It is Christmas and time for some good sales, if you can find them. I think we did pretty well at Bath & Bodyworks last night when they had their big 3-wick candles for $8.95. Ever the resourceful woman, Wife also had some coupons ready for this and along with the sale prices, these candles are usually $24.95 each, we paid around $6.44 a candle. The sale that got us there was $8.95 a candle, but Wife had a coupon that if you spend over $40, we get $15 off. She also had a get a free item worth $13.95 for free with purchase of anything in the store. So, she had two sets of these coupons, I went one way and she went another and we ended up with 10 candles and two bottles of lotions for $64.40. We burn a lot of these candles to try to keep the home smelling like boys or when my mom visits, dog.
Tonight, Dillard's had their customer appreciation sale which is a private sale for its better customers. They have been doing this for awhile and we try to go most every year. The first few times were great, they would set up tables of food and leave them unsupervised, which worked until they figured out people abuse free anything. Now, they have the food on trays and they walk around offering it to you, so it is monitored a lot better.
The first thing you do when you enter is write your name on a piece of paper for a chance to win one of several baskets. Wife was called as the winner of the first basket and she was looking through it a while ago. Just the first perfume she pulled out is worth over $100. There seem to be at least 4 perfumes, makeup, and even eyeliners and stuff. Wife was a little emotional that she hasn't won anything before.
We had already begun buying Christmas gifts, and we 've taken care of the challenging ones in both our parents, but we still managed a couple purses for her tonight, so I am done with my hard gifts. I can't say I saw anything else I would jump on buying. It was nice that that they offered a free wrapping, but that made us sit around over 40 minutes waiting.
By the time we came out, it was past 9:00pm. Javalina was complaining that he was going to die of hunger. We both kept saying shut up, you are being dramatic. We stopped at Popey's,but of course, we had to deal with a bum before we got inside the door. As soon as I parked I saw the bum bothering the lady in the car next to us. I told Wife to wait, let this bum walk away. He kind of walked away but like a cartoon, stopped just behind the Excursion and stood there. I kept staring at his idiot act, he was frozen there not moving. After 10-20 seconds, he turned and came to knock on my glass, as soon as he did, I established eye contact and started doing the fingers cutting the neck and saying nope, beat it! He disappeared into the night, then we got off. We got our chicken and it hit the spot perfectly, specially with another coupon Wife had 14 pieces, 2 sides, 6 biscuits, all for $20.95. The girl behind the counter kept saying "my computer says $28.95." I asked is this Popeye's, that's what the coupon says, honor it. "But the computer says it's $28.95" Again, I said OK, press some buttons make it right. One of the other guys came over, hit some buttons and then we were good.
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