My 30 Days

Today’s Prompt:

A photo of the item you last purchased.

It was really boring lol. It was my lunch.

An Egg and Cress sandwich, 2 Babybels, pot of Pineapple and a bottle of Vitamin Water.

Yesterday, I bought myself a new scarf.

So here I am using my time off to catch up and get it done.

I love shopping online – it’s so easy and convenient – alot of companies now receive takeaway orders over the internet for example Domino’s Pizza take their orders over their website – they also have a website which updates with the progress of your order.

Alot of shopping websites – like Amazon and eBay have a voucher box during the checkout where you can put in a code to receive money off, free carriage or maybe even a free gift (In some cases lol).

I’ve looked at various companies that I regularly shop at for one or another thing and 6 or 7 of them had vouchers that were usable maybe 1 or 2 had no vouchers at all. It’s definitely worth having a look if you’re wanting a discount somewhere along the line. The good thing about alot of the offers is that they have expiry dates so you can see when they run out. Back to my example of eBay from before, now rather than having money off vouchers they have direct links to ebay pages for certain items that are listed by genuine reliable sellers, for example the first that came up for me was for a Samsung digital camera that was ex-catalogue being sold by Tesco (if you click on the link it’ll take you straight to the ebay voucher page)

Next to each code there is a button with a pair of scissors on it – they copy the code to the clipboard so that you can paste it straight into the checkout box on the relevant site.

There are quite a few other people who joined in to, take a look here:

Sylvie D
Madhouse Family Reviews
Continental Fairy
I’ll Be Francoise
Phi-Cynosure

It’s lunchtime as I write this post rather than the evening or last thing before bed like I tend to do! It’s cold. I don’t actually know if it’s cold outside as I’ve not been out since just before 9am when I arrived for work (where I was a little chilled but not uncomfortably cold). Now it’s 12:45 ish and I am frozen.

I understand that it makes sense to crank up the air con when it’s hot outside but it’s not – it’s grey, overcast and wet – it’s been raining on and off all morning. I don’t mind the rain but I wish I had my wellies to go jump in puddles lol.

I have a few choices what to do with my lunch break. I can:

a) Sit in the canteen eat my sandwich while playing with my phone and half watching Loose Women (although I won’t be able to hear it because it’s too loud in the canteen and the TV is on too quiet)

b) Go to town to get That Boy something little to go with his main present (except it’s raining and I don’t have a coat or a jumper!)

c) Go home, get a jumper, be complained at by That Boy about “why I came home for lunch and what was the point in driving the 20-30 minute round trip for a jumper”

d) go to the supermarket, purchase a new jumper (that to a certain degree I probably don’t need) and to b) at the same time (replacing town with the supermarket – but also then I’m not sure what to get him lol)

So, no none of the above really are going to happen – I’ll go with a) and sit in the canteen, I can go to the supermarket or the retail park after work and fulfil option b)/d) however because of the lack of jumper I might be cold. So plan d) to a certain degree seems to fit the bill.

Who made life so complicated and created so many options?

My tag on my suitcase would have identified me and where I lived but would have been no good if I was in Turkey for a week lol.

So this is a genius idea –  it’s called Rebound Tag. A lot of security companies recommend that you don’t put your details like your address etc on the tag that you put on your case – so instead you can put the rebound tag on there. Rather than your address being on show to the world there is a microchip number which can then be typed into the website (http://www.reboundtag.com) and then you are notified by SMS or email that your suitcase has been found.

I was sent one of these tags by FuelMyBlog to review – now obviously I hope that I don’t lose my case and I didn’t want to leave it behind on purpose to see what happened – however I have registered my tag and have it attached to the bag that I use everyday just in case it’s stolen or something like that. It was quick and easy to register my tag – although the barcode number on the tag is quite long it’s easy to read. Also when it came to adding my holidays to the website it was easy again, I’d added my main holiday within a few minutes – the bit that took the longest was actually looking for the holiday park phone number rather than the actual process of added the itinerary details.

You can buy a single tag for £19.99 from the website. The company also sell family packs (3 tags) or an Executive pack which is 10 tags. It is a lot more in comparison to a plastic key ring with a piece of card in it but you do have the piece of mind that your address etc isn’t on show to the world.

