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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Done With Christmas Shopping

Anyone else finish their Christmas shopping already? I just did and for the most part I noticed that a lot of stores seemed to have depleted its inventory of hot items already too. Of course they will be replenished until Christmas day, but I was thinking how maybe this means a lot more people have

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Is It Awkward To Christmas Shop Now?

I saw a couple of news segments today where it was discussing how so many people are doing their Christmas shopping now and it felt like the message was this was kind of awkward. From what I gathered it’s because there are still other holidays coming up before Christmas and so this seems a little

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

The Thought of Buying Groceries Online

There was a lot of news here recently on how Amazon in Canada is preparing to aggressively enter the grocery market which ultimately means competition for the traditional supermarkets. Of course at the moment this will be for pre-packaged stuff only it seems. The interesting thing about this news is how I have been reading

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Giving Away Event Swag For Halloween

So tomorrow is Halloween and this usually means people will start to buy a lot of candies from various stores to then giveaway to all the kids. I was remembering one funny thing about it for this year where I know a person who worked at an event and because they couldn’t get rid of

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Gift Shopping During Sales Events Too

This was kind of a surprising remark to me. Basically, as we all know there are going to be some big sales events coming up. Most noticeably, for US residents it’s going to be Black Friday sales. I was talking to one person who was definitely excited about it and he pretty much has a

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Financial Management

Staying On Outdated Service Plans

I was reading some notes today on how the local cable company here was changing its rates for the Internet service where two packages happen to b the exact same price. One is faster than the other while offering more data usage yet the slower package is going to be priced the same as the

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