The coupons kept coming so I kept going to the big box-store bonanza, that triple-B chain, renown for their endless coupons and generous, "bring it back, no questions asked" return policy. Bad policy if you ask me, a recovering boomerang shopper! Thanks to loving pressure from my husband and belle-mere,* I have been avoiding, for the most part, whiling away hours combing through aisles looking for round trip bargains on buyer's remorse! But the coupons keep coming and to throw them away feels, to this penny-pincher, like burning money! God grant me the serenity...
So yesterday I fell off the wagon, and proceeded to push it through those narrow Triple B aisles, crammed with boxes of must-have gadgets stacked strategically to fall right into your eager hands at the slightest bump. "Oh, what luck. I needed that!" you say to yourself, mesmerised by the mysterious sweet smell permeating the store. I can blame my brief relapse on two wedding gift cards and a long held store-credit. Free money and a dozen coupons--what's a tiny lapse? Oh, only about $100 extra! And yes! I wound up back there the next day, boomeranging a fancy knife set and a exchanging one gadget. The lapse wasn't all bad since the return allowed me to recoup much of the extra $100 I'd spent. Further, the blame really falls on the store's liberal return policy which benefited the previous owner of the apple gadget which I was then forced to return. My new gadget, as it turned out, was a pre-owned boomerang--missing the instruction booklet and encrusted with some gross brown crud. Though, now armed with a truly new apple slicer/corer/peeler gadget, I wonder just how often will I be cranking it up?
(*french makes mother-in-law sound much better!)
So yesterday I fell off the wagon, and proceeded to push it through those narrow Triple B aisles, crammed with boxes of must-have gadgets stacked strategically to fall right into your eager hands at the slightest bump. "Oh, what luck. I needed that!" you say to yourself, mesmerised by the mysterious sweet smell permeating the store. I can blame my brief relapse on two wedding gift cards and a long held store-credit. Free money and a dozen coupons--what's a tiny lapse? Oh, only about $100 extra! And yes! I wound up back there the next day, boomeranging a fancy knife set and a exchanging one gadget. The lapse wasn't all bad since the return allowed me to recoup much of the extra $100 I'd spent. Further, the blame really falls on the store's liberal return policy which benefited the previous owner of the apple gadget which I was then forced to return. My new gadget, as it turned out, was a pre-owned boomerang--missing the instruction booklet and encrusted with some gross brown crud. Though, now armed with a truly new apple slicer/corer/peeler gadget, I wonder just how often will I be cranking it up?
(*french makes mother-in-law sound much better!)
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