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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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eBay.
Ten years this summer for me. I've never been the same.
Course, I sometimes hit a real garage sale.
And bring the stuff home to sell on eBay.
Hmm, do I need to stage an intervention like on What Not to Wear? First I find you confused about what shade of green to wear, now I hear you haven't gotten rid of your brown blouses! It just hurts to give that stuff away, doesn't it? LOL
My addition is online shopping. I buy nearly everything online. I check eBay first for electronics. Sooo convenient!
LOL! Suzanne, my daughter does the same thing! Goes to the garage sales, then sells on eBay. *g*
Colleen, I really only own ONE brown shirt. I just have to tease you. The brown shirt I own is a DeBrand's shirt about chocolate which I will never part with, and yes, I do wear from time-to-time. *g*
And about the green, well, at this stage in my life, I've given up on looking "good," and I'm all about wearing what makes me happy. Life's a party, all that! LOL
BOOKS. Doesn't matter where I get them, but I have too many! Paperbackswap.com and Bookmooch.com, free exchange shelf at Curves (where I work), free books/50c books at the library, thrift shops, freecycle. Oh, and those enticing Barnes and Noble coupons!!!!
Books. And coupon sales.
Combine the two and I'm a goner!
Um, all of the above?
Mine's those flea markets where they have lots of booths. I collect antique hankies. Hey, they're cheap and the only antiques I can afford. But I can also use them. :D
Between the hankies and designer handbags, I a happy camper. I have my eye on a new Dooney Bourke that I'm saving my pennies for. By the time I get enough saved, I may be able to buy it on eBay.
LOL, Ane! I love the handkerchief idea. I never thought of myself as a hankie-kind-of-gal, but when my mother-in-law gave me a stack, I decided there was something dainty and romantic about them. Guess I've been watching too many old movies where the heroine drops her hankie for the hero to pick up . . .
Pattie and Linda, I'm with you--books!! I'm soooo in trouble with books! Full price, low price, coupons, whatever. I'll buy them! Even though I may not get them read for a year or two! Sigh.
LOL, Amy!
Oh, have you all ever seen the movie Serendipity with John Cusack? I recently saw the last half of it. WOW! Talk about a romantic movie. Sigh. True love at work.
Outdoor stores! I go crazy. I become like Kristin in a high-end shoe boutique (see, I don't even know the brand name of a high-end shoe!). Climbing gear,biking gear tents, cool outdoor t-shirts advertising brands like Petzl, Northface, Kona, etc. I'm a junkie. Expensive outdoor junkie.
Books!
With English books so hard to find in Turkey (at least AFFORDABLE English books--they cost 2x as much because you have to pay the customs taxes.)...I wait until I go to the States once every 2-3 years. Then a month before I order some books from CBD and Amazon and have them sent to my sister. Once I arrive, my sister and I hit the "regular" bookstores (Borders, etc.), the used bookstores, various universities' bookstores. When I'm in Denver I visit Denver's Tattered Cover, etc., etc. If there are too many books to put in our suitcases (and there always are!), we send them by mailbag (m-bag) to ourselves. It takes 6-8 weeks and they arrive at our doorstep. We don't even have to go to the customs department to get them! :)
I've begun saving my book money for next summer when we go!
Yay!
LOL Books and totes. They are my weakness. And I'll get them wherever I can. Ebay, freecycle, paperbackswap.com,dailylit.com, library sales,thrift stores, bookstores. anywhere.LOL
hugs,
WendyK
Antique china and silver! I collect teacups and fancy dishes. I love the flowery mismatched look they have when you put them all together, and yardsales are a great place to stock my china hutch. So often people just don't know what they have. Great deals to be had there, but I'll buy anything I can use.
I think I go as much for the Haggler's High as the great deals to be had. My husband cannot comprehend this. He thinks the tags at yardsales are as final as at any department store. I love haggling to get the price I want. It's addictive.
I'm also obsessed with after Christmas sales and just shopping for Christmas presents all year long. I have a big rubber tub I call my Christmas Box. All year long, when I see a good deal on something I know will make a good gift for a person on my list, I buy it and put it in the Box with a post-it note with the person's name. I also buy little items that make good gifts for anyone. Saves me shopping and maybe not finding a good sale when I need a gift for various occasions during the year.
Hello, my name is Krista, and I am a garagesaleaholic.
For me, I have 3 little girls, and dad gum it clothes are expensive! I am really picky about their clothes (my mother used to dress me up in the most aweful clothing imaginable...) but nice clothes = $$$$ = krista's husband not happy with her. SOooo..... I do a LOT of garage saling. When I find that baby gap pair of jeans for only $0.50 or lovin it those ones that say 'fill a bag for a $1.00' I am in my element. I am also a craigslister too, and I used to be all eBay but I have backed off there a little. It is alot of work and I don't have a great amount of time. My house is furnished pretty much soley with used goods. My kitchen table = Craigslist $75.00 Sofa/loveseat/ottoman = eBay for $600 (it was from rooms to go and in brand new cond!) Entertainment armoire = garage sale $100.00 Kid's bunkbeds = $50 garage sale.
