After Christmas was over, Fry’s (Kroger) had boxes of various ‘quick’ breads on sale for between $0.57 and $0.88 each. Since they’re normally $3-5 per box, I got a bunch of boxes. Making pumpkin bread now and it tastes yummy. I also got banana, cranberry and one date bread. The date bread was eaten already, but I think I may make cranberry bread later. Or banana. Hmm.
I hadn’t heard of this company until today (I guess I just don’t follow fashion stuff that much), but Belisi asks, “What’s Beautiful to You?”. At first, I thought this question was of the type ‘what makes stereotypical beautiful things beautiful?’. But, after reading the page, I realized that it meant ‘what makes an ordinary thing beautiful?’.
It’s not often you hear something like that from a maker of luxury items says something like that. Usually, they are trying to redefine the standards of beauty. To make things that are rather abnormal (like being stick thin) be considered the standard of beauty. To find a company not doing that, it earns my respect.
Belisi itself is giving away $100 gift cards to the best comments left on the Being Belisi blog. So if you want to get something from them, for yourself or as a gift, you should go leave your answer to the question above on their blog. Even if you aren’t interested in their products, they also have some interesting articles (such as how to properly tie a tie and where ties come from) there that you might want to check out.
So what sort of ordinary things are beautiful? I love the way the desert looks, just before a monsoon storm hits. That wall of dust, which will make things so dirty, is just an amazing site to see. The sky will turn red, orange, brown… a rainbow of colors, depending on the time of day. And after the storm, the colors come back as the sun shines through the clouds. And there are the most magnificent rainbows! It’s quite beautiful, even as the storm wreaks havoc with our storm drains and (normally dry) washes (gullies, empty streams).
But I’ve always wanted a brick ‘n mortar store. What would I sell? Hmm… probably chocolate. Cool fancy chocolate. Unfortunately, Arizona probably isn’t the best place for that sort of thing. At least, not until winter.
I’d need a good location (mall would probably be best), inventory (chocolate!), displays and, of course, some way to actually sell the candy. You know, cash-register type stuff.
While an antique-type cash register would be a nifty thing to use, the best thing would probably be a computer hooked up to something like MerchantOS point of sale software. MerchantOS looks pretty cool and even has a free version.
Since it’s accessed over the internet, there’s no special software to install. Just an internet browser. This is especially nice.
I guess that could also be a downside, if you suddenly lost internet connectivity. Cable and DSL aren’t exactly the most reliable, even if they are ‘always on’. Maybe get both cable and dialup, as a backup. That’s what I would do, if I had a chocolate shop.
I guess they’ve gotten annoyed that I’ve gotten so much stuff. Well, it’s really their fault if they coded the coupon to work with just about everything in the store.
But, anyway, the assistant manager or whomever told me that beans are not Mexican food. I told her I’d gotten beans a couple days ago and she said ‘Well, you shouldn’t have been able to do that. It’s only for Mexican food’ then she decided to change her story and said ‘It’s only for the stuff pictured on the coupon’ (taco shells and salsa). Okay, then why does it say ANY Mexican food item? It doesn’t say ‘Only items pictured’ nor does it say ‘Only items that cost more than $1′. It says ‘Any Mexican food item’. It doesn’t even state ‘Limit 1 coupon per purchase’, like 99% of coupons out there state.
If they didn’t want people to use it for canned beans or whatever, they should have stated stuff on the coupon. And they should have coded it to only work for certain food items. I know they can do this, or else someone could come in with a Tropicana MFG coupon and use it for their razors. Instead, they coded their $1 off coupon to work for a lot of stuff.
Tomorrow, it’s back to Target once again. I’m definitely starting to feel a bit crowded, what with all the drygoods I’m bringing home. I still need to come up with something to get my mother for Christmas. From Target. I’m sure I’ll come up with something.
Unfortunately, there aren’t any DVDs there that I’d want to get. I’ve looked. Oh well.
I made out pretty good at Target. I didn’t get quite as much as I did last time I went to target, but I did manage to get a Christmas present for my brother, a Christmas present for my aunt and some yummy soda for my brother, my mother and me. Soda may not sound like much, but it was the more costly Jones’ soda.
Alltogether, I paid $0.52 for a $178.32 cart full of stuff. Clerk didn’t even bat an eye at scanning 173 coupons.
I’ve cut out a bunch of the Target $1 off coupons today. Haven’t left yet, but I’ll see if they’re still accepting the full $1 off or what. I plan on walking out with a lot of stuff, even if they’ve decided to change the whole $1 off thing. Coupons are good until the end of the month, according to the expiration date. Fun! 
