My new MacBook Pro is on its way! I got a great deal on a new MacBook Pro through a bankrupty liquidation firm. If I had went to an Apple Store, this same laptop would have cost $2,700. Even if I had used my educational discount (my wife and I are both full-time students through Liberty University), it would have been $2,550. I got a great deal at $2,100. AND it includes AppleCare through 2011! So I saved not just $600 over the normal price, but another $250 for the AppleCare.

God’s good.

Hannah and I have started to mentally put price tags on everything we own. Which isn’t hard. We live pretty meagerly compared to most. Not counting our SUV or my main computer, we can sell everything and maybe get $3,000. The rest is junky toys and kitchen stuff you’re lucky to get a buck or two for at yard sales. Virtually everything we own is a hand-me-down that people passed onto us because they got something better. (I was grateful to receive everything that’s been given to us, but I want to be in a position in our lives to be able to give new stuff to people who are in need.)

Still, though, all this is our stuff. Once we get rid of our couch, we won’t own a couch. Same for our fridge. No fridge. Nothing to keep our food cold.

Then, there’s my computer. My powerful, lovely, upgraded Mac Pro. Purchased in February of 2007 with our tax return, my Mac Pro was our second Mac computer after buying one of the original iMacs for Maddy to play educational games on (which by the way still runs better than most PCs I’ve used).

I love my Mac Pro. It can do anything I throw at and still have unused CPU cycles. It’s got two dual-core 64-bit Xeon processors, 5GB of RAM, 1.5TB of internal hard drive space, two DVD writers, one of which is Lightscribe. This things tears through video rendering like a warm knife through butter. I love this monster.

But I have to let go and downsize. That’s part of the adventure, going smaller, trimming down and teaching ourselves just how little we can live with. Last week I ordered a TB external hard drive to put all my video projects and stuff on. Today I finished transferring everything. The drive is almost full.

So now I’m going to inventory everything I have for this computer and sell it off on eBay or Craigslist (hopefully Craigslist to avoid shipping charges and eBay & PayPal fees). I’m downgrading to either a used MacBook Pro that I can still get an extended AppleCare warranty on or a MacBook.

I am leaning towards getting a MacBook just to come out with more cash in the end.

Anyway, that’s my computer story. I’m basically selling my third child. If anyone reading this is interested in it, don’t hesitate to contact me.