Woke up and got ready – I was going back to the SArmy as soon as they opened.
It’s half-off everything day ! I guess I
shouldn’t have been surprised at the line waiting for the doors to open. I took
about fifth place and stood around watching the employees stand around watching
us, waiting for that precise second. I hated that when I worked for Disney
Store, hate it on the other side of the register, too. There’s customers
waiting, all the lights are on and the registers are ready, open the door !
Once in, I made a beeline, basket in hand, hoping ‘my’ coffee
maker would still be there. It was ! I also picked up a Monopoly game (Dearest
Son’s been wanting one), a math workbook set (he didn’t really want that), a
clock radio, and a set of three never-opened OfficeDepotMax document frames (he
gets a charge out of us framing his gift artwork). All for seven bucks even.
That, combined with the $4.50 I spent yesterday means I got both my hot air
popper and my coffee maker for less than half of what I would have paid for
either brand new. And I got toys, schoolwork, frames, and a radio as a bonus !
I also donated the redressed Baby
Sitter’s Club doll and some books I wanted to send along to their next
readers. It wasn’t much, but they took it, and I felt good having the clutter
gone. Most of my fellow line-holders were after back-to-school clothes, I may
have been the only one who scouted stuff the day before. I was tempted by those
gold snowflake dessert plates, they were so pretty and very inexpensive, but ya
can’t use ‘em in the microwave, and they didn’t match anything we have even
remotely.
Once home, I checked out our new Monopoly game. Amazingly, all the
little pieces are there – all the money, the tokens, the houses and hotels,
even the dice and the rule sheet. Just 8 of the 28 title deed cards are
missing. Shoot. We can replace them for $5. with Hasbro.com (plus $7. shipping),
or for a bit under $4. off eBay, shipping included. Or I can look each card up online
and steal the stats to make our own with index cards for free. That may be more fun !
The coffee pot works great, and the clock radio is only missing
the battery closure panel, otherwise, it’s awesome, too. Especially for just
50¢ ! However, I forgot that I’m an antenna, and I nearly always screw up radio
reception just by being near a radio. Well, Dearest’s been sniffing around it,
I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if I gave it to him. Darn. Well, back to Pandora !
UPS did the ‘handoff to the USPS’ crap they call SurePost, which
basically means the package (my Merida doll) sits with the post office for an
entire day before it gets delivered. I truly hate SurePost. If UPS delivered,
it’d normally be here in three days, the only good thing about the PO
delivering is that, yeah, it takes an extra day, but luckily, we get our mail
around 10-11am. It’s a good thing we’re broke and I can’t afford to order
anything often…
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