Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Oh, I love online shopping! It’s just so wonderfully convenient. More and more, I am buying things online, even difficult to find specialty items, too. Oh I remember how it used to be so difficult finding specialty order products in retail stores. Online, there’s everything under the sun, even decorative nursing scrubs on sale. There’s [...]

I made the mistake of driving out to the commercial center of town today. Not to Christmas shop, just to see if I could find a few accessories for the home office. Oh my goodness, it took me FOUR TIMES as long to drive through the area! The traffic was crazy! Who can shop in [...]

By now, most if us know what “Black Friday” is. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year. Merchants and retailers called it Black Friday long before the term ever caught on and became a household name. It used to be difficult to know ahead of time what deals a retailer [...]

Is it just me, or do ALL cars eat through brake pads like sliced butter?! We are having to buy new ones every three months or so. I think that’s a lot. Our local retailers ask upwards of $60 for a brake pad set, yow. So I’m going to the Internet even for auto parts, [...]

Car parts are INCREDIBLY expensive. It’s almost mind-blowing, they are so costly. A set of front brakepads for my minivan costs about $50, and the tax is almost 10% here in Upstate New York. And then there’s the added cost of driving out to the car parts store and back. Ugh. If you’re in need [...]

Hands down, one of the best places to get tech gear is Buy.com. I’ve shopped around a lot, and I think Buy.com has the best prices and the most reliable brands. I’ve seen a sharp rise in costs at the other tech stores, but Buy.com has been offering sale upon sale. And their customer service [...]