we're big amazon fans...

that free two day shipping is da bomb...wife has one account and she used it then I signed up and am planning to use mine for the holidays...

and once it runs out, a lot of their products have FREE shipping, it takes usually 3-7 days and is worth it.

Their main competition: "Buy.com" has good offers also (most of their products are a little bit more expensive than amazons, though)

This is another thing to look into.

We both signed up for the Amazon credit card. The very first time you sign up, you get $30.00 off.

and for everything that you buy there using that amazon credit card, you earn points...so we always get $25.00 certificate back constantly

HOWEVER, we only buy what we can afford to pay at the end of each month in FULL to earn the points and to NOT incur any charges.

there are no annual fee...
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with that said, I hope I don't step on any toes by saying this:
we have a member's mall here:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread47566.html

there are chemar's antiques, suzyq's jugs, I mean mugs, vonn's avon, curls jewelries, yeahbutt's slate..well, really, somebody MIGHT want to spruce up their yard with some MAINE SLATE during the holidays!! LOL

and I think curious is selling her bears.

I am not TRYING to tell anyone to buy anything from anybody...just adding that here in case anyone cares to take a peek.

That is very cool.



Actually right now, I am waiting to see if our adoption app is accepted - we put in for my MIL to adopt from a local rescue. I'm secretly kinda hoping she doesn't want her, cuz I'd like to have her myself.



We tried to get one we saw at the pound but when dh called to ask if we could go see him, someone was already there taking him. We were disappointed for us, but I was really happy for *Sparky*. He seemed like a great little guy and I'm glad he's got a home.