so i started out with the return, that went sweetly (see above) then i was walking idly through sears and the announcer comes on telling everyone there's a special demonstration with free gifts going on, so i thought, what the heck let's check it out right? turns out it was some lady selling sham-wow things, haha! now, i already bought myself some sham-wow because of the commercials but it was funny to see the demonstration in real life, it was just like the tv one but this one was called "magicloth"
and it's actually the exact same material as sham-wow so i got myself a free little magicloth square to use at home, see?
anyway, that was fun, if not frivilous, but i did enjoy being a consumer for a bit today, all the salespeople seemed more eager, and i didn't get all the "punk kid get outta my store" looks as i usually get for some reason. i picked up some frames from pictures plus (at 50% off again) for my new photos and was feeling so good about my consumer interactions that i even went to the piano outlet to try my luck at picking out a piano.the salesperson there was so much nicer than usual, i even struck up a conversation with him and although he thought i was in high school at first, he quickly eased up when i told him i actually had a job and, yes, could afford to buy a piano. he was a pretty good salesman, leaving me alone when needed and asking the necessary questions to guide me toward a decision. i really wasn't planning on buying anything, but he told me that they're switching from dealing kawai to yamaha so their kawai pianos were on clearance. now, i've had about $6000 saved up in my piano fund, but i really wasn't sure how far that would take me, especially looking at yamahas. kawais are still very good quality, and cheaper than yamaha (just because yamaha's got the brand name recognition), so i was banking on finding a solid kawai. so they had two in the storeroom that were on clearance, they sell retail for over $5000 but he told me "if you buy today, i'll give it to you for $4200." sweet right? still, that's a ton of money, aside from my townhouse that's the most expensive thing i would ever buy. so after hesitating, playing a bunch of different models and being extremely reluctant to make a final decision, he took off another hundred dollars and split the delivery fee in half. not bad right? i'm sure that salespeople have their contingency strategies set before the customer even walks in, but in the end i'd be getting a brand new piano plus delivery, tuning and all that for less than $4500? that's way less than i was expecting... so i bought it!
yikes right? well, i know that i take a LONG time to make decision, but i don't make hasty ones. even a decision like this one, when i really wasn't expecting to make a purchase when i walked into the store, is a decision that i'm confident in, because i've been researching for a long time and heck, i've had my place for over a year now without a piano, so i think it's about time.so merry christmas to me. y'know even though i love living my life independently, at times like christmas, special ocassions, it gets kinda lonely, of course. so that's why it's so important to be able to do things for yourself. it's really nice to have other people in your life to share special times with, but when you can't it's just as nice to be able to enjoy life independently by being good to yourself and allowing yourself to take pleasure in life in other ways. so this piano is not only a present to myself for christmas, but for all year long, it will be so great to be able to play again (i mean, i've had that electric piano to play on, but that was more detrimental to music than anything else i think, ha), not that i can play that great or anything, but it's a good feeling, and very cathartic, i think. should be delivered within the week, hope everything goes okay, looking foward to it muchly.
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