Don’t you love it when you have a problem for which you suddenly find a solution…and it works? I do! It’s one of my favorite feelings in the world. It’s not usually easy to arrive at an answer, but that’s what makes it even more fulfilling. I’ve had two such successes in the past week. I’m going to tell you about one here and the other in my next post.
First off, maybe you regular readers remember me talking about my mist fountain last year. For those of you who weren’t around, I have a mist fountain that I run in my bedroom every evening and it solved a problem I was having every winter of having scabs in my nose from the dry air. Humidifiers didn’t help, but this thing did. Go figure. Anyway, this is what it looked like.
I say “looked like” because last week when I was cleaning it in the bathroom sink, the bowl hit the marble too hard and I found myself with a sink full of broken glass! So sad. After cleaning it up and cutting myself a million times, I got on-line and began to look for a replacement bowl because I need that fountain. The only one I could find that was in stock was about $45.00!!!! That’s just a little less than I paid for the entire thing!!! But, what was I going to do? I put it in my cart and was just about to fill in the credit card information when I thought, “It’s just a bowl…decorative edge, yes, but just a bowl.” So before I did anything else, I started looking at big serving bowls and giant salad bowls and saw many things for $20 or less. So I decided to wait until the next day when I could check real stores.
I went to Bed, Bath & Beyond and found a set of three Pyrex bowls with lids for $19.99. And the biggest bowl was really, really big! I knew it would work! But that’s not all! I had a 20% off coupon which made it $15.99. But that’s not all! It had a $5.00 mail in rebate which made it $10.99. Then you take $10.99 and divide it by three bowls and I got a replacement bowl for $3.66! And I got a bonus of two other bowls with lids! This new one is not curvy or frosted glass, but it’s neat looking in its own way.
And, what with it being clear, you can see the little color-changing lights in the bottom.
So, did I do well, or what? I’m very pleased. Sometimes you’ve got to think out of the box! Next post I’ll tell you about my other problem solving adventure which was even a bigger dilemma.
Stay tuned…
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You go girl!