Guilt Stereos

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It seems that I may have guilted my mother into buying me a stereo. This was not my intention with my other post; I swear that it was all in jest and I never actually thought about getting a stereo. So you can understand my surprise when I came home from Best Buy yesterday as a new owner of a $200 Sony Hi-Fi Sound System. 

$150 of that money went towards the remote.

We began the day by shopping for me at various other stores getting homecoming stuff. I may have stolen a flower, but nobody knows that, right? After spending, what, $54 dollars on earrings and flowers for my hair, Renae was not satisfied. Oh no, she had only begun to spend life savings on little Terah. (Note: This is an exaggeration. What more than likely happened is that she felt bad and caved, as she is wont to do. Don't tell her I said that. Hi mom.) She told me while looking around at jewelry that she'd buy me a $10 necklace even if my new stereo would be more than $60. Thankfully I declined the necklace, because I ended up with a system that was a little bit, and only a little bit, over $60. After getting home from the mall, she told me we could go to Best Buy to get an iPod dock. Not a stereo or an entire sound system. At this point, sub woofer isn't even in her vocabulary. (Is it in yours?) We get to the Store Formally Known As the Sound of Music (aka Best Buy, look it up) and go back to the section we need. Immediately we check the $650 system off our list, because it only holds 10 CDs and that's just cheap. 

This holds more than 10 CDs. And it's only 25 cents per song! What a bargain!

Literally nothing in this section was below $100, so obviously I went for over double the original offer. Between two Sony machines, I had to pick the one that was more expensive by $40. The $159 system only had 320 watts. I can only raise the roof of one house with that amount of soundage. I had to choose the $200, 540 watt, sub woofer including powerhouse, so that I could hold roofs of all sizes up to the heavens if I so please.

Even though it only holds one CD.