Day #19 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #19 of the 60 Days of Gratitude Challenge

The prompt is What Splurge Item that you own are you grateful for?

The Steel Case Work Chair that I bought in May. I spent more than I usually do, it cost more than the television set - but it has been a life-saver. Even if I had to buy a wheel for it - it was missing a wheel.

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[atpo_onm]

I haven't splurged very often the past few years, and that likely won't change for at least another year (hopefully not longer) until I finally get my debt paid down and get some savings back in the bank. But one item I did want to spend the bucks for was a new inkjet photo printer, after the last one died in the summer humidity of 2019. (2018? Gawd, my memory sucks these days. Wish I could splurge and get that back!)

It's a Canon Pixma Pro-100, a wide format printer, and falls in a category generally known as "prosumer"-- much better than the usual office-type general purpose ones, but not nearly in the price category of true professional products (which start around $1000 and quickly go up from there).

It's not quite as good as the Epson it replaced, but the price was reasonable and it's pretty darn close once tweaked a bit with the software. It does do better than the Epson with black & white prints, since it has extra ink tanks just for that purpose.

There are three things that help keep me sane... music, my exercise walks, and my photography hobby. So-- it was a splurge well worth it.