I have actually done a lot of shopping using various “Hot Deals” sites for quite some time now. Ever since I was working at Administrative Computing at UC Berkeley, I have frequented these hot deals sites whenever I was looking (and eventually becoming a daily habit) for something that I needed. Not to advertise or anything, but fatwallet.com is a pretty good place to start if you are interested in finding cheap stuff online.

I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I consider myself pretty good fiscally, so I do not worry about it much. However, there are some people that post messages saying how they have maxed their credit cards and cannot get on the latest hot deal. I just hope their max is like $200 or something.

Since my arrival to Chicago in September, I have had the luxury of searching these hot deals site more than usual (as I have done and still am jobless). I have been fortunate to buy a 160 GB hard drive for $30 (coupon stacking mistake), get a barebones computer (no monitor, no speakers) for Shareena’s mom for about $250 (the pentium 4, 2.4 GHz chip is retailing for about $180 by itself…), and just scored a black Game Boy Advance SP plus a free game for $79.99.

So, all in all, I would say that I haven’t spent any money that I wouldn’t spend otherwise…OK, I probably don’t need the Game Boy Advance, but Shareena always wants to play Tetris when we fly, so it was worth it just for that. Also, the new Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicle plays better using the Game Boy…so some ulterior motives as well. But anyways, try it out sometimes…apparently 2004 Corvettes are selling for $10,000 less than MSRP. I am sure someone out there is itching to buy one.

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