"If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have, that you don't want." ~~unknown
I received a $50 gift card for J.C. Penney's for Christmas again this year. Thank You, Momma!!!!
I was wanting to use it to buy new towels for my redecorated bathroom (it's all Chinese Plum Blossom Red w/Black accents now (very exotic looking and I love it - see I was busy while I was off the blog). We are not going to talk about how much I spent for the black leather shower curtain!!! However, I had just recently within the past year and a half bought new yellow towels. They look 'okay' in the bathroom, but black towels would be mucho mucho better.
So, Penney's was running a sale on their towels yesterday and I went but alas the only black ones they had in stock were of inferior quality and so I passed. Will find dollars later to buy the kind I want. Does Cannon still make towels? I dunno, but theirs are the only ones I know of that last, and last, and LAST!!
Hubster asked that I buy myself new nighties for Christmas. I believe I know the one he BADLY wanted replaced - it's from one of our trips to Florida about 10 years ago, I paid $7 for it at a roadside stand, and is on it's very last leg, but OOOOOOHHHHHHH so comfy. I'm saving it for a pattern.
I've been shopping around all Christmas time to find myself new nighties but alas all the stores seemed to have are flannel and fleece and I'm a hot sleeper and I need SEXY, sleeveless and thin, not GRANNY GRUNT nighties!! I have not been married 25 years by accident you know!!
Anyway, I was cruising around Penney's and there was nothing that I wanted!!!
Isn't that FANTASTIC??????????????
I think so.
Oh how your tastes change as you age. I don't really NEED anything! It's a good place to be mentally friends.
So, I did finally remember about the nightie request & found Penney's had a few that fit my (Hubster's) NEEDS for me to have new nighties. Got three of them, black, red, blue. They were all 60% off and came in just under $50 by 11 cents. So, Penney's it is doubtful I'll be back until next year & then only if Mom gets me another gift card, so I've just increased your bottom line by 11 cents.
And now Hubster is EVEN HAPPIER coming to bed!! (as if that's even possible???)
Goodbye old nightie, OH how I loved you!!! We made some FAN-TASTIC-MOR-GASMIC memories together - but I love Hubster & gift cards more.
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$20 CHALLENGE
$23.28 balance
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$23.31 Dec MTD
2007 Challenge $402.23
Cumulative Challenge Total $528.34
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Yesterday was another NO SPEND DAY!!! ...if you don't count the $50 gift card, which I don't as it didn't come out of my pocket.
December 30th, 2007 at 02:37 pm 1199025427
I turn my thermostat down to 57 at night so i sleep in flannel pants and a cotton sweatshirt which, under a wool blanket, 2 quilts and a flannel sheet is very warm plus i think i get these menopausal moments when i have to tear everything off. Sleep can be an adventure.