Tag: Great Deals

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Savings with online shopping

I had been trying to find a online site that had inexpensive deals with quality items and of course always read the reviews about the company’s, so I started reading the Nomorerack reviews, on a site I had been recommended. Great reviews and awesome sales, deals and prices! I personally haven’t bought anything yet, but indeed know a few friends who are members and have. There are no complaints what so ever with the products they have gotten. The savings also are incredible as being a member saves quite a bit of money and there are advantages.

I like sites that have reviews from real people like my, who sometimes are very leery about shopping online. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve bought items and various gifts online before, and they were really good deals, good service and fast shipping. But these reviews are from blogs from people who have used the site, and have blogged about them. I often am worried about scams and I found from quite a few peoples writings and reviews that this isn’t a Nomorerack scam. This makes trusting and buying from this company easier.

I personally would totally trust becoming a member like a friend is, and shopping on this site.

 

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Stunning wallpaper

I’m about ready to buy and put up the new wall paper I saw yesterday. It’s beautiful and would be perfect for my spare bedroom. I’ve been doing a lot of improvements lately because I’ve been kicking around the idea of selling the house and moving someplace warm.

When I was shopping at a warehouse in town for carpet actually. That and a new area rug. The place also has roll upon roll of wallpaper that is actually inexpensive but high quality. I found an awesome print. I wish I could have taken a photograph of it, but had forgotten to put my telephone on the charger. The way I figure it, home improvement will indeed up the value of the house, so that is going to be  helpful if and when I decide to sell, so I can’t go wrong on spending the extra dollars on improvement.

By knowing how to do most of the remodeling and improvement, I am also saving lots of money by not hiring someone to do these projects. This is a definite plus.

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Internet shopping for Christmas gifts

This year, I’ve decided to do a lot of my shopping online. I found a really great shotgun break down case for my “little” brother. He is an avid hunter and fisherman and this will be totally perfect for him. Each year, I like to get him things that I know he will enjoy and actually use. He is the youngest in the family, and when my mom worked, basically since I’m quite a bit older than he is, I used to keep an eye on him while she was at work. He’s pretty much my favorite of my siblings, even though it’s said one shouldn’t have favorites. It’s hard not to, since he is indeed the youngest.

My niece’s ten speed bike got stolen over Thanksgiving holidays, which to me is a darn shame, since she really is into biking and being a collage student rode her bike everywhere, to save on gas. Also she is into going on long bike rides for the fitness and also just for the pleasure of it, so now she is riding my old one. I hinted to her not to get another bicycle because, “Santa was coming soon”. I said it with a wink, so I’m sure she knows I’ll be buying her one.

One of my older nephews is seriously into collecting rocks, and hinted to me that he really needed a new rock collection display case. This will be a pleasure for me to get one for him, since I am into collecting rocks also, and always have been. So, three items are going to be crossed off my list soon!

 

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Great bedding

I have an over sized bed for the guest room, so I let my fingers do the shopping on the internet for bedding sets. We don’t have any stores around here or at least close to my home, that carry the bigger bedding, and believe me that I was getting rather discouraged going from store to store to try and find what I was looking for in the stores we do have.

With a antique bed the size I have,  it’s rather hard to find bigger bedding sets that are the look and style that I wanted. After about five hours of shopping, I decided to go online. I’ve sort of become a fan of online shopping lately. This site I found even was much less expensive than the bedding I had looked at in the stores I went to, and I was really thrilled to find what I was looking for to use on the bed in the guest room.

Once I hung the wall paper yesterday after having the new carpet installed, I did find the perfect bedding sets for not only the guest room, but also my own bed since I saved a lot of money. All I need to do now is paint the trim, put up the bed and arrange furniture. I’ll add the accents and I do believe I’m going to be happy with the results!

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T-shirts for a cause

My niece is into donating blood for people who need it,  and she called me and asked if I would please help to find her, or at least look into finding some custom t-shirts for not only donating blood, but also for various cancers and other causes she is involved with. I have to say, that where I live there is no place that I am able to grant her request, so I had to do some online searching.

Custom t-shirts for her causes are important to me. My niece is so dedicated that I really admire her and when she does her walks and supports what she believes in, I indeed want to help her. While looking online, I also found that I could have shirts made up that I would like to distribute and also tell people where they could get them, considering the fact that the nearest big city from where we live is an hour and a half away, that has any shops that we could get these shirts from.

Of course because I wanted to help my niece, I went online. The custom t-shirts I found, not only could be made to pertain to her causes that she is interested in helping, but also the wording can be basically anything that a person would wish to put on a shirt. I like this idea, since I can also buy shirts that can be worn with my niece’s and nephew’s sports and activities to show support to them, or for the fact that I am proud of what they are involved in. I can also have the shirts made up as special gifts, at a great price.

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My friend is moving

My dear friend of over 8 years is moving and looking at houses for rent in Calgary. I myself have never been there, but she goes quite a few times a year to visit family and friends there that live in the area. This past Christmas she brought be back a wonderful calendar with pictures of Calgary Alberta, and I have admit the area is stunning. If I didn’t have close family here I might think about making a move myself, but right now my Mom needs me and since we are so close I could never move far away from her. I would miss her way too much.

