Black Friday Impulse Purchase

On Thanksgiving morning, Mr. D and I headed over to the Galleria to Starbuck's to pick up the newspaper. It's the only time we ever purchase a Star Tribune. And, we didn't buy it for the articles, we bought it for the ads.

I passed on the Sears flyer, but Mr. D paged through it and pointed out that the pub table that we had stumbled upon in Sears a couple weeks earlier was one of their early bird specials on Black Friday. Instead of the $199 price tag it would be $99 until noon or so on Friday.

We got up bright and early and headed to Macy's and Penney's at Southdale. Then, since it was only 8:00 or so, we headed over to Sear's at the MOA to check out the table to see if it was as nice as we remembered. It was. So, in the long line we went to buy the table. I was remembering that the ad featured a $10 off a purchase of $50 coupon and was debating whether or not I really wanted to walk back to the car for $10 and just as I was thinking that it would be a good idea to walk back to the car and get the coupon, the nice lady behind us in line heard our conversation, was sure her purchases wouldn't total $50 and offered us her coupon.

We let her go ahead of us just to make sure she was under the $50 and, sure enough, the coupon was no good for her, so it was ours to use. Thank you nice lady in line at Sears on Black Friday. You made it possible for the Dugans to get this lovely pub table and 4 stools for $89. What a deal!

For those of you who know our basement,the "wall of guitars" will be replaced by black Billy bookshelves from Ikea and this lovely pub table will go between the couch and the bookshelves. It will be great for playing games, working puzzles, and holding the projector when Chris comes over so we can watch movies on his projection TV dealie.