So by now everyone knows that Prime Day was a huge failure. (But reading the #PrimeDay tweets had me laughing so hard... and I don't even do twitter)
Then I read this article and it got me thinking about my digital trail (and how many people share my prime account, including new DH!).
http://gawker.com/prime-of-life-the-story-of-my-20s-as-told-in-amazon-p-1717860385
What was your first amazon purchase??
This was mine, on 1/15/2001:
Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580631088?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s02
Re: 20 Years of Amazon.com - What was your first?
I've never purchased anything from amazon.
eta- the magic wand is pretty magical though.
Anyway, my first Amazon purchase, on Dec 12, 2006 was JENGA and UNO! That's pretty awesome. I must have bought them as Christmas gifts. For who? I can't remember! But I sorta wish I hadn't given them away because I kinda want to play both of those games right now.
I think I remember trying to, back in the day. But amazon.ca was a POS and I couldn't use .com. It might be better now though lol
@redheadbride15 I LOVE jenga. I am terrible at it.
my mom still has my uno tile game. I should get that.
I want to play life size jenga!
eta: I don't think all the deals today have been awful. You've just gotta put so much effort into it it's pretty much not worth it.
I had never even looked at my order history that far back. Good nostalgia.
My first Amazon orders were in 2002... I purchased a few books by Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval. Some interesting history of the world / conspiracy theory type books.
Nothing in 2003. Then 2004 I bought Cliffnotes for The Odyssey. I had read it in high school and didn't feel like re-reading it for college. After that it was only used for a few books a year. In 2011, I used it for Christmas shopping, but still only 20 orders that year.
Then 2012 I got Prime membership... I have a total of 90 orders in 2012. 127 orders in 2013. 132 orders in 2014.
We finally cut back this a bit year and I only have 47 orders so far this year. Although, I've also started just saving things in my cart until I have 2-3 things, so I don't have boxes arriving every single day. So, I'm not sure we really are ordering less stuff or just fewer orders.
My Amazon orders includes a range of items like tools, lots of varieties of BBQ sauce, dog toys/treats, peanut butter, aspirin, wine (yes, wine), and makeup (I like Smashbox powder foundation and it's significantly cheaper on Amazon than it is at Sephora). Unless we need it immediately, we usually order most stuff from Amazon.
So far only DH and I use my Prime Account. I've been debating letting my mom have access, because she would use it for books & tv streaming, probably more than I do. She would probably use the free shipping at times also. But, I'm not sure I want my mom rummaging through my order history or knowing how much I actually spend on Amazon. And then all of her books and movies would be in my libraries, which may suck.
Bought a few things each subsequent year until 2012 when we had our son and then my Amazon Prime shopping definitely ramped up!
Re Prime Day.. It does say more deals than Black Friday (not necessarily better deals!) I had higher hopes, but it is like they just wanted to get rid of their random crap inventory (generally).
Nerd... I love him! (Oh, there I go, using that word again)
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