This might be stretching it a little, but the consumerism for the weekend started with the arrival of my package from amazon.ca. I bought two cds and four books.
On Friday night I went grocery shopping. I visited Sobeys and Atlantic Superstore. Nothing much to report there, I seem to mostly have bought lots of fruit.
Shoppers Drug Mart had a big sale on Saturday. They also had a deal where by if you bought $50 worth of stuff you got 20x the Optimum points for your purchase. Rebecca decided to stock up and go for it and I went with her. In the end Rebecca collected about 15,000 points, which when added to her previous 15,000 (worth $25) gives her 30,000 (worth $55), which is how their non-linear scale works. One could argue that Rebecca got about 40% off. Rebecca and I also went to Staples on Saturday. We shopped for a desk chair for me, with the intent of ordering online later, and bought some smaller stuff. The smaller stuff include pads of lined paper (which I now use instead of loose leaf) and glue sticks. The glue sticks were for a cut-and-paste newspaper contest in which I am participating. I have to find a 'puzzle piece' in the newspaper every day for 7 weeks and assemble 7 little puzzles and say what the picture is of in each for a chance to win $10,000. It's probably a waste of my time because I don't know Nova Scotia well enough to tell what the things are, but the good news is that the glue sticks rang in for $0.74 when I thought I was paying $1.49 (that's right, 50% off AND they rounded in my favour). Similarly, I bought a 3-pack of red pens (with bonus pencil) for $0.98, when I thought I was going to pay $1.97. The original price was $3.24.
More shopping stories later, I have to go buy a haircut.
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