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Times have changed for me...(what about you?)

I used to join book clubs, get books for very low introductory price, then quit

 

Now that's what I do with wine clubs...

 

Fun times

 

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I'd never join a "club" to get introductory merchandise.  You spend the next six months hassling to get it canceled while they continue to charge your credit card.

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I'm a work in progress.   I've changed, grown in may ways over the years.  I always had a nice home and always tried to make it attractive.  However, now I am really into home decor.  I've become more artistic, I actually have plan for what the look I want and it's fun to search for the items that make a reality.  

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When I was a kid I always wanted to join one of those record clubs that they advertised in magazines.....Then I saw an episode on Leave It To Beaver where Beaver joined the record club and didn't return the post cards to tell the record company that he was declining the next order...so they kept sending records and bills and he was past due and in debt and the record company threatends to turn the matter over to their attorneys!!!...Beaver confesses to his father what happened and he gets bailed out of the mess but must forfeit his allowance until he pays his father back.... And after the debt is paid the record company sends a letter that they will start sending the records again...and Beaver screams for his dad.....As a kid seeing that cured me FOREVER even as an adult from joining any product club...so I was taught financial responsibility and that hasn't changed as Ive gotten older ..LOL!!!

 

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Re: Times have changed for me...(what about you?)


@Mary Bailey wrote:

I used to join book clubs, get books for very low introductory price, then quit

 

Now that's what I do with wine clubs...

 

Fun times

 


  You naughty thing............!!! Woman LOL

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Lol!  I was in a cookbook club, and I got a book every month for about 2 years until I cancelled. I still have a few of those books and use the recipes that were favorites. 

 

I'm now in two wine clubs!

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I'd never join a "club" to get introductory merchandise.  You spend the next six months hassling to get it canceled while they continue to charge your credit card.


In their defense, in the case with wine clubs  (I'm not in the wine business but have friends who are), they do give you good discounts when you join and you do have an obligation to meet when you join.  You sign an agreement.

 

 

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Never joined any delivery/auto delivery program or club. No birchbox, either.

 

Wine club? My 1st delivery would last a lifetime so no need for a 2nd.

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If I need a certain type of wine, I tell the lady who runs the liquor store what I'm looking for and she has good recommendations.  

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Chrystaltree wrote:

I'm a work in progress.   I've changed, grown in may ways over the years.  I always had a nice home and always tried to make it attractive.  However, now I am really into home decor.  I've become more artistic, I actually have plan for what the look I want and it's fun to search for the items that make a reality.  


@chrystaltree  Me, as well.  However, much of the change was result of getting older and having the means to buy better quality stuff.  First home was furnished with one of those whole house type specials years ago - - "4 rooms of furniture for $800". Served its purpose till I could afford better.  

 

Second home was furnished with a mishmash of my stuff and dad's when he could no longer live alone.  He insisted on bringing stuff of his that should have been tossed years ago, I wanted him to feel that this was his home as well.  

 

After he died, I recently had a home built in an over 55 community and only came here with my bedroom set.  Former neighbor was an interior designer for decades but these days does it more as a hobby. I paid her to help me with wall colors.  What an extremely interesting process.  Gave me samples of things that would work and I chose the one where I'd be going BOLD. 

 

I was terrified and after I had the walls painted, she gave suggestions of color accents I should be bringing into the home and I'm having a blast out on my own buying those.  

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