My First New TV

 Tomorrow, I will buy my first new television set. (At least I don't remember ever buying a new out-of-the-box set before.) I have either been given my television by my son after he's purchased another one, or I've bought one from a rent-to-own place, which was cheaper if it had been used. Even if it had only been used for a month or so at a hotel, it was used, and therefore, I can't say that I've actually purchased my own television.

    I will say this, and it's really funny too, I won a TV once. I went to a Christmas party for one of the companies that my ex-husband worked for, and I won the TV that was given away as the door prize. I kid you not, before we got it loaded into the car, my husband gave it to his boss to give to his son. The TV was a small 13" Magnavox. I remember that. He gave it away, so he could earn "points" with the boss -- yeah, OK...you can see why he is an ex, right? (No, I won't go into it.)

    I'm not a big TV watcher, and I've never really been too glued to the set -- except OK, I was for those years I was unable to get the internet and I had three kids at home and no other way to entertain them. Sure, we watched a lot of TV then, but that was close to 22 years ago. I watch 90% of my television online, on demand. I don't turn the set on unless I'm watching severe weather on a local channel or I'm watching OU play someone, and again, on a local channel. We don't have cable television. We have an antenna.

    The $10 antenna I have is for "most" televisions, so the one I bought on Amazon will likely be OK with it. The one I have now, not so much. I can watch all the local channels, and because I can use the "Fire" aspect of the TV with my Wi-Fi, I think I can watch other things, but will I? I don't think so. Laura may end up watching TV, but we just don't do it, so going from a 55" TV to a 43" one isn't a problem for us. The new one is 4K and High Definition, whereas the other wasn't. We'll like it more.  We can turn off the Smart features, too. We prefer dumb TVs.

    I walked through Sam's Club looking at their TVs and thinking about which one I wanted to get.  I ended up going with Amazon, not only because it could be delivered the next day, but the EXACT model was $15 cheaper - why give it away? I can use $15 to buy more chocolate! Priorities!! Anyway, I barely found a TV under 55" and the only reason I did was because I told the man at Sam's I really didn't want a bigger one. He looked in the back and said he could order a smaller one, which would take a week. No. No, thank you. Not everyone is into huge screens when a good-sized screen will do.

    The smaller-sized TV will also give the cat more room to sit on the cabinet and to jump from said cabinet to the top of the bookshelf - he won't know what to do with himself; he'll be so happy.  I'll let you know how it works out. Still, I'm thinking it will probably be rather seamless -- the good news is, the antenna will work for it - no more duct taping it in a certain position at a certain angle because our old TV is not included in the word "most," apparently -- it sort of fits. The antenna is one year old, the TV is about 12 years old, and I got it 7 or 8 years ago. Before that, I had a 36" JVC tube television - yes, I did.

    This one is an Insignia with Amazon Fire something. It's flat, like the one I have now, but it's half the thickness—progress. I hope I can keep this one dust-free.

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