Too much spending, not enough money...

That's the story of my life. However, it's not going to stop me and it didn't today!

You see, today was meant to be about going to Snowgum and getting Glen's free pair of shoes. Now, this is a story in itself, which I shall now tell as comically and as interesting as I can. Glen likes to wear hiking boots. He likes his hiking boots. In fact, he basically only owns one pair of shoes - his hiking boots. Therefore, it is safe to assume that he lives in them. They smell. They smell baaaad! He's had them for 2 1/2 years! He bought them from Snowgum. So, when the soles started to come apart etc, he decided it was time to purchase a new pair. These suckers aren't cheap. Some can be as expensive as $400!!! So, I guess purchasing a new pair of shoes every 2.5 years, isn't so bad, right?

So, he marches into the store and tries on new shoes. In the meantime, of course, he has to take off his smelly, mouldy shoes to get the others on. The shop assistant notices and asks him where he got them from. They story occurs and they say, "Oh, well we can send them back to the warehouse and see if they might give you a new pair." Glen says yeh sure, but purchases another completely different pair - as his old pair will be vanishing and he will be a hobo with no shoes until then.

On Thursday, he gets a call. His NEW pair of shoes are in - they will be replacing the new ones, they say to him on the phone! We picked them up today, so now, for the first time in Glen's life, he actually owns more than one pair of shoes!! So, I suspect it'll just take twice as long for them to go green and mouldy and smelly! Hurrah!!! I have a friend who brought back her shoes today to the story - this is like the 5th pair which she's brought back. She's been doing this for a few years. You see, these shoes are meant to last, so when hers started letting in water, they told her to bring them back. So, she'll get another pair of new shoes.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you see where I am heading with this? Buy hiking boots - they will literally last you a lifetime, as new! ;)

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In other news, Snowgum was having a sale today, so I finally purchased a goretex rain jacket, which was originally $350, but was reduced to $199! B-A-R-G-A-I-N! Of course, it probably won't rain for another two years now!

We also made the mistake of going to DFO in Moorabbin and you know, we walked out with these kickarse drinking glasses, which were further reduced from their reduced price and then we bought a Jamie Oliver Tefal scanpan fry pan, which was reduced by half price.

Spent way too much money today folks.