When I visit a hotel website I am looking for an accurate description of not only their rates, services and accommodations, but also what I can expect to find at their facility. In preparation for a recent trip to California’s Great America, I had the opportunity to explore and compare quite a few hotels in the Silicon Valley where we were visiting.
It wasn’t [...]

No, I haven’t forgotten about Retail Bandit, I’ve just been spending too much time on updating a few of my other websites. I’ll try to be better.
I do have some good news for those with an interest in the whole GMO issue.
The new Weston A. Price Chapter on the San Juan Ridge will hold its first [...]

I just received a phone call from Comcast. I am simply livid. They called to inform me that my bill was past due. Well, how can that be? Since reactivating my cable service through Comcast only a month ago, I’ve never received a bill from them. Not one.
Apparently, they are sending the bills to my [...]

I am sitting here on hold, waiting for a Comcast Service Representative to answer the phone. I am fuming mad, so mad in fact that I feel as though I could spit nails.
I was sitting here enjoying my second Law and Order program of the evening — one I was really looking forward to watching. Especially since I [...]

Last year for Christmas a dear friend had ordered a Turducken for us, which was the best “turkey” we have ever tasted. So, this year we decided to order one for our family and one for our kids in Michigan.
We ordered two Turducken’s a full-size bird for our kids and a Turducken Roll for us, since [...]

After being without television for the past two years, I finally decided to bite the bullet and order cable again. Our local cable company is Comcast.
I decide to be smart about it and order it online, to save time and hopefully money. After I checked all the boxes, filled in all their forms, and then selected [...]

You know I simply love the crisp fall weather; it’s all that is entailed in preparation for winter that I detest.
Fall means it’s time to put away our summer clothes and pull our warm winter woolies out of storage. It’s like reconnecting with old friends. I found clothing I had forgotten I owned. We’ll save that [...]

I’m in the process of changing all my appliances over to stainless steel, in hopes they will be easier to keep looking nice. At least that’s the theory.
My microwave looks like it’s survived a war, but it works like a champ. When we first got it, we overcooked everything. We called it “the microwave from [...]

A letter recently sent to Thrifty Payless Inc., by one of our readers.
Hello, My name is Joleen and I have always been a big fan of Thrifty brand ice cream.  In fact, I have always thought Thrifty’s ice cream can compete with the biggest brand names. 
However, when I was enjoying an ice cream cone that I [...]

I have a complaint about Wal-Mart in Sacramento, CA on Antelope Road.
August 13, 2009 — I was at the automatic check out station, checking my articles out. I swiped my card in the machine, entered my pin number, and it came up asking if I wanted money back. I started to hit “NO” when all [...]

CompUSA Passes Off Used Goods As New
Hi Annette,
I just had a pretty bad experience with CompUSA (Concord, CA) that I would like to share.
I went into the store and purchased a Sony Vaio S560P/B, of which they only had one left. As the salesperson was writing up the order he started to talk about the [...]

Remember President Reagan’s Trickle Down Economics policy? It’s pretty plain to me that we are experiencing his mantra first-hand — except in reverse.
The news is replete with reports of bankruptcy, foreclosures and unemployment. Tuolumne County only recently experienced the closure of our local Mervyns store. Last year they closed down Albertson’s with promises of another [...]

Simply Self Storage, not so simple…
When three people live in a two-bedroom house that is only 830 square feet, it doesn’t take long to realize that space is a luxury one can ill afford. Inevitably the time will come when it’s time to make a decision; move into a larger space, dispose of non-essentials or [...]

Stop Telephone Harrassment by Debt Collectors
 
This isn’t exactly a “shopping” story but one that you may find interesting and hopefully helpful. I’ve written several articles in the past about our cross-country moves — one of the worst and costly mistakes my husband and I have ever made. It took us a long time to begin [...]