On the weekend, our local drugstore (read national chain Shopper's Drug Mart) demanded that I spend 40,000 Optimum points. Demanded even.
They tried to be polite about it. They offered an extra redemption level and extra point value.
So I caved.
No really, that's what it felt like. I'm such a hoarder of things like candy, store points and Diet Coke, and they are such a HUGE company that it felt like they won when I bought their merchandise during their promotion.
Icky.
Not so icky, though, is the fact that I spent $17.77 ($12.38 of which was sales tax) and brought home all this:
Not pictured: even more boxes of tissue. A ridiculous amount of tissue. |
My cheap soul is still hunched over her steepled fingers, cackling. My regular soul still feels like some kind of a chump for playing the game.