Archive for the ‘Shopping’ Category

The Discount Office Supplies Site Is Down

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

The last thing that I thought I would have to be doing this afternoon, is calling to order discount office supplies from the company we use online. Their site has been down for a week now and we really need to place the order. I think that they must only have two customer service reps that take orders because I have been shuffled back and forth between the two for about an hour now, while they figure out how much my office supplies order is going to cost and how I am supposed to pay for it since I usually just pay with my credit card online.

The girls from the discount office supplies company are being very nice and they have apologized many times but I am still getting impatient with the whole deal. They are just lucky that I have to stay late tonight anyway for a meeting or I would be even more upset about spending this much time with them on the phone.

After the office supplies order finally was completed and paid for, I saw that the website had magically come back up. If I had only waited just about two more hours, I would have done the order and paid in about ten minutes tops like I usually do.

Hard Time Finding The Girls Footed Pajamas This Year

Monday, December 28th, 2009

For the past eight years I have gotten my daughters footed pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve. They usually have something on them that pertains to winter or Christmas and they are usually red or green. This year, I am having a really hard time finding footed pajamas that are not in the boys pajamas section. The girls section seems to be flooded with nightgowns but the footed pajamas are just not there.

I saw a commercial on the television for one of those big brand name stores that was advertising footed pajamas for the entire family and figured that it was my only hope to get them for my girls this year. I arrived at the store early and waited until the girl unlocked the front door to get out of my car. I noticed about ten other people getting out of their cars at the same time and was secretively hoping that they were going to the boys pajamas section and not the girls.

I was able to find matching footed pajamas for my girls and also some for my husband and me. I think that the girls will get a kick out of seeing not just their mommy, but their daddy in footed pajamas on Christmas Eve.

Finding A New Online Office Supply Company Soon

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I want to find someone new to deliver my office supplies. The office supply company that I started to use just three months ago keeps leaving our orders outside the office where anyone could just take them and not to mention the elements. I would hate to think what would happen to all the copy paper in the cardboard box if it got rained on.

I have been away and have not had too much time to devote to this, but now I am back in the office and it is at the top of my list. I am looking for an office supply company that may be able to deliver after we open and then walk in with the items that we have ordered.

I am hoping that I can find this type of company prior to having to place a new order next month with the lets just leave it outside on the step company. If not, I have even considered going to the local stores and buying everything we need for a month or two just until I find the perfect new office supply company that will work for us. I do not think that it will take that long with all the online companies that are out there these days.

The Prada Shoes Were Worth Hiding Them

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I was surfing the web one day at work on my lunch hour of course, and came across a website that made me drool. Anyone that knows me knows that I love shoes and it does not have to be an expensive pair of shoes for me to love them either. I love all brands, shapes, sizes and colors of shoes. This particular site had Hogan shoes and Prada shoes along with a few other brands.

I knew that I really could not afford to buy anything at this time because my husband and I were saving up for a down payment on a summer home. We had promised each other that we would discuss any big purchases prior to making them and then we would decide together if they were really necessary.

I knew that a pair of Hogan shoes or Prada shoes would never seem like something that I needed to him, but I really did need a shoe fix after discovering this site. I wonder if I put it on my credit card that I keep for emergencies, and pay it off quickly, if he would even find out. I was willing to give it a try. When the Prada shoes arrived, and I tried them on, I knew that I had done the right thing and I even had them paid off in less than a month without my husband even finding out.

Great Prices In The Janitorial Supplies Catalog

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I was looking through a janitorial supplies catalog that I had gotten in the mail one day during lunch. I had always used the company across the street because I knew that I should buy local but the prices with this janitorial supplies company and the company that I use were completely different.

I had to call my usual company and ask them for a price list of all of their cleaning products and they brought one right over. When I had time later that afternoon to compare the two different company’s lists, I found that the local company charged almost double on a lot of their cleaning products as the catalog company.

I called over to the local company to ask them if they would match any of the prices from the catalog company and the owner let me know that he just could not do that. I informed him that I would have to switch to the janitorial supplies catalog company because the savings was just too big to pass up. I know that it made him mad to lose me but with the way that things are these days, you need to save money wherever you can.

Funny Cheap T Shirts Surprise my Husband on his Birthday

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

When my brother called me to see what my husband wanted for his birthday, I told him about this website that sold funny t shirts. My husband had picked out quite a few of these funny t shirts but had not bought them because he had never bought anything online before. I told my brother about the website and the cheap t shirts that they had. I told him the names of the funny t shirts that my husband wanted and had not purchased yet. On the day of the party, my husband’s face lit up when he opened the gift from my brother. The funny t shirts that he had been wanting were in his hands. He was so excited; he put one on right away at the party. He thought that we had been very sneaky and he was right. Then my brother asked him why he would have not already bought the cheap t shirts for himself if he wanted them so badly. He explained that since he had never bought anything online before, he was kind of afraid of being ripped off. Since my brother’s purchase had been so successful though, my husband went over to the computer and ordered a few more funny cheap t shirts for himself as a present to himself.

We Made Picture Puzzle Postcards to Send Back Home

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

We recently took a trip to Florida and sent some unique postcards to our family back home. We sent them puzzle postcards. I had downloaded a picture of a beach that I knew we would be visiting and then sent it to a company that takes photos and makes picture puzzles. I just made ours a little bit different by making them into puzzle postcards.

I packed the already sealed puzzle postcards into our luggage and then just made sure to mail them to our friends and family as soon as we got there. I called my mom and she said that they received theirs and my dad and she had a great time putting it together. She said that she knew that my brother had received his also, because my nieces had called her and said that they were the ones to put together the picture puzzles in her house. I had sent them each one, because I knew that they would not want to share.

When we returned home, our neighbors told us that they loved our creative unique puzzle postcards. They of course, wanted to know where we had gotten them, and how they had arrived so quickly after we had left. I just let them know that I had prepared them in advance.

Choosing Right Offensive T Shirts

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

There are certain things that you need to focus on when you are looking for the best t shirts that are offensive, trendy or even funny. You have to make use of this information to be like a checklist against which you would screen the t shirts that you come across. These are not just information that you would take for granted when you are seriously hoping to make a difference with your purchases.

It is quite encouraging when you buy offensive t shirts and you feel that they have value in them. Money is hard to come by and the cost of living and inflation rates are going up every single day. What you actually need to do is to find out how best you can get what you need without being cheated.

The best t shirts are more than just the wordings on them. They have to be 100% cotton for them to last long and also easy to care for. You need to ensure that they are of your type as in when you need long sleeved or short sleeved, you have the right one. If you need collar or round neck you still get.

Check on the quality and the size of the funny t shirts if you really want to have something that adds value to you. You can never make a difference when you care not about what you are being sold.