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Spend More Money at Slumberland and SAVE LESS!!!

egg — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:11 +0000

Occassionally, I see something that just strikes me as stupid and I feel compelled to tell the whole world about it. This Slumberland offer just piqued my interest. The deal is simple, the more money you spend with them, the more money they knock off the total price – sort of. If you look at this as a ratio, money saved per dollar spent, you actually save more money by spending less! The rest of the rant follows after the jump.

How much more? Take a look at the following chart for yourself. As you can see, the percentage of money saved drops quickly the more money you spend, in fact spending anything more than $999 at Slumberland is just a bad idea! Oh, and don’t forget in the fine print it’s one per household, so you can’t buy the bed, then come back tomorrow and buy the mattress… I guess it’s good to save the money if your going to be spending it anyway, but understand this is no reason to upgrade to a more expensive purchase if that was on your radar.

Busy Saturday

egg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:59:06 +0000

Yesterday we sure did a lot! Patty, Kathy and us went to the Rochester Farmers Market and picked up some more meat and then headed to Avocados for a nice lunch before Patty hit the road. Xavier and I then went for a sleepy time drive and drove through the parking lot at the local VW dealer and spotted a nice new R32 while Oskar worked on Times Attack, a multiplication memorization game he’s enjoying these days. After X finally crashed, Oskar and I worked on bottling the homebrew. It’s smelled amazing and after getting primed with a little light malt tasted pretty good too. Just 4 more weeks of bottle conditioning and I can try some! After that it was time to wake up Xavier and the boys played nicely for about an hour. Gretchen still had more Montessori work to do so we headed to the RAC for Pizza and some play time. We ended up spending nearly 3 hours there climbing, running and having a good time. It was time for bed when we got home and despite not wanting to sleep, even Xavier was asleep by 8:45pm.