I ended up having to get gas today, being as I was literally driving on the E. I was kind of surprised walking to the register because I realized I had immediately reached into my wallet, passing up the 5 dollar bill for five 1's. After paying in ones behind a man who payed 136$ I thought about how the cashier must view people. Everyone seems to be showing off their financial status and maybe even their bargaining techniques?
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| Oh dollar, how I love thee |
People deal with money so different: perhaps they are the spender, the saver, the splurger. It amazes me how others feel when I compared them to myself. Often I am reminded of two out of my four grandmothers, Grannma Alice and Grannma Mary, who would NEVER -never!- leave loose change on the ground. We picked it up and put it into a collection for our annual vacation to Lake Eufala; I idolized those two ladies and their shopping ways! Times like those made me exactly who I am: a cheapskate who never shops if it isn't on the clearance section and can't leave a penny on the ground, heads up or not. Sometimes I think about all types of people and still find myself reeling: how can people justify paying for lavish items when there are generic brands that are just as good?
To satisify my nonbelievers, I offer this true analogy: Without question, I can hardly justify paying $15 for a pair of pants, seriously. A month or so ago, I was window shopping at the St. John's Towncenter when I noticed a store Graham had mentioned. I went inside and nearly fainted when I realized they sold blue jeans for over a hundred dollars! (That itself was almost two days worth of work for me, at slightly above minimum wage!) All of the color drained from my cheeks and I was fixing to walk out of that store, complaint on my lips. Right before I could, the woman behind the counter asked if I was wearing the store's peach- colored jeans (which were displayed at 119 bucks, I might add). In fact, no, I wasn't weird their jeans. I had found mine at another store on clearance for 12$ and they were still able to pass for the namebrand kind. Smug smile on my face, and 12$ jeans on my hips, I left feeling great!
Power to the cheap shoppers, I love people like YOU!
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| Said pants on that glorious day my point was proven correct! SPOILER: That is my new love seat I'm sitting on! |
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