The Best $100 I Ever Spent
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
I received a bass guitar as a Christmas present my freshman year of high school.
Without a driver’s license or a girlfriend, I locked myself in my room and taught myself to play along with Blink-182 songs. I absolutely loved the thing and eventually taught myself to play a real guitar after borrowing my uncle’s acoustic. Unfortunately, my senior year of high school he needed the guitar back, so I decided to purchase one for myself.
My friend and I were driving around one day and we stumbled upon a pawn shop a couple of towns over. Pawn shops are in every town, but it seems like no one ever visits them. They really lose out in the cheap good’s game to thrift stores and the Salvation Army.
We went into the shop, not expecting much, but as soon as we walked in I spotted a beautiful acoustic guitar sitting on the ledge behind the cashier. It was polished and sitting up on its very own stand. I expected the guitar to be way out of my price range, but I decided to ask anyway.
Hi, I'm Austin Morgan. I live in Japan, teach English, and write about personal finance. I hope you enjoy FF and feel free to 
