Do you have the time?
Ask anyone who knows me; I break watches.
I will break them in a car, and I will break them from afar. I will break them standing still, I will break them while the kids are ill. I will break them in the house, I will break them while I grouse. You get the idea. It drives me insane to be without an accurate timepiece, and yet, I manage to break every watch I own.
Do not ask me how. It’s a gift.
Anyway, you might think the solution would be to buy a really high-end watch that won’t break, but you’d be wrong. I can break anything. Trust me. So my solution is to buy a succession of cheap watches so that I’m not too sad when they stop working.
That’s why I’m all over today’s Daily Deal at Graveyard Mall. $4.99 and free shipping? Yeah, baby.
A great, cheap little digital camera
Much like the unicorns of ancient folklore, affordable but high-quality digital cameras remain something of a mystery to most of us. There are certainly plenty of options to choose from; surely there’s a perfect little camera out there for not very much money. Right? Right??
Well, maybe.
Tanyetta writes:
Hi Mir,
My husband took my camera to Iraq with him and I need a back up camera until he gets back.
I’m interested in purchasing a digital camera. What brand would you recommend?
(Tanyetta forgot the obligatory ego-stroking portion of her question, but we will pardon her for this because her husband is off serving the country. Best wishes for his safe and speedy return, by the way.) read more…
If you like it in leather
Today only, Wilsons Leather is offering free shipping on every order. Just make sure you select Ground Shipping, and it should be free.
Check out the Clearance Section for the best deals; many of the items on clearance will be reduced an additional 30% when placed in your cart. (Yes, they’re labelled. You don’t have to just guess.)
But I don’t care how good of a deal it is, if you buy this I am going to laugh at you. Fair warning.
And maybe I’ll give you Kira’s molasses cookie recipe
Do you have one of these? Technically, I suppose I don’t, either. But I have a friend who never uses hers, and so it’s been on permanent loan at my house for… ummm… about three years. It’s a wonderful arrangement for all involved, because she doesn’t really have room for it at her place and I actually pet it and stroke it and call it George and use it for cookies way more often than I should. It’s the Cadillac of mixers, and your dough will thank you (even if your waistline doesn’t).
This mixer retails for $369.99, and you can get one of these refurbished ones for just $129.99 with free Super Saver Shipping. Plus, you can use coupon code FALLSAVE to take off another $25—bringing your total for a genuine KitchenAid mixer down to just $104.99! You can’t see me, but trust me—I am positively swooning with the excitement, right now. And dreaming of those molasses cookies….
[Edited to add: Whoops!! I mailed her but I forgot to say thanks in this post. Thanks, Jennifer, for the heads up!]
Trade-in for luscious lashes
Thanks to Katie for alerting me to this nifty little Cover Girl deal:
Bring your old department store mascara to one of the tour stops and receive a FREE LashExact!
Not one of the stops on the tour? No problem. Fill out the offer form and mail it in.
You know you have a mostly-empty tube of ancient mascara way in the back of a drawer, somewhere. I don’t know if LashExact is any good, but the price certainly is right. (And, um, Queen Latifah sure is pretty.)
I think they’re trying to tell me something
Do you ever feel like the Amazon Recommendations based on your buying/ browsing are a little… well… Big Brother-ish? Most of the time I manage to just browse through them and go, “Huh. Okay,” and that’s that.
But this morning I’m feeling a little uncomfortable.
My top 4 recommended products from Amazon this morning:
1) Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction—and Get It Published (Paperback)
3) The Complete Tightwad Gazette (Paperback)
What’s wrong with my feet?? (Perhaps they don’t think enough like my editor?) Hmph.
Free nagging
Know what’s embarrassing? When someone walks out of a bathroom at my house and I automatically yell, “WASH YOUR HANDS!” This is something I do all the time. And most of the time, it’s okay, because it’s one of my (small) offspring. But occasionally, it’s an adult guest, and then I feel a little silly.
But it’s a special brand of Mommy Tourette’s and I’ve never been able to stop.
Until now!
I just ordered some free handwashing clings from Bob Evans. September is National Food Safety Month, and Bob Evans is giving away these handy, residue-free reminder clings to anyone who wants them. Slap ’em up on the mirror in the bathroom for a (silent) reminder that 20 seconds of warm soapy water is the way to go.
This fits in with my favorite parenting advice
My first favorite parenting mantra is “This too shall pass.”
My second is “Just drink more.”
(I’m kidding. Usually.)
Thanks to dcfullest for alerting me to this opportunity for American bloggers to get free booze. (What’s better than booze? Free booze!)
Read the details to see if you qualify for a free sample of Mankas Hill Vineyards 2004 Amelie Cabernet Sauvignon – Merlot. Personally, I think it needs a longer name, don’t you?
The blizzards are coming, the blizzards are coming
Well, okay. The blizzards aren’t coming to everyone. But for those of us who live in the cold, there are few purchases we consider so carefully as the selection of our winter coats. After all, with the cost of heating oil what it is… we may be wearing the things 24 hours a day.
So Jean’s question was not entirely unexpected:
Mir,
You give such great advice and you are so pretty! I need some help. I need to buy a new winter coat (I know should have bought it at the end of last season, but it seemed ok then). Where can I get a long winter coat that won’t cost me a fortune?
Of course, now I’m feeling the pressure. I don’t want to make a suggestion and then have Jean sending me nasty email in February saying that she’s too cold. You just never know. read more…
Woot! MP3 player
Check out the Daily Woot! today if you’re in the market for a little MP3 player. Perhaps that perfect something for a tween’s stocking this Christmas…?
It’s no iPod, but you’re not gonna find an iPod for under $30, either.
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