FREE! FREE!

This will come off as a plug for Best Buy, but since I'm not on their payroll, I invite them to contact me to do some writing for them (dudes, I'm a HUGE customer!).

Anyway, if you ever purchase cartridges for your inkjet printer, you know how damned expensive they are. If you buy refills or cheap substitutes online, you're only wrecking your printer, your ink isn't archival and will fade in time (hope you didn't print any important family pictures with that stuff), and you probably voided your printer's warranty. I only buy brand name ink. It's like buying toilet paper - some things, you just don't skimp on!

So here's my plug for Best Buy: If you join their Reward Zone club (free), every time you purchase two ink cartridges (on the same receipt), you can take home a free ream of paper up to $9.95 in value. I like to take the HP bright white inkjet paper. It's a heavy 24 pound bond, 97 brightness, and it feels like a million dollars compared to the cheap stuff you're already buying.

If you don't need inkjet paper, you can use the $9.95 toward other paper. I've taken the discount toward the purchase of photo paper, for instance. Hey, not bad considering I was going to buy the cartridges anyway. And as a Reward Zone member, you're racking up points that add up to dollars that can be spent - where else - at Best Buy.

Don't throw tomatoes ... as a writer, I go through a lot of paper and ink, so this was as appropriate an entry as any! And yes, I CAN live with myself.

PS: Best Buy, don't forget who loves ya....