A Dream Come True- Holding the Keys to a Vespa

After years of wishing and months of shopping we are now the proud owners of a Vespa. Isn’t Frankie cute?

Frankie started out as a set of wheels for a multi-millionaire developer to cruise around on in his Charlotte neighborhood. One day a bad man stole Frankie. But that bad man was also pretty stupid. He took Frankie to the Charlotte Vespa dealership to repair the damage he had done in the process of the heist. It turned out to be a fatal mistake though because the owner of the Vespa dealership recognized Frankie, knew he had been stolen and called the police to organize a bust.

Anyway, long story short, the Vespa dealer owner ended up buying Frankie, pumping some big bucks into him and then selling him to us. So now after years of dreaming and months of shopping, Frankie is ours!

I’m the Champion!!

I’m sort of competitive. And by sort of competitive I mean really competitive. I’ve devised this mission to overtake my neighborhood Publix by saving more than I spend. Today I became the champion. Once my cans were scanned, my produce weighed and my bread bagged, the register spit out my two-foot long receipt and revealed that I had indeed come out on top. I payed a grand total of $50.44. BUT, using my method of wants and needs and leveraging coupons, I saved $51.71.

Now you may think my game is stupid and that’s fine. But I only paid $3.25 for two boxes of Fiber One cereal, items that would normally ring in at $7.98. As for the $1.67 can of baked beans? Only $.67 thank you very much. And the $3.05 tube of tooth paste only cost me $1.00.

Just because I’m one of those people that hands the cashier a stack of coupons that takes just as long to ring through as my groceries doesn’t mean I’m cheap. It just means I prefer to spend my money on other things (like shoes and trips) rather than toothpaste and tater tots.