It was a great weekend until we managed to drop our digital camera.  Now that it is busted, we need to figure out what to do.  In the past, I would automatically buy a new one because technology is always improving and why pay to get it fixed when you  just need to spend an extra $100 to buy a new one?  Well, being more money and eco-conscious, I must admit that I don't even use all of the cool features my busted camera offers (I only use the auto/zoom/flash options when there are about 20 more features than that).  So, I humbly contacted the manufacturer and found out that for $150 I can get it fixed.  I dropped it off in the mail yesterday and should get it back refurnished and fixed by next week.  


I'm coming to terms with my evolving self.  I've been an extremist in the past from "I need to eat mac and cheese 7 days in a row to save money" to "I bought a new pair of shoes because my shoelaces broke on my old pair (really I lived on both extremes).  Now I constantly ask myself, "Maybe I can afford it, but do I really need it?"  This mantra has been getting me to a happy place (most days).


I'm sure I could have gotten a working second hand digital camera for less than the $150 it'll cost me to fix, but I stopped my broken camera from prematurely entering a landfill somewhere and I am also teaching my kids that it is OK to fix things instead of buying new all of the time.  


So, of course, my kids take their lesson to heart and manage to glue and tape everything (literally everything) they can successfully get their hands on in attempts to "fix" them.  I guess I am teaching them "how to fish (fix)."