I'm a big fan of Taylor guitars, but I recently got a Guild and I'm really loving it. Every time I buy a new guitar, it gives me fresh inspiration to keep playing and improving. What's one thing you've bought recently (small or big investment, doesn't matter) that you feel was absolutely worth the money?
Well, this was a few months ago, but I am still enjoying the deal I got... I have been reading the Boston Herald newspaper for many decades. It is a big part of my morning ritual. Since I live in RI, there was no delivery service, so I would go to a local store (drugstore, convenience store, etc.) and pay $4.50 during weekdays and $4.00 per copy on Sundays (I assume Sunday's newspaper was cheaper because they had more advertising.) One day, I was unable to find the newspaper anywhere (and drove around quite a bit to find one.) I finally decided to get a subscription, instead. So, I bought an Android tablet for $180 and signed up for the Herald's promotion which was a first year annual subscription for $5! An amazing deal, of course. Since I had been paying $31 per week for the hardcopy newspapers (plus gas), the tablet was paid off in those savings within 6 weeks and it has been a free ride ever since. Once the first year is over, I will be paying $5 per week to continue the subscription which is still a great deal. Not only am I saving a lot of money, but the Herald is now "delivered" to me every morning without fail (well, I did have a connectivity problem one day, but that was an isolated incident.) My only regret is that I did not do this years ago.
Bamboo curtains, they look amazing. They give you 100% privacy while still letting in the light. You can look out between the slits but no one can look in. I have a lot of wood in my house, panelling and beams, floors, and they fit right in.
Not recently but I bought a thermal printer for my eBay biz. Best investment I have made for the business, printing address labels is now a painless process!
I didn't know that. Is it because the state is too small or…? What is it about reading the news whether in print or online that makes it so special that you've kept doing it for years? I don't recall touching a newspaper in the last 20 years.
Maybe I should suggest this to my wife. She sells vintage items and often needs a large number of price tags. She currently does them manually, so I'm wondering if printing them with a printer would be a good option.
I live too far from Boston to have it delivered. Not enough business for them to have a delivery guy in my town. I can get the Providence Journal delivered to me, but that is not my newspaper. I suppose that reading a newspaper is a habit, more than anything. I subscribe to the website, so I have access to everything, including their standard web content formatting. However, I make the extra effort to get to their traditional newspaper (pdf-like) version that they also offer because that is how I am used to navigating their newspaper. It is much less convenient than their web formatted content, but it is what I am used to seeing and prefer. However, I do follow the news quite a bit. I was a political science major in college and politics have always been my spectator sport of choice. Some people watch sports games; I follow national and local politics. I started reading newspapers and newsmagazines (Time, Newsweek, National Review, etc.) in high school. In college, I started following Boston politics, as it is always highly active and interesting. When I moved to RI, I explored switching to following RI politics, but the news coverage was nowhere near as good as in Boston. Surprising, because RI is an extreme version of MA with more politics, corruption, etc., but the newspaper is disappointing. So, despite living in a different state and rarely going into Boston these days, I still follow Boston politics as my "local" interest. For national news, I follow a number of online news sites.