Honestly, I don’t order from Amazon all that often. Let’s say once a month and sometimes that’s one too many. I don’t keep a Prime membership because I don’t order enough or watch enough to make it worth the monthly expense. Which is going up in February. I usually save up the little things until I get enough for free shipping without Prime. Some months that’s just craft supplies. Some months that’s things I can’t find in any store here in the Mobile area. Sometimes it’s an actual book. Today was three items from each category. A craft supply. A baking supply. And a book. I ordered two books for Aubrey for Christmas. One came today. And while I’m sighing… why did I just order with Prime and it take five days for the first three items to get here? What is the point of Prime? Because I have never gotten anything from Prime in two days or less. I have gotten non-prime orders in less time. But that’s not the point of this post.
Point is, I placed an order so let’s see what I got.
First up, the book Aubrey was dying to have that couldn’t be found in town because we only have one bookstore in a city area of nearly 400k people and it’s not Barnes & Noble. There is a B&N across the bay in Spanish Fort, but I don’t have time to drive the 30 miles to see if the book is in stock right now. Target carries the first book in the series, so they got that one on Christmas day. We’ve been looking for the others ever since and finally broke down and ordered from the Zon.
Book Two came today. Book Three is supposed to come by Tuesday… we’ll see. Links are affiliate links. The disclaimer will be at the bottom.
The Witch Hat Atelier Manga Series is Aubrey’s current obsession. The covers are gorgeous, in my opinion. You can get the first book for less at Target, if yours carries it. Just saying.
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
And the craft office supply item
Just some blank post cards. I’ve looked in every office supply and Target or Walmart store that I thought might carry basic blank paper products. And that’s not one single store.
Y’all, seriously, I really do prefer to shop local. Why does local make it so hard to shop with them? And now Best Buy and Target are getting rid of their DVD and Blu-ray sections. I can’t find CDs anywhere. No I don’t listen to streaming. I don’t like streaming. I like to own the media that I love.
But just postcards today, for thank you notes and greeting cards for the coming occasions. Like I said, I print A LOT!
POST CARDS
no picture, they’re postcards … nice stock paper, heavy, matte. Not printed on either side.
And finally, Butter Nut Extract. For my favorite cake for my birthday. Publix used to carry Butter Nut but I haven’t found it in years. My grandma used to make a simple butter pecan cake that I loved so much. You can’t make it without the extract. And that’s the problem. Also the problem, no one will do a damn thing for my birthday, so I’m making my favorite cake and I need to make sure I have the right extract on hand. And I damn well got one big enough to make more than one cake. If I remember I’ll post pics of the cake at the end of the month. Remind me in comments.
BUTTER NUT EXTRACT
So there ya go, a look at my spending habits, and what I actually buy from the Zon.
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Peace,
Mercy
Do you have a recipe for the cake that you recommend? I’d like to try it. I will order the extract from your affiliate link.
I will be happy to. Give me a couple days to find my recipe card. I know it has the usual suspects, flour, butter, sugar eggs, confectioners sugar and milk. And cream cheese for the icing, but not necessary. Pecans for both cake and icing, and the extract for both. I need to find the measurements.
Thank you for asking.