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If there’s one thing you can count, it is that fashion never stops changing.  It seems like everything I buy is out of “style” in just a few weeks or months.  That’s why I have stopped caring so much and switched to Costco’s Kirkland white t-shirts and khaki pants.  It’s easier.  But, even though I can switch my own style preferences, I can’t change my friends.  With Christmas time just around the corner, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for clothing and other items where style is really important.

Shopping around online I’ve found quite a few cool sites that offer unique and stylish clothing at low prices.  One of my favorite types so far, when it comes to accessories and handbags, is the Golddigga product line.  They offer Golddigga handbags and other Golddigga accessories that are really cool looking and which, hopefully, will not be going out of style any time soon.  I’m thinking specifically of Jenny for the handbags and accessories, since that’s the kind of thing she likes so much.  Actually, believe it or not, after looking around on the internet and finding the Golddigga product line, I heard Jenny talking about it!  That’s how you know you’ve done a good job shopping   When you hear the soon to be recipient talking about the exact gift you had in mind.

Now that I know she will like it, my main fear is that someone else will get it for her.  We all know she likes handbags and accessories more than just about anything else (except maybe chocolate, just kidding  ).  Especially since she has been talking about Golddigga specifically, I think I will ask around and make sure none of our mutual friends are already going the Golddigga route.

Car insurance is an incredibly important thing to have—something that was confirmed for one of my friends who recently got into an accident while driving an uninsured car. What an idiot, right? Well it turns out the person who he crashed into was very laid back / cool—actually a fellow student at UCSC, and did not milk the incident for all it was worth. If he had, he could have started claiming neck injuries and all that other crap that seems to come up every time someone is without auto insurence. Still, my friend is going to have to pay for all the damage done straight out of his pocket and it is looking like it is going to be a price of something like fifteen hundred dollars per vehicle, and at that rate his car will not even be restored to the condition it was at before the accident. The basic lesson here is: get auot insurance! It is so easy to get a car insurance rate quote that there is no excuse not to. It is just not worth it to go without it. And, if you are like my friend, you should also remember not to drive cars that are uninsured. My buddy actually does have car insuranc but the specific vehicle he was driving at the time was not covered by his insurance policy, so that is something you should be aware of as well. Just because you have insurance does not necessarily mean that your insurance will cover whatever vehicle you may be driving. You have to make sure that your insurance policy or the policy of the vehicle owner actually covers you as a driver of the vehicle in question.

Lately I’ve been doing a lot more shopping online than I used to.  The reason?  It’s easier.  I can sit in my home office and order the things I need without having to get up, get in the car, and drive into town.  Not to mention that I would then have to deal with finding parking, dealing with the nonstop traffic of San Francisco, etc.  I’ve been doing some shopping at an online mall called “All Needs and Wants,” which  has been great because they have such a huge range of products.  Not only do they cover virtually everything, but they also have a closeout sale going on where there is a store wide discount.  Furthermore, everything at the store is always on sale.  You can find pretty much anything—the products range from apparel to TV sets to musical instruments.

Which reminds me, I’ve also been spending a lot of time listening to MP3s lately.  Some of the stuff I listen to is free—like the Webmaster Radio broadcasts—and some of it costs money.  When I’m going to buy MP3 related products, I always check out the Discuss MP3 store.  They offer discount MP3 products that are always on sale, just like at the All Needs and Wants store.  There are closeout specials, discount products, and just general good deals available.

All in all, picking a store online is usually a good decision.  Like I said earlier, it is a huge time saver.  Furthermore, you can compare prices and shop across a huge number of products at ease.  Searching features make it easy to find what you are looking for—no longer do I have to go ask an employee what aisle the product I am looking for is on… I just enter the name in a box, and boom, I can find the sale price immediately.

I need a new mobile phone. I should probably sound excited about the prospect of getting myself a new piece of technology but I’m not. The reason is simple – there are just so many choices when it comes to mobile phones.

I decided that I’d choose a new phone the most logical way I could think of. I went online to compare mobile phone deals. I narrowed my choices down to a few phone with several different companies and then decided to compare mobile phone deals from each place.

I made some progress with that method and came to realize that I liked a lot about the Nokia phones. What I didn’t realize at first was how many different models of Nokia phones are out there. For someone with little experience picking out a mobile phone it’s a bit daunting to say the least.

