I finally remembered to take back my receipt from a few weeks ago where I got double charged for something.  Luckily, the Costco Customer Service people are so great they didn’t care or give me any attitude and just refunded the money to us.  Plus, I took back the Merrell shoes that I mentioned last [...]

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Sony has announced a safety notification for Vaio notebooks that were sold between January 2010 and April 2010 at Costco, as well as Fry’s, Best Buy and Amazon.com.  There is a potential safety issue affecting certain units within the VPCF11 and VPCCW2 series of notebook PCs.  In rare instances, these notebook computers may overheat due to [...]

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Okay, I’ll apologize right up front for not posting last Saturday.  We had gotten back to London Friday morning and I was so beat I could barely wake myself up to do anything for the next day or so.  Staying up for 24 hours is not something I’m good at.  So, sorry!
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We’ve all bought something, whether at Costco or another retailer, that came in one of those frustrating, plastic clamshell packages.  And probably more than one of us got a cut trying to break into the package and retrieve the item.  They’re annoying and dangerous, plus, all that plastic isn’t very good for the environment.  From [...]

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Costco’s latest US coupon book runs from June 10 – July 3, so you can get anything you need for your Fourth of July celebrations, as well as pick up some Father’s Day gifts.   Some of my favorite things to buy are in this month’s collection of coupons, so I’m really sad to be [...]

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