The variety in this week’s Amazon buys show how much I’ve grown to depend on Amazon for one stop shopping—and fast shipping. I bought some summer sundresses for 11-year-old Jameson from Macy’s last night because they were super cheap (like $11). Jameson asked if they were going to get here “Tomorrow or did you have to get 2-day?” meaning 2-day shipping, like that’s a long time!
To a kid born into a world with Amazon Prime, that’s a natural question!
Nope, your dresses from Macy’s will probably take at least a week to get here. Have I mentioned that we had to wait a whole week to watch a new episode of our favorite TV show when I was a kid? Only a million times? Great. Just so we’re clear, you have it good, kid.”
Here are the things I bought on Amazon this week:
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Remember Amazon Prime will go up to $119 on May 11, 2018. If you get your free trial today and convert it to a membership at the $99 price before May 11, it’s like making $20 off Amazon. Need to justify Amazon Prime membership? If you’re like me, you’ll make the membership fee back from just one category. The Amazon category that makes Prime pay for itself for me is vitamins & supplements.
Mermaid Tail Set on Amazon
We bought two of this mermaid tail set. Jameson bought the first one. I honestly thought it looked like complete crap, but we pretty much let the kids buy what they want to with their own money. Surprise: it actually worked just like she thought it would, and she chose the Ariel color scheme so it’s all the cuter. Jameson is 5’1″ and about 80 lbs. The 12-14 size fit her perfectly.
She and her friend have already used the mermaid tail several times in the pool—and if I thought I could fit into it, I’d try it out too!
We sent one to my niece for her birthday. She’s turning 8, and we chose the 8-10 size for her. Free returns on the mermaid tail set. Doesn’t fit? Send it back!
Organic Tea Bags on Amazon
Newman’s Own Organic Iced Tea Bags, 5 boxes of 100 teabags = 500 teabags! I’ve bought this huge pack of tea at least 3 times a year for 5 years! It’s always the same price, and it’s always fresh and delicious! I make at least one pitcher of iced tea every day (using 5 teabags) from March through September. That works out to 17 cents per half gallon pitcher of organic iced tea. (I like strong iced tea.)
Having organic iced tea ready to go at home keeps me from driving through McDonald’s every time the kids and I are out during the hot summer months (that’s a 7-month stretch here in Phoenix!) so I save a ton of money. The homemade iced tea pays for itself if I don’t have to buy 3 large iced teas from McDonald’s 6 times. 500 teabags make 100 pitchers of tea. We can drink organic iced tea made at home 100 times for the same price we’d spend driving through McDonald’s for a “cheap” iced tea 6 times.
Disney’s Zombies Soundtrack on Amazon with Bonus!
Jameson finally watched Disney’s Zombies when Disney unlocked it on the Disney Channel site. (We don’t have cable, so she has to wait a couple weeks every time a Disney Channel tween movie comes out. It’s a hard life.)
Zombies is super cute and right up there with Teen Beach Movie as one of the best Disney Channel Original Movies. That Milo Manheim is adorable!
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Jameson still had money burning a hole in her pocket after buying her mermaid tail (the $30 she spent this week is the most she’s ever managed to save up without squandering it at the Dollar Tree—mostly because I literally pulled her out of three gift shops when we visited San Pedro a couple weeks ago.)
She got an old school CD player (with cassette deck!) for Christmas (like this Sony boombox), and it has been fantastic for her—no earbuds, no playlists, no waiting for the iPod to have enough charge in it to turn on. She just starts up a CD and sings and dances around if there is room on her floor or sings and cleans her room if there is not. Whistle while you work!
Jameson bought the Disney’s Zombies soundtrack—the hard copy CD. The cool thing we didn’t expect: she also got a bonus: instant, permanent, free access to the soundtrack in our Amazon Prime Music account! So, even though she had to wait 2 days to get the CD (I know) she listened to the soundtrack with Prime Music half a dozen times before the CD got here.
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You can also get a free month of Amazon Music Unlimited if you need even more benefits than Amazon Prime Music offers:
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