{"id":7291,"date":"2015-10-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=7291"},"modified":"2015-10-19T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:00:00","slug":"weekend-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=7291","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday started out with us running errands, including a very fruitful trip to the library. I really love to read so it was effortless to walk out with a stack of books. I just hope I can put aside the necessary time to actually read! We tend to watch tv most weeknights until 8:30 pm and then head upstairs for awhile before going to bed around 10 pm or so. Sometimes I can&#8217;t tear myself away from the internet in favor of reading which is way more relaxing and helps me sleep. So I will try to be better with that.<\/p>\n<p>One of our other stops included Yankee Candle. I typically just browse, but had a $10 off anything coupon (no restrictions) and they were giving away a free votive with any purchase, so I ended up with a box of tealights and three votives for only $4 and some change. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/YankeeCandles20151017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/YankeeCandles20151017.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee Candles\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I almost succumbed to their $10 medium jar candles sale when you spend $35, but that would have been way more out of pocket, plus I prefer their newer tumbler candles as opposed to the jar style. They gave me a coupon for buy two get two free that&#8217;s good through the end of next month so we&#8217;ll see if I can resist the temptation to go back.<\/p>\n<p>We also went to White Barn (Bath &#038; Body Works&#8217; candle store) because I had heard how much people like their scents, and they were not wrong. Dare I say their candles, on average, smell better than Yankee Candle. However, they don&#8217;t sell most scents in anything but the large 3-wick jars which are not cheap, so we didn&#8217;t buy anything. I&#8217;ll stick to my cheap $5 candle from Menards for now. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Cheap-Candle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Cheap-Candle.jpg\" alt=\"Cheap Candle\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"entry\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not bad for the price. I also recently bought a small jar candle from Meijer for only $2 which isn&#8217;t bad either, although due to the size you really can&#8217;t smell it unless you burn it in a small room like the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of bathrooms, you have to watch this video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YbYWhdLO43Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That advertising is clever, and it works, because we went out and bought a squatty potty Saturday night from Bed Bath &#038; Beyond. We had originally seen it on Shark Tank but forgot about it until I came across the video. I have to say, I like the &#8220;end&#8221; result (haha) of using it, although I find it a bit annoying. It&#8217;s designed to fit around the toilet seat but it does stick out a bit and I keep hitting my feet on it. I&#8217;m sure I just need to adjust to it being there.<\/p>\n<p>Other things we purchased over the weekend:<\/p>\n<p>A nice fuzzy warm sweater from Walmart.<br \/>\nA Big Mac to stuff in my piehole.<br \/>\n$40 in bird food.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and I have a beef with Walmart. I happen to love their jeans &#8211; they fit me well, look nice, and only cost $20. However, now that it&#8217;s getting colder I will need to start wearing my Cuddl Duds underneath my pants, particularly at work. They add bulk, so I need to buy a size larger than my regular size. It must be a popular size, however, because I&#8217;ve visited two different Walmarts and both have a ton of sizes in the style I like except the exact size I need. I went online and they claimed to have the size I wanted at our regular Walmart and noted I could order them and pick them up at the store. I was skeptical, but then figured I might as well try; maybe that size was in the back or something. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where things went wrong. <\/p>\n<p># 1 &#8211; They asked if I wanted to be notified by text when my order was ready for pickup. I agreed, provided my number, and immediately received a text confirming that I signed up for notifications. Then I went about my day and approximately five hours later starting wondering what was taking so long. I happened to check my email and there was a notification that my order was ready to be picked up, sent four hours previously. WTF? Why ask if I want to be texted if you&#8217;re only going to email me? <\/p>\n<p># 2 &#8211; When I arrived to pick up my order, the employee helping me came out from the back with a box that someone had put the jeans in that said &#8220;color&#8221; on the side because they didn&#8217;t actually have the color I wanted so they just threw a pair of black jeans in there instead. She then informed me their inventory is 48 hours old so that&#8217;s why it said they were in stock when they weren&#8217;t. WTF? I would have preferred if they had contacted me to ask if I wanted the black jeans or to cancel my order. Why would they think just sticking a different pair of jeans in a box would make me happy? Needless to say, I had to request a refund (since you pay online ahead of time) for something I never got. So stupid. Luckily I was also there to return a different item or I would have been even more pissed about them wasting my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday started out with us running errands, including a very fruitful trip to the library. I really love to read so it was effortless to walk out with a stack of books. I just hope I can put aside the necessary time to actually read! We tend to watch tv most weeknights until 8:30 pm and then head upstairs for awhile before going to bed around 10 pm or so. Sometimes I can&#8217;t tear myself away from the internet in favor of reading which is way more relaxing and helps me sleep. So I will try to be better with that. One of our other stops included Yankee Candle. 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