A few years back our cheap blender burned out and died. It seemed to us that we could live without a blender until we found a nice one at the right price (we do have a tiny 12 ounce smoothie maker, but you're lucky if you can get that thing to even do that well). So for the past few years, every time we pass a kitchen store or even the kitchen section of a department store, I've been checking blender prices (everyone needs a hobby).
This weekend while I was at Kohl's getting some new jeans to
replace the ones that have holes in the seat that everyone can see my skivvies through (or so the missus said, though she didn't actually say "skivvies"),
I checked out their blenders and found that they had a $50 model marked
down to $40, which still seemed too high for something that we really could
live without. $40 is an excellent price for a quality blender, of course, but I'm too
cheap tightfisted miserly stingy parsimonious frugal to admit that while I'm at the store.
Then I noticed that one of the floor models had "$19.99" hand-written on its price tag, and asked about it. Sure enough, simply because that blender was yellow and folks were no longer interested in yellow blenders (because yellow blenders are so 2006), it was half-price. Then, since it was a floor model, I got another 10% taken off that, for a final price of... $17.99! Woo-Hoo!
So, anyone know any good blended drinks I can whip up to reward my smart shopping?