SALE! SALE!

Wow, these Aussies love a good deal!  We have fast learned NEVER, absolutely NEVER, buy ANYTHING at full price!  Most department stores have sales every month and literally everything from the new season to the old is out on sale.  It would have to be desperate measures to hand over the credit card without feeling all smug about the bargain you just got.  I have recently discovered a few online shops that are sure to be the death of me and my credit card.  Take a look at Catch of the Day and Scoopon for unbelievable deals.  I have just purchased four really cool pretend leather bar stools for a total of $138.  Now that's a bargain!  Every day Catch of the Day advertisers one product for sale and delivery for just that day to anywhere in the country.  You can pick up anything from ipods and televisions to furniture and gadgets - but just for one day.  On Tuesday Catch of the Day is having a Sale on top of the Sale and are offering an item per hour for 12 hours.  I can't wait.  I may have to stay home and do my Christmas shopping in my air conditioned office.  If you check out the About Us tab you will read that they are the largest online shop in Australia and turned a record $1million per hour on TV's in one day.  The highest selling item was 220,000 units of Ferraro Rocher chocolates.  Scoopon is the same thing but offering services such as massages, meal vouchers and horse rides.  It's a really cool system:  you put in an offer to purchase the service when it comes on and then if enough people join you, it becomes a deal and you all get it at the discounted price.  It's all about critical mass.  You gotta love it.

The trouble with all this bargain hunting is that you battle to settle on any purchase as you are always expecting to find it for less tomorrow in another store.  We have walked our kids' crocs flat looking at gas barbies and tents and still don't have either.

Only 20 minutes left of Hugo's sleep for me to browse for bargains!