Friday, August 29, 2008

I Just Passed on the Bargain Bug to of All People, My Husband!!


First of all you need to understand that I am the world's biggest bargain shopper, when I find something for one of my kiddos that I have been keeping my eye on and it is marked down to two or three dollars, it is almost guaranteed that I am going to let out a big "Wooohhhhh Hooooo" in the store! So today Michael and I went to Milan together. I needed to make a deposit for work and he needed tractor parts since he is getting ready to hay. We went to the bank first and it went as usual, walk in, drop a deposit, say the "have a good weekend" that everyone says and back out to the truck. Then we go to Braco's Farm Supply and we are after a part for Michael's tractor.......that is when the fun began!! He went in needing some kind of gasket that was $8.00 at the Case store in Gallatin and he found them at Braco's for $2.75 a piece so we ended up buying two since they were such a good deal. Then he saw the exact same cylanoid he had just asked a friend of ours to pick up in Gallatin since he was going anyways. At Gallatin it was going to cost $67.00 and at Braco's it was only $27.00 so that was a savings of $40.00!! Well needless to say that was all it took! He was thrilled and couldn't stop looking around. After all, so far we had saved $45.50 and he just couldn't wait to see what other bargains he could find. So then he goes on to find a can of some kind of spray that he wanted and it was cheaper too! By this time Michael was like a kid in a candy store and was just looking at almost everything. That's when I spotted the biggest bargain of the day!! For two years I have been looking at a tractor seat for Michael and I's Anniversary because that is something he both needs and wants. I know not romantic but when you have been together for 16 years and have four kids, you learn to buy things you need and want and that are more expensive and you can then blame it on the holiday and the fact that you had to buy something anyways so it was easy to justify the expense! I have checked on this seat on e-bay, at the Case store in Gallatin, and even looked at Amazon and found that they were somewhere between $200-$350.00. That is something that even I could not justify so I decided that if it was meant to be then it would just show up. The other day we were talking about the fact that he was getting ready to start haying and he made the comment again that he really needed to get a good tractor seat since his is now down to a few pieces of loosely laying stuffing and the metal and I said to him, "Well every year you say that and every year we pay for you to go to the chiropractor to undo the damage that you do to your back by not having one, so if you can find one for the same price as the chiropractor is going to cost even for two year's worth of treatments, then consider it yours". So today we are walking around Braco's with Michael looking at everything and now just checking things out that he doesn't even need to see if he can find anymore bargains and that's when I spot it....The full tractor seat, new pads, new metal, all brand new and in the box and you will never believe that it was on sale for $99.95. So with the $45.50 we had saved and had already budgeted for, and the $100.00 difference at least between the one there today and the cheapest one I had found elsewhere, we ended up basically buying a $200.00 or more seat for $54.50 which was approximately the cost of shipping the seat that I had found for $200.00. Michael could NOT believe that I had managed to find it and I was ecstatic! So needless to say, the day turned out great, I no longer have to worry about what big item my husband needs for our Anniversary, I got what I got him at an incredible price, and he now fully understands what I am talking about and why I am so excited when I get a good bargain!!

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