Memorial Day (Sales) Tradition...
As I drove out to eat on
Memorial Day, I saw that at least one person had bought a mattress set today.
He or she probably saved about 60 or 70%.
Maybe even more.
Ads for beds, mattresses and springs seem to center around major holidays. Sealy, Beautirest, Simmons, etc. all run colorful advertisements in the paper and on television, offering huge discounts.
Fourth of July and Labor Day seem to be the other two "firm" or "soft" slumberland
Sale-E-Brations.
When I need a new mattress I know they cost a whole lot more the other days of the year.
I don't cook out anymore but I did have dinner at a BBQ place.
It's a tradition.
(Click on the photo. Notice there no hands holding it to the roof.)
Safe to ride behind this vehicle.
Labels: firm mattress firm, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day, sealy posturepedic, Sears, Serta, Simmons, slumberland, Smokey Bones.
The BIG Game...
Well, actually it was pretty much a blow-out but the
IMAGES of the game were big.
Sunday I was visiting my Mom at Sandpiper and mentioned I was getting a larger television.
She asked
"how big?" I said if it was turned on end, it would be 5 feet tall (60 inches).
Mom said
"Remember, I'm 5 foot two, with eyes of blue."I said
"Mom, we both have green eyes." We laughed.
I came a cross a photo of my small house on James Island that I rented when I first came back to Charleston.
Yes, there was a tv, of sorts.
The whole house was only 20 feet wide and the living room was 10 feet across.
I found a North Charleston sports bar called
SPORTZ that featured a projection tv screen that was 20 feet wide.
Bigger than my house!
The two fellows from
Sears picked up the old 46 " set and asked where I wanted it.
"Over there on the side of the room..but, I would really like it downstairs."I want ahead of them and they carefully carried it down the stairs and put it down out of the way in my spacious
"Charleston Basement."Whew!
Thanks fellas.
That would have been quite a balancing act for me to move.
(Click on the photos to see more detail.)
Now I am in the process of adding other new equipment.
So much high tech has happened in the last 6 years I have to scramble to catch up.
I want to stream
Netflix movies.
Labels: Charleston Basement, MNF, Monday Night Football, Netflix, Sears, Sharp Aquos, Sportz Bar and Grill
Black Friday !
It's a fine working television.
It has a "big" screen (well, 46" measured diagonally) and has served me faithfully for about 6 years.
That's a LOT of football games and Comedy Central.
Oh yeah, and PBS and the History Channel.
It never was designed to hang on the wall but, placing it in the corner worked fine.
I understand it would help the economy if I were to go stand or sit in line around midnight.
Maybe get a newer model.
They have made fantastic advances in the last 6 years since I bought this for $999.
The fad of
3-D movies in theaters seems to be winding down. Too expensive.
Don't think I would want to wear tv-viewing-glasses at home.
My comfortable chair's distance from the tv has been perfect for a 46" set.
But I believe the stores are willing to give me a much larger size for about what I paid all those years ago.
Think I'll check it out later tonight.
You can tell I'm serious.
I cleared space for something newer, slimmer and awesome.
(Clicking on the pictures makes the images bigger. Even then the old tv is still going to be only a 46" screen - measured diagonally.)
Shopping at midnight is for people who really like crowds. Saving money always keeps you warm when it's chilly.
Good luck out there!
Labels: 3-D movies, Comedy Channel, Daniel Tosh, hhgregg, History Channel, Jon Stewart, Sam's Club, Samsung, Sanyo, Sears, Sharp, Tosh.0
