How buying a TV made me feel less alone

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Pivotal Purchase is an ongoing series highlighting a watershed shopping moment — the thing you bought that made you feel like you were financially stable, that changed your perspective, that made you realize you were really, truly, finally an adult.

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When I took my first job straight out of college at a small town daily newspaper in Pennsylvania, I agreed to a paltry annual salary of $22,500. 

That comes out to about $10.80 an hour before taxes, and that’s if you’re working only 40 hours a week, which I never did. (What adult does these days?)

Almost all of the money I earned went toward several very important things, like rent, food, loans, gas, and the occasional therapeutic box of wine. Read more...

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