Retail therapy
Wow. I’ve just lost all credibility with personal finance bloggers.
I went to work at the yarn shop late and I started off on a personal buying spree.
Now keep in mind I get a pretty good employee discount. But I also had a special gift certificate for an extra 10% off. It’s a year old and while it doesn’t expire, I actually had received two of them and I think it took me around 7 months to use the first one. I decided to go whole hog today since I probably won’t go nuts like this again.
I spent $429.04. For this amazing sum, I got:
A 3 session course + materials fee
2 books which you can’t find in a library
2 felting needles
5 silk cocoons
11 ounces of dye powder
2 balls of cotton for a present
5 balls of yarn for a class
2 balls of yarn for a costume
9 balls of yarn to make into scarves for sale/gifts
1 inflatable ball for making felted vessels
Keep in mind that I have to add value to all the yarn and dye by knitting it up, dyeing with it, etc. I am really stupid since the 5 balls I got were for a different class and I forgot to sign up for that one. (I might return all of them if I decide not to take the course altogether.) I’m not 100% what I have done, but I am darn lucky the shop has a liberal return policy for the most part.
It’ll take me most of the year to work off this purchase. But I will be occupied for a really long time too!
HMMMM… Staring at the receipt some more, I see there is something wrong. I didn’t get my employee discount at all… le sigh. I will have to call the shop manager tomorrow to fix this. I should have spent under $400. I knew there was something funny about the numbers.
Carol940 wrote:
I can’t comprehend spending that much at once on yarn and supplies. Yes, I would be able to do it in a month - easily.
Here I am trying to budget my birthday discount for yarn. I think the highest I have thought about is $100-120 before discount and taxes.
Posted on 23-Jan-06 at 3:45 pm | Permalink