Xmas shopping

Our last xmas shopping trip was to Kohls yesterday, and it mysteriously turned into a fancy pants clothes shopping trip for my husband. Did I know of this plan? No. It was a sneak attack. He all of a sudden needed new dress pants, belt and shirt for our office's xmas party (oh, excuse me, Year End Event), that I probably won't even be going to because I can't really get dressed up right now unless I can turn a garbage bag into something spectacular to wear and tissue boxes into shoes.

So there I was, huge and uncomfortable and suddenly very tired, following my husband around the Kohls men's department while he shopped. Kohls doesn't believe in giving the old, tired, wounded or pregnant people chairs to sit in, so I had to lean against displays while mentally telling my husband to hurry up. A lady gave me some sympathy, which I greatly appreciated, and then we were off to the dressing rooms for him to try on his fancy clothes.

At some point I just gave up and went into the dressing room with him so I could sit down. Which actually turns out to work better for us because I can comment on his clothing choices as he puts stuff on instead of waiting for minutes and minutes until he comes out to show me.

I'm still wondering who he's getting all fancy pants dressed up for since I'll probably be at home.

Credit cards

A couple of weeks ago I went to Kohls with my mom and I got "coerced" into signing up for a Kohls credit card -- because of the tremendous deals I will receive. Oh yes, tremendous deals are the best. So even though I really didn't want another credit card, I'm a sucker for tremendous deals and I signed up. Instead of doing it on paper or online, I used their handy-dandy credit card swiper machine to sign up for my credit card. After entering my information, which consisted of only numbers (social security number, address, phone number), I was approved with a whopping $1500 credit limit. The sales guy then gave me a paper to sign, which I did, and that was that. I was all set for the tremendous deals that would happen year round.

Yesterday I got mail from Kohls, and I thought it was my first credit card bill. So I opened it, and instead of being a bill, it was a letter informing me that me or someone else in my household (darn those cats) signed up for their protection plan and that I would be charged $1.60 per $100 I spent. It went on to explain how helpful this will be for me in case something terrible happens to me and I can't pay my credit card bill anymore. Now, I had charged up a huge credit card bill of $22 bucks the first time I've used my account (dripping with sarcasm}, and even though I received my card, I haven't called to activate it or even signed it, so I'm thinking, why the heck would I sign up for a protection plan to protect me from my $22 bill? Darn those cats....

Ah...but then I realized that since I signed up so quickly and efficiently without being able to read anything, I ended up signing myself up for this lovely plan by signing the agreement. Pretty sneaky, I tell you. So now I get to make a fun customer service call to cancel this plan that I don't want because I'm pretty sure I'll be able to pay my $22 credit card bill -- when I get it.