Ok guys, I come bearing my soul yet once again.  I have a small, embarrassing confession to make.  I’m not technologically savvy - AT ALL!

I really feel old.  I can remember when I was a kid… my parents would always call me so I could ”make the VCR work” for them.  They would joke about how advance technology is and how they felt dumb because they had to call on a 12 year old for help.  

Well at the time I thought it was funny?  I would think to myself… you can’t figure out how to press play on the VCR!?! 

But now I feel their pain.  That stupid DVD player gets me all the time.  

My son tells me… momma “all you have to do is” plug the red wire into the red hole, the yellow wire into the yellow hole.  

Yeah it may sound simple when he says and look simple when he does… but when its my turn to do it, I feel like I’m trying to operate a telephone switchboard.  For the life of me, I can’t ever get the darn thing to work.  It either has sound, no picture… or picture, no sound.  And it’s only a DVD player!  DVD players have been out for what… 15, 20 years now?  

Back in my younger days, I could hook up the DVD player just fine.  But for some reason… nowadays I just can’t get it together.  

Maybe as us parents age, we lose our how-to-get-electronics-to-work ability.  I think it’s because we spend so much time trying to get other things to work… like having hot cooked meals every night for dinner, breaking up fights between two five year olds who won’t stop annoying each other, making sure the bills are paid so that the lights will come on, slaving at work so we can take kids to Disney World.  

Well, I don’t know if that is true or not, but that’s the excuse I’m using.  

But I’m getting better.  I’m trying to move into the 21^st century.  I still don’t have one of those high-flouting TVs yet.  But the other day, I went to the electronics store to price a new home entertainment center. 

I think I tickled that sales guy. Well… I’m sure I did ‘cause he laughed at me.  I keep saying WOW! WOW! WOW! It can really do that!  I am sure he was thinking, Yeah!!… Lady, where have you been?! 

I was fascinated by how clear and life-like that HD stuff is.  All kinda thoughts came to mind about how cool it would be to have all of that new age TV stuff in my den. 

He worked out an estimate… it came up to about $5,000.  The TV only cost $2,500.  All of the extras I need to get the TV to work like it did in the store cost another $2,500. 

As soon as I get back from winning it big in Vegas, I’m getting that big, fancy TV… and all the extras!  Don’t worry… I won’t try to hook it up myself.  Installation was built into the estimate. 

The fanciest TV in my house right now is a 20 inch (the kind with the tube inside) that I’ve had for the past 10 years.  Goodness… if I had one of those big screen, LCDs with HD… then my DH might get upset ‘cause it really would be just me and Netflix… 24 hours a day. 

But anyway PFA I’ve digressed… 

What I wanted to talk to ya’ll about was the Dell Dollars (AKA free money) I just received in the mail.  Dell coupon codes are all over the internet.  I recently used one to get a good deal on a Dell laptop.  The computer came fast… it took about 2 months to get the Dell Dollars.  But now I have them, so I’m happy.  

I’ve got $200 dollars… so I suppose that’s enough for a couple of accessories for my new laptop.  I saw all kinds of cool stuff on the Dell site.  Only problem is… I know nothing about computer accessories!  

I know how to use my computer… but all that other fancy stuff – I leave that to the kids.  It’s not often that I can’t think of a way to spend free money.  But this time… poor, little, technologically-challenged me ain’t got a clue! So… I was hoping that maybe ya’ll can tell me the must-have computer accessory of 2008.  

While ya’ll are busy making suggestions, I’ll show you where to find the most up to date Dell coupon codes… just in case you’re in the market for a new computer. 

Here are Dell coupon codes, codes, codes, codes, and yes… more Dell coupon codes!!! 

After you’ve found a code you like, enter it here to get Dell’s official word on what the code really does and when it expires.

Then read this and this to learn how to get the best deals using your Dell coupon code. 

And if Dell sends you some Dell Dollars, please share with me how you spent yours!