When my friend told me she would be moving, it of course made me sad, but I know she flies back and forth all the time, so we will still get to see one another and spend time with each other when she does come back to visit. She has a flexible job, which makes it much easier to get away even on a whim, which she is known  to do.

To be honest, I’m rather getting excited for her, since her excitement is contagious. She has shown me photos of some homes she has looked and and there are two she is seriously thinking about checking into renting. She doesn’t want to buy, as it would be a commitment that she doesn’t want to take on right now. Renting is a good idea for her.

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Sundresses

For the last week I have been living in my bathing suits and shorts. Today I had to put on a T~shirt and go into town for supplies at the lake place. Even at 7:00 am, it was beginning to swelter and my the shirt was pretty much soaked, (ICKY) after about a half hour.  Mom always says, “Women glisten, they don’t sweat.”  Bull!  I was sweating my butt off even at that early time. I even made a mental note to call Mom and have this debate with her, once I got back to the cabin. Anyway, I had to pick up a prescription at Kmart, and saw loads of clothes on clearance. Normally I don’t buy clothes from there, but I couldn’t refuse the really nice looking sundresses that were only about 6.00 each. They are really light weight and I love to wear dresses like these. It was a good deal so I ended up with five of them. I figure if need be, I can even throw one on over my bathing suit. I’m glad dresses are making a come back of sorts. These would even make great gifts.

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Gate house for sale?

After all the damage that had to be fixed some weeks ago in the Texas cottage, I’ve been thinking about selling. I’d like to get a place somewhere much warmer and perhaps on a beach. I’ve always loved the ocean, sunshine (of course) and the ocean, though I won’t go into the ocean above my knees since I once was circled by three sand shark some years ago, on the Gulf of Florida. THAT sort of, to say the least, turned me off on going in to swim. Sooo, I’ve been looking into Dallas real estate, and the going prices of homes, cottages and vacation homes.

I’m going to hate to sell in a way, as it’s such a beautiful place with horses to care for and ride and all the roaming trails and other perks of escaping to there if I want, but looking into Dallas homes for sale, I realized that this place I could make a profit on and have enough money for a decent other get away, easily. I know I’ll miss it, but I also think it’s time for a change.

When I started looking at the Dallas homes for sale, I also did some calling to the real estate people. Talk about some really friendly helpful people. I was totally surprised…pleasantly so. The folks I spoke with are great! They don’t see a problem at all with the sale of my place. Since I basically have a “Texas” motif and furnishings, wall hangings and even dishes, I asked if all of that could be included in the sale, (all except the personal items I want to keep) and the answer was yes, and it would bring the price up even more, since it would be furnished. So, I’m going to wait and let these nice friendly professionals do the leg work and their job for me. It’s well worth it!

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Car fix its.

I used to love to work on my own cars and trucks. Even in my teen years, I tinkered with the old vehicles at the farm and tried to get them running. Learning by watching, listening and by a whole lot of trial and error. I still can work on cars and even my old 84 Bronco truck, as long as it’s not got all the computerized stuff in it. If so…I’m screwed.And I happen to have a truck that indeed has the computerized “everything” in it, as I needed a newer vehicle to drive that was super dependable.

It’s hard to find a good honest mechanic who won’t take advantage of a woman. I don’t care what anyone says. Surfing the net I found a great link and these great people there will even do sorts of trouble shooting for your common auto repair and maintenance,  if something is going wrong yet, you don’t know what to do about it, AND don’t want a repair person to tack on all sorts of other charges on things you don’t really need fixed, replaced or messed with. A great source of knowledge, and help. Especially for a woman.

Recently I had a bad experience with a auto repair shop that cost me a small fortune, which is why I decided to click around the net and see what I could find. I don’t mind this being a sponsored post at all, especially when I find a great deal of info and service. 🙂

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Moving Day

A friend of mine is going to move, so she went to her local movers to get some information about the dates, and the size of trucks she would need and all of the moving stuff, I have always hated to do over the years when I moved. I personally have always just recruited a bunch of big guys I know, with big pick up trucks, and had a beer and pizza party for all the helpers later, let them camp out and called it a move.

Elise of course, is different than I am. She is so organized it drives me nuts. I swear she even has her thumb tacks in little containers with a sticky tag on them and labeled, buy color code. And this move was going to be a big one, across State. No big burly guys with pick up trucks for her!! Nope, she went and got her first, local moving quotes, then decided to do some more planning. Such as if using the local mover was a good idea. It turns out, she did her planning much better than I thought…or ever would have thought, even knowing her so well. I usually got boxes at the local grocery stores, or the liquor stores because they have great boxes with the bottle separators in them, so I could pack up breakables and not have them clinking together. Then the other belongings I just put in boxes figureing, I have to unpack the stuff, and put it away anyway, so it didn’t matter what when in which box. Elise is not me. While she was getting moving estimates I sort of was folding her towels and sheets, pillowcases and such. But NOT just throwing them in boxes, as she hadn’t come home with the “proper” ones yet. She called and said she was going with the long distance movers, and that she would get back to me. Oh…she did mention not to touch her kitchen…LOL!

My friend came back to her place from getting her moving estimates, she was very please and showed me everything online. Good Lordy, they do everything for you. I don’t know if I’d like a bunch of people packing up my things, but we’ll see how Elise like this smooth move. She is getting excellent rates, I must admit.