My main negative points would be the size of the tag – it’s 10cm x 6cm – when I had it attached to the outside of my handbag I kept catching it – at the moment it actually lives in one of the pockets, however with it being on my suitcase it was big enough to identify what it was. The other issue would be with regards to the pack sizes, having come from a family of four we would have had a suitcase each which would have meant buying a pack of 3 and then a single one – I think a pack of 4 or maybe even 5 would be a good option as well for larger families etc.

On the other hand I really think that it’s a good idea and I would consider purchasing another one for CJ’s case if and when we go abroad again (via plane because it’s hard to lose your case in a car lol).

If you’d like some other opinions to compare with you can have a look at some of these:

epicurienne
kilheeny.com
yourworldwired.com
natalani.blogspot.com
www.passportchop.com
alittleadrift.com
steintranquility.blogspot.com
theplanetd.com
www.tomslatin.com
tletravels.com

This is a Sponsored Post, the product was supplied by Rebound Tag via FuelMyBlog and the opinion is all mine.

My lovely friend Kaelah is having a clear out of her wardrobe before she goes to NYC over the summer.

This funky badge takes you to Kaelah’s Photobucket page where you find lots of different albums then drop her an email. For more information (as the badge says!) go to Kaelahbee.com.

I’m am my mothers daughter and even though it’s 8 weeks away I’ve already thought about what I’m taking with me and things like that. Yup phrase book and guide book are somewhere near the top – I’ve been to Paris once before and that was on a school trip so wasn’t really fending for myself or anything like that.

When it comes to clothes I’ve decided that I should be able to go with pretty much the minimum lol. It’s an overnight trip (train Sat am then train back Sun pm) so it’s not like I need to take lots of outfits with me I just need to plan (which is why I am thinking about it now – 8 weeks early).

We’re due to be going out for dinner on the Saturday evening so I need something smart for that, other than that I would just need a spare shirt and bits and pieces for Sunday.

I have a big camping rucksack and a suitcase but I don’t have anything really kinda travel size – I want something that I can use during the day while sightseeing etc but something big enough to fit my stuff in.

I was looking on Etsy for other bits (mainly browsing to add items to my wish list before my birthday lol) then I found this fab bag. I messaged the shop owner and she said that she can fit a couple of outfits in and use it as a day bag – awesome! She says she can also fit her laptop in – well that’s a good start maybe I can get rid of my laptop case (I have a chunky rucksack one like this) and then use this bag as a laptop bag after the Paris Trip.

Then again if I get it before the end of April I might be able to use it as a trial run at the Leaders Conference – when I went last year I would try and carry my bible and a notebook but then would have to carry a my bottle of water separate so a day bag would be good. (good idea!)

This bag is created by Pam who runs the Fantella shop on Etsy. She makes them in lots of different colours so if you have a request chat to her she’s lovely and friendly She asked my silly questions so she must be cool!

On Etsy I found this fab necklace. It’s from the shop of VisionQuest – there is a sale on at the momnet in her shop so take a look here.

Wikio is a news portal with a search engine that looks at blogs and other media sites. You can use it to search through news and blog feeds, you can use it to search videos and now you can also use it as a price comparison site. 

Earlier I had emailed my brother about what games he was looking for at the moment for his XBox 360. He gave me the titles of two games that he was looking for. I decided I would use these for this test.

Me and my friend David were discussing about whether I should get it and the conclusion we came to was yes and because then it could come out of my Marketing budget. Erm well ok so I don’t have a marketing budget for my blog and anything resembling marketing is at my own expense but I figured it was a good idea anyway. What do you think?

I then went to another local store to get a zip for Ali, she’d been into town at lunch and the one store she thought she might be able to get a zip from and the girl serving her wasn’t very helpful at all. So I popped into the store round the corner from the supermarket and was able to get one in the right colour for Ali.

I headed home and put away the shopping and grabbed some tea before parking in front of the television for a DVD fest. I watched the end of My Sister’s Keeper (I’d started it Monday evening), Imagine That and The History Boys. Somewhere in the middle I also watched The Brit awards albeit at high speed in places. (Me and Rickie discussed writing posts about The Brits so I might watch it again on high speed while scribbling bits to turn into a blog post. You can read Rickie’s blog post here.)

So I have three film reviews and a blog post about the Brits to write so I think I’ll catch you all later.