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So, today it snowed.I could probably benefit from a new snow shovel, some rock salt, and a snow-brush for my car. But I most certainly won't buy it today.
I don't like being a statistic. At your local auto parts or Target store, they sell lots of those things when the snow starts falling. I don't want to be one of those people. There's a pride issue there, too. Like, I don't want to come off as someone who didn't properly plan and now has to scramble as foul weather has arrived.
I won't even buy that stuff the day before a storm. Why? Because it makes me feel like those yokels they interview at the local Home Depot who they interview for those asinine news evening segments.
"Say, are you all ready for the snow?"
"Yeah! I got me this here shovel, and I went to the grocery store and bought 3 gallons of milk in case I get snowed in with the 3 inches they're expecting tomorrow!"
I'd rather buy a snow shovel in July. Of course, I'm not going to do that either. People usually don't like buying situational things until the situation is imminent. And that's what I don't like to do.
It makes me wonder how I ever got the snow shovels I have at all.
However, all that said, I have shopped for snowblower parts in the wake of a storm. When things on my snowblower break—and they always break when you're using them (i.e., when there's snow on the ground)—I don't really like that. The snowblower is a piece of equipment that's worth maintaining. A snow shovel is not. My snow shovels are all chipped and bent. Who cares though? Because for a couple of bucks I can just get a new one. Even though I won't.
posted by Steve @ 3:55 PM
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Oddly enough, I have a half-dozen shovels and don't recall when I ever bought any of them. Meanwhile, every year I say I'm going to get a snowblower, and every year I fail to do so.
Much like the shampoo and toilet paper, snow shovels suddenly appear out of thin in air. In other words, the wife buys them.
I'm totally with you on the whole "refusing to go to the store because the mass mentality says you should" thing. I prepare in my own way. of course in the case of snow, preparing simply means paying my maintenance charge so I can have someone else shovel for me... But the whole "buying water in the event of a storm" thing just really seems silly to me. If my pipes DO break.. I can just go to Joe's house and use his 'filtered fifteen ways" tap!
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