Late Christmas…
Fifty percent off a parka and the Chronicles of Narnia Illustrated Gift Set and more…
I spent my Christmas money wisely, for once. God’s enabled me to be faithful and trusting and he blessed me.
A few days after Christmas, and after I looked but couldn’t find the boxed set of books I had wanted for weeks, I asked the woman at Barnes & Noble to help. She led me to some shelves in the corner and we found it and it was on sale.
“Do I get ten percent membership savings on top of this twenty percent off?” I asked.
She said I would and I thanked her and went straight to the cashier to buy it.
“Can I get ten percent member savings in addition to this twenty percent off?” I asked.
“I’ll check,” she said and punched the register. “It’s fifty percent off.”
“Fifty percent? That’s even better.”
So, I was happy with my purchase, and felt rewarded because I refrained for weeks from paying full price for them.
Then, I went to the Gap to get a pair of jeans I needed.
The Gap didn’t have the exact size I wanted for bootleg jeans for my Timberlands, so I brought smaller and larger sizes into the fitting room. I wasn’t sure if the tight pair or the loose pair was right so I asked a young man folding clothes. He told me to get the looser pair, for the boots I planned to wear with them. “He would know,” I thought.
Then, a coat rack with a large fifty percent off sign caught my eyes. I tried on several parkas and, with the help of a very knowledgeable and reassuring woman I thought was the manager, I selected one.
But standing on line at the register I felt guilty for paying full price for the jeans because I was only paying fifty percent for the parka, and I only paid fifty percent for the box set of books. And I prayed to God about it. But then the man rung me up and said, “You can pick up another pair of jeans for fifty percent off.” Of course, I was surprised, but told him I’d go find a pair.
So, I received fifty percent off the box set of books and the parka, and fifty percent off the second pair of jeans. I told the cashier and the manager that I was disappointed when I went to a nearby store with a membership coupon for twenty percent off, but they said it didn’t apply to the brand of the nice, but expensive coat that I wanted.
When I got home, I realized that, with the parka, I didn’t really need that fancy coat. Besides, since the expensive coat had the brand name so prominently displayed on it, somebody would want to steal it. It was like a target on me, saying, “Mug me.” My new parka was just as good and not half as ostentatious.
Later, I texted my friends and told them the good news. I said a had a little money left over and maybe I could get them all a good deal. Then, I called my father to tell him the news, and he was very happy because we didn’t have a lot this Christmas.
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