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Cleaning and decluttering!

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Last week I was on a major cleaning spree. I was concentrating on cleaning our smallest spare bedroom. I guess I was concentrating on that room because my sister in law was coming for a visit this past weekend and she was going to be staying in that room … so naturally I wanted the room to be clean. However, I also wanted to room to be clean because I’ve been busy decluttering the house and this room was just part of a long list of areas I’m decluttering.

I got rid of a lot of stuff from that room. Clothes, old computer gear and even a Keyboard that had a problem with one of it’s switches. I hated getting rid of that keyboard! It was kind of like this mpk 49 model. It was my keyboard that I’d had for years and years. My husband played it every now and then, but he mostly plays his guitars. I should have kept the keyboard and tried to fix it.

Oh well …

Well .. I guess I’ve got the jump on spring cleaning this year. I’ll be painting and renovating by the time spring arrives this year!

What a great deal on an LED TV

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It looks like my sister is taking advantage of some of the great January sales that are going on. I was talking with her the other day and she told me about seeing this deal at a local store for a 3D 50″ LED TV with a Home Theater, a TV stand and a Harmony remote control. I can’t remember if the TV she was talking about was a Samsung or one of the LED lg tvs but it sounded like a great deal to me. It was something like $1500.00 for the whole package.

As it turns out she went to the store just the other day and ended up buying an upgraded version of the TV that was in that package, but just a little smaller. I think she’s going to be really happy with her new TV. She has a slightly older model of TV right now so I’m sure she’ll be thrilled this Friday once the new TV and home theatre is delivered and installed.

I’ve got a nice Plasma TV but I know the LED’s are really nice. Someday .. when my Plasma stops working I’ll probably switch to an LED too. Do you have a nice flat screen TV at home?

Might do a little Black Friday Shopping

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I’m thinking about doing some online Black Friday shopping today. I’m in Canada, but I’m pretty sure that I can take advantage of some of the great deals that will be taking place today.

Lets see – I certainly haven’t finished my Christmas shopping so I have quite a few gifts to purchase, plus there’s a few items that I need around the house that I wouldn’t mind finding on sale either.

For instance I’ve been hoping to upgrade our desktop computer for quite a while and I’d love to upgrade the hard drive. I really like Maxtor hard drives and I’ll bet that I can find a great deal on one with say 500 gb of storage.

I’m sure some of you are planning on doing some online shopping today too. What kinds of things do you plan to shop for on Black Friday?

It’s getting cold!

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Well it’s starting to get cooler out. As much as I hate to admit it – winter is coming. I know … I can’t do anything to make it stop. I’d love to just skip ahead to April or May – at least weather wise, but it doesn’t work that way does it? I guess if it did I’d save some money too ’cause my furnace wouldn’t be running all winter either!

A couple of weeks ago I put the warm duvet on our bed but I’m still freezing. Maybe I’m just cold this year? I’ve been thinking about taking a look at electric blankets. I have a queen sized electric blanket in my closet but my husband moved the plug and controls away from where we keep the blanket for some reason and now we can’t find it … so that makes the blanket pretty much useless – well as an electric blanket anyway. So .. I guess I need to get an new one.

Is your home getting cooler now too? Are you dreading winter? What are you doing to stay warm?

Thinking about a second cellphone?

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I’ve been sort of thinking of getting a second cellphone lately. I’m not 100% sure that we need two cellphones in our home since we don’t use our current one all that much … but it seems that whenever I need a cellphone my husband is out and he’s got mine. So … yeah – maybe a second one wouldn’t be the worst idea.

If we were going to get a second cellphone I have no idea which kind to get. Something simple or another smart phone? I love my current smart phone and so does my husband … so maybe something like a Atrix 4G might work? But then if we want to keep thing simple since it’s a second cellphone that we’ll barely be using maybe a really bare bones cellphone might be better? Any ideas?

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