Ok, so now that you know my furnishings of my house and their cost... yah, I am a garage sale junky. I even found my dog for free at a garage sale! (not one of my better purchases... her and I aren't getting along just now!)
Someday, when my first book get's published, you all will laugh. I decided my *first* book (which is a romantic humor/suspense) was going to have alot of what I know about in it. My MC is a mix of alot of people close to me, especially myself. Needless to say, Jenny has a MAJOR garage sale fetish.
My weakness is scouring the internet for free shipping codes, lol. I just scored some cute baby clothes for a friend's new little one from Ralph Lauren.com with FREE SHIPPING. That makes my day. :)
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Books...I love www.fetchbook.info. I have my wishlist set up so that I am notified when any book goes below my target price (never more than $3). It compares ebay, half.com, amazon, abebooks, etc.
Shipping codes? That sounds very interesting! You all have given me new sites to explore! It's fun hearing of your, um, bargain places. *g*
"Hello, my name is Krista, and I am a garagesaleaholic."
Hi, Krista.
I am a member of "Garagesaleaholics Anonymous" too.
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BOOK SALES at the local Mardel, of course! Seriously, Christian books of all genres, for next to nothing!
Records. Old, big, vinyl LP's... Disney, Herb Alpert, Bill Cosby. Classic.
Stuff to add to my collection of art projects I will likely never start, much less finish. Paint, YARN, patterns for Halloween costumes; you name it, I surely have it.
Book Sales, all the way.
I do Ebay but only if i want something. Like the stargate series dvds. lately i just completed the whole Footrot Flats comic set for my friend. boy I wish i had some to sell i could make a fortune!
I also am adicted to book but have to stop myself even stopped entering some contests cos its a number 3 in a series i dont own 1 adn 2 off.
Book sales are my biggest danger. I collect old books (not necessarily antique, just old), even though they're dust catchers and make me sneeze.
I also fell into the Bath & Body Works semi-annual sale trap this week. The sad thing is, I'm allergic to synthetic fragrances. I bought things I can't even use, but they were ON SALE.
I'm really impressed with all of you who can buy used books. I've got a serious issue with books used by someone other than friends or family, lol. Seriously. The thought makes me twitch. Needless to say, I don't use the library and if I decide to buy a book, it's gotta be one I'm sure I'm going to like. Thankfully I've got 4 great authors on here whose work I can devour. Of course, that also means you must keep churning out books to keep me happy, lol.
Melanie, that's too funny! I can hear my mother's voice saying to me, "When is a bargain not a bargain . . ." *g*
Hotcoffeenow, Kristin is the same way with used books. I never thought of that before, but since she talked about that, now I think about it when I pick up used books! LOL
Is it the germ factor with used books? I'll admit to issues there. If I get a book from the library and I'm at all questioning its cleanliness, I take a clorox wipe to the cover of it. They all have laminated covers or dust jackets, so it wipes clean easier. Then I don't feel like I need to wash my hands after using it.
My weakness is any sale. Especially if it has to do with clothes or SHOES! I love shoes! But my greatest weakness is Amazon or Christianbook.com I'm a book addict and I hope I never recover.
LOL, it goes way beyond just a germ phobia. It's the all-around yuck factor. Hair, food, pages stuck together by who-knows-what, and who knows where they were or what they were doing while they were reading the book. I shudder. OK, I gag too. :) It's just a freak phobia because I have an over-active imagination. lol But I do admire anyone who can look beyond the yuck factor. I do.
cheryl
Books and shoes.
I think my eyes just glazed over when I typed that.
I love Op Shops (I think you call them thrift shops). Dad groans when we drive past them because he knows Mum and I want to go in. When I walk out of there it's usually with a book or 3 or some other random thing that I think will come in useful some day. The last time I walked in I came out with a whole bunch of kids toys (I'm not married and don't have any children) - I ended up donating them to the creche at church.
I recently discovered a book sale that happens every Saturday in the middle of the city - everytime I go I find something.
Not so much online shopping - except when I can't find that out-of-print book I'm dying to have and then I hit Amazon.
Oh, my poor groaning bookshelves ;)
hey diann I was wondering about your new book. i had it on my WL on amazon for Bittersweet Surrender but now it's saying Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.
Did I miss something? is the book not coming out? Actually I noticed this on a couple of other upcoming Thomas Nelson titles as well. Just wondering if something had happened.
Sorry for the confusion, Deborah! Thomas Nelson has recently done some restructuring and the publication of "Bittersweet Surrender" has been delayed. I don't have a new release date yet, but I'll keep you all posted. :-)
We are VERY anxious for the next book! Can't believe they delayed it. Don't they know that the WHOLE WORLD is waiting for that book!!! By the way, the cover makes me drool.
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Books!
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