shoot...

went to Barnes & Noble last night to see if they had done their final reductions on xmas cards... well, looks like i was a bit too late. the $1 display had been decimated, down to a few boxes of Hanukkah cards and three boxes Thomas Kinkade holiday cards - ick.

i know i should have been haunting them all last week, but when i went to check last monday, all the items on the table were still 75% off - not cheap enough. besides, who wants to hear little whispers of, "ooh, there's that weirdo chinese guy who has been coming every night and hanging around the bargain section..."

ah well. i don't know why i'm complaining; i probably have a two year stash of cards at home. maybe it's missing the good buy and saying goodbye instead.

oh yeah, not all was for naught. there were a couple copies of Europe By Train for $1. so i snatched a good copy and also picked up People Almanac 2003 for $3.98. with tax, both books cost me less than $5.50...about $24 less than what i would have paid for them a year ago, when they were 'new'.

all is good in bargain-land...