PSA: Yes, I'm cheap

Yuppers, I totally admit it that I'm a cheap. I hate buying anything that's not on sale. I adore reusing because not only does it help save the environment but it saves me money. I'm the lady in the line holding up a fistful of coupons with her club card brandished out for the cashier to scan at any moment.

That's not to say that I'll buy something just cause it's a lower price. I won't sacrifice quality. If I don't like it, that means I won't use it, which means it sits there til I throw it away, which means I didn't get my money's worth out of it. All the better, that I can get the items I want for a lesser price. After all, why should I pay more when all I need to do is sign up for an e-mail and print it out so that I can receive a certain amount off the original price? Spending a few minutes here and there to cut out a coupon is worth the few dollars I can take off the full price. Simple math teaches us that a few bucks and pennies off here and there will add up to bigger dollars over time and if you're going to buy the item anyway then it's absolutely worth it.

Taking a rough estimate, by going with sales and coupons, in just grocery shopping, I save at least $30 a week on grocery shopping. That's a clear gain of money not spent at around $1500 a year on food. That doesn't include the coupons and sales that I use on other everyday things such as office supplies, arts and crafts, clothing, entertainment and gifts throughout the year. Put it all together and I'm banking at least $2000 a year. Who wouldn't want to hold onto $2000 a year? Yes, it does take time going through those flyers, cutting the coupons, sorting through dozens of emails a day to get those discounts but a few hours a week isn't the worst drawback.

My favorite website, which I'm totally grateful to my sister for showing it to me:  www.mypoints.com
There are so many ways to earn money and such on this website. Sign up is free. You can opt to get emails about different bargains, of which by simply clicking on the email you can get 5 pts. You can print coupons and get 10 pts for every one used with bonus points. By going through that website first and finding out if the store you're planning on ordering online from is affiliated with them, you can click through and get a certain amount of points for every dollar you spend. If you only do that, it's such an easy way to get points if you're a big online shopper anyway with barely any effort on your part and a lot of major stores are on their partnering store list. You can even buy gift cards through this website and earn points that way. These points that keep accumulating are used for redeeming gift cards. Gift cards such as restaurants, major brand stores and a few other things. I've received over $200 worth of free gift cards from using this website.

Totally worth it!

Star Wars, once more!

Star Wars, as for many, was the first intro I got into the world of Sci-Fi and fantasy and from that moment then on I was hooked. I used to have the original trilogy almost completely memorized. It used to be that you give me a line and I could tell you who said it, which movie, what was happening in scene and what the next line would be. I could hear that iconic opening music and my butt would be planted in front of whatever screen was playing it for the entire time.

My love of Star Wars has never ended and as I grew I found the comics and books. My passion never waivered from the Expanded Universe. I read everything I could get my hands on. I even bought and played the card game when it came out.

When the Prequels came out at the time when I was in high school, of course I was excited as a Star Wars fan girl. Sadly, as the next two movies played out, I became disillusioned with how the storylines were portrayed. The directing was less than stellar and some of the actors weren't he best fit. It was disappointing but I still happy to have more official plot lines in the Star Wars universe and just just speculation. 

The latest gossip is, of course, the newest trailer for Star Wars The Force Awakens. The first trailer was left entirely to speculation and skeptics. I withheld judgement. I'm unsure how much of the principal photography was done or of how much principal editing was done for the movie at that time, but it was obvious, not enough was ready excpet for a trailer to show off a few of the CGI & FXs that had been done. This second trailer, most definitely revealed a whole lot more with a revealing of actual storyline and welcome view of beloved storylines. 

It's exciting, yes, but I still withhold judgement though. Once again, there's nothing but speculation and I'm unwilling to once again fall into that temptation. I am weary of where the story and character lines might trail to. I can't help wanting the Expanded Universe, most especially The Dark Empire trilogy of Timothy Zahn's novels. The plot lines from those novels were an amazing jump start to see how the Rebellion would grow into the Republic of the Galaxy. As I said though, I'm on the fence of things and for now, that's where I'll sit til the actual release but of course, you know where I'll be this Christmas. 

Geek fun!

I'm a geek and a nerd. I play video games, board games to tabletop role playing. I adore sci-fi and fantasy. I have read my fair share of comic books too and watched enough anime to go around the block once or twice. I live my life with the betterment of chemistry and obsess over the skies above us. I can just as happily discuss classic literature with comparisons to modern culture. I'm proud of all of those things that I do.

Last weekend I went to an anime convention.  https://zenkaikon.com/
Unfortunately, we didn't get to spend nearly as much time there as I would have liked but it was still enjoyable.

To share, here are 2 pics I was able to catch.