Jerry Loggins

Most folks lean towards buying their Valentine a nice box of chocolates or some special type of candies, while some folks are into jewelry or even a new vehicle. I don’t suppose there is a lot of that going around these year with the declining economy still taking it’s toll on the majority of us.

This year I am buying the wife a rain chain that she has been eyeballing ever since seeing the rain chains at her sister-in-law’s house over the summer. I have to admit that these chains rain are a nice concept. It is a well known fact that water is therapeutic, I’ve always enjoyed seeing, hearing, smelling as well as feeling water, so having a rain chain or two or three or however many you choose to have is a positive thing.

We have worked hard on our backyard to make it attractive and comfortable as possible and I think having a good looking quality rain chain would be a nice addition. It’s just trying to decide which one of the many I’ve seen online to go ahead and commit to and order. I had no idea that there would be so many to choose from. I don’t have a lot of time left with Valentine’s day only a few weeks away.

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I really wish that I had known about the memory foam dogs beds that are on today’s market a few years ago when our aging dog Rags was having a difficult time moving around due to old age. I’m sure that she was suffering from some type of arthritis and it broke our heart when in her last days with us that she would barely have the strength to get up to do her business by going out the doggy door that we installed just for that reason. If I had known about these orthopedic dog beds I certainly would have supplied Rags with one the moment she looked like she needed one.

These memory foam dog beds are a great idea for our four legged canine friends. If and when we get another dog I will make sure that we have one of these around when we need it. I know that memory foam beds do wonders for people so it only makes sense that our pets would benefit from all that they have to offer for them.

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Can you remember life before the Internet?  (BI)  What an extraordinary change to our lives the Internet has become!  I can remember that far back (yeah, I’m showing my age!) and I can remember that our family depended heavily on the local yellowpages to find all of the businesses that we needed; from local plumbers and banks to local restaurants and barber shops! 

With the advent of the Internet, and the rapid acceptance and dependence of the Internet, I find it so much easier to use the Internet to do a local search for any business than going back to the old paper version!  And yes, we DO have the old paper version in the cupboard by the telephone, but I gravitate towards using the Internet first.  I really like how once I find the listing that i need I can often get directions to the place if I need them!  The paper version doesn’t do that at all!

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One of the things that I enjoy about playing the lottery is that you never know what you are going to get. Are you going to win a few dollars? A lot of dollars? Will it be a bust? The suspense is what I enjoy about it, and if I win something that is a great feeling! That is one of the feelings that I get when I go to the nomorerack website. I never go when I go onto the nomorerack.com site what great offers are going to be there to grab up, and whether there will be an insanity deal waiting for me to claim.

So far I have not timed my visits to the website right for grabbing an insanity deal, but I have purchased a few of the items that the website sells at outrageously low prices. In some ways, this new website has put a little bit of fun into shopping that I haven’t had outside of going to an auction house. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how long this website has been online, but I have a feeling that it will be a success for many years to come.

In addition to selling various products such as handbags and jewelry, the website also sells travel packages and electronics. I was looking through the section that they call “Insanity Deals” and saw that they had sold some really expensive electronic products for some really crazy low prices. There is no way possible that anyone made any kind of profit from those “insanity deals.” Not being an expert on marketing, I would imagine that those products are what are sometimes referred to as “loss leaders” by the big chain stores – products priced so low that the sale actually loses money, but the hope is that while customers are in the store that they will find something else that they really like and spend money buying the other items.

Not the old illegal “bait and switch” routine, more like the “while you’re here looking around, maybe you’d be interested in buying some of this other stuff” type of marketing.

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My wife is a packrat. Not as bad as the television show “The Hoarders” but there are a lot of items filling up our storage space in the basement. From time to time I tell her that it bothers me that the space is so full, but she just reminds me that she doesn’t have the time or energy to organize it any better than it is. She claims that she has organized it (she has) and other people (meaning me) go down there and move things around and mess it up. (Yes, she’s right) and she’s tired of swimming upstream.

Well, when my mother took ill and we needed to take care of her for a couple of weeks last fall, the old baby monitors that we used when our kids were babies were quickly located (from their spot in the basement) and put to good use for us to be able to keep an ear out for Mom’s calls when she needed something. I have to admit, my wife did good this time.

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