[Sponsored Post] I can’t go a day without my smartphone. No I really can’t.

December 9, 2011 by Vikram Goyal

Can you imagine it? No you can’t? Let’s try and see what will happen if there was no smartphone.

No smartphone means no wake up alarm. No wake up alarm means no way to get the kids to school on time.

Then, no way to know what is planned in the day. With friendly reminders, and detailed itinerary planning, the smartphone schedules my day. With no smartphone, I would not know when the kids assignments are due. I would not know what day is sports day for what kid. No I won’t.

Then, I would not what the hubby wanted for dinner (yes my hubby sends me reminders through the day). I wouldn’t know what was on the shopping list when I went for the shops.

Without my smartphone, I would not be able to take a picture of something cute I see in the shop and Facebook it, inviting my friends to comment. I would not be able to get directions to new restaurant. I would not be able to compare prices on dresses.

Without my smartphone, I won’t be able to capture all the wonderful memories for future.

I just can’t imagine this anymore. It is not reality for me to consider living a day without my smartphone.

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I recently came across a post from Lord Libidan talking about embroidery floss packs and whether it’s worth the money to buy a set of threads all at once instead of one skein at a time.

With the closure of Joann some people were buying these bundles as a way to build their stash/stockpile if they didn’t have another place to buy locally. I did the same thing when I first started cross stitching again after a break of many years, because I wanted to get a bunch of colors all at once without the overwhelming job of picking colors from the wall of thread when I didn’t have a particular project in mind.

And I think for this purpose buying a package with colors you like or some basic/popular colors is probably a good idea and relatively cost effective.

My Joann didn’t have any floss packs when it was closing (in fact it didn’t have cross stitch floss at all for a month or more, then suddenly go a bunch about a week before closing) but I might have bought one just to have the variety if they had been available.

If Amazon is going to be your source for cross stitch supplies going forward, I think buying packs of cross stitch floss when the colors make sense is definitely going to be a better deal. As I write this a pack of 36 popular colors was running $39.50, or about $1.09 a skein. I used to pay 66 cents per skein at Joann, but buying a single skein of black floss on Amazon would run you $4.29.

Herrschners sells DMC floss for $1.05 per skein or less, but shipping isn’t free and you’ll have to buy a lot (or a lot of other things, too) to meet their minimums for free shipping when they offer it.

Check out the post on Lord Libidan for his thoughts and let me know where you are buying cross stitch floss now if you used to buy it at Joann.

[Photo via Herrschners]