Day 67

Today was a bit of a con­tin­u­a­tion of yesterday’s “ugh” activ­i­ties but with a bit more of a happy ending.

This morn­ing I had The Son try on the bas­ket­ball shorts, warm-up pants, and, for the sec­ond time, the Colum­bia jacket. The shorts and warm-ups were promptly rejected. Oh, fudge. The Son swears that the size Large warm-ups will work; he likes them and doesn’t want a smaller, better-fitting pair. The shorts — well, why they were rejected is anyone’s guess. He sim­ply didn’t like them.

The jacket got it’s sec­ond nod so I’m feel­ing com­fi­dent about that one.

As The Son had another game tonight and a full day tomor­row, I pulled a bribe out of my bag of mother’s tricks and man­aged to fina­gle a trip to T.J. Maxx out of him. The bribe: a slice of pizza and soda at Costco.

This was not a ran­dom bribe — I had to return the fruit leathers that The Daugh­ter rejected from last night’s Costco trip and the Costco clos­est to the house is just a few blocks from a T.J. Maxx. For a mom who’s com­pletely obliv­i­ous, I be awfully clever at times.

It’s annoy­ing that I’ll have to make a trip to Marshall’s to return the shorts and the pants but I knew it was a good pos­si­b­lity when I did it. We’ll be up there again next Wednes­day — I just have to remem­ber to get it done. I’ll put the bag in The Tank tomor­row and make a note on the cal­en­dar to help me remember.

So today’s expenses were:

Costco — ($9.59)
Returned box of Stretch Island fruit leathers.

Costco — $2.75
Slize of pie and a soda for The Son.

T.J. Maxx — $23.97
We found 3 pair of black bas­ket­ball shorts on the racks. The Son did his best to talk me into buy­ing all three and return­ing the ones he didn’t want. Yeah, right! He may be as tall as I am but I’m by far the big­ger b*tch; need­less to say, he tried on all three pair in the dress­ing room and we pur­chased only one pair. Men’s size M Nike shorts: $12.99 ($25.00 retail).

We also picked up two pack­ages of Ghi­rardelli choco­lates (Creamy Caramel and Dark Deca­dence) that together will be used as one of our exchange gifts at our fam­ily hol­i­day party. Two pack­ages @ 4.99/ea.

I’ve always won­dered about food prod­ucts at places like Ross, T.J. Maxx, and Mar­shalls. How old are they? Are they last season’s can­dies? Old and expired? Well, appar­ently not — the expi­ra­tion dates on the boxes I bought are 06/03/08 and 05/31/09. I imag­ine that the lucky win­ner of these boxes won’t even get close to let­ting the choco­late reach it’s expi­ra­tion date.

Admis­sion Fee — $2.00
I for­got to make a with­drawl from The First Bank of Daddy today so I had to write a check for this $2 admis­sion fee tonight. The Son made his first 2-point bas­ket tonight and his first foul — he sure was proud of himself.

edit: for­got this one

eBay Seller — $8.50
We scored a paper­back copy of an out-of-print Don­ald E. West­lake* Dort­munder* book for The Son for Christ­mas. The Son is a huge West­lake fan and we’ve been try­ing, albeit half-heartedly, to find him a copy of this par­tic­u­lar book since this sum­mer. This price includes the book and shipping.

*affil­i­ate links

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