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Re: Review of 7131 Anakin's Podracer
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Thu, 6 Jul 2000 01:03:32 GMT
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> > 3. I was having a buying frenzy and it was just one small piece of a • larger
> > insanity.
> If that was a just small part of the insanity are you going to tell us
> about the large part? :)
Having 10 children to buy for (aged 0 to 13), I tend to stock up whenever
the prices are low (and the stores are empty of people -- I hate doing my
Christmas shopping at Christmas). So I just happened to be in K-Mart at Mt
Ommanney here in Brisbane a few weeks ago, and noticed they were "clearance
pricing" the last sets of some of their older stock (mostly with
shelf-damaged boxes). There wasn't anything to my own taste, but a lot of
stuff I thought suitable for kids gifts (since kids destroy the boxes
anyway, the condition of the boxes hardly mattered), so I started popping a
few in the trolley.
Once my resistance was weakened by those first sets going in, well, a few
more sets went in, then a few more, and then the buying frenzy was on
full-swing . Anyhow, I left the store with enough Lego to provide me with a
huge cache of birthday and Christmas presents to cover the next year or so
...
In the frenzy, a few other items not earmarked for specific kids managed to
insert themselves in my trolley, one of them being the aforementioned
Podracer with its must-have banana peels :-)
Kerry
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| (...) Maybe they slipped in off those banana peels ;^) Wish I had had people like you buying me presents in my childhood. My female relatives usually bought things like clothes, the soft package usually gave these things away. pete.w (who even (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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