Shalee wants to know what it’s my purse. Actually, she wanted to know what was in my purse about 19 days ago, but the one label I accept willingly is ‘procrastinator’.
Then! About 10 days ago I bought the most incredible purse. Wait. It gets better.
The purse was a penny.
Now, you’ve heard tell of something wiley and questionable but oh-so-fun. It’s called Chili Math (you can find examples here and here). This is how it works:
- Go to Kohl’s with your mom so she will spend enough money to get the $10 card you can spend the next week. She’ll give it to you because her town doesn’t have a Kohl’s.
- During that same visit, buy flip-flops with cute flowers on them, but decide you’re not thrilled and they may be the wrong size.
- Take flip-flops back on day you can use your $10 gift card. You’ll get $8.67 for the flip-flops. Now you have $18.67 to spend. ($10 card + $8.67 in returns = $18.67)
- Find awesome purse on clearance for $18.20. YOU HAVE ENOUGH FOR THAT!
- Buy awesome purse. Total is $18.68. Gladly pay the penny for your purse and dance out of the store while singing to the birds. All is right with the world.
- Use awesome purse to do a meme on your blog that you were tagged for almost three weeks ago.
You’ll want to click on that to get the full feel of the beauty and awesomeness of the purse.
We had just returned from the airport when I took this picture. I started reading Middlemarch on the way to Dallas, then got hooked on yet another Harlan Coben mystery.
Check out those sunglasses. The top ones are my every day glasses; the leopard print are my sassy glasses. Mere blog words could never do them justice. They are simply too glam.
Of course there’s the nano, a pen, a loose quarter, the wallet, Burt’s Bees lip balm, Advil, and various receipts (that promptly found themselves in the trash after the picture). Oh, and the phone.
That’s it. You’ve now glimpsed the bowels of my purse.
Of course, I don’t think what’s in my purse was nearly as telling about my personality as the math lesson.
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THAT is an adorable purse, Chili… and entirely too clean. I’d never keep that one looking nice for long.
And Coben rocks! I still tell people to read “Tell No One.” It totally kept me going until I finished it the same day I started. SO GOOD!
Kohl’s has such a confusing selection of items. Some of them are steals (like your purse) and others look like they fallen off the back of a truck in Brooklyn.
Wow, that is way cute! And goes well with your mosquito coil. : )
LOVE that purse.
Chili, Chili, Chili, my dear sweet Chili – your mom doesn’t give you the card because there is no Kohl’s in her town. She gives it to you because she is your mom.
Go to Kohl’s with a child in tow! I’d need danger money first!
Cheers
Deal Breaker is good, eh? I just downloaded it from audible.com for my dad. He’s driving 8 hours to NC and he wanted something to listen to so he didn’t have to listen to my mom!