I’ve been doing a lot of my shopping online and a friend recommended that I cheack out musician’s friend the world’s largest online music gear company for the guitar and amp that my nephew wanted for his birthday. They do have a wide variety to choose from and most importantly, they do ship to Canada. I love that the prices are reasonable as well and we found drums, amps, guitars and music software and more stuff. It’s definitely an online playground for musicians out there. And now that I know where to buy all my music gear, I’ll be sure to share it with my friends who needs music gear for themselves or loved ones.
New Toy For PB & Chloe
Yup! A PS4, just came by courier yesterday with the rest that was ordered to sell in the store. PB kept 1 for himself and the rest was picked up and sold out first thing in the morning. So it was a really busy morning for us at the store – actually midnite launch at our store.
We got ours at a wholesale price – the JOY and PERKS of owning your own store I guess, plus since we had 150 in order for our regular customers and all were paid for in advance, it was a really deal for everyone. I never object to anything that PB wants to buy, like I said before, we don’t put what we buy on credit cards, we pay everything in cash even the stock at our store, everything is fully paid for. So no reason to say no to anything he wants because he never stops me from buying anything if I paid them in full. So this weekend, guess what PB and Chloe will be doing? hahahahha!
70″ 3D TV
Yes, we have a new 70″ – 3D tv – and when PB asked me if I’m alright with him buying a 3D tv – I told him as long as we pay it in full, not with credit card nor having to dip into our savings – power to him. So yes, we don’t believe in spending money that we don’t have and yes, the tv is paid in full and we don’t owe anyone for anything not even the stock in the store.
He ordered it online from future shop and it only took a few days to arrived. Chloe and PB are enjoying their 3 D movies tremendously, as for me – a tv is a tv – as long as I can watch my shows on it – I’m good. I’m so low-tech I know hahahaha!
Drummer Girl
For those of you who knows that we do carry some musical instruments at our store now, you will also noticed that Chloe loves the drum set so much that she wants to learn how to play the drum besides playing the piano. After much persuasion, we’ve decided that she can take up playing the drum as well. But first we have to buy drum cases for electronic drums at musician’s friend , so that she can carry her kid’s drum set to and fro to her teacher’s house. You see, she prefers to practice using her own drum set, which is perfectly understandable for her age, so the drum cases would come in handy not only for Chloe but for those who have kids and taking lessons or those musicians who wants to transport their drums to wherever they are playing their drums. It’s a win-win situation for us, now we will have drum cases to offer our own customers as well.
Talent Show In Town
The annual talent show is coming to town again this October and we are to source for some USB microphones for the talent show and thus far we found some usb microphone at musicians friend that are of professional quality and affordable for the organizers. Of course, we do have the cheaper ones but they are mostly for personal use, these ones that we’ve found are of a better quality. So next week, we are going to present them to the organizers and then will order it for them if they are agreeable with it. We are happy to be a part of the talent show this year and even though we are not making any money in sourcing the microphones for the talent show, we are happy to give back to the town. It’s not all about money for us you know.
TV In The Kitchen
We all loved out TV shows especially the little brat and in order to make everyone sit down at the same time to have their supper, I’ve decided to go browse around for standandmounts tv stands. I also want to put in the kitchen/dining room – a LED TV, that way everyone would love to come have supper at my place. At the moment, we just bring all our food to the basement and sit on the couch and watch tv, therefore, enough is enough, everyone needs to eat together at least one meal a day.
For The Anime Fans
I guess we are not the only ones who are anime fans because a friend’s son and some of our store’s customers are asking for anime as well. I know of someone who uses the vlc download to watch their anime shows everyday and cannot do without it. Currently, we are watching the Legend of Korra dubbed in English of course and loving it. I haven’t tried the VLC media player myself but I hear it’s more stable and the quality of the picture is supposed to be better, plus it supports Blu Ray version as well – so I’m going to recommend this to my girlfriend’s son who is a diehard fan for anime. Calling all anime fans out there – check it out and let me know eh.
Computers For Kids
Friends at Chloe’s school asked me all the time about getting a computer for their kids and they ask for recommendations since they know that we deal with computer repairs at our store. And you know how I am with money – so I tell them that getting a used pc would be the best bet for their money since their kids are young. And there is nothing wrong getting a used PC from a reputable place and one that carries a warranty on it as used PCs are just as good as new ones. So if you are buying a PC for your kids are even a notebook, a lightly used one – is the way to go, no need to go crazy and spend thousands of dollars just for a kid’s PC when you know you only need the very basic.
Canadian Got Talent
Canadian really got talent – and as I watch this group played at the Farmer’s Market 2 weeks ago – I can’t help but think that this people sure got guts and perseverance. I’m not too arty farty like – but I do love music a lot – I remembered going to the Symphony – everytime a friend was in town from US or Australia. Those were the good ole days! unfortunately, for me PB is only into the heavy metal kinda of music – but I can’t stand them because they are so loud and had lots of foul languages in them. I do love this group – sometimes the groups playing isn’t so fantastic and I don’t stay and listen – but acknowledge them nevertheless.
Guitar Lessons For Chloe
So we were up in the city a few weeks ago – and had seen all these guitars for sale – and Chloe had asked for one as well – but she already has one – that her ex-babysitter’s father bought for her one year for Christmas. Once in a while she would strum on it and try to make music out of it – but refuses to go for lessons to learn how to play the guitar for real. So I told her that when she decides that she really wants to learn guitar or learn to play it for real – and not for the fun and strumming it and making noises – we will get her a proper guitar for the guitars that we saw on sale weren’t cheap at all. Like we all know that kids can’t really decide on what they really want for now – and unless she is learning how to play classical guitar – I doubt she can play the guitar without the nylon strings – the other type of strings are just too hard on the fingers even for me. I’m all for music lessons – but knowing the brat of mine – she would probably give up after a few lessons – so for now – we’ll just have to play by ear.