I had been wanting to buy my own camera for a while now, but instead I'll be contributing towards a new one for the family.
Me and my wonderful butter-fingers dropped our family camera about a month ago. It had been dropped many times before from far greater heights (and no, not always by me :-P). However, on this particular drop, it didn't "stick the landing."
So, I could either buy a the exact same one on eBay for $20, or UPGRADE! Thankfully, my dad consented to the latter.
After doing some research (although probably not as much as I should have done :-P), I talked my dad into a 12x optical zoom, 8mp
Canon PowerShot S5 IS. We should receive it in a week or so...and I think I'm going to invest in a neck strap. ;-)