July 26, 2011 Labor Day is almost here and that means let the end of summer sales begin! I don’t know about you, but I always get pumped for the Labor Day sales. You can find some huge discounts on big ticket items. I know
July 4, 2011 Just like the Memorial Day & Labor Day holidays, the 4th of July celebration includes food, drink and the realization of how fortunate we are as a nation.
Surveys say that more than 81 million Americans have taken part in a barbecue during the previous year. I'll bet a large number of these took place on the Fourth.
June 24, 2011 Shop til you drop. Does that describe you? Even if it doesn't, I'm sure you have some pet peeves when it comes to shopping. TheFrisky.com has put together their list of the top seven shopping pet peeves. I've added my own comments in parantheses. See if you agree with their list.
June 21, 2011 Bathing suit season is in full force. Tried on any suits lately? Are you hating the way your stomach looks in last year's suit or that new one you just bought? If so, you have plenty of company. A new poll shows women worry the most about how their stomach looks when choosing a swimsuit.
June 20, 2011 I stumbled onto a fantastic video from 1966 that speculates on what life will be like in the future of the home computer. It is so funny the way they talk about 'the wife' and 'the husband'. Unlike most videos from the past that speculated on flying cars and robots doing all our chores, this one went for the 'home shopping' angle, bank account unification and a way to send letters electronically all over the world. Wow, I thought to myself, right on. Check it out.
June 17, 2011 According to a new survey from the National Retail Federation, the average shopper will spend $106 on dad this Father's Day, up 13 percent from last year and the most in the survey's eight-year history. What are you buying him that cost that much?
June 10, 2011 He is a story from the San Diego Union-Tribune. Folks that could use a little help got a treat Wednesday in suburban San Diego.
A 66-year-old woman identified as Claudia Smith, with a self-proclaimed love for Mexicans, bought $5,000 worth of clothing for 50 women at the Everything a Deal discount store, where nothing has a price tag over $9.99.
Her generous act came one day after she purchased $2,200 worth of goods for several people at the same store.
June 9, 2011
June 3, 2011 Ever watch 'Extreme Couponing" on TLC? I found the show by accident one night and now I"m hooked. You won't believe how much money people save on this show. Not a few bucks. Try hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
May 25, 2011 Most women love to shop. They also love buying new clothes. I definitely like to shop and buy new clothes but even I was kind of shocked when I read that the average woman now buys about half her body weight each year in clothes. That's some serious shopping.
May 19, 2011 President Obama's re-election campaign has decided to make a profitable joke out of the relentless conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S. Last month the president released his long-firm birth certificate from Hawaii that had been long-sought by the birthers. The campaign website is now selling T-shirts that show Obama's face on the front with the words, "Made in the USA," and an image of the birth certificate on the back. The site is also selling birth certificate mugs.
May 4, 2011 A new keyboard is being released later this month that gives other iPhone keyboards some serious competition.
