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Anyone that has ever read anything I've wrote about technology knows that I am not about buying the latest and greatest. Yet, sometimes even I find buying the latest technology hard to resist.
My generous parents bought me a new Canon SD1000 digital camera for my birthday in November. I immediately started searching for a nice big SD card that would hold all of the pictures and videos of Geeky Jock Jr. I found a 4GB card for only $25 after rebate and went for it. At the time, this was an incredible price. Most 4GB cards were going for around $40. I thought "we're taking lots of pictures and videos of Owen so we'll need all that space." Of course, since we regularly transfer pictures to the computer, I doubt we've ever even used 1GB of the card.
If we were going on vacation and I knew we'd be taking hundreds of pictures and lots of videos without being able to transfer to a computer, then the 4GB card would have been worth it. But we didn't. I would have been better off paying $10 for a 1GB card because that was all I needed up to this point.
I've recently seen 4GB cards for under $20, and 2GB cards for around $10 without rebates.
Learn from my mistake: When buying any type of digital storage (memory cards, hard drives, etc.), only buy as much storage as you can possibly use in the next six months. Prices fall so fast that even if you get a great deal, by the time you can take advantage of all those gigs, current prices will probably be half what you paid.
