As I traveled toward the shopping district in my northern Pittsburgh suburb, the question of what I needed to buy turned to where I was going to buy it.
All these knotty considerations aside, though, I'm convinced that no matter what my husband and I buy, it will be a patriotic purchase.
There were brand new Ultrabooks, members of staff unfurling banners, and -- once other customers started to arrive -- there was even a vibe of genuine excitement for today's official launch of Windows 8 in the UK. But whichever aisle I scanned, nowhere was to be found what I had come to buy: a Windows 8 disc for desktop upgraders.
So I watch and buy the game so that I can find out what my rating is.
When my clients ask me what type of smartphone they should buy I usually ask them what they already have.
"I like to have more control over what stocks or mutual funds I buy for my big savings, " he says.
By the time I graduated from college and landed my first real job, I knew exactly what I was going to do with the money: buy brand new clothes.
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She says I am lucky, I had a chance to educate myself on what to buy.
If I could buy New Yorkers for what they're worth and sell them for what they think they're worth, I'd own Fifth Avenue from Saks to Harlem.
Fans of those genres defiantly tell the world, "We're just still gonna buy records, I don't care what everyone else is doing, " he said.
"If you were to view these, you would have no clue what eSpeed is or why I should buy it, " Professor Duffy says.
"I asked her what did they buy and she said they asked for tape and gloves, which made me raise a few concerns, " Mr Akbar told BBC Wales.
In a Peter Lynch buy-what-you-know way I would be bullish on MasterCard and Visa based on the potential of digital enablers like Square unleashing their potential.
What I think is important is not to buy into this notion that is perpetrated by some of the business interests that got a stake in this who are fighting financial reform, for example, to say, boy, we'd be doing fine if we just didn't try to regulate the banks.
"I think what CMS did here was to buy stability for the program, " said Dan Mendelson, president of the market analysis firm Avalere Health.
"I hope the fans get behind us and buy into what we are trying to do here at the football club, " Ferguson told BBC Radio Lancashire.
Better yet, do what I think is the wiser course for most people: Buy stocks or bonds directly.
"I went to an online clothes store to find something to buy my wife for Christmas but I didn't have a clue what I wanted, " he said.
I'm willing to switch carriers to get a good deal, but I'm a newbie when it comes to this stuff and I need some advice about what kind of smartphone to buy.
What I like in this area is stuff that people have to buy and throw away, and then have to buy again.
"I think what's happening is people are looking to buy from supermarkets and drinking at home and ignoring their local boozer, " Mr Saunders, of Conwy, told BBC Radio Wales.
For instance, if I buy two of them, for two TVs, will it remember what's in my Instant Queue on both?
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Most of us own more clothing than we know what to do with, so I encourage people to first of all buy less clothing and to try to limit trendy, throwaway purchases to only one or two a season.
Should I buy Alcoa (AA) ahead of its report, and capitalize on what Pundit A says will be a bullish quarter?
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