I have been using Android phones for the past 2 years. I wanted the iPhone when it first came out, but it was only on AT&T. When I got my HTC Incredible, that was just before the iPhone was going to be officially on Verizon.
On December 5th, 2011, I walked into the closest corperate run Verizon Wireless store and purchased the iPhone 4S after much wavering between getting a 4G LTE Android phone and the iPhone. So that was December 5th and at that time, my expected ship date was December 16th. On December 14th, I received an email saying that they were unable to fill the request by that date and would let me know when they have a new projected ship date.
On December 21st, I contacted Verizon Wireless to figure out when I might see the phone. I got my answer and a email verifying that answer arrived soon afterward. The iPhone 4S should ship the week of December 26th. Really???
Today I check my preorder status and found the status had updated to "Your order has been sent for processing." and the projected ship by date was now blank. I was hoping for some good news. I knew that good news would not be delivered until evening, at the earliest.
At 20:04 (8:04 pm for you 24-hour clock challenged people) on December 22, 2011, I received an email that my iPhone 4S had shipped from Ontario, California. I checked the FedEx tracking and it is being sent overnight....Excellent!
I will soon have an iPhone, only 4 1/2 years after the original iPhone was released. I guess it is about time.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Shopping with coupons
In the spirit of getting a good deal, I went shopping at Harris
Teeter during day 1 of their triple coupon event. Harris Teeter will
triple coupons with a face value of $0.99 or less up to 20 coupons per
VIC card, per household, per day. The only Harris Teeter in town is
normally fairly busy, but today it was a nearly full parking lot.
Today I armed myself with a plan of what I wanted, sort of. I prepped a list of sale items and coupons for those items and good deal coupons, which took me about 30 minutes. I showed up with 14 coupons prepped for shopping. Of those 14, 2 were for items I discovered that Harris Teeter doesn't carry them in this particular store.
I shopped and noticed all the isles filled with coupon-ers that were using large binders full of coupons. I use the low-key approach, small, collapsible container that fits in my pocket and can hold 1,000 coupons. I used an envelope with the planned use coupons with a list the planned purchases which doubles as a separator to keep the claimed coupons away from the unclaimed coupons. When I went to the checkout, I counted that I used 19 of the possible 20 coupons per day.
-----My Savings Breakdown-----
Sales and VIC discounts: $27.82
Manufactures Coupons: $10.30
Triple Coupon Bonus: $20.60
Catalinas received:
$1.00 off 1 Coffee-Mate natural bliss
$1.00 off 3 General Mills Big G cereals
$1.50 off your next purchase at Harris Teeter compliments of Hamburger Helper.
My shopping doesn't focus on getting getting a bunch of free items and Harris Teeter does not allow coupon overage. I focus and using coupons for items that we will use in a short time span. Translation: I don't do stockpiles or clear the shelf shopping.
Today I armed myself with a plan of what I wanted, sort of. I prepped a list of sale items and coupons for those items and good deal coupons, which took me about 30 minutes. I showed up with 14 coupons prepped for shopping. Of those 14, 2 were for items I discovered that Harris Teeter doesn't carry them in this particular store.
I shopped and noticed all the isles filled with coupon-ers that were using large binders full of coupons. I use the low-key approach, small, collapsible container that fits in my pocket and can hold 1,000 coupons. I used an envelope with the planned use coupons with a list the planned purchases which doubles as a separator to keep the claimed coupons away from the unclaimed coupons. When I went to the checkout, I counted that I used 19 of the possible 20 coupons per day.
-----My Savings Breakdown-----
Sales and VIC discounts: $27.82
Manufactures Coupons: $10.30
Triple Coupon Bonus: $20.60
Catalinas received:
$1.00 off 1 Coffee-Mate natural bliss
$1.00 off 3 General Mills Big G cereals
$1.50 off your next purchase at Harris Teeter compliments of Hamburger Helper.
My shopping doesn't focus on getting getting a bunch of free items and Harris Teeter does not allow coupon overage. I focus and using coupons for items that we will use in a short time span. Translation: I don't do stockpiles or clear the shelf shopping.
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