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It all began with an off-the-cuff comment, and turned into a all-out, high-stakes bet. My roommate, Josh, is a furniture designer, which is to say that in our 500 square foot two bedroom apartment in Manhattan, we have more than our requisite number of pieces of furniture. The year-long dispute between us began when we moved yet another piece of beloved furniture into our cozy space. I said, "If we didn't have this humongous old television always in the way, the people sitting in our living room could actually all look at one another during conversation...!" SeePhotos Thus spawned a bet between us that stipulated that when I finally get a job, I must garnish our apartment with a brand new flat screen TV. I have been unemployed for the past year, and interview after interview, instead of asking me if I got the job, Josh simply says, with an earnest and expectant look in his eye, "Flat screen?!" We love TV. We love American popular culture. We love entertaining guests. Needless to say, dear folks of Apartment Therapy, we would love the flat screen TV, tend to it's every need, and shower it in our grand affection. The addition of the flat screen TV to our household would not only salvage our friendship by ending an ongoing dispute over whether I actually agreed to purchase the said flat screen TV, but also save a poor unemployed me from having to uphold my side of this pricey wager.