This afternoon we visited some friends and
shopped our way home as we passed through town – as we passed Jo-Ann’s on the
way to the grocery store, I said to Hubs, “Nip in here; I need to buy 2 skeins
of yarn”. I had in mind the 2 colors I would need to work out the slipper
design I see in my head, but my yarn stash at home is dangerously low and
lacking the 2 colors I need. Hubs teased me and said, “I bet you can’t limit
yourself to 2 skeins” … and I replied, “Yes. I can. I can get more later; I
just want to wrap things up asap and get home. I’m tired.”
Well … I got to the yarn isle and started to
reach for the 7-oz. Red Heart Super Saver skeins I always get, when I noticed that 3-oz. Red
Heart yarns were on sale! I immediately started berating myself for saying out
loud that I as only going to "get 2 skeins and be right back out" of Jo-Ann's. Darn it! Quickly calculating the
sale prices, it dawned on me that I could get MORE yarn for my $$’s and still
stay honest ;-)
So I did: I bought SIX skeins at sale price
and broke kinda even price-wise. The 7-oz. skeins ran $7.99/EA and the 3-oz.
skeins ran $2.79/EA – about a $0.76 difference. MPO is that according to my
calculations and the registered total … I
DID actually “only get 2 skeins of yarn”, with the extra one thrown in only
costing me an additional 76 cents (2 smaller skein equal 1 large skein). So
both Hubs and I were right in our teasing conclusions ;-)
Hubs started laughing when he saw the bulging
bag I was carrying across the parking lot, and I started laughing when I saw
his laughing face through the windshield where he waited for me in the pickup.
And I explained the whole thing to him,
concluding with: “…that’s my story and I’m
sticking to it.”
Then we went grocery shopping and I grabbed a
box of chocolates – also on sale – to
enjoy while working out my newest design. It’s supposed to snow tonight through
tomorrow, so holing up inside with my yarn, chocolate candies, and a warm fire crackling
soothingly in the woodstove, I will be busily content:
Such is the yarn of the 2 skeins of yarn :-D
:-D
