Monday
Aug152005
Online Shopping Frenzy
Monday, August 15, 2005 at 06:42PM
In an unprecedented spasm of online-ed-ness, in the last two days I have bought....
On Vanessa's advice, I've ordered some of Dr. Bronner's tea tree liquid soap. Which actually makes me *most* excited! It's a wound antiseptic, body wash, facial cleanser, shampoo, laundrey soap and TOOTHPASTE in-one.
Using one of the two packs that Pam and Tony are sending out for me to 'test' - I'm half packed right there!
A generic 512mb MP3 player for $63.00. A quick search on them indicates at least an $80 savings.
BOOKS! Rough Guide
and Let's Go Australia, as well as one of Sal's recommendations, The Situation is Hopeless But Not Serious by Paul Watzlawick.
The books cost me $4 because Chrissykins sent me a whopping $50 US gift certificate for my birthday. Yay!
Hmm? What else? Oh, a BULK load of low-rise thongs from La Senza. Which more than likely fell off the back of a truck but whatever, I paid $28 for about $120 worth of underwear.
OH! And just a few minutes ago I won the auction for my Olympus Stylus 300 (after losing at least 6 over the last few days) for $165.00. They retail here for $299ish and even on one of the few Canadian Sale websites I found they were on for $249 without a battery.
Oh god, and did I mention how much I actually paid for my flight? Normally from Canada, a round trip flight to Australia is at least $2000. Maybe $1800 if you're lucky. Mine? $1279 BABY!
If I hadn't spent so much money in the last couple days I'd feel like I should have money coming back, I rock so much.
But, then again, I have lists and lists of things still to buy. I think I need to go lie down. For a year.
On Vanessa's advice, I've ordered some of Dr. Bronner's tea tree liquid soap. Which actually makes me *most* excited! It's a wound antiseptic, body wash, facial cleanser, shampoo, laundrey soap and TOOTHPASTE in-one.
Using one of the two packs that Pam and Tony are sending out for me to 'test' - I'm half packed right there!
A generic 512mb MP3 player for $63.00. A quick search on them indicates at least an $80 savings.
BOOKS! Rough Guide
and Let's Go Australia, as well as one of Sal's recommendations, The Situation is Hopeless But Not Serious by Paul Watzlawick.The books cost me $4 because Chrissykins sent me a whopping $50 US gift certificate for my birthday. Yay!
Hmm? What else? Oh, a BULK load of low-rise thongs from La Senza. Which more than likely fell off the back of a truck but whatever, I paid $28 for about $120 worth of underwear.
OH! And just a few minutes ago I won the auction for my Olympus Stylus 300 (after losing at least 6 over the last few days) for $165.00. They retail here for $299ish and even on one of the few Canadian Sale websites I found they were on for $249 without a battery.
Oh god, and did I mention how much I actually paid for my flight? Normally from Canada, a round trip flight to Australia is at least $2000. Maybe $1800 if you're lucky. Mine? $1279 BABY!
If I hadn't spent so much money in the last couple days I'd feel like I should have money coming back, I rock so much.
But, then again, I have lists and lists of things still to buy. I think I need to go lie down. For a year.
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Reader Comments (8)
Matt and Tim and Yeti all have the exact same one so I learned how to use it fairly well and Matt took some truly fantastic pictures with his so I figured I'd just follow the freakin' pack and go with something I knew already would be a good solid camera.
Re: thongs - if you get knickers that work as swimwear and running shorts, you carry less stuff.
Though, actually, dental floss isn't much less stuf than thongs.
(Or do you, like those weird Aussies, mean shoes when you say 'thong'?)
Sad, but true.
Yay for you!
And so far, all that and everything in this post? Under $500 baby. (I had an old navy $50 gift certificate)
And the flight was onlyl $1249 instead.