So I decided that I’d continue my research by looking at Nokia mobile phone reviews. If I’m going to be using my new mobile phone on a day-to-day basis who better to ask about it than regular people? I could go to a store and ask the salesclerk for his or her opinion on Nokia phones but generally if someone is getting paid to sell something they are going to tell you it’s the next best thing since Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to talk in two different places.

I was pleasantly surprised by how many sites had Nokia mobile phone reviews. I read through a few dozen and didn’t find it hard at all to choose a model. After that it was back to compare mobile phone deals until I found a carrier with a good price plan. Now I’m all set, except I have absolutely no idea how to email myself the pictures I’ve been taking with my phone.

Have you ever opened your mobile phone bill to see a number that looked more like your monthly rent than a telephone bill? I did and I have to say I almost threw my mobile phone in the trash. I wanted to get mad and call the mobile phone company but I was reasonably sure they’d tell me that if I didn’t like the bill I shouldn’t be talking on the phone as much.

Instead I decided it was time to find some cheap mobile phone deals. There had to be a better price plan out there than the arm and the leg I was paying each month.

I knew that the best approach would be to do a mobile phone price comparison. If I looked at each carrier’s service packages and then find cheap mobile phone deals that would fit my budget, I could start saving money.

I quickly realized something though and that’s most of the money spent is going to be in the fine print. When you do a mobile phone price comparison one company might look like the better deal. This was where my problem was. The company I was using charged a low, flat monthly fee, but if I talked over the number of minutes they gave me, or outside the free calling hours, I was paying a small fortune.

Now I’m using a new carrier. When I did my mobile phone price comparison I realized that if I wanted to save money each month I was going to have to spend more each month. More on my monthly basic rate that is. So now I have a plan that costs a bit more per month but I’m saving because I’m not paying any extra fees for calling after hours or more than I’m supposed to according to the fine print.

I thought when I decided to buy a new television that it would be painless. I’d go into the electronics store, choose a nice TV and be watching Letterman that night. I had no clue. TV shopping isn’t what it used to be.

I quickly decided that I wanted a plasma television. I thought that would make the purchasing excursion much easier. I’d simply choose the plasma TV I wanted and they’d deliver it and hook it all up for me.

Sadly, it’s not that simple and it didn’t take me long to realize that I needed some plasma TV buying advice. I could ask one of the sales people at my local electronics store but since their paycheck is dependent, at least partially, on how much I spend, I need a much less biased opinion.

I found it online on a plasma TV comparison site. This site listed many of the current makes and models of plasma TVs and all I had to do was choose the one that I thought was best for me. This type of plasma TV buying advice made the experience much easier.

The fun didn’t stop after I picked out which plasma TV I wanted. I had to find the best price then. You may be like me and think that all electronic stores both online and offline are the same. They really aren’t at all. I saw price differences of several hundred dollars on the same exact television.

So again I let my fingers do the helping and found a plasma TV comparison site that listed prices on several different online merchant sites. I was able to find the cheapest price and have the TV delivered right to my house just as I wanted.

Now the biggest decision when it comes to the television is who gets to control the remote.

I’m reasonably sure that one thing most women have in common is a dream to get paid to shop. Sure we take on other jobs like doctors or lawyers but if someone told us that they’d actually pay us to shop, we’d see a career change happening pretty quickly. Almost every woman alive would be lined up applying for a position.

I haven’t been able to find a job quite like that yet, but I did find something kind of close. Reward shopping directory UK pays me to shop. Actually, they pay me each time I shop through their portal.

It sounds a bit complicated, but actually it’s really easy. How it works is that I search through the reward shopping directory UK to find what I’m looking to purchase. Once I do that I can browse sites that offer shopping discounts and coupons on what I’m looking for. It can be anything at all, and you’d be surprised by how many products you can now find online.

Different sites on the reward shopping directory UK offer different shopping discounts and coupons so I can pick the best deal for me. Some of the sites even offer cash back on purchases.

The way I see it is this: I have to buy these items anyway so why not use a site where I’m actually getting something back? I could go offline and drive to a store to buy them, but if I do that I’m not only using up money for gas but I’m also wasting a lot of time. Not to mention the fact that there aren’t a whole host of offline stores offering up big shopping discounts and coupons.

Instead I can sit at home in my pajamas and shop. It’s pretty easy to see which is the better choice, no?