am now the proud owner of a 47" Vizio LCD TV. The thing looks massive on our TV stand, it's about 4 inches narrower than the stand itself. I found out right away that Cablevision doesn't automatically give you an HD cable box, you have take the regular one in and trade it in order to get the HD channels. So now I'm into checking out what is on the HD channels, and seeing how different it looks.

I don't go in for buying the latest technology when it comes out, so I'm glad to say that I paid about a quarter of what this TV cost a few years ago. Don't get me wrong, the latest technology is some cool stuff but not worth spending the money just to say you had it first.