Month: February 2006 (Page 3 of 3)

I won a trivia contest on Good things Utah yesterday. I entered on their website, they called me before the show to tell me they had picked my name (luckily I answered the phone–they called right when I was getting out the shower), then I had to answer a question about the previous day’s show. I won a $50 gift certificate to Dominos Pizza. Not the greatest prize ever, but not too shabby, either. But it’s funny how many people hear you when you’re on the phone during a local tv show. I’ve heard from several people who heard me win. They all say the same thing–“You win everything. You are the luckiest person I know.” Well, I feel the need to explain a bit–I work really hard at my winning. I try to for at least one contest almost every single weekday, usually more than one. I’m only the right caller sometimes because I’ve been the wrong caller 20 other times that week. So, really, it’s not just luck, it’s persistance. And someday, that persistance will pay off, and I will win something big. A trip for 4 to Disneyland, a new car, a trip to Hawaii–I don’t know what it will be, but mark my words, someday it will happen. And when it does, you can bet I’ll brag–I mean Blog–about it.

I like to find a really good deal, whether it’s that really cute sweater that’s 80% off at Kohls, a great pair of jeans for $8 at VF Factory Outlet, or at the grocery store.

This week I went to Smith’s to do some shopping. Smith’s is not one of my favorite stores. In fact, I haven’t been there in about a year, and really just don’t like the store. I went this week, though, because they are having a kick-butt deal on certain”superbowl snacks”. If you buy 4 Pepsi (not Dr. Pepper–I made that mistake) 12 packs (for $10) and four Lay’s products for $5, you get a $5 instant rebate, making your total for those 8 items 10 bucks. Then, in their add, there’s a rebate form for a $10 rebate if you send in all the proof of purchases for the Lays and Pepsi items. So, in a sense, the items are free.

Of course those rebate people know that only about 1% of the people who intend to send in the rebates actually will, because they make them such a pain. You have to cut all the UPC’s off the bags of chips, and the UPC’s off the pepsi 12 packs, and send them along with the receipt, and write in blood why you think you deserve a rebate… Sorry. Got a little carried away there. But you get the idea. But I WILL fill out the entire rebate form. Yesterday I emptied two of the bags of chips and fritos and packaged them in individual lunch sized bags so I could safely remove the UPC code, and tonight I’ll do that with the other two. Why? Because it’s part of the bargain hunt, and I, my friends, am a bargain hunter!

What’s the deal with socks? I know we have enough socks around here, in fact I usually buy one or two packages (6-12) of socks each year for each person. So, if we do the math, that would mean that each person has at least 12 socks that are in working condition. Times 7 people, that would be 84 pairs of socks, or 168 socks–minumum. So, why is it that at least once a day I hear someone say “I can’t find any socks”? Does their slacker mother never do any laundry? I wish. I even swoop around the house “tidying up”, as they call it in the Velvateen Rabbit, and collect all the socks left in the mudroom, family room, living room, kitchen, or wherever the heck they leave them.

Can someone please explain it to me?