I was sitting at the breakfast table reading the local newspaper. Inside the paper were sales ads for the upcoming President’s Day weekend sales. The Samsung Galaxy Tab and The Toshiba Thrive popped up in a couple of places. There were some several stores like Shopko and Wal Mart offering sub $200 tablets. Then...
When I am trying to decide to buy online, or at a local big box store, I am influenced by two factors. First is how quickly can I get it delivered. Two is what the total cost will be after shipping and taxes. Most of all I look for free shipping because the cost the...
Black Friday is billed as the biggest shopping day of the years. We are told if you want to get the best deal of the 2011 Christmas shopping season, it will be on either Black Friday or Cyber Monday. In reality this is not always true. This year I went to Wal Mart as...
Sneaker Net is where you save information on a flash drive. Then you pull the flash drive out of your computer. Walk in your sneakers over to a second computer, then put the flash drive in the second computer. That my friends is Sneaker Net. In comparisons to other methods Sneaker Net is a...
The 4th of July weekend has come and gone. We have pasted the Summer Solace. The days will start to get shorter for us in the northern hemisphere, but not colder for a few more month. We are half way through the year 2011. On the average we do more shopping in the second...
I love to retell shopping deals that I have been told. This is especially true if the process they used to save the money was in a way that did not cost them very much money. Today, I would like to share with you events that took place when Mrs N saved a lot...
Last week I received a phone call from a gentleman who is in his mid 60′s. He was calling me for help in finding a cell phone. He was looking for a cell phone that is just a phone. He did not want any 3G or 4G. He does not text or want take pictures....
The long time example of an untrustworthy salesperson is the used car salesman. He is trying his hardest to sell you this one owner car without an engine. Then there is this one story of an used car salesman that sold this little old lady in Utah a semi truck so she could drive...
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...
Remember a couple weeks ago when I wrote about setting up a budget for our daughter for school clothes and school supplies. The post was titled, Back to School – A Dad’s View. Well, a few days ago, we gave our daughter her money and went shopping for school supplies. We chose to do the...
