I Need To Complain Today

I’m in a wee bit of a foul mood today and as a result, I thought I would do a little complaining. I can’t complain online about what put me in a foul mood so I’ll just complain about something completely unrelated yet something that gets under my skin all the same – coupons on facebook.

As many of you know, I love to use coupons. Saving money by using coupons has become a way of life for me over the past few years. I try to maximize my dollar by using coupons on as many items as possible – double coupons, store coupons, manufacturer coupons, competitor coupons, you get the picture. I’m always amazed when people don’t use coupons. Last week I was at the store and the lady in front of me bought about $150 worth of groceries and used no coupons. All I could think about was how much money she would have saved by using coupons for the items in her cart. Coupons are awesome people! I save around $20 - $40 a week on coupons. Think about how much less money I would have if I didn’t use coupons. It makes me cringe.

All of this brings me to coupons that are on facebook. First of all, I don’t understand why companies have a facebook page. I realize that most people have a facebook page, but not everyone does. I really don’t understand why companies use facebook to promote their products – I thought that’s what the company’s web site was for. As far as coupons are concerned – why would you offer coupons to your “fans” that are only on facebook? Do you not realize that you are discriminating against your “fans” that are not on facebook? You are alienating a lot of consumers out there, myself included. I don’t think consumers should be forced to join a social networking site just to obtain a coupon. Coupons, if offered, should be offered to all consumers not just the ones who have joined the latest social networking fad.

I am angered every time I click on a link only to see the coupon is available only through facebook or when I read about a new coupon being released, but only if you “like” the company on facebook. The more coupons you release on facebook, the more I want to “dislike” you out here in the real world. I wonder if these companies ever stop to think that maybe the people who need the coupons the most don’t even have access to the internet. How are those people supposed to access the coupons? Maybe the companies only want their consumers to be popular trendy people. If that’s the case, then they can count me out because I am not someone who is going to do something just because it is trendy.

Thanks for letting me vent a little bit about coupons and facebook. I find that more and more coupons are only available through facebook and it is very frustrating for someone like me who loves to use coupons but is anti-facebook.

Stay tuned for the next time I’m in a foul mood when we discuss the importance of a thank-you note.

Tony's Christmas: A Bust!

I don’t know about you, but I tend to put a lot of thought into my Christmas shopping. I take into consideration the person I am buying for and what their likes and dislikes are. I also try to listen to them throughout the year and pick up on things they say they like or would like to have. Not to brag, but I think I am a pretty good gift giver, and have even been told so; which brings me to today’s rant.

Tony loves The Beatles, who doesn’t? Unless you live under a rock, then you probably know that all The Beatles albums were digitally remastered this year and released on September 9, including a box set of all the albums. Knowing that Tony loves The Beatles, I decided to get this for him for Christmas. Also knowing that Tony is the most impatient, I gotta have it now, type of person that he is, I told him, “If you decide to buy this for yourself, please let me know so that I won’t buy it for you for Christmas.” After all, who wants to buy someone something that they already have? What’s the point; unless they need and asked for another one just like the other one?

So, to my knowledge, he decided not to get it. Therefore, I ordered it, received it, and wrapped it for him for Christmas. It is at my house, wrapped, let me once again emphasize.

About 30 minutes ago, Tony tells me that he “doesn’t know how this will effect Christmas,” but that he ordered it and it is now on its way to him. Shipped today. Isn’t that great? Needless to say, I was fired up. Not only did he not heed my advice and tell me that he had decided to order it for himself, but now he knows that I got it for him for Christmas. He says he is going to return his, but I’ve a good mind to go ahead and return mine as well. If this were a $20 item, I might not be as fired up as I am right now. But, the fact that this is pretty much the only gift I got him and that I spent approximately $200 on it and that I told him to tell me if he decided to order it and that he knew I was already finished shopping for him makes me so mad I can hardly see straight right now!

Since I think the only people that read this blog are girls, and maybe my dad, I decided to rant for a few minutes. What is it with men? Why do they not listen? Why do they not take your warnings into advisement? Why would they go out and spend $200 on something that they are pretty sure their girlfriend already got them for Christmas? I don’t understand it. And furthermore, while we are on the topic of Christmas, why should we have to tell our boyfriends and husbands what we want for Christmas? Shouldn’t they know us well enough to know what we would like? I have dropped hints over the past few weeks and months of things that I might like to have, and I’m willing to bet that I won’t get one of those things. If anyone ever figures out why men and women have such major communication problems, please write a book about it and share your wisdom with the rest of the world. I assure you it would be a best seller and you will become rich.

Thanks for letting me rant and I hope your Christmas shopping brings you more joy than mine has.

My Rant for the Week

I know I have really let my one reader, Candy, down by not having updated the Chronicles of Nat lately and I’m sorry. My life hasn’t been too exciting lately. But, I did see two movies this past weekend and I will try my best to get a review up soon.

As for today, I would like to rant for a little while, if you don’t mind, Candy. This past Saturday I attended the wedding of a couple from church. These two lovebirds did not send invitations to the entire church (insert big gasp here!), but instead, selected a certain number of people with whom they wanted to share their special day. I think most of the people who read this web site were invited. Since Saturday, I have heard numerous complaints from old women at church about how they weren’t invited. Well, you know what, old ladies? Should I be lucky enough to have a wedding one day, you probably won’t be invited to mine either! So, get over it!

Saturday was Ashley’s day and it was Charlie’s day, it was not YOUR day and if they wanted to invite the 10 most wanted men in America and not you, so be it. You need to suck it up and get over it! I honestly don’t know why people get their panties in a wad when they are not invited to things. It really irks me. You’d think the world was coming to an end because so and so didn’t get invited to a wedding.

Well, that’s really all I have to say today. It has just really been bothering me that people have been complaining because they didn’t get an invitation. It just really got under my skin that these people were offended. Just because people are getting hitched in the church building, doesn’t mean you are entitled to be there.

Thank you for reading and good night!