Congrats to Danise on her new telly....
I am hoping my nice entertainment center will be enough now. I will keep the old beater telly for a bit in the puter room until it dies.... I do have to say the old one is nearly 20 years old and has worked well. The picture was pretty good on it until the few months. I suspect that the tube is slowly going. There are days it takes a bit of time to warm up. The audio is wonky to say the least.
We can't put tellys in the landfill here and they wont pick them up. However, once a month there are a couple of places that open for collecting old tellys and puter equipment.
If the old telly hadn't been so big, I would have considered puting it into my room. It just wouldn't have fit.
The old entertainment center, while big enough for the old telly, would have been just a little to small for the new one.
I'm lucky that it seems almost everything I put out on the curb gets taken. I was just sitting down to watch a bit on the HD TV when a guy knocked at my door and inbetween dogs barking, I was able to make out that he wanted to know if he could have the old set. I told him to have at--it still works.
It really wasn't my plan to get the new TV put like I said, sometimes things just come together at odd times. Getting the money back from the government and the birthday money plus the cable box going out when it did just added up to it.
I was going to wait until I took out the home improvement loan in the fall (if all goes well with the job) to get a new set but it's better to pay in cash if you have it.
That and the old TV threw so much heat with that tube. It's already in the mid 80's now. That made the house so much warmer. I thought a flat panel would be cooler. It does throws more heat then I thought but not like the old set.