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Beetle or Cooper
This week we have heard reports about gas prices are going up. After hitting a low of close to $3 per gallon for most of January, we are expecting gas prices to start climbing again. With gas prices climbing, the cost of driving our vehicles one mile has started to increase. For those of you who commute any distant to and from work, it will be a big impact on your budget. Like through out mo...
Wonderful World of Trade Shows
Las Vegas is a great place to go for a getaway vacation. It is also know as one of the most popular places to hold a trade show. If you look at the Las Vegas Convention Convention Center there is back to back trade shows. Still for someone like me, who happens to love trade shows, it is not practical for me to spend so much time in Vegas. In fact there is another location where I can go to a tr...
Do I Need Fancy Cleaners?
It is SuperBowl Sunday! There are going to be a lot of living rooms filled with football fans enjoying the big game. There is going to be some emotional highs and lows through out the game. Drinks and food is going to get spilled. Afterwards there will be some cleaning that need to be done. Depending on wild the party gets will depend on how much cleaning will need to be done. In preparation fo...
Gas Mileage Lies
On morning news there was a sniped about a lady who sued Honda for misrepresentation of their gas mileage. It was in small claims court, but still won $10,000. Interesting! It has become pretty much accepted, by all of us, what the sticker gas mileage would be under ideal condition. I am glad someone has stepped up to say, "We are not going to take it anymore!" When I look at different makes...
Touch Screen Desktop Computers
I first saw touch screens computers in the food processing industry back in the late 90's. Since then the technology and the price has been slowly been dropping. As a result we now see more cell phones with touch screens than without. The overall adoption of a touch screen desktop computer has been slow mostly because of the cost. We are seeing the price going under the $1,000 mark. This makes ...
Social Responsible Buying
Last week the name Foxconn and Apple were in all the headlines. It was not about great profits, or some new electronic gadget. It was about the inhumane treatment of the workers in China. What is interesting to note is that Foxconn does not just manufacture electronics for Apple. Foxconn manufacture over 50% of the electronics sold in the United States. Mistreatment of works or labors misbeh...
Secrets of Shopping Wal Mart
Midday on any Saturday or Sunday, at Wal Mart, finds families and couples getting their weekly shopping done. We are at the end of January. People are starting to recover from the Christmas shopping madness. Walking we were greeted by a your 60 oriental lady. I think it is great that Wal Mart seek to find jobs for elderly on fixed incomes. After a quick stop by the cosmetic section for some...
Search for a Practical Usable Tablet
Since before Thanksgiving I have been slowing giving into the idea of getting a tablet. I have looked at all the major brands of tablets and eReaders. I have been trying to imagine how often I would use it. I watch how other people would use their tablets. While attending a local trade show I noticed a large majority of the vendors were using iPads. There were only a few who had other tablets....
Cruise or Not to Cruise
Here we are at the end of January 2012. Texas is getting heavy rains. Snow and Cold is covering most all of the northern hemisphere. I close my eyes and think of a hot summer day with the sun beating down on may face. Then in an instant, I jump into a nice cool swimming pool. Yes, what better time to plan a summer vacation than when the chilling cold is biting your bones, and the sky is all gloomy...
When Not to File an Insurance Claim
Have you been in an auto accident or had water damage from the washing machine over flowing? Then got on the phone calling your insurance company for a claim that was only for a few hundred dollars. Did you know you do not have to file an insurance claim every time you are eligible to file. If you read your insurance policy carefully, you will find you will be penalized if you file ...

Are You Ready for Halloween?

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 9, 2011 in Halloween - Comments: Comments Off

It is October. That means Halloween is just days away. The specialty Halloween stores have been open for some time. I have been getting emails announcing sales from Halloween costumes, candy, along with various ghoulish accessories.

My spies have been telling me the cost of getting a Halloween costume at one of those specialty stores is not a good deal. A decent costume will cost a $100′s or more. This includes all the accessories like make up and bloody knife. In my way of thinking this is one way to waste lot of money for a costume that is only going to be worn for couple of hours.

