White Sales

My memory is that white sales (linens) are usually in January or maybe February. But yesterday I took advantage of a white sale at Kmart. It can pay to watch the ads and use coupons.

We have one Kmart in our town. I know over the past 10 years most communities have lost their Kmarts. Martha Stewart is now placing her linens in Macys - per tv ads - but she has quite a selection at Kmart as well.

An aside: Bob and I fulfilled a dream we have had since we were married in 1975. We hoped and planned to retired on water somewhere so we could fish and enjoy the calming affects of water.

In July we bought our lake home in Indiana. We purchased it furnished and we have been making it our own. One place I have improved the inventory for guests is the linens. There was one nice queen set of sheets and I wanted another one on the shelf.

If you have priced sheets and linens lately, you know a set of sheets can cost $50 and up. I realize there are many levels of comfort and thread count. I also know that for the lake I did not need high counts. I needed utilitarian sheets that could be easily washed, dried, and folded.

I found a Martha's 250 count set at Kmart yesterday for less than $30. I am thrilled. I also found a cotton blanket for less than $25. Bob will not fully understand the expenditure at this time (we are replacing the lake home furnace) but I wanted to take advantage of the sale.

I asked myself: Is this a need or a want? It failed the true need question but it passed the question: Can I anticipate a better sale for the quality?

One of the advantages of our savings philosophy is that we have savings enough to cover the furnace and the white sales. Wisdom is in the choices we make purchasing our needs and our wants.

'til later