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Don’t be afraid to ask for a discount

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The call my husband and I have been waiting for finally arrived. It happened yesterday afternoon. Yes… our new TV is at the Best Buy warehouse and they’ll have it for us at store on Friday.

it’s been a long wait! Almost three weeks!

Why is it that whenever we buy something it turns out to be out of stock? That almost happened with the Home Theater System that we bought to go along with the new TV too.

I do have to commend the guys at Best Buy. They really came through for us. When we decided to get a new TV I started looking at various local stores on line in order to find the Best Buy and by far, Best Buy had the lowest prices on the models we were interested in.

Plus … once we’d decided on a TV and we found out it was out of stock they took $200 of the price for us and gave us a four year extended warranty for half price as well. Oh and the HDMI cable that we bought was sold to us at half price too

Then as we had to wait longer than they said we would for the new TV they offered us a deal on a home theater system. They weren’t just trying to sell us something, we brought up that we were looking for a new home theater system because the receiver on our old one had died a few years ago. So they took about $200 off the price of the Home Theater system we picked out too. Of course they didn’t just offer it … we asked if they “could do anything for us” and without hesitation they made the above offer.

Then as if that weren’t good enough, when the TV was going to be delayed by maybe two more weeks (turns out it was only one week more) they offered to give us 50% off on a new TV stand. Again … we had decided on our own that we needed a new TV stand because the one we have is built specifically for the DLP and a plasma might fall off of it with the way our dog jumps around! So as it turns out we picked out a new TV stand that was on sale for $399 and they gave it to us for half price so we saved another $200.

I know we bought a lot of stuff, but if our TV hadn’t been on back order we wouldn’t have saved more than $800 on the items we bought. So as it turns out, having to wait for our TV was a good thing.

I guess the moral of my story is that it never hurts to ask for a discount (we did ask, they didn’t just out right offer every single thing I listed above), especially if the item you’re thinking of purchasing is on back order!





Getting ready for our new TV

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I’m crossing my fingers and knocking on wood in the hopes that my cold is getting a little bit better. I was totally miserable yesterday … and I guess I’m not much better today, but the runny nose is slowing down, so hopefully that’s a sign that my cold is beginning to get better.

I have a lot to do this weekend, so I hope that I feel at least a bit better by tomorrow. You see we’re hoping that the new TV that we bought two weeks ago is finally at the store so that we can pick it up. I’m so looking forward to checking it out and getting it all hooked up to the new home theater that we bought last weekend.

Plus, last weekend we started to do some small renovations to our living room .. ie finally re-hooking up two electrical outlets that we hadn’t hooked up the last time we did renovations to our living room dining room.

We were going to rearrange the furniture in the living room in preparation for the new TV last weekend, but that’s when I started getting sick so we put that on hold. So tomorrow we might be picking up our new TV, rearranging the room and then fiddling with hooking everything up. I expect to be busy for hours! We also have to remember to get some new air filters for the furnace … It’s time to put new ones in!

Darn … my husband is just talking to the guy from Best Buy right now and our Samsung Plasma is NOT in. It might be two more weeks! Crap! Ok now I’m ticked!

At least the sales guy from Best Buy is working with us … he’s going to give us another $100 off the TV (we’ve already got $200 off it!) or 50% off on a new TV stand. Our current stand is specially built for our DLP so I do think we need a new stand … we’ll see. Sigh

Renter neighbors and their noisy car

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I can’t wait until our renter neighbors either move out or get kicked out. I can’t say that enough.

They’re a bad bunch. They got the house next door because they lied about their jobs (they don’t work) and because they have three young children … but it seems like there are more than just the five of them living in the house .. maybe three extra guys.

They always look like they’re high and as I’ve mentioned in the past they seems to be scamming the cable company and Bell Canada … they’ve broken into their cable box (it still sits open all the wires exposed). I can only imagine what they’ve done to the inside of the house.

They’re car is the biggest issue that we face with them these days though. The woman has been working lately and every night she comes out and starts up the car at about 10:15 or so and then goes back inside while letting it run. She doesn’t come out again until about 10:45. So yeah .. she lets their car warm up in the driveway for about half an hour.

We have a new car idling law here in Toronto and I believe you’re not supposed to let your car idle for more than 3 minutes, so her warming up her car for 30 minutes is insane. Just think how much gas she’s wasting?

On top of that they’re car has a major muffler problem and an engine problem so it’s crazy noisy. With my ears blocked because of this head cold the noise just goes right to my head. Actually their car is so noisy that I can feel the engine vibrations as I sit on the couch!

To top that off I saw the husband walking into the house today with a bunch of car parts … maybe Mopar parts or something. I hope it’s to fix up the car and not to sup it up so it’s even noisier!

Our driveway is really tiny … barely enough room to park one car. By this I mean that drivers and passengers must walk on the neighbors lawn once the car is parked in the tiny driveway. So we’re sharing the driveway. We have it for a month and then they use it fr a month. On Monday we take over the driveway again and I’m dying for that day to come.

Did I say that I can’t wait for these rotten neighbors to leave?

Does your dog act differently when you’re sick?

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I don’t think my dog knows what to make of me now that I have a cold. She keeps coming up to me with her bone wanting to play, but of course I’m feeling so bad I just can’t!

She’s also fascinated by all the tissues I’m using. She watches me bring tissue up to my face and has a puzzled look on her face when I bring it away from my face again … I don’t know what she’s thinking … maybe she thinks the tissues are something I should be eating? Naturally she also tries to grab the tissues as I put them in a bag (yes I’m blowing my nose so much that I have my own personal garbage nearby).

Does your dog act different or seem confused when you’re sick with a cold or the flu?

I sure hope that I feel a bit better by tomorrow. my nose is raw and my lips are chapped from mouth breathing … like I said earlier I wouldn’t want to be getting an insurance quote looking and feeling like this!

Sniffle sniffle … cough cough

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I can’t hear very well, I’m mouth breathing and my eye sight is blurred from tears. Yes, you guessed it, I have a bad head cold.

I don’t think it helps that I’m attempting to make ribs in my slow cooker right now either. I think the BBQ sauce (ie vinegar and onions in it) is making my eyes water more than they would be.

I know it’s just a cold, but I haven’t had one for close to 15 years so I’m absolutely miserable! I’d sure hate to be trying to get a life insurance quote right now with the way I look and sound!

Hopefully I’ll feel a bit better tomorrow. Otherwise, if you don’t hear from me for a day or two it’s probably just the cold that’s keeping me away from the computer.

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