In many respects, Sue and I have been as lucky and fortunate as two people can be during these recessionary times. We've bought a house, had a kid, bought the things we've needed and generally have plugged along like normal pre-Wall Street/Housing/Bank meltdowns. Which is good for us. :)
Yesterday we needed to get out of the house though and the weather was pretty nice for a February day and off we headed to Jackson Outlets with ZW and met my sister there. Sue and her braved the crazy hordes standing on line at the Coach outlet. I had gotten Sue a Coach gift certificate through AMEX membership rewards she wanted to spend but unfortunately they can only be used at a full price store. So after all that waiting, that sucked but she still got herself something nice for a good price and she can use her GC another time.
After that we hit the Disney outlet and we had about $10 on a GC for there as well which we spent on a t-shirt for me (Donald Duck!), a coffee mug, a new sleeper for ZW and also some Disney kids plastic bowl and dish. So we got a lot and maybe spent $17 of our own $. Good deal!
Then it was down to Gymboree where Sue and my sis bought Z some more clothes, no idea what they spent but it was good deals to them so I guess that's all that matters.
Making our way around the Outlets, we stopped at both Harry and David and le Gourmet Chef where we did some snack samples grazing, had a nasty cup of berry flavored coffee from H&D, but did buy a jar of Buffalo Ranch dip @ Le Chef to try later. Like another $5. Mmmm, Buffalo and Ranch! Can't wait to try it!
He also hit the Corningware place and got a tremendous deal on Pyrex casserole dishes. Sue likes to make a mess of Shepherd's pies all at once and we needed these so for 3 dishes it was buy 2 get 1 free and we spend like another $14.
We finished the day at Target buying, on sale and with some Capital One rewards card points, a tableand end table for our downstairs TV room. Like a $180 expense we spend roughly $100 of our own cash on. NICE!
So materialism is alive and well in this economy. No one can blame us for not doing our Patriotic duty! :)
Yesterday we needed to get out of the house though and the weather was pretty nice for a February day and off we headed to Jackson Outlets with ZW and met my sister there. Sue and her braved the crazy hordes standing on line at the Coach outlet. I had gotten Sue a Coach gift certificate through AMEX membership rewards she wanted to spend but unfortunately they can only be used at a full price store. So after all that waiting, that sucked but she still got herself something nice for a good price and she can use her GC another time.
After that we hit the Disney outlet and we had about $10 on a GC for there as well which we spent on a t-shirt for me (Donald Duck!), a coffee mug, a new sleeper for ZW and also some Disney kids plastic bowl and dish. So we got a lot and maybe spent $17 of our own $. Good deal!
Then it was down to Gymboree where Sue and my sis bought Z some more clothes, no idea what they spent but it was good deals to them so I guess that's all that matters.
Making our way around the Outlets, we stopped at both Harry and David and le Gourmet Chef where we did some snack samples grazing, had a nasty cup of berry flavored coffee from H&D, but did buy a jar of Buffalo Ranch dip @ Le Chef to try later. Like another $5. Mmmm, Buffalo and Ranch! Can't wait to try it!
He also hit the Corningware place and got a tremendous deal on Pyrex casserole dishes. Sue likes to make a mess of Shepherd's pies all at once and we needed these so for 3 dishes it was buy 2 get 1 free and we spend like another $14.
We finished the day at Target buying, on sale and with some Capital One rewards card points, a tableand end table for our downstairs TV room. Like a $180 expense we spend roughly $100 of our own cash on. NICE!
So materialism is alive and well in this economy. No one can blame us for not doing our Patriotic duty! :)
