four stickers short of a Tigger
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under rewards & rebates | Leave a Comment
If you’re a shopaholic like me, you’ll want to subscribe to my RSS feed to find out about the latest in shopping.Guardian’s running a sticker collection campaign which ends July 4.
It’s the one where they give you a sticker for every x amount spent. You stick it on the card and when it fills up, [...]
shopping with coupons
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under sales & discounts | Leave a Comment
I used to be a coupon collector in my college days - cutting them out and organizing them by expiry dates. You can see that my shopping instinct dates way back .
It’s gotten much easier these days with online shopping coupons where all you do is enter the code and enjoy the discount. It’s [...]
time for a new clock
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under gadgets & electronics | Leave a Comment
I’m off to shop for a new clock this weekend. Ours has finally decided to go bye-bye and I’ve been looking around but not finding any that I like so far.
I guess my best bet is still to go back to my regular watch shop and see if they have any contemporary ones. I don’t [...]
holiday hypermarket
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under travel & transport | Leave a Comment
Okay, so you want to join the summer holiday makers? I guess this is the time when most people choose to travel. So if you don’t want to be disappointed, start shopping for holiday packages early.
Have you tried the Holiday Hypermarket? They’re one of the best places to find cheap flights and holiday packages. From [...]
monster laptop
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under gadgets & electronics | Leave a Comment
I saw this monstrosity of a laptop, the HP Pavilion HDX, a couple of weeks back the day it first launched. Wow! is all I can say if the speechless could speak.
With 2.4GHz of sheer CPU power and 4GB of RAM, this thing is set to fly. It also comes with a whopping 20″ monitor that can [...]
photos ala Picasso
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under gift ideas home & garden technology | Leave a Comment
As you guys know, Steev is a photo buff. Everywhere we go, he’s armed with his trusty camera and snapping away. And so are a whole lot of you guys out there, I’m sure.
So here’s something y’all should know about - a website called appropriate PhotoFiddle which lets you fiddle with your photos to turn [...]
night markets
Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under food & drink | Leave a Comment
Most of my friends go to the weekly night markets for their groceries. I would go more often if I didn’t hate the parking problems so much.
But there’s no denying night markets are a real blessing to working folks who don’t have the time to shop at the morning markets.
Night markets used to be smaller [...]
sun, sea and stores
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under shopping places travel & transport | Leave a Comment
Confession, on my last trip to the tropical Indonesian island of Bali, I practically bought up the island. The place is brimming with little stores selling all kinds of everything as prices that are unheard of.
If you’ve been there, you’ll know that it’s impossible not to walk into a store and not buy anything. The [...]
smart.a.holics
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under talk shop | Leave a Comment
Shopping is an art no matter how you look at it. Every day, shopaholics around the world walk the fine line between buying everything in sight and busting their credit cards.
It may not seem like we care too much about how many shopping bags we haul home from a day out. Guys think we walk [...]
one caterpillar burger comin’ right up
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under food & drink | Leave a Comment
I love grocery shopping as much as I love to cook. The two go hand in hand.
A busy mom with an ever-hungry pack of school-goers to feed, I’m constantly on the prowl for fresh food ideas. Yes, you can see me now, can’t you? A lioness on the prowl for food.
So can you imagine my [...]
