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| Little girls ready for the Halloween party |
I sign up for email promotions from those online retailers from which I purchase. If I didn’t, I’m afraid I would forget all about them. So, everyday my inbox is filled with sales promotions with the expectation that I, and other shoppers, will be drawn in:
· Hurry! Your deal expires
soon. (Trust me, if it ends, it will be back. They always want to sell me something.)
· Last chance (Fat
chance! There will always be another deal.)
· Final hours
· Get it before its gone!
(Okay. It might be gone.)
· Your 10% (or 15%
coupon) ends soon. (Are you kidding? I might pay attention at 25%.)
· Free shipping / free
gift / save 20% (And then you open the website to discover this deal only
applies when you spend a certain amount, like $69, $85, or $150, carefully
calculated so that you won’t reach that amount with just the item you have in
mind.)
· Buy one, get one -- and
variations thereof. (This is my least favorite promotion. When you only want
one, as is often the case, this is a useless deal whereby they lose my purchase
altogether.)
· Today Only! (Give me a
break. There’s always tomorrow.)
· Here’s your $10 bonus
(which upon ordering, doesn’t seem to mean very much in the total)
· This weekend only –
$4.99 (original price: $5.99)
· Or, they invite you to
the clearance sale, and everything you might want is no longer available.
Penney’s and Blair are big offenders.
· And then we have
seasonal sales, such as “Spooky Good Deals,” “No Tricks, Just Treats,” or “Monster
Sale.”
Sometimes I get sucked in, but my goal is not to add more fabric and yarn to my stash without a definite purpose. (Notice that I am enticed by fabric and yarn, not clothes and home dec. Sometimes I have to be stern with myself. “You’re shopping,” I say, “and you don’t need a thing!” True but not much fun.
I
used to think that I should never shop JoAnn’s without a discount coupon. If I
got to the store without a coupon, I just didn’t go in. Then I realized that
for the little I actually spend plus the fact that the coupon doesn’t apply to
sale merchandise anyway, I really don’t need to bother with coupons. These days
I seldom present a coupon, and they never ask for one. KW
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
2 comments:
I occasionally order from a retailer (clothes) and as soon as I've made my order, they will send me a coupon for $10 off that expires before I'll be looking to buy again. It's maddening. And it's the same sort of thing where you only get free shipping if you spend a certain amount, so I wait and ponder and wait and ponder until I have enough ideas in mind that I can hit the dollar amount.
I put stuff in my virtual cart at various places and leave it there. A few days later, I go back and look and decide, "Nah, don't really need it," even if it's on sale, and delete and go on. I almost never go actual shopping, but if it's Michaels or JoAnn's I because I need something specific, I can usually find a coupon in an email and pull it up to use.
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