Sorry for being largely absent today; sometimes real life has to take precedence (pesky real life). You know I’d rather be here with you, right?
So, um, Amazon has this Plush Mr. Bill Dog Toy available for $6 shipped with Prime (look in the right-hand “more buying choices” column for the deal).
Is $6 the best price ever for a dog toy? Probably not.
Am I going to buy one for Licorice for Christmas, anyway, because it shrieks, “Ohhhhhh nooooo!” when squeezed? You betcha.
… go read the reviews on this Giant Swiss Army Knife at Amazon.
My husband did a dramatic reading of several of them for me. We’re still giggling.
Maybe it’s because I slept late and I’m not fully through my coffee, but I can’t stop laughing at today’s Target Daily Deals.
What a wonderful gift for the man you love: A great price on a Mangroomer Do-It-Yourself Back Shaver.
Mmmmmmph.
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop laughing at today’s t-shirt deal on Tanga. Keep Calm and Eat Bacon? It’s wrong, I know.
Still. I might need one.
I’m torn, folks. I mean, on the one hand, I think that this Amazon 3D HDTV bundle deal is probably an excellent value—buy the Vizio television (which is about $100 cheaper than anyone else currently has it), and get two pairs of 3D glasses to use with it for free (a $125 value). Truly, this is a reasonable deal on hot new technology.
But… I’ve got to say, I have zero desire for a 3D television. None. When I take the kids to see a 3D movie, I always feel vaguely seasick, afterward. I don’t feel like being able to see something coming directly at my head enhances my user experience, either.
The commercials would have us believe that consumers are flocking to this new technology, but I don’t know anyone who’s running out to go 3D. What do you think?
Please tell me this is a typo. Or that I’ve stumbled into an alternate universe. Just do whatever it takes to convince me that Amazon isn’t actually selling chocolate-covered lentils. I love chocolate. I’m pretty fond of lentils. But this is an unholy union, my friends.
Blech.
Apparently Amazon—ever helpful!—has seen fit to make sure you have access to only the finest white elephant gift ideas for your holiday season needs.
I… uhhhh… well. Good luck with that.
So it’s possible that I’m, uh, shopping for my dog. Stop laughing. I mean, Christmas is coming, and Santa always brings a few things for the dog’s stocking (yes, the dog has a stocking, hush), and I just thought I’d do a little bit of browsing around.
Which brought me to this platypus. At first I was all, Great, she loves stuffed toys, and a platypus is kind of amusing, so that’s fine. But. But. Apparently this thing is… filled with squeaky eggs? Which the dog is supposed to extract from an elastic opening “on the bottom”…?
I feel dirty.
And yet, I’d be lying if I told you I didn’t have one in my cart.
On the one hand: Oh, look! Buy.com has the Nerf N-Strike Elite Bundle for Wii available for just $19 shipped, which is a full $10 less than the current price at Amazon. Yay for sales!
On the other hand: It’s a game that comes with a Nerf gun that both, y’know, works as a Nerf gun and can have the Wii remote inserted and used in conjunction with the video game. And it shoots Nerf dart things. Yay for having your awesome flat-screen TV smudged or maybe even broken with darts!
So, uh, yeah. Good luck with this one.
Now that I’ve signed up for my holiday-time Prime trial, it’s possible I’m spending a little more on Amazon than is healthy warranted. Ahem. But, you know, I shop more so that you don’t have to. Or something.
Anyway, this morning I got an email about kitchen products, so I was poking around, and I do think I’ve found both the heights and the depths of what Amazon Kitchen has to offer.
First, the bad news: Have you ever been whipping up some scrambled eggs and thought to yourself, “Self, what these eggs need is more rodent!”? Of course you have! You’ll want to pick up this two-whisk set where both whisks appear to have squirrels embedded in their cores. Because that’s not disturbing in the slightest.
The good news, however: How utterly adorable and awesome are these Measuring Matroyshkas? I love them! They’re only marked down a little—currently they cost just over $10/set—but they are available as part of the 4-for-3 promotion, just in case you’re doing other shopping or want to stuff stockings with them because they’re so cool.
Yes, ’tis the season for me to become utterly obsessed with Amazon. But when there’s great finds like this (well, the measuring cups, anyway—the whisks are still skeeving me out a little), can you blame me?
My name is Mir, and I'm a bargainholic. (In my spare time, I'm also a