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Vote for Xavier!

egg — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:26:54 +0000

While we were away last week, Kathy posted this picture of Xavier to the Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) photo contest. Help him get into the published book by voting for the photo! You don’t need to be a resident of Minnesota to vote – you can even LOVE the photo!!!

Spend More Money at Slumberland and SAVE LESS!!!

egg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:11 +0000

Occassionally, I see something that just strikes me as stupid and I feel compelled to tell the whole world about it. This Slumberland offer just piqued my interest. The deal is simple, the more money you spend with them, the more money they knock off the total price – sort of. If you look at this as a ratio, money saved per dollar spent, you actually save more money by spending less! The rest of the rant follows after the jump.

How much more? Take a look at the following chart for yourself. As you can see, the percentage of money saved drops quickly the more money you spend, in fact spending anything more than $999 at Slumberland is just a bad idea! Oh, and don’t forget in the fine print it’s one per household, so you can’t buy the bed, then come back tomorrow and buy the mattress… I guess it’s good to save the money if your going to be spending it anyway, but understand this is no reason to upgrade to a more expensive purchase if that was on your radar.

Ultra High-End Audio – Another cool toy

egg — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:32:27 +0000

With the Christmas holiday quickly approaching, the absurd continues on. I mentioned the Willies Jeep a couple of posts back and saw this one on Crave just the other day. Kharma brings us an audio system 99.999% of people can’t afford. Perhaps I am wrong, are people really making this much money that they can blow so much on absurd things? The speaker set you see left (photo courtesy of HigherFi.com) retails for about a cool million – who need’s 100 thousand dollar cars when you can get speakers? Oh, don’t forget that you’ll need to buy a preamp, amp and at least a tuner expect to drop ten thousand on that, but what’s a few grand after the million anyway? I guess I’ll just have to live with my sad sub $1,000 Boston Acoustic speakers and theater system until I win PowerBall.

Willys Jeep – Another way cool toy!

egg — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:03:21 +0000

Christmas madness is upon us and I’ve been catalog shopping today at Patty’s house – forget the long lines when you can get everything you could possibly want via mail order! Consider, what do you get the kid who has everything but a drivers license? Try this very cool Willy’s Jeep replica from FAO Schwarz. For only $9,900, you can have your own gas powered Willy’s Jeep replica, suitable for children – really. It comes complete with working headlights, brake lights, canvas top, spare tire, roll bar and extra break pedal for parents who are a little freaked out by their kids driving. It’s done in 2/3 scale and also is available in “Desert Sand”. Perhaps I’ll sell the real Jeep Wrangler, throw in $1,000 and buy one of these. Power Wheels, eat your heart out.