My New Year's Resolutions
Buy Bargains
Buy Wisely
Buyer Beware
I began the year well with a bargain. I like to shop in the bargain shops: In the UK and elsewhere, Poundland, and Poundstretcher.
I always lose one glove. I end up with lots of left handed pairs. I have tried to start a fashion for wearing odd gloves. Somebody started fashions for odd ear-rings and odd buttons and even restaurants where every chair is different and every diner has different cups and plates. But it doesn't work with the man I married years ago. Judge whether my marriage was my worst buying mistake or best purchase. When we lived on different continents and I was alone I could get away with odd socks hidden under shoes. But now I get the before i go out with you inspection and I'm told, you are wearing odd gloves. I divert to the Watford all day all night shop. It's open 24 hours six days a week. The only time it's shut is Sunday evening and night - something to do with trading laws and allowing staff a day of rest. A handy place if you live in NW London, or are driving north of London or south into London.
To my delight and amazement they have half a dozen pairs of gloves. Not all in one place. Scattered about. Matched up with hats and scarves in sets. More elsewhere in men's clothing sections. Others near checkout. I don't want to pay £10 for a complete set. I want to pay £1 like I would in Poundland.
I eventually find a pair of gloves which are thin with even thinner fingertips for dialling on mobile phones. Only two fingertips are thinner. (I realise I could replace fingertips on old gloves by cutting off fingertips entirely. Only two tips - not all ten - not such a hardship in cold weather. Put your hand in your pocket or walk around with clenched fists. How about fold back tips, cut only half way around. No need for all this. When I get to checkout the gloves which were already under £5 are now reduced to £1 in the January sales, price matching the £1 bargain stores. Hurray for Tesco.
Buy Bargains
Buy Wisely
Buyer Beware
I began the year well with a bargain. I like to shop in the bargain shops: In the UK and elsewhere, Poundland, and Poundstretcher.
I always lose one glove. I end up with lots of left handed pairs. I have tried to start a fashion for wearing odd gloves. Somebody started fashions for odd ear-rings and odd buttons and even restaurants where every chair is different and every diner has different cups and plates. But it doesn't work with the man I married years ago. Judge whether my marriage was my worst buying mistake or best purchase. When we lived on different continents and I was alone I could get away with odd socks hidden under shoes. But now I get the before i go out with you inspection and I'm told, you are wearing odd gloves. I divert to the Watford all day all night shop. It's open 24 hours six days a week. The only time it's shut is Sunday evening and night - something to do with trading laws and allowing staff a day of rest. A handy place if you live in NW London, or are driving north of London or south into London.
To my delight and amazement they have half a dozen pairs of gloves. Not all in one place. Scattered about. Matched up with hats and scarves in sets. More elsewhere in men's clothing sections. Others near checkout. I don't want to pay £10 for a complete set. I want to pay £1 like I would in Poundland.
I eventually find a pair of gloves which are thin with even thinner fingertips for dialling on mobile phones. Only two fingertips are thinner. (I realise I could replace fingertips on old gloves by cutting off fingertips entirely. Only two tips - not all ten - not such a hardship in cold weather. Put your hand in your pocket or walk around with clenched fists. How about fold back tips, cut only half way around. No need for all this. When I get to checkout the gloves which were already under £5 are now reduced to £1 in the January sales, price matching the £1 bargain stores. Hurray for Tesco.
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