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Bargain shopping without the mobs — even now

Sunday, December 18th, 2011

Some of my wife's Facebook friends posted some pictures the bumper-to-bumper traffic into the local mall / retail area today.  It's definitely not the best time to run in and out of stores for a few things, being a week before Christmas and all that. So we stopped at our local ...

Businesses don’t care whether you’re mourning or not

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Baker posted a link on his Google+ profile to this CNN Money article.  Denise Townley received a letter from Discover Card less than two weeks after her mother had passed away seeking to settle her mother's debts.  It would be an understatement to say that Ms. Townley wasn't pleased by ...

Costco does generics right

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

(Hah ... the WordPress text editor is telling me that it's "Saving Draft" ... that's actually what I'm going to talk about!) This past weekend I took a trip to Costco to pick up a few things.  Some places my wife and I hesitate to get generic (store) brand because it ...

New print books are expensive! Some cheaper alternatives

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

My wife and I were chatting about why she had sold more Amazon Kindle versions than paperback versions of her new Civil War historical fantasy.  Granted, the Kindle version is only 20% the cost of the paperback version, but I had said that $14.99 was a bit much to pay ...