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Shopping Addiction?

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I think one of my friends is addicted to buying things online. Ok maybe not just online, but she buys a ton of stuff online. I think she not only enjoys spending money but also likes getting packages delivered to her home almost daily!

It’s kind of funny and sad at the same time. I was over at her place recently and she was doing a search trying to find a way to buy diet pills online while we talked. She’d told me that earlier that day she was buying gifts for her family. The gifts however end up in one room of her house – stored and it seems never given away. I guess she’s a hoarder too.

I’ve been trying to get her out of the house so maybe she’ll spend a bit less time online but it’s not easy convincing her.

Have you ever had a friend or family member that had a problem with shopping or spending money? What did you do to help them?





It’s harder to find a nice style of eye glass frames than I thought

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Wow, I never realized how hard it was to find a decent pair of glasses! I’ve always worn a combination of eye glasses and contacts … but two years ago I suddenly couldn’t wear my contacts anymore because as soon as I put a contact on my eye my eye would start to burn, tear and swell. I think it was some kind of allergic reaction.

So I’ve only been wearing glasses for the last two years … but I think my eye sight has changed again so I decided that it’s time to get my eyes tested and then get one or two new pairs of glasses.

I have an appointment with an optometrist next week but in the mean time I thought it might be good to go out and see if I can find some eye glass frames that I like.

That was harder than I thought!

I thought maybe Walmart or Costco might be cheaper so my husband and I went to both of those stores earlier today to look at the selection and I couldn’t find any frames that suited my face.

What’s with all the really narrow rectangular or oblong lenses? I don’t like big glasses or lenses, but almost all the styles I saw today were way too small .. and I have a small faces. Who wants lenses sticking out from the side of your face.

I think my hunt for a new pair of glasses at a reasonable price is going to take a while. Anyone know of any good places in the Toronto area that has a wide selection of frames and sells eye glasses at a reasonable price?

Anyway … while I was looking for a style of glass frame that suited my face my husband wandered around the stores that we were in … in the last store I had to go searching for him .. he was looking at an epson receipt printer of all things … never even knew those existed! LOL Oh well, it kept him busy for a while.

Should I get a Mac or a Netbook?

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I’ve been thinking about getting a new computer. For a while I was thinking of getting a Mac. I’m a diehard PC user, but I’ve always wanted to have a Mac as well …

But there are so many choices these days. I mean, I don’t need another full computer. I just want a backup or rather one that’s easier to travel with .. ie take outside with me in the backyard when I want to sit outside and enjoy my garden while I work or take with me when I travel. So I’ve been kind of thinking of getting one of the new netbooks.

It would be idea if I could get both a Mac and a Netbook, but we just don’t have that much spare cash. I know these are two very different types of computers that I’m talking about and I’d use them each differently … I guess the Mac would probably give me more of what I need. Which would you get if you were going to buy either a Mac or a netbook?

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 sidetracked

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I must be on a skin kick or something … I was just checking out various skin products (ie for my dry skin and scarring problem) and I came across this skin id review that sounds interesting.

Of course that product is an acne treatment and it wasn’t what I was looking for … but I know someone would probably be interested in it.

Do you ever go looking for something on the internet – say you’re researching a product or something, and you end up getting sidetracked as you find other interesting, somewhat related things? That’s been happening to me a lot in the last week or so thanks to me doing research on our new washing machine and dryer. LOL

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