March 9, 2010

Free Shipping, Free Sizing and Takes PayPal

With Mother’s Day coming up in another month, I have been looking around online in order to find a nice watch to purchase for my mother. Bluedial.com has a wonderful selection of Brand name watches like Seiko, Citizen, Bulova Casio at some pretty decent prices. They offer free 2nd day shipping and free sizing. I also like that they accept PayPal, that is something that more companies need to start offering.

I found this sweet looking ladies watch by Bulova. It is reduced from $250 down to $133, which is a great deal. I think that she will love it and I think that it would look real nice on my mother’s wrist.

mothers day watch

March 7, 2010

Unique

Filed under: Family, General Living, Internet, Shopping — Copa @ 8:35 pm

The other day I was rummaging around the basement and found an old jewelry box of my wife’s that had yet to be brought up to our room. When I brought it upstairs and gave it to her, she gave out a joyful shriek. “You found my copper bracelets!” She said that she had wondered where that box had gone to!

She was thrilled because she had just been looking at a jewelry website that has a large selection of copper bracelets, and was thinking about buying one from them. Now she can refresh her memory of the ones that she has so she can be sure to not order a duplicate. I noticed that while she was on their website she was also looking at their selection of earrings. She sure does love earrings, and the site had a ton of them! I’m always nervous about buying jewelry online, but they have a satisfaction guarantee and free shipping, so I guess it won’t hurt to try them out!

March 4, 2010

Signage

Filed under: General Living, Home Improvement, Shopping — Copa @ 6:28 pm

I’ve noticed that whenever my wife tags along with me to a home improvement store that she heads over to the department where they have address plaques on display.  She’s been wanting to buy a new address plaque for our place ever since we moved here.  The address sign that was already on the house was very old and corroded and my wife gets aggravated about how bad she thinks it appears to people who come to our front door.

I try to reassure her that most people don’t even notice address signs when they go to someones house, but she naturally disagrees with me.  She would like to get a customized one that has our name on it as well as the house number.  I’m not so sure that I want our name on it.  In this day and age, sometimes a little bit of anonymity is a good safety precaution to take.  What do you think?  Name, or no name?

February 27, 2010

Think of others

One of the biggest reasons why my life is in such a mess is because the lady who caused the traffic accident I was in over two years ago didn’t have enough on her car insurance limits to pay for my medical expenses.  That doesn’t even begin to touch the lost income, either!  Naturally we had under-insurance coverage on our own auto insurance policies, but even that isn’t enough to pay for my medical expenses.

I’m all for people trying to get cheap car insurance as a way to save money, but I think that the best way to do that is by increasing the deductible, not decreasing the liability!  If you are checking around for cheap auto insurance, please think of the other people who you may accidentally injure and get a policy with decent liability.  Only having $25,000 is not enough.  I know that is legal to have that low, but it shouldn’t be!

February 24, 2010

Looking for bargains

In this troubled economy, my wife and I spend quite a bit of time looking for bargains that will help us to stretch our budget dollars.  Especially since I’ve been on the “injured list.”  So I was really excited to find the Offers.com website.  The website is chock full of freebies and discounts on a wide variety of items.  There are several different categories set up to help you find the best deal on credit cards, software, travel, clothing, and much more.

Many of the links lead to a section full of links to click to get coupon codes, but there is also a category that I’m really enjoying that is full of free things.  Like a free towel, free dog food, free fabric softener, free engine belt wear gauge, free ruler, free ice cream, free paint sample, free polishing cloths – the list goes on and on!  I think I could easily spend over an hour checking out all of the free stuff!  And this free stuff doesn’t appear to be “free trial” where you end up having to pay for something if you keep it; this is really free stuff!

I’m going to have to let my wife take a turn at looking at this site!  I’ve bookmarked it to come back to in the future.  This one is a keeper!  I’m definitely going to order the free sample of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee!  And I see a couple of free cookbooks for my wife!  I’d claim this bargain hunt time today a glorious success!