Sometimes, no matter how hard I try to do things wrong, I end up doing them right anyway....

For Jess's birthday, Kevin and I decided to get Jess a slide for her birthday.

So, I find one online that's ok, and in our price range. But we were a little tight money-wise because of vacation (well, not really, but I didn't want to dip into our savings) so I wanted to wait until Kevin got his paycheck.

That happens, and I go to order the slide. Regular shipping is going to cost $15 and take 2-3 weeks. Not going to be here on time. Express shipping might get it here on time, but is going to cost $80. Um. Great.

So last night we went to the Wal-Mart, since Wal-Mart was the online shop where I found the slide, and I figured we could just buy one there. Nope. They only carry that sort of thing in the store during the summer. They shipped them all back about two weeks ago.

Greaaaaaaaaat.

So, today, we went over to the Toys 'R Us.

They had a huge ass banner across the store "Buy Toys! Get Toys!"

We go in and there are hundreds of signs "buy this toy and get this one free!" "All purchases of more than $50, get $10 off!"

So we inquire and the exact slide we wanted was there. And in the buy one/get one catagory... plus, the slide was $39.

We ended up getting the slide ($39.99 - $10.00), a work-bench play station ($24.99), an 8-key keyboard ($19.99 - $19.99) and a fold-and-play train set ($19.99 - $19.99). Total order = $57.26.

So... sometimes even when I delay and delay about something, it turns out ok. If I'd done things on time, Jess would have gotten 1 present from us; the slide.