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OK, this thread was sparked for the following reasons:

1) I don't have a canadian credit card, so I can't shop online.
2) I don't have a car, so I can't just drive to Burlington or whereever to fetch something.
3) I'm within an easy walk of the downtown core, 20-30mins depending on footspeed. When I factor in waiting for buses and so on, a bus from where I am to the downtown is only moderately quicker.
4) If I can shop in the downtown, then that would be great, because I believe that if I spend my money locally it will help to stimulate the local economy even on the smallest scale.
5) I can get to Eastgate or Limeridge or Westdate, but sometimes the transit time is too much to make the trip worthwhile for that particular purchase.

Last week I had two examples of not knowing where else to look.

I needed a birthday card, I was pretty sure that there was a card shop in JS, but wasn't sure. I knew there was one at Eastgate, but that was too far to go for that. I also knew there was a shop on Locke Street that sold funky cards (The Mercantile I think), but again that was too much of a walk on that particular day. Luckily I knew that Mixed Media sold cards and found something ideal there and didn't need to head onwards to JS. However, there could easily have been other places for me to stop on my way there that I didn't know about.

I also needed to buy a small desk, 100cm x 50cm, nothing huge, just enough to put a computer on. Cheap was the primary focus. I thought something second hand would be ideal. Went to the few secondhand furniture stores I knew on Barton Street, nothing there small enough. Beyond that I didn't know where else to look. In the end we borrowed a car and went to Ikea and bought a cheap n nasty one.

My current shopping needs:

1) LED light bulbs. I loathe Compact Fluorescents. I don't like what they are made of or the light they give off. I don't like how they're deemed this eco saviour, yet few places seem capable of recycling them. Most of all, I hate how they buzz. Some don't, but most do even just a little and I can hear it and it drives me nuts. I used to have LED light bulbs in a few of my rooms back home replacing the normal 60w incandescent bulbs and some of my spots. I could buy some online, but I don't have a card. So does anyone know where I can find some LED light bulbs? I don't need spots, though knowing where to buy them would be useful, I need replacements for normal 60w incandescent bulbs.

2) A spindle of DVDRs. I used to be able to pick up a spindle of 100 for £17.99 (£32 by today's exchange) and that was a good deal back home. I didn't see spindles of 100 at The Source in JS (I may have suffered from temporary blindness). Where can I buy a spindle of DVDRs for a similar or better price?