Deals at Your Doorstep

Like most addicted shop-a-holics, I spend much of my free time (waaaay too much according to the opinions expressed by those who are close to me) surfing the 'net looking for the latest hot deal. But as my schedule fills up with various chores and duties, I am left seriously deprived of my daily deal seeking enjoyment.

So what to do? Well, the first thing is to get someone else to find deals for me and email them to me. In past blogs, I mentioned places where you can go to find other crazy addicted deal seekers who share their nuggets of information on hot deals with each other (like Fatwallet.com). Not satisfied with that, those places also will email a synopsis of the latest hot deals right to your doorstep - either via email, or via RSS feeds.

Some of my favorite daily or weekly email "hot deal" newsletters are from these websites:

• Dealnews.com


• SlickDeals.net


• FatWallet.com

Just sign up using their "free newsletter" links. While most of the deals are for computer and electronic stuff, these are a great way to get snippets of deals that are going on each day.

I'm All Tied Up

One the hardest things for some people to master is tying knots. Whether you're someone trying to learn how to tie their shoes, a young scout trying to earn a badge, or if you're just trying to figure out how to tie a knot on your sailboat so it won't float away, mastering the many different knots can be pretty hard to do. Fortunately for you, there's a great website that shows you how to tie just about every knot there is using animations that you can view at any speed. It's called Animated Knots or www.AnimatedKnots.com.

It's a great website that details the pros and cons of each knot, and is probably more detailed than most people need, but for learning the basics of each knot, it's a great website.