The little woman and I will celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary in June. We have booked a 10-day cruise to Alaska, the last of 50 states she has never visited. I locked in #50 three years ago (Oregon). The last time I was in Alaska (Fairbanks) was 1968 in February for 3 weeks, and when I arrived it was minus 40 degrees, so I’m not sure that miserably cold 3-week stay counts.
S-o-o-o-o-o, to further celebrate our “vacation from our vacation” (retirement), as Admin so aptly describes it, we decided to buy new luggage. Off we go this afternoon to Kohl’s. I found this Samsonite behemoth that could transport a baby whale originally priced at $360 marked down to $109. Wow. It had some scuff marks on the exterior, but so what – otherwise it was in excellent condition. One or two flights with the luggage will just triple the scuff marks anyway. My wife had a $20 off coupon to make it what we thought would be $89 plus tax. Smoking bargain!!!!
Wrong. We go to the cash register. The clerk scanned the bar code, and it came up $29!!!! She called the manager and told him the URL on the tag matched what came up on the register screen. He okayed the sale. She then accepted the $20 off card, and we were down to $9. Story not over. We got a FURTHER 20% discount because my wife has some sort of Kohl’s discount shit. With tax included, we ended up paying $7.63 for a $360 piece of luggage. That’s exactly 2% of the original retail price plus tax. To put it in more dramatic terms, just the sales TAX alone on the original price was almost 4 times what we paid.
What’s your best shopping bargain?
