Still coming down off that ‘high’
of getting our old truck fixed for so little. Beloved Hubby’s thrilled with
himself, as well he should be. That kind of leaves us in a pickle as to what to
do with the M-truck – previous owner Boss will take it back, but we hate giving
him a lemon to deal with. We could finish paying for it, fix it, and sell it
ourselves, but that’ll have to happen after December. Beloved said he’ll chat
with Boss about it tomorrow.
Meanwhile, three vehicles on
a two-car driveway isn’t working. Chez Insanity is located on a permanent No
Parking zone on both sides of the street, and parking on the lawn is
occasionally rewarded by sweet notes with offers to add something to the
coffers from City Of. Rather than block the sidewalk, Emmy-chan gets to
overnight inside the garage for a short while. We’ll know more tomorrow.
Dearest Son broke the good ‘house’
scissors, and with a coupon, I could replace them cheaply, but it meant going
to the back side of the mall Jo-Ann’s across town. Ordinarily I’d wait for a
non-weekend, but the 60% off coupon expired today, and it was one of the few
times Fiskars weren’t on some sale. Or so I thought. My first clue that things
weren’t gonna go as planned was the fact that I had to park halfway across from
my usual fairly-close-to-there spot – who knew folks still went to malls ?
Evidently, from all the cars much newer than mine, our mall is doing quite
well. And I needed a four-block walk anyway. I appreciated the bench just
outside, that’s fer sure.
Once inside, our local Jo-Ann’s
was hosting an unadvertised sale – on selected Fiskars scissors, of course
including the pair I wanted. Since you can’t use a coupon on a sale item, I
ended up getting a pair not on sale but cheaper than the sale price, just $2.
more than I intended to spend. I hope that made sense. Anyway, we have new house scissors.
Some markdown ribbon I
wanted got all the way to the counter where I was told it was by-the-yard
ribbon, not by-the-spool. But. . . there was no way to tell, my selections were
in a bin with dozens of others, still sealed, and completely unmarked with ‘By
The Yard’ stickers or printing. Oh, well, they could put those back later, I
wasn’t buying them now. Got a couple of holiday Perler kits on half-price, then
used another coupon for extra beads – if Dearest Son likes that craft, we can
make more, perhaps an ornament for his grandparents. If not, I’ll use what we
have, it’s possible I’ll like doing it. I’m already planning on obtaining more
peg-boards if I do – I like the idea of glow-in-the-dark snowflakes and stars. And
there’s thousands of free designs on line (basically any cross-stitch pattern
would work as well). Hope to see how our Christmas tree and 3D snowflake go
this week.
I also got a new sequin
tiara. It was the only thing I bought that wasn’t on sale, marked down, or had
a coupon to go with it !
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