For this blogpost, I feel like writing about something I have just been thinking about just an hour ago or so. At first, I was in the living room watching NBA on my recently purchased Sony Bravia while my parents were downstairs playing ping pong. I decided to just go downstairs and watch NBA there while waiting for my mom to finish playing so I can play against my dad. As I began watching tv downstairs, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, the quality on this tv is significantly worse than the one i have upstairs and I used to think it was really good on a high definition channel.’ The sad thing is, this tv costed more than two times the price of the one on my first floor, which is clearly better, because I believe it was purchased when hdtvs first came out.
As I glanced around my basement, I realized so many old things that were once really expensive, but now are worthless and undesirable. The old PS2 that I was once addicted to was just sitting on the floor collecting dust. My first computer that was quite expensive was also just lying on the floor. A bunch of other old things such as keyboards and monitors were just in my basement untouched. This made me think about how much money has been wasted to buy things we do not even use for long because upgraded versions will always come out sooner or later.
Technology is constantly evolving and it does not look like it will slow down any time soon. We must learn to make smart purchases on things that can last us a while. Do not always buy something as soon as it comes out because that’s when it’s most expensive and there might be a new one coming out soon! Some of you may think this is common sense, yet it is still hard to restrain ourselves sometimes.
I agree with you. People do constantly buy the latest thing without thinking about it. You see people lining up at the apple store, like weeks early, just to get the new Iphone, Ipad, or any other apple products, and after the first week, on the news they say there is a glitch in the gadgets.