I’ve been hearing on the news, and reading articles about the many businesses that are laying off employees, closing stores and branch offices, and so many are just downright going completely out of business! It certainly makes the average consumer very uneasy about spending any money on anything that is not absolutely necessary!
I’m afraid that this is going to turn into a vicious cycle, with a downward spiral that is going to be really hard to pull back. I hope the economic stimulus package does the trick!
Tonight we were all feeling too lazy to cook, so we decided to cook up the DiGiorno’s frozen pizza we have had in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It was the rising crust three meat pizza. I had my doubts about whether or not I would like it, but I have to tell you that it was really very good. So good in fact that I’ve put it on the shopping list to buy more. And chances are pretty good that we’ll be eating that pizza a lot more in the future instead of going to the pizza restaurant that costs double the amount that the frozen pizza cost!
I’ve tried their thin crispy crust pizza and didn’t like it at all, so I’m really glad I like their rising crust pizza! It’s nice to know I can have a few of them in the freezer for future times we don’t feel like cooking anything complicated!
I was just reading on a great website called livescience.com that there may be paperless receipts in our future! When I first started reading it, I was thinking that I am a receipt freak and I don’t know how this would work, and if I would like it or not.
According to the article, the merchants will be able to email your receipts to you instead of handing you a paper one. The good part of this is that you would then not worry about losing your receipts, or having shoe boxes full of them. You could store them on a thumb drive or memory card! This would free up a lot of space. The downside of this, though, would be that I often like to look at my receipt before I leave the store to find out for sure that I was not overcharged for something. I frequently find that I AM overcharged for something and then I want to fix it before I leave the store. It is a real pain to discover an error like that after I get home and then have to drive all the way back to the store to resolve the issue!
So, I am not convinced that paperless receipts would be a good thing for me.
I’ve been thinking about taking up square dancing. Before I do that, I need some nice looking boots. A friend of mine told me to go to the Town & Country Leather Store. He told me that “they make a real fancy pair that you polish up and your feet won’t get sore and you won’t make a fool out of yourself on the stage.” He was just kidding of course. Well I went there and tried on five or six pairs. I was fussy what they looked like, but in the end I went back to the first pair that I picked out.
Jeannie wandered off down another aisle and all of a sudden she found something that she liked, so whammo – it was a double sale for this guy. I didn’t mind – she looked hot in them. But then again, she looks hot in anything!
The employees there were extremely nice. They work with you and provided very friendly service. They told me that if I wasn’t happy with those boots that I could bring them back within the first two weeks of purchase.
They even called me to ask how I liked them and I told them that I liked them just fine even though I hadn’t been out dancing yet. I was looking for something that I could dance in for two or three hours and feel like I hadn’t danced at all, and I think that these will do it!
