Showing posts with label deals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deals. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2011

The Cost of a Good Deal


I haunt your dreams, sucka!
I'm like Freddy Krueger up in this piece!
 Back in 2004, I taught an English literature class to a group of home-schoolers.  For my class, I needed to distribute some paperwork via mail, so I went to Staples to buy some envelopes.

Now, I could have chosen a small box of 25 or 50 envelopes that would have more than sufficed for my purposes (I only had 9 students).  However, I noticed that the store was also selling a box of 1,000 envelopes for approximately five bucks.  How, my brain reasoned, could I turn down such a deal?  I'd have so many envelopes!  Perhaps I could get into the secondary envelope resale market!

The picture above shows you how many envelopes I still have, seven years later.  While it is true that I will not have to buy envelopes for the foreseeable future, I've also had to cart this box around with me every time I've moved in those seven years (three times).  Additionally, as our condo is pretty small, I don't really have a place just for envelopes, so they just end up sitting in a closet, or, as they are now, on a stack of papers near my computer tower.

While I might have received a good deal, I've been stuck with these things for a long time, and I'll be stuck with them for even longer still.

Have you ever bought something like my envelopes, that seemed like a good deal, but ended up just taking up space?  Let me know in the comments.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Happy 7/11 Day!

If you didn't know, every year, 7/11 stores around the country offer a free 7.11 ounce Slurpee to anyone who comes into their shops on 7/11. That's today!

This is a tradition that I love every year. It's time to head out and get some of that sweet, sweet Slurpee goodness.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Google Is Your Friend

It is becoming second nature to me now, but whenever I plan on making a purchase, I always do a google search to see if I can find any coupons for what I am planning on buying. In the last couple of weeks, I have printed out and used coupons for Jiffy Lube, Borders, and Barnes and Noble to name just a few. It may only be five bucks off here or thirty percent off there, but if you are constantly saving money on purchases, you are easily stretching your buying power further and further (not to mention the extra money you should be socking away every month for a rainy day).

Here are a couple of good sites that have coupons to stores that I frequent (in no particular order) that I have come across in my own google searches:

Pocket Deal

Coupon Album

Tech Bargains

Coupon Cabin

Wow Coupons

Monday, January 5, 2009

A San Diego Recommendation

I was trying to come up with a fun place to go on a date with my wife a few weeks ago, and, while walking to Borders bookstore in the Gaslamp Quarter, I passed what looked like a quaint little place for wine-tasting. I told myself I would go back at my first opportunity.

This last Saturday, I took my wife to Bacchus Wine Market for a tasting. We were treated to 8 different mystery wines and were asked to guess which varietal they were. As my wife and I do not have, shall we say, very discriminating palates, we each were only able to come up with one correct answer a piece. Nevertheless, it was a lot fun, and at $15 a piece, it was definitely something we could afford to do again.

The man who ran the tasting said that they only did the mystery tasting every six weeks or so, so I am looking forward to going back and learning a bit more about the wines I will be tasting next time, as not much was said about them during this experience.

The Simpsons!

Amazon was briefly offering most of the seasons of the Simpsons on dvd for $14.99. It looks like that deal is now gone, but a couple of seasons are still being offered for $19.99. Here are some links to those seasons.

The Simpsons - The Complete Seventh Season

The Simpsons - The Complete Eighth Season

The Simpsons - The Complete Ninth Season

The Simpsons - The Complete Tenth Season