Shopping
It’s a start
Saturday, November 5th, 2011Amazon.co.uk ships to Australia! And books qualify for Free Super Saver Shipping! And the prices aren’t too bad. For other stuff, the shipping costs a fair bit and may not be worth it but boy, is it a start! Now I can’t wait until Australia has it’s very own Amazon! Maybe one day…in [...]
A little sad
Friday, July 22nd, 2011I was reading one of my favorite blogs from one an American mother living in Sydney and her latest post was about Costco opening in her area. And I became so sad. Melbourne has enjoyed Costco for at least the past year. Sydney just opened up their Costco and there are plans for a couple [...]
4 offers and 4 rejections
Friday, September 19th, 2008Well we’ve seen about a dozen houses. Most have been crap. There were 4 we were sort of interested in (1 we really liked although the exterior needed doing up, 1 we sort of liked but was small, 1 we loved the living room and needed some work, and 1 it was big but needed [...]
Looking for a house
Thursday, August 7th, 2008I’m in desperate need for a cubby house. LJ cries whenever he sees one. His cousin has one and he loves it. And we were in Kmart not too long ago and there was a display cubby house which was really flimsy and small (he had to duck his head to be in it) and [...]
Christmas in July
Thursday, July 31st, 2008All the major stores in our area have had major sales going on this month – especially toy sales. They have been advertising (oh my God, I just spelt it the Australian way rather than the American advertizing…I’m becoming one of them!) items aimed for the Christmas shopper. I have always started my Christmas shopping [...]