four stickers short of a Tigger

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, you get to redeem it for a soft toy (this time).

It’s a great marketing gimmick, of course, because the girls are asking me to buy more so they’ll get their Tigger soft toy. I bought RM137 worth of stuff today and we’re still four stickers short. Hmm.

What’s worse is they’re running out of soft toys! The cupboard is bare, almost!

The girls were horrified and even more determined that I should go to another Guardian outlet tomorrow to shop more and get that Tigger before it’s all gone!

Sigh, more shopping?

time for a new clock

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 like the huge clunky ones with elaborate trimmings. Just something simple. Let’s see how it goes .

monster laptop

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 swivel to the sides.

The price tag is a knockout too. But you get toned arms for free carrying around its 15 lb weight.

night markets

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 scale versions of morning markets, but I think they’ve caught up in terms of size and variety. Haggling is half the fun but these days, even the night markets seem to have gone fixed price. Ack!

sun, sea and stores

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 biggest challenge of all for me is, of course, the haggling.

Ten pairs of shoes and five travel bags of stuff (from one weekend of shopping) later, I’m laughing. Can’t wait to go again!

Gosh, if I’d known about Crewed Yacht Charters then, I’d have gotten together a bunch of girl friends and gone island hopping (or should we call it island shopping?) at leisure .

smart.a.holics

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 around the mall with a vacuum cleaner sucking up everything we see without so much as a blink.

Well, they’ll be surprised how many of us have built-in financial consolidation software installed and running in our heads !

See, there are shopaholics and then there are smart.a.holics (or smarter.holics, if you prefer).