The Scrabbled: Making Fun of Each Other since '99

Two of my bestest friends are coming to visit next weekend. These are two of the people who own Piccadilly Records and guess which shops they want to go to?

I think I might go to H&M (cheap, ethical clothes!) after work today to replenish my wardrobe a bit. I’m still wearing the same polo shirts I bought when I first got my job three years ago and they’re starting to look pretty ratty.

Tomorrow I’m taking the entire day to cycle through the city (mainly below 34 St.) and tour some stores I’ve heard about. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a shopping spree exactly, just a nice way to tour the city with landmarks.

I plan on posting about my discoveries/opinions later on.

List of stores after the jump…

I’m running the risk here of posting yet another thing that’s already been discussed.

Has anyone here ever been on Woot? It’s fantastic. They generally sell one thing per day at a ridiculous price. The items can be anything from night lights to gaming mouses (is that the proper terminology?) to 50 inch plasma screen TVs to Roombas to coffee makers and so on. Everything with 5 dollar shipping.

About once a month or so, they do a thing called a “woot-off” where they have a set amount of one item, they sell it off, and they bring on a new one. It’s been known to render entire days useless.

The big coveted item here is the “Bag of Crap” A.K.A. “Random Crap” Basically, their cost is a dollar, and they throw in random stuff. Usually including some dollar store stuff, but on occasion a plasma TV, some GPSs and other assorted goodies costing well over a dollar. General practice is that you buy three, so total cost would end up being 8 bucks with the shipping. A quick Google search of “bag of crap” should bring up message boards of people telling what they got in their packages. If you see it, act fast as they generally don’t last more than a few seconds.

Anyway..Happy Wooting. http://www.woot.com/

I’m going to do some online research on my own. But I always like hearing your stupid opinions on things so: does anyone own a portable iPod audio system (dock and speakers, you know)?

Does it charge the iPod when plugged in? How long does a full charge last? Is it a separate volume from the iPod’s volume (so you can save iPod energy)? How loud does it get? What was the cost? Are you happy? Have you heard of better? Anything weird or particular to say about the one you’ve got?

I might get one, I might not, who knows.

It’s not fair. Edmonds only has 6 cars under $25k and they’re all minivans and trucks.

i try to avoid Target because i usually cannot walk out of there without buying lots of things i didn’t walk in for.

however, they are having a big sale on their seasonal items – i.e. plastic dishes, cutlery, water bottles, totes, picnic baskets, grill stuff, camp chairs, etc. a lot of it is 30% off or more. i just got a whole plastic dining sets’ worth of camping items and a couple of totes for less than $15.

heads, up guys. i know some of you like the outdoorsy things.

Place a $10 order at The Something Store and you’ll get… something. A random item selected from their Indiana Jones-proof warehouse. Who knows what it will be? Maybe something cool, maybe something lame.

You’ll have no way of knowing until you receive your shipment, open the box, and unleash the hundreds of angry bees contained within.

This Saturday, April 12th, the donut-hole of Edison is having their biannual town-wide garage sale. If you’re in the mood let me know. We can walk around together, get lunch downtown, and you could always park on my street (and I’ll drive into Metuchen).

Look at this awesome oddball furniture and stuff store Heidi found!

I just heard about this tonight. It’s a nearly-finished “mall” in North Jersey (near the Meadowlands). I use the term “mall” loosely because it sounds ridiculous.

Some more info here

It’s supposed to have been done in 2007. But now, as soon as late 2008. It will be the third largest shopping mall in the world.

Some features:

why so close to marlton?

And absinthe, too! I bought them.

Can it be true? Coming to the U.S. in 2009-2010, The Air Car is a 6-seater 100mpg zero emission car that will cost no more than a Honda Civic. It just seems way too good to be true. If this car is for real, I will be buying one and I don’t care how stupid it looks (and my god does it look stupid).

I’ve got a huge scratch on one of my supposedly scratch-proof lenses and the bridge is getting bendy in that way that metal gets bendy when it’s just about had it. I need new glasses. I just bought this pair maybe two years ago and they cost me $160. Apparently, this should not be so. So what’s a nerd to do?

Buy glasses online. As the title of the article states, decent eye glasses can be had for $40 or lower if one is willing to take the proper measurements and precautions. I need to find a new optometrist to make sure my prescription is up to date and get my pupil distance while I’m at it and I hope to buy possibly a coupla pairs — you know, so I can mix and match like the fashionista I so desperately want to be.

I started selling stuff on etsy!

So last Wednesday on my drive home my brakes went out. I would push the pedal all the way to the floor and barely get any traction. Thursday I went to see the Phillies and Friday was swamped, so it’s Saturday morning and I’ve got a very dangerous car. I figure it’s the brake pads finally worn all the way down or something. Something easily fixed that I don’t quite have the tools and knowledge to do.

No decent mechanics are open over the weekend so I take it to Pep Boys to get a new set of brakes because they’re also having a buy-three-get-one-free tire deal and I need new tires. Turns out there was something more seriously wrong with my car (my master cylinder was leaking) so rather than let them do anything serious to my car, I get my new tires and leave. And, on their suggestion, I had them repack the wheel bearings for $129.99.

The Wii Party Station. It recharges four Wiimotes. It has a chip bowl holder. It has a scoreboard to keep track of extended boxing or tennis sessions. And it holds and cools four drinks. For $25. MUST HAVE.

Does anyone ever shop there? NYTimes has an article on how they run their business in almost the exact opposite fashion as Walmart and Sam’s by doing things like paying their employees good wages, giving them great benefits, and never marking up items over 14%. Apparently it’s working. I’ve never seen one so I always assumed they were a west coast store or whatever, but apparently there’s one right down 38 from me and I’m interested to go check it out.

will be at the moorestown mall on saturday.