Ramadhan-a-Discounts

I am up really early today as I am very excited about moving into my new place today – and I still have to get some bits and pieces and finish packing. I head out to Parkson’s again and to a place called Homes Harmony to look at bedding and soft furnishings. As soon as I entered, this very enthusiastic shop assistant made a beeline for me and I tried to avoid him by hiding behind the cushions. Actually, it wasn’t that bad really, and he was very helpful in helping me understand all the various confusing offers and promotions that were going on in the store at the time, all designed around me getting the best deal, I am sure… Anyway, this nice man did all sorts of calculations on this huge 1970s calculator and tried to explain what I needed to do to get the maximum discount:  if-I-bought-the-pillows-first-and-joined-the-store-Card-Scheme-then-came-back-to-the-till-5-minutes-later-I-could-use-that-card-the-one-day-only-extra-card-holder-discount-and-get-an-extra-20%-off-this-bedding-only-but-not-this-range-and-because-it-was-Saturday-I-qualify-for-an-additional-Ramadhan-%-discount-even-though-I-am-not-Muslim…

ARGH!

Anyway, I smiled at him and politely asked at the end of his enthusiasm “so, if I bought this and that, what would the total price be with various discounts applied?” 

5 minutes later after furiously tapping on the calculator, he gave me the best price and all in all I think I got a pretty good bargain – pillows, sheets, duvet, pillow cases, bolster pillow case (to which I said I didn’t need, but that was met with a frown and a retort “well, we are Asian here, we need these”, and all for about £60 (and seem decent quality too). The best thing is, it gives me some bedding etc to sleep in my own bed tonight!