{"id":5171,"date":"2014-11-21T00:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2014-11-21T00:54:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:54:02","slug":"online-shopping-gives-me-a-reason-to-live-for-another-3-to-5-business-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/online-shopping-gives-me-a-reason-to-live-for-another-3-to-5-business-days\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOnline shopping gives me a reason to live for another 3 to 5 business days\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it only fitting with Thanksgiving coming up next weekend to take a moment to talk about something near and dear to many of our hearts\u2026shopping \ud83d\ude42 !!! Today my sister-in-law texted me the title of today\u2019s blog, \u201cOnline shopping gives me a reason to live for another 3 to 5 business days,\u201d<\/span> <\/strong>and I busted out laughing. Oh my gosh it feels so true sometimes.\u00a0 I love it when I have ordered something online and I see it arrive on the porch. It is like Christmas morning every time a new package arrives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love shopping for things online because when they arrive it\u2019s like a present to me, from me.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I buy so much online that one day the UPS guy told my husband, \u201cYour wife needs to settle down.\u201d When I found out he said it I wanted to run outside and yell at his truck \u201cHey if it wasn\u2019t for people like me you wouldn\u2019t have that delivery job of yours Mister!\u201d\u00a0 After all, as I see it I am creating all kinds of delivery jobs for the economy by doing my online shopping, so he should be thanking me really \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Just as an fyi, the National Retail Federation is expecting that 140 million plus shoppers will hit stores or retailers websites Thanksgiving weekend. Let me tell you that I for one will not be one of those people hitting the stores. Websites, definitely, but stores\u2026no way!\u00a0 I cannot think of anything more miserable than fighting a massive crowd of sweaty, anxious people through aisles and checkout. To me, that would be the definition of misery.\u00a0 I cannot handle shopping with crowds. I avoid the malls at all costs during holiday shopping season and prefer to instead buy everything I possibly can online.<\/p>\n

One thing I have learned is that I can save a tremendous amount of money by buying the bigger purchases I need online during the month of November and December. For example, when we were furnishing our new home I was able to purchase some of the items I needed for as much as 40% off plus free shipping.\u00a0 It saved me a fortune. Whether you need to buy dishware or silverware or appliances, it is not a bad idea to make those purchases during the crazy online sales offered over the holiday. I am pretty certain the retailers assume you will just buy normal gift items during that time of year when they offer the big percentage discounts but because they don\u2019t have a limit on the percentage off you can really save big dollars by purchasing your big ticket items this time of year.<\/p>\n

One other tip is this \u2013 The Wall Street Journal did research on last year\u2019s shopping prices and found that the biggest price drops of the year happened THE WEEKEND BEFORE THANKSGIVING!\u00a0 That\u2019s right!\u00a0 That means this weekend is when you will actually see the biggest price drops! Not next weekend during black Friday deals.\u00a0 This weekend!! So I would get on the web this weekend and check for good deals.<\/p>\n

Have an amazing weekend everyone and HAPPY SHOPPING!<\/p>\n

\"kepp-calm\"<\/a><\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it only fitting with Thanksgiving coming up next weekend to take a moment to talk about something near and dear to many of our hearts\u2026shopping \ud83d\ude42 !!! Today my sister-in-law texted me the title of today\u2019s blog, \u201cOnline shopping gives me a reason to live for another 3 to 5 business days,\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5319,5312,2083,5310,5315,1657,2820,5317,5320,570,3677,132,5316,30,1387,5325,598,5313,35,5322,5311,574,5321,5314,2823,2929,5324,5323,1560,1561,5306,5308,2826,2818,5307,1556,5318,236,5309,491,2219,133],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appliances","tag-costs","tag-crowd","tag-crowds","tag-december","tag-delivery","tag-discount","tag-dishes","tag-dollars","tag-economic-development","tag-economy","tag-fun","tag-furnishings","tag-gift","tag-giving","tag-happy-shopping","tag-job","tag-large-purchases","tag-love","tag-millions","tag-misery","tag-money","tag-national-retail-federation","tag-november","tag-online","tag-presents","tag-price-drop","tag-prices","tag-retail","tag-retail-therapy","tag-retailer","tag-retailers","tag-savings","tag-shop","tag-shoppers","tag-shopping","tag-silverware","tag-thanksgiving","tag-thanksgiving-weekend","tag-ups","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}