All About The Memories

We’re redoing the garage cabinets back home and my mom is now trying to decide on the design since my dad is not home yet. We need sturdy storage since all the tools and other things are kept there. It ahd to be easy to clean so my mom doesn’t have time to clean the space regularly. I think extra storage would be really useful in our house.  We have so much stuff that needs to be behind cabinet doors and more storage space is always welcomed.

I love the dress I wore on Iyah’s birthday so I decided to buy a couple more today. My sister and I had fun shopping! I’m not sure my hubby would be pleased though…lol. Anyway he bought a cordless game controller for his PS2 and something else for his PC (I always don’t have any idea on this) the other day so he can’t complain really. So by the end of the day we happily went home with a couple of dresses for me and a nice top for my sister. I didn’t buy Iyah anything (that’s a surprise), she did get lots attention from strangers because she smiles at them…and really you can’t resist this little girl’s smile. I also bought a dozen of glazed doughnuts from Missy Donuts, there goes my sugar fix…again hubby won’t be so pleased with this. My agenda for tonight is to scrap a page and maybe plan my DSD shopping list.

Happy weekend everyone!

The recent launch of Magic Loans made me think about Secured Loans and how it could benefit a lot of people. Since it is easy to apply for a loan with Magic loans because of the consideration they give to people with poor credit history it would be easier to consolidate all debts thus making it easier to make lower monthly payments. You can find our more about secured loans, homeowner loand, consolidation loans and more about magic loans through their website. You can even proceed to making an online application if you want to.

I got this yesterday after breakfast. She was sitting on her high chair and started banging a chair against the dining table. I had to pull the chair away from her reach, then it happened…a meltdown! She cried on top of her lungs for a few seconds, then I gave her the pacifier and all is well again (lol). Yeah give my crying baby the pacifier and she’ll forget she was crying. It is not difficult to calm her down (thank goodness). This kiddo really is becoming her own little person, she can show her emotions quite well (as you can see on the photo) and it is most of the time cute. It is like having conversations or being with an adult, you can really communicate/interact with her now. Oh gone are the days when we had a little baby in the house content on sleeping and drinking milk. Still I’m loving the age she’s at right now.

I’ve heard about Save Buckets through a friend of mine who lives in the UK. We’ve been talking about the holidays and how we’re going to shop for our loved ones and how much money we’re going to spend. She was telling me about it and well I just had to check it out for myself. The website was user friendly and easy to navigate. You can even just type the specific item you are looking for and voila you could see it right away. The best thing about it is that you could find cheap deals there and of course it will save you money. Yes it is possible to find great deals on anything you want through the site, great for shoppers like us.

Press Release:
GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST HAUNTS INDEBTED BRITS

- New price saving site launches to save Brits up to 20% this Christmas –

As the nation approaches the final countdown to Christmas, new research rings alarm bells over the financial impact of Christmas in credit crunch Britain. The research from the new money saving website Savebuckets.com reveals that as Brits prepare for Christmas, many are still paying off last year’s festive spending.

With 41 per cent of Britons paying for Christmas on credit last year, almost one in five are still paying for last year’s festivities (17%), fewer than one in three having cleared their Christmas debts when their January credit card bill arrived (29%).

Following a year of consumer confidence in 2006, Christmas spending soared 52 per cent in two years (from an average £548 per adult in 2004* to £837 per adult in 2006), with over one in five Brits spending over £1,000 on Christmas last year (22%). This year, with spending power at its lowest level for 10 years**, consumers are feeling the financial hangover from a more confident Christmas enjoyed on the credit card and loans.

Alarmingly, it is cash strapped youngsters and low income earners who, having spent the most on last Christmas, are most likely to be feeling the repercussions of last year’s spending spree (see figures below).

The research into the financial impacts of last Christmas amongst a GB representative sample of 2,000 British adults was carried out by the new money savings website Savebuckets.com which launches this week to enable Brits to get more for their money this Christmas.

With these alarming figures in mind, Savebuckets.com will give shoppers the opportunity to save up to 20% on their Christmas shopping. Putting consumers back in control of their spending, the site searches over 700 retailers for the best price on around one million products. The site includes a unique price checker which allows consumers to set the price they want to pay for items, notifying them when the price of a product falls to within their budget.