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12/27/2009: "Obsessions"

I often wish I had an inventory of all my stuff. And there'd be at least some info about each item, including the date acquired and how much it cost. Then I could look back fondly at that River's Edge poster and know I purchased it back in '92 and paid 20 bucks. I just made up those numbers, since I don't have such a detailed inventory at my fingertips. But I did dig through the old hall of records to find the origin of my main TV, whose picture is gradually fritzing out on me. With my magical inventory it would have been a lot quicker, but I did find that I bought this 31" JVC television in March 1994 for $830 at the old land-based Circuit City. Now I can rest easy. Except for the fact that I can't picture in my mind what TV I possibly replaced with that one. And finding any record of that would take even longer, and who's got that much motivation. The only other TV in my memory was just 13" and it's hard to imagine having something that small in a living room, even in a small apartment, let alone an actual house. There might have been another one in between, but who knows. It was a different time. When kids had to share the family set instead of there being one in every room of the house. And the possibility of having a 13" TV in the living room -- though remote -- isn't entirely unimaginable.