Buy Buy Buy Ay Ay Ay

Only another couple of shopping days left! My blog article can serve as a mini-shopping list if you're getting really pressed for time. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/12/buy-buy-buy-ay-ay-ay.html and comment there, please.

Holiday Gadgets to Inspire or Not

Over the years during the holiday season, I have smiled bemusedly at gadgets hawked on TV as prospective gifts. Questions that pop up in my mind are usually "Really? A saucepan would work, and most people already have one", "Gee, another appliance to take up shelf, cupboard, or drawer space", "Does that gadget really work?", "[price, usually ending in .99] sure seems like a lot for what that thing is supposed to do".

Gadgets in the past that trigger one or more of my above thoughts include …
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The 99¢ Effect and Other Saver Thoughts

My article started out about pricing with regard to saving, particularly how 99¢ is such a popular price, a price ending, anyway. As I "scribbled" my streams of consciousness—besides 99¢—thoughts also included tenths of cents still anachronistically attached to gasoline per-gallon prices, coupons, before/after price changes indicated in print ads, sales taxes that no advertiser includes, and baked goods pricing.

As the seasonal buying rush is spiking around this time, …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2009/11/99-effect-and-other-saver-thoughts.html.]