We went to Target . . . came out with birthday cards for the masses in March (btw, next week; they won't get there in time, but they'll get there!), library (w/ a book in queue and no other successes for Squirrel Boy, but Teenie came home with - ah, a girl after my own heart - Sense and Sensibility . . . ). So, no gate. Darn!
I'm going on-line and ordering there. I refuse to drive up to the Target in another place to exit bereft of a gate and more stuff we don't need! You all know that you do it, too. We get sucked into all the books, accessories, good deals on chips . . . Target is a glorious pit of spenders hell. I try to avoid the place.
So, on-line I go to buy a gate. If in an hour my lunch hasn't returned to me in the ugliest of ways, I shall saunter off to do the worst thing on earth: grocery shop. But, I'm feeling a wee bit lazy now . . . I could wait until Monday to do the marketing. There are a few things I want to read . . . yeah, perhaps Monday.
I hate on-line shipping fees. You never know what they'll be until you get all your information put in and then BAM! For at $24 gate and a $10 shirt they wanted $18 in shipping. NO Thankyou. I'm going up to the store to see if they have any gate that will stretch beyond 40". Shipping is highway robbery.
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3/14/9
Good luck with lunch, and with the gate! Marketing on Monday? I vote a resounding yes.
And many thanks for my 3/13 post which you inspired - I hope you'll check it out. :) It's a bit of strategic warfare called 'change of pace...' regarding toilet paper and direction of said paper on the spindle.
I hardly ever go to Target. They have gotten way too expensive. My favorite places are still the thrift stores.
And my firmest rule (having to do with the extra's we pick up in stores) "If you don't want to spend money, stay out of the stores." It has worked miracles on my spending...
As to the shipping costs - so many of the companies do not do what is necessary to lower shipping costs. They use UPS for heavier items when FedEx would be cheaper.
However, some do it on purpose because they don't pay taxes on shipping. So if they make five or so bucks on shipping, it's tax free.
Oh yea - nice looking family :-)
I know! It's atrocious the amount a company will charge to post something to you!
And the worst is when I want to buy something from the US (to send to Australia), wow...it's a belly punch and I have to close the page and accept I cannot buy. Shame, because we just don't have the great Catholic things here that you have over there. Sniffle.
18 dollars is ridiculous. I agree. Good for you for holding out. ( I can be really stubborn about these things. But it's important to draw a line. That's how they determine how much they can get away with. Will people pay it.)
Try toys r us or babies r us...loads of baby gates, and probably only a few things you'd want to buy there. Eliminates the distractions (me on the other hand, can always find somehting there for us.)
Erika - that's exactly where I did find one and bought one. And, I found a few items for a friend that is having a baby in a few months, too. You are right: very few purchasing opportunities there for me these days. :-)
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