In the last 3 days between my internet purchases, Donna’s books, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond, we dumped nearly eleven hundred bucks back into the economy. With the exception of the Blue Sun Travel Posters everything we bought would have been purchased eventually, but thanks to W the time table was moved in. Matter of fact, if the first round of checks didn’t do the trick, we have an idea on what to spend the sequel on.
For a moment, earlier this evening, I thought we might not need a second economic stimulus payment, I checked our ticket in the Mega Millions lottery drawing from yesterday. First number I look at is the mega ball, because if you don’t have that, you don’t have squat. We had it! We didn’t have the first regular number but we did have the second one. Hey wait, we have the forth too. Alas, that was all though. The ticket is worth $10, so our next 5 weeks of draws will be on the house.
On Monday Goody’s Clothing Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. By Wednesday we knew the store in Aiken was one of over a hundred stores they were going to close. Today they had human pop-up ads on the busy street corners in town. While we were out and about buying other stuff today, we decided to pop in and check out the prices. I’ve got a pair of Levi’s Squad Cargo Shorts I bought there a month or so ago and I thought I might pick up another pair or two. Apparently I was not the only one in town with that idea, their parking lot was jammed, it was never that busy, even the day after Thanksgiving or the weekends before Christmas. I didn’t even want to go in, but Donna talked me into it. Everyone of their half dozen registers were open and the lines at each were, I bet, 20 deep. We didn’t stay long. A friend of ours (Hi Rae) reported she saw us come in and go out while she spent her 40 minutes in line (she did say she got some good deals.) My weekend hourly rate is pretty high so I would have to be saving a lot more than 50% off on a pair of $30 shorts for me to stand in a line for 2/3 of an hour. We went next door to Target where I bought a pair of Mossimo Destroyed Cargo Shorts in Bootcamp Olive.
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When I saw you two walk up, I said to myself, they won’t stay long when they take a gander at this line I’m in. Thankfully, I was at the end of my wait. The lines weren’t that long when I arrived.
We went back to Target around 9:20 last night to pick up a couple of nightstands we didn’t have room for earlier and people were still coming out of Goody’s. I’m sure they had closed the doors at nine, but they were still checking people out who were already in the store.