Gimme A Break

An entire morning of shopping has left me completely zonked out today. There’s a huge sale going on and I only shop when the sales are on. I don’t believe in paying retail price if I can help it. Working from home and managing a household means I have to tighten my purse strings whenever possible.

This morning, I was like a child in a toy store. I had so many things on my list especially clothing. But clothing is probably the hardest to buy since I’m quite picky and the lines are long at both the fitting rooms and at checkout. So I ended up spending on every other thing but clothing, which wasn’t how I’d planned it!! But so be it. At least I enjoyed the retail therapy.

• long weekend
• self-confessed shopaholic
• a leg up
• why you should shop on weekdays if you can
• lines, lines, lines

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Over the Chinese New Year season, I met many relatives I haven’t seen in a long time and one of them is a cousin who recently graduated as a doctor. Wow, talk about the bold and the brainy!

She was telling us about her course and her new job, showing us photos of her at work conducting her rounds and so on. And what really surprised me was the clothes she was wearing which don’t resemble anything a doctor normally wears. Man, those koi uniforms are in bright prints and ever so chic I would never have known she’s a doctor!

Apparently these days, medical professionals have turned fashionable wearing these brightly colored koi scrubs at work. Even the koi scrub pants are in bright plain colors. I’m shocked and impressed! They look like something you would wear to lunch with a girl friend, not to a medical job, know what I mean?

It’s almost revolutionary, I say, seeing as how we’ve always equated medical professionals with rather drab colors. Obviously I was curious as to where she gets this fashionable attire and she says she and her colleagues get their stuff from Scrubs and Beyond. So yeah, it’s all good!

• camos and cardigans I don’t understand
• blabbermouth
• one boo-boo makes two
• trendy and wearable
• the necklace

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I’ve recently had to spend money on a new washing machine and obviously I’m none too happy about the expense. If I’d had more time to shop around, I might’ve saved some money and time.

If my kitchen sink should break down, I know just the place where I won’t have to pay through my nose for undermount kitchen sinks! Mr Direct does same day deliveries and they’re a trusted source for their brand of kitchen sinks.

I’m just happy I found out about them so I can keep them on file just in case. Working from home means I have a tight budget to keep so whenever I find a great source for stuff I might need, in it goes into my favorites folder .

• a small price for peace of mind
• dealing with the business jitters
• full of initiative
• tale of my kitchen faucet
• flashy flash templates

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I have a wedding to attend at the end of this month and I desperately need to do some shopping. The bride is a cousin of mine and I’m thinking of getting her an invicta swiss watch as a wedding gift. Do you think that’s a good idea?

My son needs a new pair of shoes and he’s been wanting a pair of asics sneakers like forever . So I guess he needs to take a look at what designs they have.

As for me, I’ve been wanting to check out some hush puppies shoes for myself. They’re very comfortable and goodness knows I need shoes that don’t bite for the amount of running I do to keep up with things in this household.

So that’s my plan for the weekend. I could get squished at the mall or I could save myself some trouble by shopping online at become.com. What do you think?

• this weekend, we shop layers
• wedding daze
• my handy travel tips
• shoes vanished!
• planning our getaway

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As a work at home mom, I’m constantly minding the purse strings and looking for ways to cut back and save. So you can almost be sure that my new best friends are discount codes which, if I remember to use them (ahem!), can really make a big difference in how much I have left over each month of the little perks in life .

I love shopping at the mall but when time is of the essence or in entire shortage, the next best thing is to shop online. Finding the best prices for the best product (that I want and love) is always my biggest challenge.

One of the sites I frequent is Unbeatable. Yes, that’s both the name of the site as well as the description of what’s on the site. They have reviews, news, prices and best of all, Discount Codes all in one place! I can’t tell you what a blessing that is, and how it saves me hours of surfing the net to find something I need.

These Unbeatable guys have done all the donkey work of trawling the internet for all the lowest prices and best discount codes to use. What more can a busy mom ask for?

• slow but at least I’m blogging again
• do these businesses measure up?
• price comparisons made easy for moms
• living slimmer and healthier
• hotelicopter.com makes hotel content portable

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• save additional 10% off already discounted printer supplies
• you can bid 4 prizes
• no more freebies
• software for your intranet
• wedding daze

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I went out in the freakin’ storm to buy butter. Well, actually it hadn’t started raining when I left but it was pouring by the time I got to the baking supply store where I usually buy my butter. It costs less than the one at the grocery store for the same brand, so why not? It’s not that I drive there just to buy my supply. I only stop by if I happen to be at the vicinity.

And it’s not like I like buying from this store either. All the staff there have long, sour faces. They only talk and laugh amongst themselves and if you ask them a question, they ignore you and give you curt answers.

If you need them to get you something, they’ll make you wait and wait knowing full well that your car is probably double-parked outside. The place is a parking nightmare! Glad I got my butter today, a lot of it, so I won’t have to go back too often   !

• the middle finger
• gotta have that cake
• grrr..oogle
• endless errands
• logistics brainwave

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The weather’s been cranky these days. Some days, it’s cool so I make the kids wear extra clothing but then it starts warming up again. So I’m thinking we should go shopping for clothes that we can layer.

I rather like the idea of layering though the weather here is usually consistently warm so we’ve never had the opportunity for much of that. But my kids think it’s really cool the fashion trends celebs set by piling on layer after layer of clothes and accessories.

I love shopping but I’m always trying to save. Good thing though is that my daughters and I can share any women’s clothing we buy so I guess that’s good and I shouldn’t complain.

Hmm, do I smell a weekend coming up? Shopping time! Yay, can’t wait. Last weekend, we bought a pair of shoes each, so let’s see how we do this weekend.

• frenzy weekend ahead
• the early bird
• plan for the weekend
• parents are poorer
• gotta have those camo cargo shorts

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Much as I love freebies, I’m always a little wary when someone offers me free stuff. Guess I was brought up believing there’s no such thing as a free lunch . Actually I’d be much happier to pay a small sum than nothing at all.

Helping DH find some affordable business cards, I found some free business cards that sound too good to be true. Somehow I feel much more comfortable opting for 123print.com’s offer of 30 customizable full-color business cards at $1.99. I can certainly live with that .

They offer free uploads of thousands of card designs to choose from. Sounds great to me because I’m not about to try my utterly un-artistic hand at designing anything, no way, no thanks .

• do you accept credit cards?
• the search is over
• out of ink
• taking the headache out of gift-shopping
• closed again?

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I confess, I’ve been trawling the malls. There’s just too many mid-year sales tempting me… and you know what, about every fifth woman I bump into at the mall seems to be wearing a tube…

… so I’m guessing (just a wild guess ) that tubes must be in this season. This is a really classic tube dress that I found at iThreads where they offer free shipping on designer brands so you can save some money there.

Go check them out if you have some event coming up or even if you just want to deck your spring closet with a few trendy in-season pieces. I love the shimmery grape color of this dress, don’t you?

• great timing for a watch
• save additional 10% off already discounted printer supplies
• brown
• last in, first out
• fancy dress contest

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