Amazon and Me...and YOU?

A little more on the Amazon affiliate thing I'm testing out:  I am not a fan of blogs who have ads on them - there's been more than one that I've stopped reading entirely because either their ads were so overwhelming that I had a hard time discerning content from ad, or some had music that autoplayed, and that startles me so much that it's an instant NOPE, click, goodbye.  Over the nearly ten years that I've had my blog, I've had a few links on my sidebar for products that I liked, but that's been the extent of it.  And that's fine - I don't write this blog to make money.  I write because I like to write, and even when I've been envious of other bloggers who have sweet deals with running brands for free shoes and clothing, the truth is, I like that I'm not beholden to any particular brand because my preferences have changed...and they do change, believe me.

That said, when I was writing my recent post about the garage renovation, I was planning on linking the items that we bought because if you're like me, when you read about something like what the blogger is writing about, you sometimes want to check it out more.  As for me, I've bought a lot of items based on other blogger's recommendations...and for what I recommend, well, I'm not an expert, but I am a real user and regular readers know that I pretty much tell the truth about anything I'm reviewing, good, bad, and ugly.

 For example (and I'm linking this, FYI), months ago I saw this Mueller food chopper being raved about by another blogger, or maybe it was someone I follow on Instagram - I actually don't remember at this point.  I hemmed and hawed and finally bought it, and boy howdy, I love this thing!  You can chop an onion so fast that there's no time for tears!  I'm sure I clicked on a link and that person got a small commission from my purchase - and I don't have a problem with that.

By the way, if you buy this be sure and use the handy dandy cleaning brush that's included to get the grid blade clean...Clueless Joe over here discovered the hard way that the blade is very sharp!

Anyway, I think the affiliate link works if you click from anything I've linked to Amazon, or also, if you click on the picture in the sidebar, that will take you to Amazon - you don't have to buy the item I've linked but anything you purchase, if you've gone there via my blog, will put some pennies in my account.  This blog doesn't cost me a lot to maintain - I pay a little bit for extra storage each month because apparently Google doesn't want to host the nine gajillion pictures I've posted on here for free.  And I also pay for my domain, but really, it's not a lot considering the fun that I get from being able to blather here and interact with you guys.

I hope this doesn't offend any of you - I'm not trying to do a money grab, but if you're like me, you probably do shop with Amazon; if you'd like to shop through my link, great - thank you.  If not, no worries, it's all good.

Oh, you might be wondering why I put a picture of dog food for my Amazon link?  Well, when I looked back at all of my orders for last year, this was what I ordered most frequently.  YOU'RE WELCOME, PACO.

 

Tanks for feeding me, mom...I 'preciate it.