In January of this year I kept hearing about Pinterest but had no idea what it was or how it worked. I had friends that kept sending me invites to join so finally I broke down and joined. P
The 23rd annual ‘Friends of the Abilene Public Library’ book sale at the Abilene Civic Center is scheduled for June 7-10. The sale includes over one hundred thousand books, videos and cassette tapes, DVDs, CDs, records and more.
I appreciate it when someone approaches me with a pointer that helps save me some cash. I love sharing a money-saving secret whenever I can, too. There’s something about a shared deal that can bring people closer together and form a team mentality. Maybe we can call it a “savings bond”.
My wife Brenda came across a new way to clear out our “yard sale” pile in the garage, and do a little shopping for herself, without leaving the house. Abilenee Swap Meet is the name, but I call it Brenda’s new addiction.
Yard sales are an Abilene weekend staple pretty much any time of the year, but April through September is clearly the busy season. So here are some tips and inside pointers to making your yard sale experience work for you.
I couldn’t believe it either, my favorite sporting goods store in Abilene is closing it’s doors for good on May 14th, 2012. Store manager Ralph Zamarippa says “we’ve known for some time that Abilene was one of the stores that’s been on the list of stores closing in the Big 5 chain, but we couldn’t say anything”. The San Angelo store will be closing as well according to a visiting manager from the Lubbock store Roy Rocha.
If you have a baby, are expecting a baby, know someone with a baby or just like babies this weekends Baby Expo is perfect for you.
The event will be at Primetime Entertainment Center this Saturday.
Extroverted people who are open to new experiences are more inclined to spend more of their disposable income on experiences, such as a new restaurant, or a travel expedition, rather than shoes, clothes, or cars, a new study finds.
Ah, the warm heart-felt feelings that Christmas brings upon us, you know, the “comfort and joy” cozy feelings of giving a wonderful gift to that special someone. It is said that, “it is better to give than to receive”, unless we’re in tough economic times, it’s better to return that gift you bought and let them go without. The tougher the times the higher the return rate, and this years return rate is higher than last years. Retailers will refund over $53 billion to consumers this year. Stores will refund 9.9 cents for every dollar taken in this year, that is up from 9.8 cents last year.
I had only heard about it, and I think I’ve got a daughter that participates in this insane retail ritual called “Extreme Couponing,” but I recently found myself stranded behind two ladies who took nearly 30 minutes just to check out at the local Wal-Mart Super Center. I tried to move to the only other checkout that was open at 2 in the morning, but there was another extreme couponer (her friend) in that lane as well. What I saw was eye opening and unbelievable, nearly $400.00 in groceries and the young lady only paid $77 after her coupons.
Body scanning technology that is in use at all of America’s airports is now being used in the commercial retail world. The new “Me-Ality” (a play off of the word reality) body scanner is not looking for guns or explosives, but rather to get your real size for a better fit and to help cut down on your shopping time at the mall.
Black Friday is a day where everything we gave thanks for and asked God to make us a better person at, all goes out the window. There is nothing worse than listening to women call each other names curse, claw, scratch and fight over a few items that are on sale for a few hours and for a limited few people. This was not limited to just women, it’s that women were the ones I witnessed doing all the a fore mentioned and more. It appears that this “black Friday deal shopping” has become a sort of full contact sport and has men and from what I mostly saw, women using fowl and threatening language. What has happened to us? Why have we allowed a few stores to lure us into this type of “Jerry Springer mentality?”
