Shopping

05.22.2009 Shopping, Wrap-Ups

Weekly Wrap-Up #5: Spend, spend, spend!

In the past week, have you spent more or less than usual? The same.
What was your biggest purchase? Probably the ticket to Disneyland for my youngest DS. The eighth grade goes as a class at the end of the year.
What made you decide to buy it? The obvious reason. It was $65 for the ticket and the bus transportation.
Do you typically mull over purchases or are you an impulse buyer? Both! That’s bad, isn’t it.
Did you enjoy the shopping you do or do you prefer to get in and out quickly? Depends on my mood and what I’m shopping for. I love to browse scrapbooking and craft shops, book stores.

Your turn:
In the past week, have you spent more or less than usual?
What was your biggest purchase?
What made you decide to buy it?
Do you typically mull over purchases or are you an impulse buyer?
Did you enjoy the shopping you do or do you prefer to get in and out quickly?

05.19.2009 Geekiness, Kids, Shopping

I’ve always liked Legos, so I thought this puzzle calendar was a neat item. However, the practicality of rearranging all the blocks every month…seems like one more thing to have to do. That’s why I don’t like those day planners where you have to write the days yourself. I like ’em pre-printed!

But if you have a little kid, it might be a fun way to teach him/her about the days of the week and calendars.

Your call!

http://katewilloughbyauthor.com/2009/05/992.html

05.13.2009 Magazines, Shopping, Silliness, Starbucks, Websites

Unnecessary Knitted Item

I saw this in my Real Simple magazine and couldn’t believe it. It’s a knitted coffee cup sleeve. Guess how much it retails for!

No, really, guess!

$18.00, no lie. I suppose there might be some eco-freaks out there who might drag this thing into Starbucks to use. (If you’re one of them, I’ll knit you one for only five bucks.)

This is the place where you can get the original if you want it. They also have slingshot pencils, hair clips that look like googly eyes, and tiny herb gardens whose pots are porcelain eggs. Those things are kind of cool.

05.07.2009 Kohl's, Recommendations, Shopping

Thursday 3: Going Green

Thursday 13 is the norm. I only do 3 because I’m lazy.

Here are three reasons why you should go to your nearest Kohl’s store and invest in several of these reusuable grocery bags.

1. It’s an easy way to be part of the green movement. Don’t those plastic bags just pile up? We always used or recycled them, but now I don’t have to do either. We aren’t consumers of plastic grocery bags anymore. (And the way my family goes through groceries, this is a big thing.)

2. They are the most user-friendly bags I’ve found. The one I had from Whole Foods had a cardboard base, which was good. The ones from Vons were floppy, with no base. I didn’t like the unorganized mess they made in my car. These, on the other hand, from Kohl’s are absolute heaven!

These bags, like the Whole Foods bags, have bases, so when you fill it with packages of crackers, cereal or whatever, it has structure. Excellent. But, unilke the Whole Foods bags, THEY FOLD UP AND SNAP CLOSED into a neat, flat seven inch square. (You can see the little snap flap in the picture.) Oh, the ecstasy! The straps are also long enough so you can hook a couple bags on each shoulder, grab two in your hands and make it into the house with five heavy bags!
(I gave away my other substandard ones.)

3. Finally, they’re only $2 a piece. I have six of these bags. That was an investment of $12. I look at it like a donation to Mother Earth.