It’s almost rebate time again. It is the way many, many manufacturers advertise and promote sales of their products. I have the postage, envelopes, forms, upc codes. Now I only need copies of some of my receipts. I will need them if I have to get anything repaired or replaced while [...]
Posts under ‘Shopping’
Do You Have A Shopping Plan?
Until a few years ago, I bought the stores out for my four kids. Then they had their own families and four became twelve more or less (depending on the year). I developed a new shopping strategy two gifts per person. Frugal me decided to shop early and start buying for the following [...]
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE – Marshalls
If you read my blog about TJ Maxx, you know all about spending 2009.
I pray 2010 will be better.
I left TJ Maxx to go to Marshalls about a mile away. I still had a gift card in my pocketbook to use, and I intended to use it both wisely and well. Marshalls [...]
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE – TJ Maxx
No doubt about it that money is tight. I usually avoid the pricey malls but found myself in the local one the week of Black Friday. It was dead I am tempted to say deader than Marley in A Christmas Carol. A couple of days later I had to make an exchange [...]
Toy Industry Association Launches ToyInfo And ToyAwards Sites To Help Consumers
In my day. the guiding principle was “Father knows best”; however, in 2009 best means fully informed.
With the grandchildren ranging from toddler to teen, I must always be on the lookout for the perfect toy. I define perfect as something the child will actually play with, something that is well-made, and something that is [...]
Starting The Car Buying Process Online Is A Big Time Saver
When I was still a child myself, I saw a picture of a freeway in the paper. That awesome engineering feat amazed me then. It still amazes me now. There is a song what goes, “Only in America”. Well, only in California do freeways go everywhere and anywhere. The overpasses [...]
My Introduction To Silver Star
I have been to the West Coast almost annually for the last twenty years. I love its weather. I love its attractions. I love its clothes.
If you are not a California native, you probably don’t realize that its fashions and styles are in the stores usually months before they arrive in the East. From the [...]
