When you’re in a position of trying to get out of debt, you’re aways hoping that nothing breaks. Feeling as though everything is on the verge of breaking down. Our cars are a good example. Both our cars are pretty old, mine has a ton of miles and neither are much to look at, but, we don’t have car payments. I’m just hoping they both last a couple of more years until we’re in a little better situation financially, but honestly, I don’t think that will happen.

Well back to the point. This last week, the TV in our bedroom went out. It has sound, but no picture. Now we’re really not huge TV watchers, but we watch about 90% of shows/movies in our bedroom. Now, old Chad would have put this TV out on the curb and went across the street to Sears and picked up a replacement. But new Chad, is actually putting thought in to this. The cheapest 27″ replacement TV at Amazon is $233, but that is $233 that should go towards paying off current debt. Or I could pull it from the emergency fund, but this is far from an emergency. Right now replacing the TV is just a bad decision.

Another option would be to get an estimate for repair, but the problem there is, who has time to run a TV around town for repair estimates? Not I.

So what I think I will do for the time being is just deal with it. Take the 2 hours or so a night we normally spend watching syndicated comedies, and use it more efficiently working on our financial goals and maybe actually create a budget.