I took advantage of some online after-Christmas sales today.
Things have been low-key since Christmas.
I lost one of the backs to my diamond earrings that needed to be replaced, so I stopped at the jewelry store. I wasn’t about to pay $90 for a new platinum back, so I switched to white gold for $20.
While I was there, I also had my wedding rings replated with rhodium and now they look just as shiny as new. Well worth the $36.
If you’re like us, your holiday celebrations are spread out over a two week period, you inevitably forget to buy for someone on your list, and you’re already over your Christmas budget.
Thankfully, you can get all of your last minute gifts from Kmart where they stock over 25,000 gifts for under $25. We’re not talking white elephant gifts, either. No scratchy scarfs, pot holders, or VHS players. We’re talking Craftsman tools, Martha Stewart home furnishing, LeapFrog games, and Joe Boxer pajamas. Quality gifts that don’t look like last minute, drug store purchases!
If all of your Christmas festivities are finished, and you received some of those white elephant gifts, make sure to get the receipt and return them so that you can go to Kmart and get yourself some of those 25,000 gifts under $25! I know I’d love to get a set of Martha Stewart tall nickel candle holders as much as I’d love to give a set!
Whether you’re giving or getting, Kmart has stocked quality products are reasonable prices for over 100 years, and there’s 25,000 reasons to do your last minute holiday shopping at Kmart!
While listening to NPR last week, my husband asked me what a Ponzi Scheme was, and I was excited to explain because I found the background story so interesting when I first learned about it in college.
A Ponzi Scheme is an investment operation that pays returns to investors with the investments of new investors instead of from a true profit. Eventually the earnings from new investors is less than the payouts needed, so the entire system collapses.
Charles Ponzi came to the US from Italy in 1903, and while he wasn’t the first to implement the scheme, it was named after him because the amount of money he took in made him headline news. Ponzi started by taking advantage of the price difference between international reply coupons and post stamps and became a millionaire within months, luring over 40,000 investors with the promise of a 50% ROI in 45 days.
It’s a tangled web, and Ponzi was only able to pay back about 2/3 of the investors, which is more than some of the current Ponzi Schemes!
Are we talking New Year’s resolutions yet? Good, because I’m excited to take a different approach this year. I’m mixing things up and making resolutions to do and not to do certain things.
I think those are pretty simple, straightforward do’s and don’ts. Do you have your 2009 goals and/or resolutions ready?
My sister and I ventured out the morning after Christmas and were shocked at how empty the stores were! We had some icy weather, which could have contributed, but it was almost a pleasant shopping experience. We didn’t see any fights over the last pop up tv like we have in previous years!
Just like every year, I stop at Target to get next year’s Christmas cards 50% off and pick up a storage container for my newest holiday decorations.
Lots of stuff in there. Even though we called off Christmas, there were ome last minute presents and wrapping that were needed, a visit to a quack of a doctor, bills, car maintenance supplies, and our weakness, Costco.
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