I am the type of man who can’t pass up a good deal.
If I see something on sale that I may need in the future, I will buy it.
I may not even need the item, but maybe one of my friends or a family member is going to use the item, which makes it worth buying. My wife knows how I am, and she will often hide the paper so I can’t see any sales coming up. When I was talking to a friend of mine who works at the HVAC company, he told me about a box sale they were having on left over air filters. Most of the air filters were for old style furnaces. He was pretty sure they would have air filters for my HVAC system. I told my wife I was going to a baseball game with my best friend, and he and I went to the sale. We looked at every air filter they had in stock. I found three boxes of air filters for my air conditioning and another four boxes of air filters for the furnace. My friend found six boxes of air filters that would fit his mom and dad’s furnace. He couldn’t find anything for his house, but he found a fireplace insert that was 50% off. When we got home, my wife was slack-jawed. She wanted to know how many air filters we need? She asked where I planned on storing all of them? I told her we would put them in the garage. Then she saw the fireplace insert and asked what I was going to do with that? I told her it belonged to Bob. She looked at him oddly and reminded him he didn’t have a fireplace.