I realised yesterday that I have never owned a new television in my life! At least, not since I moved out of home when I was 18.
When I first moved out, I lived in share houses for a couple of years and the television was owned by my housemates.
When I got married, our television was a hand-me-down from my husbands best friend who worked at Blockbuster. Blockbuster was upgrading and we got one really cheap.
When that television died, my brother was upgrading his, so I got the one he was getting rid of.
When that television died, my brother found a television abandoned on the nature strip. It worked and only needed a new remote control.
When that television died, we got a cheap one off Facebook marketplace.
And that brings us to today (or yesterday).
Every time there was some technological upgrade, I would get a set top box, or some other add on to make things work.
The realisation that I have never owned a brand new television came because our latest set top box is going to become obsolete and I was trying to work out what my options were – get a new box or a new television…
This may seem like something small, however it seems to be a great analogy for my life.
I feel like so much of my life is ‘mending and make do’, changing things to fit the situation instead of getting an option that actually suits me. I will tweak things and add things to try to fit in and be ‘acceptable’ instead of doing the thing that actually works for me.
Oh, and it’s not only a television that I have never owned new… I’ve never had a new couch either, or a brand new car… Last year, I bought my first brand new mattress for my bed, so I’m getting there.
By the end of the year, I may own my first brand new television too!
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