7/29/12 Purchase Summary

That's right. I went garage saling on a Sunday! I actually didn't go saling this weekend. I did my usual morning walk around the neighborhood yesterday and stopped at two sales. They were both very poor and I bought nothing. However, I did see a sign advertising for a sale this morning so I did the same thing today. As it turned out, it was a neighborhood sale for a very small neighborhood of duplexes near my house. Seven families were participating and I bought from two of them. I bought 3 books for $0.25 -- solving the issue of what I'll be reading when I go backpacking next week -- and a set of computer speakers for $2. $2 was a little more than I was hoping to spend but I needed them (my computer didn't come with any) and these were nicer and cheaper than any others I've seen recently. <

This means my current computer cost me a total of $24.13 after shipping. The tower and everything in it excluding the graphics card and the RAM came out of a dumpster. The RAM came out of another dumpster the same day. The graphics card cost me $14.65 on eBay and the cable it didn't come with cost me another $7.48. My friend gave me the monitor because it's slowly dying. The mouse was free and I got the keyboard free a few weeks ago. Finally, I got the speakers today for $2.