Category: shopping

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Cake Pops Fad

Everyone is raving about a dessert called cake pops. Have you seen them? They are balls of cake about the size of a golf ball that are stuck on sticks like lollipops. But they cake is completely covered in icing and then decorated very elaborately. Most of the ones I’ve seen have been decorated for a holiday or as animals.

Lat night I saw an infomercial for a special set of pans to make them at home. I think they are about $20 for a set of pans that have a special locking lid to force the rising cake better to form into small balls. I think that is a cool idea – I wish I could find the pans in the store instead of ordered from a toll free number. I didn’t write down that number from the commercial so I don’t know how to find them.

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Worthless Coupons

About once a month, sometimes more often, I get an email from GoDaddy about saving money on domain names. Now, I only have a couple of domain names and it really does not cost very much to keep them registered with an annual renewal. But I’m all about saving money when I can. It all adds up!

So I tried to use the last coupon that GoDaddy sent me in my email last week and supposedly good for the rest of this month, promising a 20% savings. When I tired to use it, it said I wasn’t qualified to use the discount. I tried the coupon code, I tried using other links on their site, and I finally had to call their tech support people. Turns out that the coupon code did me no good – I got a better discount without having to do anything on their site except check out. What a great waste of time and huge frustration to me to deal with all of that – all for nothing.

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Video Games for Rent

Just as I was about to give up on finding a place to rent video games, I hear that Redbox will be carrying them in addition to the DVDs that they rent for $1 a night. That is great news. I love the Redbox locations and the price is more than fair. I hope they have games for all the different platforms. I like the Playstation 3 the best and those are the games I want to rent.

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Ground Beef

It seems to me that when my mother would go grocery shopping back in the day, she would stop at the butcher counter and ask for a pound of ground chuck. She sometimes asked for ground round, although I admit I do not know the difference between chuck and round. But it was important to her. I’m just happy to find ground beef, whatever the original cut, at a fair price. It has gotten so expensive lately that I am not buying much of it.

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New Shoes

Time for new shoes. I’ve put off spending any money for several months. But its getting to be the time that sandals and open heels won’t be good enough for the coming bad weather. I need new boots and some new heels with closed toes to keep the mud out of my toes. So, let’s go shopping!

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You know how I love to shop

Shopping online has become one of my new hobbies.  I didn’t realize how much money I could save by shopping online.  Stop and think about it, you save on time, you save gas and you don’t have to deal with all of the crowds.  One thing I love is finding discount coupons.  Did you know that you can get Hotels.com discount coupons?  Well you can.

Another thing I didn’t expect to find discount coupons on was Best Buy discount coupons but there they were, big as day.  It you add in the discounts, the gas and everything else you save, you can afford to go somewhere like to visit your sister.

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Just a bit of redecorating to do

I think my bathroom needs something.  With that in mind, I have just a bit of redecorating to do.  In all honesty, about all it really needs is a new shower curtain.  I found some perfect shower curtains online.  Now I just have to figure out which one I want.

I love shopping at SHOP.COM because just about anything you’re looking for can be found there.  I have it marked as one of my favorites so when I’m in the mood for a little shopping, that’s where I like to start.  It’s a huge help and really saves you a lot of time because they have already done the looking for you.  Know what I mean?

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My niece and skis!!!

My sisters only daughter is an absolute ski nut.  I don’t mean water skiing either.  She loves snow skiing, snow boarding and anything that has to do with sliding around in the snow.  She’s always looking for ski deals.  Me personally, I don’t care for snow at all.  But this is one part of skiing that has totally surprised me.  She won’t go out skiing unless she has the latest fashions for skiing or snow boarding for the new season.

See all of this time I thought the main thing was not to break your leg or neck and stay warm.  Well not anymore it seems.  You also have to be in the latest fashions for that year too.  Personally I know absolutely nothing about what’s hot and what’s not in the latest and greatest ski apparel but I did learn a lot when I was searching for a graduation gift in the form of ski deals for her.  It’s absolutely amazing what you can learn about on the Internet.  Not to mention, who would have thought an old lady like me would be surfing the Internet for ski fashions for my niece either?  I would have never dreamed a couple years ago but I think I’m as addicted to the Internet as she is to skiing.

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These are so very awesome

Here I was one minute looking for baby shower invitations online and found myself totally engrossed in wedding invitations instead. I had no idea that anyone would or could print such amazing wedding invitations.  Some of them were the cutest things I have ever seen and others were so very proper for the occasion.

One things for sure, IF and when there’s going to be a wedding around here, I already know where to look for invitations.  Perfect invitations I should say.  Oh and they have a lot more but those invitations were what really caught my eye and made me look more into the site.  Bet you’ll love it too if you just check it out.

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Don’t you just love good T-shirts?

I’m a T-shirt and jeans kinda lady most of the time.  One of my favorite is my collection of Nirvana T-shirts. Does that surprise you? Well I like all kinds of music and T-shirts.  You just have to make sure that what you’re getting is of high quality or they won’t last.