| 3:09p |
Bargain Hunting
I've really been spending too much this past week. Haircut, gorgeous meal last night, and now.. well.
I had three reasons to go into town. Firstly, to buy some new trainers. Secondly, to buy DVDs to go with the DVD player I'm buying the parents for their birthdays. And thirdly, to get some kitchen scales.
Duties one and two have been fully accomplished. The kitchen scales will have to wait due to the sheer amount of money I spent today.
The trainers were cheap enough at around £12. I doubt they'll last that long, but I haven't bought them to last, I've bought them to be comfy. I'm currently wearing them and they seem nice enough.
I got a DVD each for my parents, but in the process managed to buy myself a few. Oh dear, specials offers are not my friends. With the one Rat bought me (due to the fact I've just ordered some plants for the garden from The Sunday Times and he's meant to be buying one lot and so owed me money) I've doubled my DVD collection.
Some of you may not remember, and others may not know, but last time I bought my DVD collection I pretty much doubled it. If I keep on with this pattern, things are going to get problematic. I now have fourteen DVDs (a measly number, but Rat has many more).
So what did I get? Two copies of Pirates of the Carribean (two-disk sets, one for my mother) for £18 in total (which is the cheapest by far in the whole of Cardiff). Confessions of a Dangerous Mind for a tenner. And then, in the five for £30 offer at Virgin I got: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (finally), AI (two disk set), Tron (two disk set), Rabbit Proof Fence and The Bourne Identity (for my father). There were so many others I could have bought, given the money. I suppose it's a good thing I get paid weekly, or I might have.
And then Rat bought me Spirited Away!
I also got three Stephen King books for a fiver - one being the short story collection that contains Shawshank and The Body (which is the book Stand By Me was based on).
All in all, a pretty good day shopping, but a bad day for my bank account.
And now I have to pay council tax... |