After eating lunch today (Have you checked out my “lunch” blog? If not, click here), I had some time to kill so I hit up the local nursery to see what scraps might remain for cheap. To my surprise and utter delight, I found a bunch of two gallon sized Mugo pines for $10 a piece. Score!
After I shoved the woman next to me to the ground so I could grab them all, I ran up to the cashier and was ready to run off to my car when a little sign grabbed my attention and nearly lead to me spontaneously combusting:
50% off, big deal you say, right? Well the fine print read:
50% off all gift cards. As an example, if you pay $100 you get a $200 gift card.
Um, what? Can I mortgage my house for this card? You want my ’99 Honda Civic? Holy friggin crap!
I won’t tell you the exact amount I purchased for the card, but will tell you the kids better forget the idea of going to college. And so what, they’ll be surrounded by plants. What is better than that?
John
hahaha…..that’s a great deal. i put 2 kids through college, now i feed the birds. it’s almost equivalent!!
Had to look up Mugo Pine to see if it was alright for you to knock the lady down…well I guess so, this pine is really nice looking! Wonder if they’ll grow in containers, in Florida? Are yours all planted yet? And BTW the way, after you spent all the kids college money, did you help the lady up? Hope you did cause that’s a real gent who would…on the other hand she might have bitten you or something equally not nice! And yes I had lunch with you and Matt today!
It’s probably for the best they don’t have this at our local nursery…I would probably go a LITTLE overboard 😉
ha ha ha!! I did the same thing with Groupons to a local nursery. I cannot resist a clearance sale on plants. Tell your kids to play an obscure sport and they’ll end up with a scholarship.
Buddy – those must be sommme pine trees. We have fifteen or twenty 75 foot pines in our yard, you might have a stroke! 🙂
Wow your lucky day. I want some of that luck.