You know how you know that you’re becoming your parents? Or your GRANDparents?
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| Thank you, Julie, but it has nothing to do with the knitting-chicken mug...lol! |
Sweetie (after walking into the local warehouse club, needing, well he is never quite sure what we need, but he sure does like this place): Babe! Check out the coupons!
Pretty (poking through stacks of summer clothes on display far too early): Yeah? Any good ones? Like for things we need?
Sweetie: There are lots of them! Do we need toothpaste?
Pretty: Not sure. Don’t think so, we each have a tube that’s not even half empty.
Sweetie (dejected): Oh.
(Then, with more interest): What about dryer sheets?
Pretty: We DO need those! Is there a coupon?
Sweetie: No. But we usually get the store brand…so it’s like a coupon…WHAT ABOUT TOILET PAPER? There’s a $2 off coupon, but we don’t really need it…but we have the space to store it. I just put up that shelf!!!
Pretty: Just because we have storage doesn’t mean we need to fill it. And won’t we save more if we just don’t buy it at all?
Sweetie: But what if there’s no coupon when we do need it?!? I mean, it’s a bargain. It’d be a shame to turn down a bargain, and the only way we actually lose money is if this warehouse-sized package of toilet paper outlives us…and I’m only 58!
You see where this is going? Yes. We bought the toilet paper (and some other things) and we used some coupons, but not for the dryer sheets. Our storage shelf is fuller than it was before this trip, but it could be full of worse things than toilet paper. Besides, if I didn’t give in here, how would I explain all that yarn in storage?
Pretty (poking through stacks of summer clothes on display far too early): Yeah? Any good ones? Like for things we need?
Sweetie: There are lots of them! Do we need toothpaste?
Pretty: Not sure. Don’t think so, we each have a tube that’s not even half empty.
Sweetie (dejected): Oh.
(Then, with more interest): What about dryer sheets?
Pretty: We DO need those! Is there a coupon?
Sweetie: No. But we usually get the store brand…so it’s like a coupon…WHAT ABOUT TOILET PAPER? There’s a $2 off coupon, but we don’t really need it…but we have the space to store it. I just put up that shelf!!!
Pretty: Just because we have storage doesn’t mean we need to fill it. And won’t we save more if we just don’t buy it at all?
Sweetie: But what if there’s no coupon when we do need it?!? I mean, it’s a bargain. It’d be a shame to turn down a bargain, and the only way we actually lose money is if this warehouse-sized package of toilet paper outlives us…and I’m only 58!
You see where this is going? Yes. We bought the toilet paper (and some other things) and we used some coupons, but not for the dryer sheets. Our storage shelf is fuller than it was before this trip, but it could be full of worse things than toilet paper. Besides, if I didn’t give in here, how would I explain all that yarn in storage?
Lol…Knitters, don’t lose your heads! I know, it’s different…after all, I don’t flush yarn. I knit sweaters and other things, right? Right.
I think that’s all I’ve got for today, except that I did take a break from the yarn to make some cookies, too…yummm!
I hope you have cookies and a stash of toilet paper and yarn that [probably] won’t outlive you.
Thank for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!
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PS - By the by, if you are making roll-and-cuts, and these are your leftovers, you win. |
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