I realized this tonight as I stood in line at Best Buy. The line snaked around the store out past the DVDs and into the appliance section. I was fixated on a refrigerator from LG that had a gorgeous 15-inch LCD screen on the door and another 3-inch LCD above the ice/water dispenser. With this baby in my kitchen I could watch “World’s Craziest Police Chases” while I’m at the dinner table. On second thought, Kim would never go for that. It retailed for a cool $3500.
As I was standing in line I realized that over the past five years or so I’ve spent more on annual Turbo Tax Deluxe purchases than on Microsoft software. Just going back five years I’ve purchased at least $300 in Turbo Tax software. That doesn’t include a few add-on such as the State version I purchased last year when I lived in both Utah and Washington. I’m pretty sure I’ve also purchased “It’s Deductable!” a couple of times so that total is probably low.
Looking back five years I can only remember purchasing Digital Image Pro and Photo Story from Microsoft for a total of around $120.
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