I seem to have bad timing lately.  In the past week I have gone shopping quite a bit.  There were birthday presents to buy, baby shower gifts to purchase, and just general things that we’ve needed for the house.  We’ve been in our new home for over a month now and we’re still working on getting settled in.  We still have bare walls and undressed windows, but we’re working it.  Anyway, I digress.

Last week Scott made a few trips to Lowe’s to get some things that he needed to do yard work.  Hedge trimmers, loppers, grass seed, yadda yadda yadda.  He spent over two hundred dollars on that particular trip.  All stuff we needed.  Well wouldn’t you know that the very next day when I went out to get the mail there were some nice “new homeowner coupons” in the mail with a big fat $50 off a purchase of $200 at Lowe’s.  FML.  (In case you’re wondering, we couldn’t get a price adjustment unless we returned all of the items and repurchased them with the coupon.  That couldn’t be done since many of the items were already used.  Boo hiss!)

Later in the week, I took a trip up to one of my favorite stores, The Christmas Tree Shop.  For those of you who are not familiar with this store (how unlucky for you!), it is not a holiday shop and they don’t sell Christmas trees (well, they do when they’re in season, but not year round).  Anywho, sometimes I have awesome luck in this store, and sometimes I leave empty handed.  Well, this week I was a lucky shopper.  I got a large mirror for over our fireplace for $30, I got two Adirondack tables for the yard for $12/each, I got some plastic plates, cups and a serving tray for outdoor eating, and a few other things for the house.  I spent a little over $80.  Guess what came in the mail the very next day?  You got it!  A nice, “welcome to the neighborhood” coupon from The Christmas Tree Shop for 20% off your entire purchase.  FML, again. This coupon has the same disclaimer as the Lowe’s one about not for use on prior purchases.  I considered returning everything and re-buying it but the store isn’t that close and some of the items were big and heavy.  Boo hiss, again!

The thing that gets me about all of this is that we’ve been here for over a month.  Why didn’t we get these fabulous coupons sooner?  I’m sure we’ll be back to both stores in the near future and we’ll be able to use them then, but it would have been great to have been able to use them already.  With my luck next time I’m back there, the coupons will have expired.  Ugh.

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