I went shopping just the other day and was so happy with my purchases. My husband came to me since he was looking for some retail POS system for their office. Honestly, I have no idea why his boss wants to purchase something like that since they are in an office environment, but I understand that they use barcodes for their papers and transactions so I didn’t as about it. What was important is that I had to do some shopping! I even had the chance to grab some iPhone4 cases for my iPhone. I was so happy with all my purchase, I think I will go back for some Christmas shopping with my husband, this time he won’t be going to buy stuff at work, because honestly, it’s a great hindrance for our QT together and my shopping spree.

As early as today, I am planning my Christmas list. I have some people eliminated on my previous list, I think that I should examine myself and ponder who are “really” the special people in my life. I admit, one of the reasons of doing this is budget constraints and even if we are on a tight budget, I feel that even with the simplest gifts, I want to give back to the very nice people I have around, whether family or friends. Even when I was single, I used to look first for my friends and then of course to my boyfriend (who is now my husband) and I am sure he also took extra effort to find me some really nice girlfriend gifts like what I did when we were just dating and then I spend most of the time thinking of gifts for my family. It takes me more time in thinking of what to give my family because, of course, they are extra special. Anyway, so far I only have a few people on my list right now and I might buy gifts for them online. We’ll see what happens. I need to compute, list down and decide soon before Christmas rush comes in.

I must admit that shopping was so overwhelming, especially if you have limited budget and the promos are endless. My brother in law told me ahead that the Memorial Day Sale will be up around May and so I actually saved a few bucks just to shop a little. We had some issues that we needed to addressed to but I don;t want to deprive myself of the shopping spree that I want to do, there is nothing quite nice for a girl like me but to do some retail therapy. My best friend and I did a little window shopping ahead and we visited a few sites like, Gap, Old Navy, Victoria’s Secret, TOMS and a few make up stores and we even made a list of what we can get. My list was very long and I knew I had to narrow it down before my brother in law contacts me. But then 2 weeks already passed and no communication with my BIL still and I thought the plans will never push through. Well, for starters he became really busy at work and that he was applying for an auto title loan which took most of his time and then he became busy planning his trip with some of his friends that he only remembered sending a message to me just today. I have no idea if I will still tell him a couple items on my list but I was, well my husband and I, were happy to know that he got his loan, I think it was very fast, only 15 minutes or less, well the vacation even took much of his time, planning their itinerary and reserving plane tickets. Well, I hope we can go and visit him next year, maybe I can do my own shopping spree there, I think the box is just enough for us and I just told him that it’s up to him, just buy anything for us.

Christmas is 2 nights away and we are still looking for some cigar deals that my father wants to give his friends. I swear, men are the worst shoppers! They always do lat minute shopping and it is so stressful not to mention the wrapping of gifts. My husband also told me just 2 days ago that he wants to give gifts to his close friends at work. I was telling him to make a list as early as October and kept on reminding him about it but he never made one and now that Christmas is literally just around the corner, he dropped something like this and it is not funny. I might do some late Christmas shopping before the New Year just for him to bring the gifts when he gets back to work on January. MEN!

I wished I saw this earlier, my son might have agreed to wear this for the trick or treat in the malls because he doesn’t agree on wearing the costumes that I showed him. It would have been very nice to buy one of these pairs while I have my payday advance a month ago but ordering it now will be very too late. Anyway, I still want to share some of the simple pairs that GAP has for boys and girls toddlers…

FOR BOYS

Lion Outfit

Penguin Outfit

FOR GIRLS

Bunny Outfit

Piggy Outfit

Too cute right? And I think they look very comfy.

Visit their store nationwide to see the great items for your kids. I will, my son needs a decent pants. I hope I find one there. Happy shopping!

MY friend got really great deals from the tiger direct coupons she got. You see this friend of mine is very conscious from spending so much. She bought a laptop and something she gave for her Dad on Father’s Day and I was amazed on how she collected those coupons for discount.

I remember when I was in the States, we used to collect coupons so that when we shop we will get these great discount just for buying everything from pastry to ice cream to clothes to electronics. You got to give it to these coupons, I hope in my country coupons will be very popular to help consumers like me.

Last Saturday was a window shopping night for me. I was supposed to go with my sister in law and my balikbayan cousin for some pampering but my “visitor” came and I wasn’t able to go with them but drove them at Bonifacio High Street and I just window shopped til I drop. LOL. Anyway, I was looking for a nice pair of sunnies just in time for Summer and tried these…

From Charles & Keith, priced around 1,200 Pesos

From Fossil, priced around 2,500 Pesos

I love the second sunnies better than the first but I ended up buying neither one of them. I got a much cheaper sunnies from Dickies that is on a discount sale of 50% which I got for only 500 Pesos. Yeah, I’m really stingy with some other things. HAHA.