Daily Archives: April 17, 2008

Day 229: Groceries, another Lampshade, a Genie, and more

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 17, 2008
Total spent today:  $405.14 Okay, ladies.  Are your hus­bands impos­si­ble to shop for?  I really want to know. The Husband’s 73rd birth­day is fast approach­ing.  Shop­ping for this man has got to be one of the most dif­fi­cult and frus­trat­ing tasks I face every year.  He never wants any­thing.  He has no hob­bies and no vices.  He [...]
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Kroger offers 10% Bang for Your Economic Stimulus Buck

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 17, 2008
As a follow-up to this morning’s post about offers put forth by Sears and Kroger, I have good news.  Kroger will not only accom­mo­date those of us who expect to receive their stim­u­lus as a direct deposit rather than as a phys­i­cal check, they’re going to make par­tic­i­pa­tion eas­ier and less com­pli­cated than Sears. Here’s the email response [...]
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Cashing in on the Economic Stimulus?

By Suburban Wife | Published: April 17, 2008
Through a typ­i­cally ser­pen­tine path of fol­low­ing links this morn­ing, I dis­cov­ered that both Sears and Kroger are offer­ing incen­tives to con­sumers will­ing to cash in their Eco­nomic Stim­u­lus checks. Sears Hold­ing Cor­po­ra­tions is offer­ing a 10% “bonus to every cus­tomer who con­verts their gov­ern­ment stim­u­lus checks into gift cards at Sears or Kmart.”  The gift cards will have [...]
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