A Lucky Break

We actually bought quite a bit during Amazon's last Prime Days Event. I almost bought a dehydrator. It was the lowest price I'd ever seen, but then a different brand caught my eye. It wasn't on sale, so I decided to wait.

Since I didn't have a big harvest this year, I didn't dehydrate any veggies, but I'd like to do some serious dehydrating next year. I can wait, and hope that the dehydrator I want will go on sale before then.

I'm very patient when it comes to buying things. Unless something is immediately necessary, most purchases can wait. It's a game for me, trying to figure out if this is the lowest price I'll see on an item. 

Most of the time I do well. But you can never tell which way a price will swing, especially nowadays. You'll often hear me grumbling as I look over my grocery receipt. It's shocking.

Sometimes, though, you get lucky. I scored big over the weekend. We had stopped by Walmart and I happened by the gardening department. I went to pick up a little bedding plant, but the whole flat of pots were taped together. I turned it around to get a better look. The entire flat was marked down to $2.50! Each individual plant in the flat was originally five bucks a pop.

These were perennials, moreover, there was nothing wrong with them. It didn't make sense to mark them down, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I scooped up 10 flats of various plants, and proceeded to the checkout counter.

One Walmart employee was sure I was stealing them because I scanned each flat instead of the individual pots. She refused to let me go and insisted on calling her manager despite me pointing to the big yellow clearance sticker and the taped-together pots.

What did she think--that I carried yellow stickers and packing tape in my purse?

To her dismay, the plants were indeed sold as a lot. She looked awfully mad to have been proven wrong. I'm sure she thought she had caught a dangerous criminal.

Sorry Sherlock. Go pick on someone else.

I generally check out the Walmart gardening department just before they start to stock Christmas items. Tools, water hoses, and landscaping materials usually go into deep discount so they can make room for Christmas. It was only an accident that I happened upon that department on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Greg patiently loaded the entire back end of the truck with my plants. He never said a word. I like that in a husband.

 

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