If you have a Books-A-Million discount card, did you know they are increasing from $10 per year to $20 per year on Friday? No matter when your card expires, your local store will be happy to renew you before then — I tacked two additional years on my card, which was due to expire next month (your expiration month and day remains the same).

I went in to pick up a magazine, browsed the five for four deal — found five I was willing to take a chance on, picked up some blank notebooks, and by the time I checked out, the hundred dollar bill I planned to get change from only netted nineteen cents back. How did that happen? I thought only Amazon.com had this effect upon me.