I have a friend that cleans houses for a living. She owns her own business. I recently went with her to buy her supplies. She goes to one company to purchase everything. Everything she buys is bought in bulk, because it is much cheaper that way. She buys cases of different cleaners, disposable gloves, rags, brushes, mop heads and other items. It is amazing how much she saves by buying them in large quantities at a time, instead of small amounts. She gets paid well for cleaning houses and buying her supplies this way makes her profit much higher.

My uncle lives on a farm with horses. He rides them daily. He built all his barns and corrals himself. I never realized how much time and effort goes into taking care of horses until I started spending more time with him. Between grooming, shoeing, feeding and everything else there is to do physically, there really is a lot to do. He also has to be sure he has all the necessary supplies as well. I went shopping with him last week to buy new brushes, pitchfork for the hay, scoops to clean the stalls and much more. While we were out, he also shopped for two new saddles. It was unbelievable how many different styles there were to pick from. He bought a real nice leather brown one with a rare fancy design on it.

Our household has many different gaming consoles and systems that hook up to our televisions. The latest being the Playstation 3 system by Sony. It seems like we are always shopping for new games for different systems. You can often find used games reasonably priced in stores and on the internet. Sometimes, the games can be very expensive. If they are played enough, they are well worth the money. It is much cheaper staying at home playing these games rather than constantly spending more money going out and doing other things.

My sister recently found out that she was pregnant. She is so excited. This is her and her husband’s first child. She was even excited to start wearing maternity clothes. Nobody could believe that she actually wanted to wear them. Of course, most of them had already had 2 or more children, so they were tired of them. She went shopping one day to buy her some new maternity clothes and ended up buying many more than she had originally planned. She loved them! They came in so many different styles and colors. She had never really paid attention to the many different stores there were either, that sold maternity clothes. Now all she is waiting on is a little time to gain weight so she can begin wearing them.

For my brothers birthday I picked him up some new 2008 DC skate shoes. He loves the DC brand and he has been wanting the new 2008 Rob Dyrdek shoe, so I know he’s going to love these. They cost me right around $65 at a local shoe store. I can’t really complain about the price, though. The shoes are made very well and every pair of shoes he gets always last him forever.

My son recently got hurt on one of the swing sets at his daycare. He was swinging and the chain broke, which caused him to fall to the ground. I reported it to the state we live in and they did an investigation and went to the daycare to check the complete playground out. I also had medical insurance I turned it into as well, to pay for all medical expenses. They needed a copy of the report from the state, too. The findings on the state’s report concluded that all the swing sets at the daycare center needed to be replaced. They were not up to the states code and were rusted in many places and falling apart. After all the swing sets were replaced, we never had any further problems.

My girlfriend gave me a nice USB flash drive as an early easter present this year. She knows that I love little gadgets like this and I was pretty surprised that she actually picked out a nice 4gb one. I’ve already used it to transfer some of the files from my home computer onto my work computer and vice versa. I love this little thing.

I went to the store to buy myself a new high definition television. When I got home and opened everything up that was included in the box, the HDMI cables were not included. I was not aware of this when I bought the television, so I had to make an extra trip back to the store to buy some. The price for the HDMI cables were much more expensive than I thought they would be. For the high price of the television, I think they should include them with it.

I’m not a “bling bling” type of guy but I am definitely a lover of designer jewelry. I’m the kind of man who believes that less is more. I have invested in three pieces of designer jewelry and that is all I need right now. I just purchased a ring and chain and have intentions of getting the ID bracelet to match my chain link within the next few weeks. My girlfriend is trying to get me to get her some designer jewelr as well and I plan on getting it for her. Her demands are usually small so I can pull this one off for her.

I’ve been wanting an elliptical machine for a while now. They’re supposed to work twice as good as a treadmill in the same ammount of time. I’ve checked out various fitness equipment and an elliptical really seems like the best option for me. I’m going to try and talk my girlfriend into letting me buy one soon. I know she’ll use it just as much as I’ll use it.