The fashion experts are telling me that Captain America is going to be big this Halloween. Well, super heroes are always big when it comes to Halloween costumes. A particular costume is big when a recent movie has been in the theaters for the past few months.

Shopping for a Camcorder

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on September 16, 2011 in Budget, Photography, Tech Stuff - Comments: Comments Off

Summer vacation is over. The kids are back in school. Over the next few months we are going to have more and more indoor activities. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas make up the three great days holidays remaining in this year. These holiday make a perfect time to record memories with family and friends.

Still picture are okay, but they just give you a fraction of a second of that event. A video camera can capture that fraction of a second plus what led up to the picture and afterwards.

Who knows maybe the video of this Halloween party may be the video of the day on YouTube. You want the video you take that goes viral video look the best. After all the whole world is going to see it. It may even get featured on the Today Show.

To accomplish a great looking viral video, you are going to need something more than just the camcorder feature on your cell phone. You are going to want the picture sharp and clear as you can possibly.

Halloween Things To Do

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 21, 2010 in Halloween - Comments: Comments Off

Halloween has long been thought of as the point that divides Fall and Winter; life and death. That is why we see Halloween as the day when the dead can return to the earth. In the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation. The secular community turned it into a children’s holiday. Although there is still superstitions around the holiday people still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet treats to usher in the winter season.

For the younger minded adults it is a time to let their dark side shine in some devilish erotic costume. Kids use the time to dress up as some character they would like to become when they grow up. Older adults organize places and parties for kids and grand kids to enjoy such a ghoulish night.

Halloween Costumes – Part 2

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 20, 2010 in Halloween - Comments: Comments Off

If you read yesterday post about Halloween Costumes you saw where I visited them of the specialty stores in Boise, Idaho.

Today, I want to look at some of the other places where to get a good Halloween costume, without spending a whole lot of money.

Yes that would be Wal Mart, Target, and Shopko to some extent. Wal MartTarget, and Shopko sell costumes, candy, and other items for Halloween. They having been displaying and selling since the start of the school year. This gets the kids and parents thinking about Halloween. Then the kids can start pressuring their parents for that all important Halloween costume.

Halloween Costumes

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 19, 2010 in Halloween - Comments: Comments Off

We get our modern day Halloween from a mixture of Celtic, Catholic, Roman, and European religious/folk traditions. It is this blending together over time that caused us to create the holiday we know today.

Adults began the tradition of dressing in elaborate costumes for Halloween. They were known as Masquerade parties. I was not until the twentieth century where children were included into the an annual event dressing up in Halloween costumes.

The 1930′s was when stores started to carry Halloween costumes. These costumes not only copied mythical characters, but character portrayed in movies. As movies got more and more realistic with its’ makeup and costumes, Halloween costumes followed right behind. Televisions entered the home, thus making young boys and girls wanting to dress up as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman for Halloween.

Trick or Treat?

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 31, 2009 in Food, Health, Home, Lifestyle - Comments: Comments Off

Trick or Treat

Yesterday, I was walking out of the local grocery store, the headline of the local newspaper jumped out at me. It read, “The Great Recession Is Over.” My first thought was that it was a cruel trick.

Then I started asking myself, “Is The Great Recession really over?” Jobs are still tight. Milk and other staples have gone up in the past month. Big box store are worried that this Christmas’ sale will be at record lows.

Friday the stock market dropped almost 250 in both the New York and Dow Jones stock exchanges. This is in spite of good financial news for the week.

Four Frightful Zombie Friday

Posted By: The Shopping Nazi on October 30, 2009 in Bargin Places, Lifestyle - Comments: Comments Off

zombiesIt is the day before Halloween. Jack-O-Lanterns fill the media. Those movie channels are rerunning blood filled slasher movies like: Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Then there is all the media hype about zombies our children walking around wondering if being a zombie is a good thing or bad.

These are not the things that scare me. Let me tell you what really scares me.

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