One of the things that always scares me about ordering things over the Internet is having to pay for the shipping. Especially if there is a chance you may have to return the item and have to pay return shipping too! Many times you can get great deals over the Internet, but the bulk of the cost is the shipping and handling charges!
That’s why I really like to shop at Zappos. Especially for something that has to be tried on, like shoes or clothing. They pay for shipping, both ways! And they have a 365 day return period! There have been a few times when I’ve ordered something from Zappos and had to return it for a different size, and their shipping speed was fantastic! Their customer service cannot be beat. The return routine was very fast and easy. And to be honest, when I was doing some price comparison of items, their prices were right in line with other companies that were charging for shipping.
I’m afraid to tell my wife that I need a new pair of slippers. A couple of years ago she bought me a really nice, really expensive pair of slippers from LLBean. At the time she was working there and got a good discount on their merchandise, so she bought the whole family LLBean slippers for Christmas that year.
At first I didn’t wear them at all. I don’t know why, I think that I just tucked them into the closet and forgot about them – they probably got buried underneath something, but about a year ago I found them and decided to start wearing them. Well I spilled some soup on them a couple of months ago and made a huge mess of them. My wife told me to only spot-clean them, that they could not be machine washed. I insisted on putting them through the washer and dryer. My wife warned me that would ruin them, but I got all “manly” and insisted that they were fine.
Well, washing them DID ruin them, but I couldn’t admit it to my wife and let her know she was right. The inside lining is totally ruined and even though I’ve tried to remove the lining, I just can’t. They hurt my feet to wear them. So now I want a new pair just like them and I’m afraid to ask my wife to order another pair for me. I just don’t want to see her give me that “I told you so!” look.
For those of us who are not interested in investing in precious metals, or the stock market, there are some decent options close to home. You can invest in CDs or simply open a savings account, or an interest-bearing checking account. CD rates being offered by banks change frequently – sometimes it seems to me that the bank CD rates have changed from one day to the next, but to be perfectly honest I don’t check the rates every single day. I’ve just noticed when I do go into my bank that they have posted the best CD rates on a board for the customers to look at.
I’m sure that bank rates differ from one institution to another, so it is a great idea to compare bank CDs online. One website that offers these comparisons is the selectcdrates.com website. Along with offering quotes on rates from various states, the website also has a link to a tips section that has a lot of good advice on handling financial matters.
I’ve been trying to mentor some young people on job-hunting. I see how earnest they are, wanting to find work, and I try to help them out as much as I can. Whenever I hear of a job opening somewhere, I fill them in. I know that a lot of jobs are landed through social networking, and many jobs are not even advertised in any form. These folks have been looking for years, and are not on unemployment. It’s a miracle that they have not turned to crime.
I give them pep talks and help them work on their resume, and tell them I have confidence in them. It is so sad to see how hard they are working trying to find a job and they get turned away time and time again. It is very sad to see – they are disillusioned and discouraged. One of the things that upsets me is that these discouraged and disillusioned job-seekers are not even counted as part of the “unemployment figures” that the government releases. So when the government says that the economy is looking up because unemployment is down, that is just a lie. Very sad.
Are you a die hard football fan? Are you related to one? My father was a die hard football fan. He loved to watch the nfl Sunday football show on television every weekend. I’m sorry to say that he died before we found out about the nfl sunday ticket program through directtv. If you have directtv, you can get a great deal on their nfl sunday ticket schedule.
Don’t know what the nfl sunday ticket is? It is a package that allows you to watch up to 14 NFL games every Sunday throughout the football season just by paying their monthly nfl sunday ticket price. If we had this service when my father was still around, he would have thought he’d died and gone to heaven!
Computers and/or Internet, General life, Shopping | Dean | 
July 31, 2009 4:14 pm | 
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