What the hell?

Regular readers of this blog will likely know that after several months of planning and searching I just recently bought a new pair of shoes for day-to-day use. For the past three weeks, or close to it, I have been wearing these shoes on an almost daily basis. For the most part I found the shoes to be comfortable and have been pretty pleased with my purchase, at least until today.

This afternoon, as I was putting my shoes and preparing to head out, I noticed that one of my shoes appeared to have some cosmetic damage on the outer layer of the shoe. At first I assumed that I must have some how damaged the shoe, maybe on of my visits to the nearby rock throwing beach. Then, just a few moments later, I noticed an almost identical tear on the equivalent location on the other shoe.



These developments kind of frustrate me, particularly after such a long, drawn-out shoe shopping process. On one hand I am inclined to try to return the shoes (though I don't really have a way to get to Bayer's Lake) because of the apparent design flaw. I think that it is reasonable to expect shoes to last more than three weeks before they start to fall apart. On the other hand, I am somewhat disinclined to do much of anything because of my general laziness and lack of interest is most matters aesthetic. In the end, more than anything else, that I can't easily make it to Bayer's Lake will likely shape my course of action and mean that I do nothing, except buy another pair of shoes sooner than I expected. What a bummer.

Get a free $50 item at the Bayers Lake Brick

For those of you in the Halifax region with the ability to make your way to the Brick at Bayers Lake shopping facility you may be interested to know that there is a pretty amazing coupon in The Coast's The Best of Halifax publication.

The coupon, which is published inside the publication, is for $50 off any item in the store. The particularly impressive part is that they don't require a minimum purchase to use the coupon. This means that if you can find something that you want to buy that costs less than $50 it can be yours for free.

While taking advantage of this amazing deal yesterday the salesperson told me that all kinds of people were using the coupon to buy $50 DVD players and ottomans. This same salesperson also told me how shocked he was that the store would go in for such an incredible coupon, particularly as a minimum purchase wasn't required.

As far as I can tell the only catches are that they limit the number of coupons per customer to one and the coupon is only valid until September 10, 2008.

For those of you that are curious, I managed to buy a multi-region DVD player and ottoman for only $16 (the price after the discount had been applied). Neil used the coupon to buy a chair for $50, the chair, which was on sale at the time of the purchase, was originally priced at $200.