Melody and I saved change for three years. Everyday when I got in, I would empty my pockets of change into two jars, one for pennies and the other for silver coin. The jar finally became full after about 3 years (I’m sure it would have been much quicker if I carried cash) and so I cashed all that silver in and was able to buy a shiny new digital SLR camera. It was actually a little short but it paid for most of it. I could have bought one of those fancy flat screen televisions, or a nice widescreen monitor for my mac book pro, but instead we got us a camera. Its the perfect compliment to our other camera (7 megapixel olympus point and shoot). I wanted to test out its speed, and since it was so nice out I headed to the backyard with my models and shot some pictures as they ran around.

I was cheap and went with the 8 megapixel version of the Canon Rebel but so far I love everything about it, perfect for the amateur, fool-around, type of picture taker. Most of the pictures I take are usually viewed on a computer screen anyway.

Moral of the story - save your change.