# That was the best $XXX I ever spent!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-the-best-xxx-i-ever-spent/325956>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 12, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-the-best-xxx-i-ever-spent/325956 "2005-10-12T20:35:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-the-best-xxx-i-ever-spent/325956/41 "2005-10-15T20:25:01Z")

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lots of good purchases - mine are kind of mundane  
my iMac, for one - with peripherals $1900 well spent  
my car - '99 Ford Taurus, new (my first non-pre-owned vehicle) still runs like it’s straight off the showrrom floor) - let’s just say “under $22K”  
my latest surgical procedure - Bariatric LapBand - even tho covered by insurance, I had all those co-pays for all the pretesting I had to go thru - total out of pocket, about $500.00  
no regrets on any of those financial decisions

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**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-the-best-xxx-i-ever-spent/325956/42 "2005-10-16T03:18:05Z")

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My e-bookwise reader, around $130, IIRC, including tax/shipping. It is FANTASTIC! When fully charged, there is about 11 hours of time on the battery. An additional memory chip, and I can carry hundreds of books around in my purse. It’s about the size of a trade paperback and isn’t too heavy. I think I spent another $15 on software so that I can download free books from Project Gutenberg and Blackmask onto my reader.

It has probably already paid for itself, as I’m not having to make panicked trips to Barnes & Noble for a paperback or to the drugstore–if nothing else is handy–for some magazines, when I unexpectedly find myself miles from home with time on my hands, or when my doctor’s appointment ends up taking 2 hours instead of 15 minutes.

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