{"id":531,"date":"2008-12-17T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=531"},"modified":"2008-12-17T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:21:49","slug":"what-are-aaughers-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/what-are-aaughers-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"What are AAUGHers buying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You missed it, didn&#8217;t you? Beethoven&#8217;s birthday was yesterday, and you forgot to get your gifts out in time! Tsk, tsk.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the same thing happen for Christmas or Hannukah. And as Amazon says today&#8217;s the last day for you to place an in-stock order with Amazon and have Free Shipping get it there by Christmas, perhaps it&#8217;s time to be shopping. But what to buy, what to buy?<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I enjoy about running AAUGH.com is seeing what people are ordering (and let me make it clear I don&#8217;t know who is ordering what, or who is ordering at all for that matter. I just see aggregate sales.) Of course, people are buying a lot of Peanuts stuff (most popular thing: the <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B001CO32FI\"><strong>Peanuts Holiday Collection<\/strong><\/a> DVD set.) Folks are buying some of those one day specials I&#8217;ve highlighted; in fact, not only was yesterday&#8217;s <em>Arrested Development<\/em> deal our biggest seller of the season, but you AAUGHers (and other folks) bought &#8217;em up so quickly that by the time I got around to actually ordering mine, they were gone. (Today&#8217;s deal is a <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B001H9NR2Q\">$89.99 TomTom GPS<\/a>.) And people are buying standard gifty stuff: an <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B000JO7T7E\">iPod<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B000V661V0\">bracelet<\/a>, a little <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B0000479AV\">Sinatra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But what I love seeing are the odder things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A subscription to <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B000EQ4010\"><em>Bassmaster<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B001HB908E\">Mr. Potato-Head dressed up like an NFL player<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A spiral-spinnin spud\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41R1e0RtpXL._SX200_.jpg\" alt=\"A spiral-spinnin spud\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1416205276\"><em>The Cats of Kittyville<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B000YRY7VC\"><em>Forbidden Hollywood<\/em> DVD collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B001392VVI\">scale with body-mass-index function<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Something called the <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B0013LTP5Q\"><em>Active Life Outdoor Challenge<\/em><\/a> which I suspect is used very much indoors, since it&#8217;s a Wii game.<\/li>\n<li>And last, but certainly not least&#8230; the <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?B000008L9Z\">soundtrack<\/a> to the 1993 movie based on the game <em>Super Mario Brothers<\/em>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, some of these may not have been gifts&#8230; but somehow, I get the feeling that the ones that are gifts are exactly the right things for the people they&#8217;re for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You missed it, didn&#8217;t you? Beethoven&#8217;s birthday was yesterday, and you forgot to get your gifts out in time! Tsk, tsk. Don&#8217;t let the same thing happen for Christmas or Hannukah. And as Amazon says today&#8217;s the last day for you to place an in-stock order with Amazon and have &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discounts","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}