TV or not TV, that is the question…

Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. All of a sudden, all my appliances have conspired to start acting weird or simply stop working. Last week, the washer decided to open its door right in the middle of the cycle pouring all the clothes out onto the floor. The TV followed by deciding not to turn on. So we have been without television for several days now.  It's been sitting there in a virtual coma, but there has been no sign of life. And the question is do we spend our money on fixing it or splurge to get a new one? I hate the new flat panel TV sets that might look great in your living room, but have a limited viewing angle. Of course finding an old TV set like mine that works is out of the question. You see, in Spain, second hand stores are non-existent or really hard to find. Somehow this country doesn’t believe in second hand recycling. This society believes in buying new stuff every time something breaks or not. And that says a lot about a country which is in a big time crisis and has almost five million people unemployed.