Life’s Lessons

I opened my live writer to write a blog post but I was sidetracked over the great domain deal in namecheap. I am a loyal customer of namecheap so I grabbed the chance to register a domain for only $1.99! What a steal!

Anyway, back to regular programming. I was supposed to blog about the US Surplus Warehouse that we frequent lately. It’s been more than a year since we “discovered” the great deal of US goodies and it is where I got my beautiful decorative pots, candle holders, vases, and other kitchen stuffs. The Surplus Warehouse carries a lot of items from toys, kitchen items, shoes, electronics and appliances, books, furniture, laundry rack, discount dental equipments, baby strollers, and a lot more!

Ace got a “like new” Puma sneakers last week and I got a huge box of building blocks toys. The sales attendant said the box contains medium sized Lego blocks so Carol and I got a box each. We didn’t have the chance to play with those kind of toys when we were kids so playing with it is one of our back subjects. We are playing with “real” blocks during our childhood. The wooden blocks from the carpenter’s wood scrap. When we got home, I sorted the blocks and turned out, half of it are Mega Bloks and half are Lego.

Life’s been so busy so my toys are just kept in the plastic storage containers. Ace must have been bored so he pulled out one of the containers containing the Lego blocks. I sorted the blocks according to brand so one container for the Mega Bloks and another for Lego. In another box are the irregular shaped-blocks including the building pads and others. Ace started building a robot when I took this photo…

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get a photo of his robot that he proudly showed to me after a few minutes of building the blocks. Next time I’ll make sure to take photos! Gotta finish some tasks so I could play with my blocks for the very first time later.

Oh, I miss shopping in SM! My SM Advantage card hasn’t been used for a while now. The biggest points that I earn from SM is when we are shopping for grocery there. An average of 4 thousand pesos worth of grocery a month could earn lots of points and the last time I redeemed my earned points was when I renewed my SM Advantage card. I used part of it to pay for the renewal fee. BUT the last time we did grocery shopping there was last June.

For those who aren’t familiar with SM Advantage Card, it is like a Visa reward card that customers could earn a point for every peso they spend at the store (either department store or supermarket) and any of their partners. It’s a marketing strategy of SM to gain customer’s loyalty. Of course, card owners will prefer shopping in SM to earn points that they can redeem in the future.

Shopping is something that can lift one’s spirit. I don’t believe in that before but when I learned to shop, it really does magic!Hahaha. It’s a FEEL GOOD thing that ladies love to do including me! Sometimes, I window shop just to satisfy the urge and then I feel good right after! If I can’t go out, I window shop online. Online shopping for me is the most convenient. I don’t have to go out hence it saves me time and money (of course we need to eat when we go out. And taxi fare is not that cheap now). So instead that my merchandise go through the usb barcode scanner of the store, all I do is add the items to my cart and click checkout. After less than a minute, I am done! The downside of online shopping is waiting for days, weeks or even months for the merchandise to arrive.

It’s been months since I last shopped for things. My addiction now is shopping for digital scrapbooking kits. I got so many pending photobook projects and I hope to use the kits that I bought in one or two of the PBs that I will be doing.

Wanting to feel good? SHOP! It won’t fail you, I am sure!