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What a difference a couple of hours makes

by Mary Anne

We usually get up really early Sunday mornings to do our grocery shopping.  We are usually out of the store by 8am.  Well, I wasn’t feeling very well and didn’t sleep well, so we didn’t even leave the house until 7:45am.  We got to the store about 8:05am.

Boy was the store extremely crowded!  I really did not expect it to be that crowded that early!  We had to stand in the checkout line for over an hour!  We didn’t get home until 11:30!

I guess in the future I’ll have to just bite the bullet and force myself to get up and go early no matter what.


Buying specialty shoes

by Mary Anne

My sister called me to tell me that she needed to buy some new cheer-leading shoes for my cheer-leading niece, but she was having a hard time finding what she needed.

I told her I’d help her look online for them. Seems to me I’ve seen them before online when I wasn’t even looking for them!   I’m pretty good at finding things on the Internet. Maybe I just use better keywords, maybe she just is too busy to try it herself and knows she can count on me for help when she needs it! Regardless, I’m always glad to help!


Maintenance plans/extended warranties

by Mary Anne

A lot of people tell me that maintenance/extended warranty plans are a gimmick and a waste of money, but I have found that when I pay for when, I usually end up using the service and it ends up paying for itself several times over.  In this day and age of “planned obsolescence” I find that most products die within a week of the warranty period being over!  So, I buy the maintenance/extended warranty if it is available and the item is expensive.


Making old pets comfortable

by Mary Anne

Poor Squeaky is getting so old and uncomfortable with her arthritis that I decided that we really needed to buy her a couple of memory foam dog beds to use. One in the living room, and one in the bedroom. That way she can sleep near us and be more comfortable while doing it. Unfortunately the durn cat has decided that he wanted to use them as supplemental kitty litter boxes, and after several attempts to clean them appropriately and prevent the cat from repeatedly soiling them, we determined that we needed to replace them with waterproof/weatherproof orthopedic dog beds.

Our hope was that the waterproof dog beds would be able to be washed off easily enough for the odor to be eliminated, but that was not to be. After a couple of weeks of constantly cleaning those dog beds, we ended up just putting them outside in the hope that the sun and the rain would deodorize them.
You may suggest that we “get rid of “ the cat, and although we did discuss that as an alternative solution, his advancing age was also something we had to consider.


Credit reports/identity theft?

by Mary Anne

A short while ago I filled up my gas tank at a Texaco station.  I saw that they were running a special rebate promotion for new Texaco credit card holders, so when I got home I went online and applied for a new Texaco credit card for myself, and a separate one for my hubby.

I got my card a few days later, but I noticed in my email in-box was a rejection letter for my hubby’s card.  It turns out that he was rejected because they don’t think he is him!  They said that they rejected him based on information from a credit report company.  So I printed it off and gave it to my hubby and told him to call the credit report company, which he has been trying to do all morning long.  I am concerned that this may have something to do with an identity theft attempt! 


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