A tiny smidgen of good news

For all the bad news that is pummelling us, I figured my loyal readers could do with hearing about a little happy triumph. 

You know how I spent $150.30 at Michaels on supplies to decorate that tiara? 

Well… I found out that I had gone a little overboard.  I had purchased enough fancy frippery to decorate an entire muumuu if I so desired. 

Anyway, after much gluing and gilding, on my own person (accidentally) as well as said tiara (purposefully), I had managed to do quite a respectable job.  I pranced around the house for a few minutes, wafting my fingers in a fancy lady way, nose in the air, my son following me cackling, and then I popped it into the shipping box and sealed it up.

To my astonishment and joy, found that I had put only a moderately sized dent into the goodies I had purchased (sans the candy, I made a major dent in that.)  So, this afternoon, when Don informed me that he was going to the mall, I flung all my leftover, untouched decorations in an all-purpose bag along with the receipt and my credit card and had him swing by Michaels on his way to whatever else he was going to do.

He just called me on the phone and guess how much I got back?

SEVENTY-ONE DOLLARS!  Yes! So, that means that whoever bids on my tiara, they will only have to bid $79 (not counting time spent, three and a half hours, crazy huh?) for the tiara to break even. 

Actually, probably $69 would be a closer estimate, because of the candy that I purchased to give me courage.

So, that’s a little bit of good news on this gloomy, markets plummeting day.  Hey, did you know that the Toronto Stock Exchange was actually down 1,200 points before it rebounded a bit?

Posted by Meg Tilly on Monday, October 06, 2008 in Chewing the Fat