{"id":32,"date":"2010-01-31T19:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-03-09T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T12:00:13","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Spark to a Flame"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how did this quest begin? Well, I’m about to be a bride (obviously). And I’m notoriously\u2026 erm\u2026 frugal? Cash conscious? Eff it \u2013 I’m a cheap bitch. Oh, I can spend the hell out of other people’s cash. But, when it comes to my own purse strings, let’s just say that Girl Guide badge in knot tying has come in quite handy.
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\nBut I digress.
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\nI’m loathe to admit that I fall into that most stereotypical of clich\u00e9s where women are concerned \u2013 I love to shop. I’ve also got a nerd streak in me a mile long that keeps me tethered to my computer for long stretches of time. So the concept of the two of these earthly delights combined as one had me giddy even before my first visit. I could shop AND still be sitting in front of my computer? Dear lord – this was better than man landing on the moon. Okay, not really, but it was really REALLY good.
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A Boba Fett watch \u2013 one of my earliest eBay purchases; a birthday gift to my fianc\u00e9.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

And, just to keep the clich\u00e9s a-rollin’, my very first purchase via that bastion of treasure & wonder was a pair of shoes; a sassy-as-hell pair of black stilettos that have since wandered off (pun entirely intended) in to the wild blue yonder. Now, ordinarily, a pair of missing shoes (especially a really sexy pair) would be cause for some seriously colourful language and more than a little angst. But the fact that I paid a mere $8 for those beauties has kept me in off the ledge and I’ve since gone on to many more glorious purchases. I’ve discovered clothing, jewelry, shoes, tech, camera gear\u2026 everything you can imagine (and a few my imagination never would have conjured and I’d really rather I hadn’t discovered) right at your fingertips – literally.
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\nAh eBay – retail therapy in the comfort of your own home. Genius.
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So how did this quest begin? Well, I’m about to be a bride (obviously). And I’m notoriously\u2026 erm\u2026 frugal? Cash conscious? Eff it \u2013 I’m a cheap bitch. Oh, I can spend the hell out of other people’s cash. But, when it comes to my own purse strings, let’s just say that Girl Guide badge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[17,22,20,21,23,19,18],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confess","category-purchase","category-uber-bargains","tag-boba-fett","tag-camera","tag-clothing","tag-jewelry","tag-retail-therapy","tag-stilettos","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebay-bride.perception.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}