One more fulltimer tip. This might be unique! We stumbled across it ourselves and now we swear by it.
When Amazon offered it's new "Prime" membership a couple of years ago, we decided to go for the free trial. For a flat annual fee of $79, you (and anyone else in your household) pays NO SHIPPING for 2-day shipping all year, no minimum orders.
Anything marked "Amazon Prime" provides this benefit - it covers anything Amazon sells plus several other companies for whom Amazon does the order fulfillment.
And anything you order to send to someone else is covered too - great for gifts, etc.
And Amazon is not just for books. We buy appliances, software, computer stuff, non-perishable groceries, kitchen utensils, other household items, etc. It's amazing what they carry, and a lot of it qualifies.
So, as you can imagine, for fulltimers moving around quite a bit, the ability to order something and get it 2 days later is pretty handy! $3.99 per item to upgrade to overnight, so if you really need something fast and you are strapped, it can be a good solution.
And Amazon has also been offering 4-for-3 deals and other discounts on lots of items. We take advantage of that quite often.
Amazon is also very flexible about where they ship. They are super easy to deal with in terms of returns or other problems. You can order pretty late in the day and still something will ship that day - they let you know how many hours you have left. They are really good about expediting shipment.
I think the only complaint I have is that sometimes Amazon does not do a good job on the packaging, so we are pretty careful about ordering sensitive electronics from Amazon unless we know the manufacturer itself has super robust packaging.
So it's been super useful to us. Once our coffee maker went out. It's not something easy to find and we were too far from a town with big enough stores to carry a good selection of appliances. Ordered and had new coffeemaker in 2 days - no problem. This is a typical story for us.
Just wanted to pass that along. It might come in handy. Ordering stuff on the road can be quite tricky, especially from vendors who only ship inexpensively via UPS/Fedex ground and others who get very strict about shipping to a place that appears to be a campground or some type of "resort".
Audrey