I get the mop home, and use it and I loved it!!!   I was reviewing my receipt and see that I was charged $79.00 for the mop, not the $49.00 price that was on the shelf.  So, I load the mop back into my car and go and get the box that it was in, which had been left at a friend’s house (I demonstrated the new mop for them) and headed back to WalMart.  I hunted down a manager and explained my dilemma to him to which he said “Let me go back to the shelf and take a look.”  I then followed him back to the shelf where I had gotten the mop.  He looked around a bit, saw the $49.00 tag and compared the UPC code on the shelf tag to the product I had purchased and told me that I should have compared the UPC code on the box to the tag on the shelf!!!  I told him that it was not my job as a consumer to have to check UPC codes to be sure they match and that it was his job to be sure that the correct product was in the correct place on the shelf.  In fact, the product that was $49.00 was not even available!!

So, I came home and contacted WalMart corporate offices via the web.  I have not heard anything back from them yet, but I will say this:  I am currently refusing to shop at WalMart.  I think that they have gotten so big that the individual consumer no longer matters.

I decided to shop online for a computer this time, figuring I might find a good deal.  I decided that, even though laptops and notebooks are the popular thing right now, I wanted to stick to the tried and true desktop computer that I am so comfortable with.  I like the larger keyboards.  I have “fat fingers” quite often and the smaller keyboards of the laptops seem to give me problems.

So, I went shopping online, there are so many websites to choose from!!  I was quite overwhelmed.  But, after several hours of visiting numerous websites, I found exactly what I was looking for, with all the programs loaded for me, so I didn’t have to take the time to buy the software and download it myself.  I will be able to go right to work with it as soon as it arrives.!!!

The washers old large loads but I was not prepared for one load to cost $6.75. That is crazy expensive! If I had to pay for a dryer after that load it would have cost about $10 to wash this week’s laundry. Who can afford that with kids, towels and bed linens every week?

I get my news on the TV late news and on the internet throughout the day. I don’t even miss the newspaper anymore.

Well, I had an urgent need to raise some cash and there wasn’t enough in that account without making an additional deposit. I dug out an old money order and all the loose cash I could find to make a deposit, which they took without issue. So I wrote a check against my balance and expected to leave about $50 in the account.

That was two weeks and not a peep from my bank about any issues, but when I logged in to my online account to verify that the check cleared, I was horrified to find a negative balance on the account. Evidently, the bank returned the money order for some reason and has been charging me for overdraft fees for 2 weeks. I have a huge negative balance and am totally freaked out.

I can’t imagine why the money order would be returned and charged back to my account. That makes no sense to me at all. I thought a money order was the same as cash. WTF?