I've been trying to resist the urge to buy gadgets and electronics unless I really needed it. Well, today I bought a few things I have had my eye on for a while since the prices were excellent.

I bought a 32MB USB Drive for $14.99 CDN (about $10 USD). I don't need it, but I've been watching the prices on USB drives fall for a few months, and finally decided to get one.

I also bought an external DVD writer (multi-format) for $169.99 CDN ($125 USD) after mail-in rebate. Again, I've been waiting for years for DVD writers to drop in price. Does anyone remember when they cost $6,000? I plan to use it for data backup, and I might try to convert home videos to DVD format. And because it's external, that means it's portable, and I don't need to remove my existing CD-RW drive.

I also got a 160GB hard drive for $149.99 CDN ($110 USD) after mail-in rebate. Now this is the thing I needed the least, as I currently have three physical hard drives in my computer. But I am going to remove the smallest one (which had held about 8 GB), and replace it with this one.

Anyways, every once and a while I don't mind spending $350 or so to keep my home computer current with latest technologies.