Buy a HOT Phone for $0 Down! Amazing Holiday Present!

An amazing deal for everyone but the giftee, all right. You "buy" a present for nothing, the carrier gets a new customer, and the manufacturer sells more models. What does the giftee get? A big fat monthly phone bill!

Oh wait, did they mean for you to pay the phone bill too? Isn't it enough you gave the phone? Besides, you're not ready for that kind of commitment!

$5 off $35 Amazon.com credit!

$5 off ANY purchase of $35 or more promotional credit valid to use on Amazon.com (excludes Kindle devices, digital downloads and gift card purchases), valid through 11:59 PM PST on December 15th, 2013! Sign in to see your Wishlists or create one, answer the question “What are you most wishing for this holiday season?”, and share to Facebook. The $5 will automatically be applied to your account. Quantities are limited!

Fine Print: Upon completion of the “Share & Claim” action, a $5 off $35 or more promotional credit will be automatically applied to your Amazon account. Promotional credits must be redeemed by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 15, 2013. This promotion is available to customers located and with billing addresses in the United States. Limit one promotional credit per customer. Quantity is limited.

So much for my Black Friday/Cyberweek shopping being done...

I'm a writer. No, really!

I'm a writer a la Nick Miller of New Girl. Ok, so I don't knock my computer to the floor to avoid writing (the thing's expensive!) but I do manage to avoid the dread - did I say dread? I meant beloved - task using other methods. No, not by getting drunk at the zoo in lieu of life experience, there are plenty of other ways to gain "life experience". I'm a busy girl, you know. I had to shop all Black Friday. And Cyber Monday. And Cyber Week. And Cyber Month?

Being a writer is the best! In what other profession is it acceptable not to do the work? I have writer's block, damn it. It's an occupational hazard. I'll get the work done whenever. Really! In my spare time - not that I have any. You know, after the shopping. Or after I catch up on my shows, like New Girl.

Deals! What do purchases say about you?

Deals! Deals! Deals! The funny thing about deals is that they can make you buy things you never intended to. I didn't really need a waffle maker, I just thought it'd be cool to make my own fresh and everything. I used it a total of one time before shoving it somewhere I can't get to it without a complicated set of maneuvers involving boxes and back pain.

I subscribe to daily emails from Slickdeals.net and 3-hourly ones from Fatwallet.com to keep track of deals. It means, of course, that I miss out on most of the deals which usually get snapped up in minutes, if not seconds. Which is fine by my wallet, which would never survive a whole day of real time deals.

And what are these deals for? What would these purchases say about the people buying them? Some of this stuff is supposed to be for reselling on eBay, but even then it means there's quite a market for this stuff. As far as I can tell, Slickdealers/Fatwalleters/eBay buyers are chocolate-loving, coffee-loving, rice-loving, body building, computer building, media loving, gun toting fashionistas quite possibly with revolving balances on lots of credit cards. After all, you can never have too many candies (like Candy House Chocolate Truffles in Gold Foil - Reception Accessories (Google Affiliate Ad)), K-cups, rice cookers, pounds of whey protein, computer parts, BluRays, TVs (like Samsung 46 " Black LED 1080P 120HZ HDTV - UN46EH6000 (Google Affiliate Ad)), ebooks, guns, shoes, and credit cards. Especially when they're 70% or more off or even free! Never mind that you'll never read all those ebooks; they just look cool on your 50% off ereader.