Archive for March, 2008

Bargain Shopping

Published March 31, 2008 in All, Children and Shopping. 0 Comments

As much as I wanted to sit at home and watch the race yesterday afternoon, the boyfriend was driving me to the brink of insanity, so instead of severely injuring him and losing my potential travel buddy for the Michigan race in August, I just decided to leave the house and go shopping to de-stress.

It was bad enough that all we had to drink in our fridge was beer and milk so I began my shopping spree at Sam’s Club. I love Sam’s Club more than any normal person should. When I can walk out with 3-30 pack cases of water for under $10, I am in love. When I can buy a box with 12 packs of gum in it for $7, I’m in heaven.

Sometimes I think I go broke bargain shopping because I love buying things for cheap. I refuse to pay for anything that I do not severely need in life for full price, that’s just me.

I took the gift card that the girls at work got me for my birthday and decided to shop it up at Kohl’s. Since it is spring, winter clothes were on clearance and I decided to stock up for next year. After all, I will thank myself next year when I won’t have to buy a few $20 sweaters when I got more than a few today at $3 a sweater. That almost made me pee my pants with delight that I got such a deal on sweaters. It’s still cold here in Ohio so I can technically wear them until the nice weather rolls in. I’m wearing a very cute blue one right now as I type…

While I am sharing bargain shopping stories, I went to Wal-Mart today after work to pick up some more of my Slim Quick diet pills and struck a gold mine of Easter merchandise that was 75% off since obviously the holiday has passed. The stuffed animals were all $1.85 when they were originally $4.95 and $7.95 and Easter eggs filled with tattoos for kids were 50 cents that were normally $2.50 so I grabbed a few to shove in the kids’ basket for next year. I still see it as a deal even though I cannot do anything with the stuff until next year. For one, I won’t have to buy anything full price for Easter next year, and two, I don’t have to go Easter shopping with the 10,000 other people that seem to go the same time I do.

Getting A Ferret

Published March 25, 2008 in All and Shopping. 0 Comments

I went to Jack’s Aquarium and Pets to look at the ferrets. I am set on getting one as my birthday present to me. (Yes, I buy myself birthday presents, who else would know what I want besides me?) I wanted to check out and see how much it would cost for food, cage, toys, etc. and of course how much the ferret’s are.

Time out for an off-brand MasterCard moment:

Ferret cage: $78

Ferret toys: $20

Ferret: $130

Having a little rat looking thing pooping all over the place…priceless.

For everything else there’s a big hole in my checking account…I mean MasterCard.

So I walked out of the pet store with RJ convinced that I would be back to get my new baby. Nick came home from work that afternoon and we went to Petsmart and got a ferret cage and starter kit (it was cheaper there) then went back to Jack’s Aquarium and Pets and got my ferret.

Meet Smoke:

Smoke the ferret

The pet store did not know if it was a girl or boy. Whatever it turns out to be, it will still be named Smoke. My favorite NASCAR driver is Tony Stewart and his nickname is Smoke, so I found it very fitting. Not to mention, the ferret’s fur is grey and white like smoke anyways, so it’s a mere coincidence.

The dogs are freaking out, and my favorite show “Paranormal State” is on tonight so I guess I must take my MasterCard moment and finish my story for the day. Hopefully by morning my dogs will not have tried to jump on top of the cage and eat my baby Smoke.

Desperation

Published March 2, 2008 in All and Shopping. 0 Comments

So as if I’m not irritated enough when I go to the grocery store, I had to go back again today. As I was trying to bargain shop Saturday morning for my groceries, I decided not to get the SlimQuick pills (I could have tried getting cheap diet pills and saving a few bucks). I hoped that when I go to the pharmacy, they would have them cheaper. They didn’t! They didn’t even have them.

So if yesterday’s shopping experience wasn’t interesting enough: I walk into Wal-Mart grab my pills and then decide to venture the $5 DVD section. I’m sifting, finding “Meet Joe Black” and “Dude Where’s My Car” as I’m contemplating if I want to buy one or the other I see this big black shadow approach me. I stand guard immediately and then look up. Two young boys, one in an oversized black hooded sweatshirt are walking towards me, and my immediate response, as bad as it sounds was…”Oh God what’s going to happen to me?”

They ended up just walking by me. I notice they are carrying a large black shopping bag, definitely not a Wal-Mart bag. I know what they are trying to do. It was very sad to see. How do people get desperate enough to steal? I didn’t understand it at all. I work for my money, granted, it’s not much to get me by, but I can legitimately say that I paid for everything I own.

I was thinking something stupid like “The economy is bad, this is what people have to resort too I guess” and then I took back that statement because it didn’t really apply to me in reality. I will never be desperate enough to steal from anyone. NEVER! It’s not right, but what in this crazy world is considered “right” anyways?

I walked out of the store with “A Knight’s Tale” for $5 and my SlimQuick. I paid for it with my own money. And I’m proud I did because in the end, no matter how tight money gets, and how stressed I get that money is tight, I still have a decent enough job to get by in life buying even just a little bit of luxury like a $5 DVD.

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