I often have more time to waste than money to spend, so I try to keep an eye out for bargains on items on my wishlists. Lee Valley-Veritas is offering free ground shipping with a $40 or greater order from March 16th to 26th. That might not seem like a big deal, but I have post-its all over my Lee Valley catalog marking all kinds of neat things that I absolutely don't need, but I just wanna, gotta have anyway. Saving that $10+ in shipping is just enough rationalization for me to order a very small box of cool, but somewhat pricey toys to play with. A previous small order with free ground shipping took 8 calendar days from order date to delivery in Houston.
If you're not familiar with Lee Valley-Veritas, check out their web site and order their free catalogs (Woodworking, Hardware, Home & Garden) Lee Valley Tools . The catalogs are nice enough to leave out on the coffee table, and are full of high quality tools and other items, many of which I haven't seen elsewhere (a number of their tools & books are made by the other Lee family companies). Lee Valley's catalogs, while larger and nicer, kind of remind me of the old "Brook Stone Hard to Find Tools" catalogs of the1970's, back when BrookStone was a mail order company for tool geeks. I really like Lee Valley, its products, and its customer service policies; I just can't afford to buy too much from them at once. If you're interested, I found an article about the founder of Lee Valley published in Acreage Life . [Hopefully his son saw the article and sent Dad a face shield and safety goggles.]
If you're not familiar with Lee Valley-Veritas, check out their web site and order their free catalogs (Woodworking, Hardware, Home & Garden) Lee Valley Tools . The catalogs are nice enough to leave out on the coffee table, and are full of high quality tools and other items, many of which I haven't seen elsewhere (a number of their tools & books are made by the other Lee family companies). Lee Valley's catalogs, while larger and nicer, kind of remind me of the old "Brook Stone Hard to Find Tools" catalogs of the1970's, back when BrookStone was a mail order company for tool geeks. I really like Lee Valley, its products, and its customer service policies; I just can't afford to buy too much from them at once. If you're interested, I found an article about the founder of Lee Valley published in Acreage Life . [Hopefully his son saw the article and sent Dad a face shield and safety goggles.]