Jerry Loggins

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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Did you watch the series premier of The Lost Girl the other night?  I was relaxing in the living room and my wife came in and turned on the television to watch it.  I grumbled because I thought that the title of the show sounded like some “girly show” that I would not enjoy watching. And the opening scene started off fairly slow, like a tired old repeat of Law and Order, where a schmuck is trying to date rape an unsuspecting pretty girl. Well, before you know it the would-be rapist is being drained of his energy through some kind of energy sucking going on through a major french kiss!

My attention was quickly grabbed, and I watched the entire show. The pace picked up with a few little twists and turns, and now when my wife says she wants to watch it again, I will not complain the next time!

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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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My mother is moving to a new townhouse next month. She’s renting it with the option to buy. The townhouse is in pretty good shape, but she wants to personalize it by installing one of the many Classic Mailboxes on the market today. One of her hobbies is decorative painting, so she is thinking about buying one of the Gaines Mailboxes and painting the raised areas with some really bright colors.

It seems to me, though, that she could really go wild on one of the Keystone Mailboxes. Painting one of those would be really eye catching! Whatever she decides, I’m sure it will be gorgeous. Sue has such a great eye and talent that everything she touches looks great! When we first moved into this house, Sue gave us a gorgeous hand-painted bread box for our new kitchen, which we have receive so many compliments on throughout the years. Too bad I didn’t take after my mother, a very talented artist indeed.

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One of the last minute things that we do here at home before company arrives is to clean the kitty litter box and then vacuum the carpets. The dogs and cat tend to leave tufts of fur around the house and if we vacuum the day before company arrives, by the time they get here it looks dirty again.

So, last night we were expecting company for dinner; arriving around 5. So at 4pm my wife cleans the litter box (which even though she puts the box on top of newspaper always ends up with a little bit of litter on the rug) and then gets out the vacuum cleaner. Wouldn’t you know it, the vacuum cleaner died. Simply died. I took it apart for her, thinking that I could fix it, but the motor is burnt out.

So my wife was very unhappy about that – she likes having the place as clean as possible when company comes over. But she was a trooper and got the carpet as clean as she could and never mentioned it to our company (why point out the dirt – they might not care or notice if you don’t make a big deal about it!) And supper came and went and nobody died. But I will be taking the vacuum cleaner to the repair shop first thing on Monday!

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