Once again some good advice and links on this topic.
I had my family and inlaws give me cash for a birthday and christmas and with some of my own funds invested in a Garmin 96C.
This was after I landed my first job up north so I hadn't used a GPS during PPL or CPL training. Lucky for us, almost all the aircraft at work had GPS units in them but they were only allowed as a cross reference during the check flight by the pilot in the right hand seat - Just to make sure you could read a map, do a one in sixty, and figure out a diversion if one day the GPS went U/S.
When I went to my remote base, the C206 didn't have a GPS in it. That's when the old 96C paid for itself. It was a good back up to my map reading skills out there when trying to find strips not on the WAC(!).