Have you ever had one of those vouchers from the store and when you get it you think to yourself, ‘now I’m not going to let this expire?’ Well, I think that all the time when I get them, and sometimes I do get them redeemed and sometimes.. not so much. Well tonight was my lucky night.
I had one from the store that I had got my kayak from and it was for $10. Score right? Well I looked at for about 3 months and didn’t want to waste it on just anything. So about two weeks ago I noticed that it was expired. OK, not so cool anymore. So I threw it in the trash. I remember walking away thinking how stupid it was not to use it and now it’s junk. But after awhile, I came back and took it out of the trash thinking that maybe they’ll let me use it. Now fast forward to tonight. Daryl and I were going to do some Christmas shopping after I got done with work, so I was getting everything ready the night before. Lists filled out – check, different clothes to quick change into – check, then coupons and vouchers. So I took my stack and started to go through them. I came across the voucher for the $10 and I threw it away again. But being the cheap person that I am, I went back and took it out of the trash again and thought I’d at least ask if I could buy something and have them honor the voucher. After a couple of stores that we went to tonight , I wanted to make a quick stop to see about my voucher. When I walked into the store I found the check out area and said that I had this voucher that was expired and if I could use it still tonight on something. Well, she said that it was absolutely not a problem and what did I buy to get the voucher to start with? After telling her a kayak but I didn’t have the receipt, she quickly looked it up on her computer and said that she saw that I did buy that. Then she said, “I think I’m going to make your day” What? Well, she said that the kayak is on sale and did I want cash or in store credit? Hum. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I started to look to see if I was on one of those reality shows. Maybe it was a test or something? Who gives back more money on an expired voucher? But when the check out person was looking at me kind of strange, I said well I would take cash. So she handed me $64 and some change. Score!! So my expired voucher for $10 turned into over $64. Not only were we going to go out for supper tonight, but we just might also order some appetizers.