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Spare Change = DSLR Camera

June 24, 2009 at 10:09 pm (Hobbies)

Over the years, pocket change  started to build up in my room from buying fast foods, gifts, or other miscellaneous stuff. I didn’t bother using this change for food or anything else  since I didn’t want to carry some around in my pocket. Most of the time I  relied on dollar bills in my wallet to pay for my goods.

Since I had a late sign up day for SJSU and alot of my upper division classes were filled, I had to take some spare classes to fill in. I decided to take a photos class at SJSU and even minor in it. I’ve always wanted to major or minor in photography, but its not practical. I’d probably struggle hard with money majoring in photos. So I signed up for the class, but the problem was it required a digital SLR camera. The only cameras I own were SLR camers and digital cameras. Seeing I’ve always wanted a DSLR camera anyways, I decided to buy one for my own use and school use. Thanks to Jeff, I was able to look through a variety of DSLR cameras. All were pretty pricey, but I found the a good priced camera, the Nikon D40. Jeff said it was a good beginner camera to start out with, so I decided to purchase it.

Even if it was the cheapest DSLR camera out of the rest, it was still pretty expensive. So I decided to gather up as much money as I can. I didn’t have much in my debit card nor my pickle jar, but thanks to all the change I’ve saved up, it helped pay for it. Here’s a receipt of the change I had:

I was quite surprised on the amount it ended up to be. Also would like to thank Isabelle for helping me to transfer all the change into the coinstar machine. I would’ve been there alot longer if I didn’t get a second pair of hands.

So with this amount of change, it practically help pay off a little more than half the camera. With the money from my pickle jar, money from birthday, and spare change, I was able to purchase the Nikon d40 DSLR camera. Now to wait for its arrival….