05.22The Spree
Rawr. I’m actually too tired to blog, but I have blog news - mini shopping spree news!
Now, when I say shopping spree, I’m sure it’ll conjure visions of designer shoes and bags, expensive make up and electronics, but I don’t live the newest iPod lifestyle, so you’ll have to make due with Laota and my crappy, $93 dollar shopping spree for useful things we needed.
We got oodles. We’ve finally gotten our Brita filter pitcher, which we’ve been saving up for. If we’d have bought it at Pamida, like we planned and were saving up to do, we would have ended up paying $30 for the pitcher and $30 for 3 replacement filters. Instead we went to Amazon.com and, due partially to fact that I’ve signed up for a 1 month free trial of Amazon Prime, saved money right off the bat. $11 for the pitcher with 1 filter and $14.90 for the 4 replacements. No shipping, ended up spending only $26 on the whole kit and caboodle, which means we spent less than half of what we would have spent if we’d bought it in town. Yay us!
Our second major buy was a new rice cooker and veggie steamer from the Wolfgang Puck line that we bought for about $27 bucks, shipping and all. This was a big one, we’ve needed a new one for awhile to save time in packing bento, plus Solstice is coming up and it’ll cut down on meal prep time.
We also bought some hand dipped incense for our everyday rituals and also for the big holidays coming up, and some new tea lights for the burners and the shrines. We rounded our purchases out with a few new books on sale at Amazon and the newly released Square Pegs DVD boxset. Those were just unneeded purchases, I know, but all our bills are paid this month - I’ll be damned if we don’t buy a few things we want for once, lol.
Yay for shopping sprees! Even if it is for stuff you need.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I love shopping sprees! And yeah buying useful stuff is way better than buying designer shoes and bags etc. You can buy so much more with less money. Yay for being resourceful and going to amazon.com. That place is pretty amazing. Sometimes you get better deals there than on ebay. That’s a lot of stuff for $93!
May 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Shopping sprees are so much fun! Amazon is the greatest online store. I get basically all my stuff from there, books, shoes, movies, even clothes. It’s awesome and I usually save tons of money from buying there.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I’ve yet to ever have a shopping spree with regards to designer stuff. lol Anime however, yeah, I’ve done a couple of those sprees. ^_^
Congrats on getting some necessary stuff though.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Sounds like a productive shopping spree! At least you put the money to good use. I don’t always do that when I have spare money to burn.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Yay for shopping sprees! ^_^ And that was responsible buying too
It’s nice to be able to see where your hard-earned money goes - I think that’s much more satisfying. 
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May 29th, 2008 at 8:40 am
That’s generally how my shopping sprees go — buying stuff I need. But yeah, sometimes you definitley need to buy something for yourself. I usually feel guilty, but whatever.. what’s life without getting a little something for yourself every once in a while?
Anyway, enjoy your new items, and it’s good you were to able to get some good deals!
May 30th, 2008 at 3:06 am
I love getting deals and sales and the Brita one you made is pretty sweet!
Hope you enjoy all of your new things!
May 30th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Yay for shopping sprees, they are better if they are for stuff you need then you don’t have the guilt afterwards.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I’m in love with Amazon.com =] Is there anything you can’t find there? =P
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 am