For several years now, I've been my mother's personal online shopper. I can talk about secure websites and checking for the little padlock icon and the "https" in front of the name of a website until I'm blue in the face--she will not order anything online. But that doesn't stop her from online shopping.   Not Continue Reading

I've been avoiding it for some time now. But when I started losing at "The Alphabet Game" that our 7-year-old insists we play every time we get into the car because I wasn't seeing road signs and license plates fast enough, it was clear that I couldn't avoid it any longer.  My eye doctor agreed. Continue Reading

It's my husband's birthday today.  And since it is neither a weekend nor a holiday, he has to work today.   So the birthday celebration won't begin until he's home at dinnertime. I'm working on planning a special meal and a nice cake.  Unfortunately, it's hard to find one cake that pleases everyone in the Continue Reading

My teenage son's summer job has been testing fire alarms for a local security-and-alarm company. Fire alarms in businesses and schools must be tested each year to comply with local fire codes.  Of course, summer is the only time that school fire alarms can be tested, so he's been getting the grand tour of many Continue Reading

Are you sad to see the summer go?  Fortunately the deals don't disappear with the sunny summer weather.  We've got great coupons to share with you, any time of the year!  Enjoy the last bargains of the season at our Summer Deals page. And don't forget our Back-to-School page, where the deals just keep getting Continue Reading

I admit it--I jumped on the bandwagon and got an iPod touch.  I was perfectly happy with the mp3 player I already owned.  Then, as I was running errands one day and listening to the satellite radio in my car, I discovered that there was an app for that.  I could listen to my favorite Continue Reading

We've come a long way since the Pony Express.  150 years ago, that was the only way to get a letter from place to place in the West.  Young men would carry mail on their routes for the price of $5 per half-ounce.  Remember, $5 in 1860 went a lot farther than $5 in 2009! Continue Reading

Who wants a clean house?  Clearly, not my kids.   Or maybe they just want a clean house as long as they don't have to help clean it. To hear my children tell it, I'm torturing them by making them do chores.  The youngest one is the worst.  Although he will cheerfully swish Comet around Continue Reading

I love the convenience of digital cameras.   When I took a photography class sixteen years ago, I learned that every time you clicked the shutter on your camera, you were spending 50 cents.  That covered the cost of the film as well as the processing.  With digital photography, you can click that shutter as Continue Reading

Do you twitter?  Did you know that Ultimate Coupons has a twitter feed?  It's got the absolute latest coupons AND a daily link to this blog.  If you're not already following us, go ahead and do that now.  I'll wait.  Then come back here and see what we've brought you for this week's Weird Holidays. Continue Reading