Judd
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If what you bought is expected to and does have a useful life of more than one year it is depreciable and you would need to either depreciate it or elect to expense it all in this past year.  Given what I read in your questions, the only think that sounds like depreciable property, and since that is something that has other uses (unless it is really exotic) the amount of a deduction may not be worth the effort.  For more information you can refer to:

How To Depreciate Property <a href="http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p946.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p946.pdf</a>

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Hope this helps. Thank you for choosing TurboTax!  Have a wonderful evening and a great day tomorrow.

Judd