Do you use Ebates.com?  If not, why not??  Ebates is essentially a site that pays you to shop.  I know, it doesn’t make sense, right?  Well, essentially, when you shop online and have clicked a referral link, that referrer gets paid.  What Ebates does is pass some of that payment on to you.  For every purchase [...]

Last week, I mentioned my frustration with my local CVS.  Yesterday, I had to get a new prescription filled (for a sinus infection that will not die), and when the nurse asked me where I wanted the prescription sent, I found myself pulling out the phone number for CVS again.

Wait, no!  That pharmacy is terrible! 

Instead, [...]

How many chances do you give a store before you completely give up?

I am at the point where I think my local CVS has my name on a list behind the counter along with the words “Provide the worst service possible.”  And yet I keep going back.

My issues with the local CVS are primarily with [...]

I have a coworker who I adore, but who is very gullible when it comes to small scale scams.  She’s not going to wire money to Nigeria or anything, but she’s a sucker for a good pitchline.  She has purchased a lot of infomercial items, and she’s always talking about the latest miracle cure.

(Not to [...]

I joke that one of the great things about where I live is that it’s not easy to get to Target.

Oh, it’s not hard to get there either.  But I have to get in my car and drive (or get on a super long metro ride), and it’s out of the way of anywhere I [...]