Some call it lazy, I call it convenient

The Internet has really changed my life. I know the Internet has been around for a while now, but I still get amazed at how easily accessible everything is. Anything one could think of is probably available for purchase online. I did most of my Christmas shopping online for the past holiday season, and I was able to find some really nifty items for people. And with my iPhone, I feel technologically unstoppable.

Side note on how my iPhone changed my life. Cliff and I went on vacation to Busch Gardens and Washington DC a few years ago. We had just gotten Tokie a few months before, and we were looking forward to a "family" vacation. Well, when we were traveling from Williamsburg to DC, we had some time to kill before we were able to check into our hotel. We didn't really know what we could do that would be pet-friendly. Within a couple of minutes, thanks to the help of my trusty iPhone, I found a boat tour around the capital that was puppy friendly. Tokie had quite a good time riding on that boat with her mommy and daddy. That was the moment I knew things had changed. Information was immediately accessible.

Anyway, that's a little of an aside to my real post. So, recently, I've been on quite the online shopping kick. I've purchased some clothes for myself, most of the Christmas gifts (which I already mentioned), and I even do my grocery shopping online. It's so much easier to just have a company send me the things I want or in the case of the grocery store, to do my shopping for me and bring it to my car. Although I am perfectly capable of going to a store and shopping for clothes, gifts, and groceries, I feel that be letting other people send me my purchases or load my car with groceries, I'm actually keeping from doing impulse purchasing. And now that we have an Amazon Prime account, I get shipping for free...they may not be such a good thing to help with impulse purchasing...