If you have too much money in your pocket
After this afternoon, I can answer the question “Where do people with too much money go shopping?”. We all wish that we had surplus cash in the pocketbook, but in most cases, we’re never at a loss on how to trade the paper for “stuff”. The curious state of what to buy when you are overstocked with banknotes had never crossed my mind (until today). Now my education is complete.
Don’t ask how I ended up in The Store; things happen when you live in a domestic relationship. Instead, hang in there while I vent on the alternative to contributing to charity. The store was actually having a sale, which eases my conscience, but rarely have I spent an hour among the other class. I didn’t realize how different their needs were from my own.
Among the hundred of articles (usually in muted tones of red and brown), the #3 position goes to glass balls. Balls large enough to be used in an odd game of slowpitch. Balls coated with glaze. Empty of anything other than air (and inutility). On sale for $15 each, with no reduction for quantity.
My #2 vote goes to the basket used to hold cushions for a dining room chair. I try to imagine the dinner invitation that holds the abbreviations: RSVP and BYOC. Use your imagination. The basket holds three cushions, has cloth handles and retails for only $49. If you are unsure of the pillow dimensions, you shouldn’t be shopping here, because the people that buy cushion carriers already know the details.
And at the top of my useless things to purchase, number one with a bullet (silver), was the cloth covers for the electrical cord on your table lamp. In muted shades of red and brown, to hide the shocking bone white of zip cord, at only $25.50 each. Note the lack of the traditional .49 used elsewhere in retail. It makes calculation easier for the rest of us.
