last years clam shell tree
This is my post for # #freewriters prompt different person hosted by @mariannewest
I woke this morning with a new ailment, my knee hurts with every step I make. I do not know if it is from this but I spent Wednesday Christmas shopping with my sister and Thursday we went to Thrift stores, so maybe it hurts from so much walking, I know my back was hurting from it.
When we were in the thrift store my sister was looking at artificial Christmas trees, she wanted one for her boyfriend's house. They had one for 15 dollars and one for 30. She bought the 15 dollar one and we talked about me buying the 30 dollar one, I told her that I did not think it would fit in my house. It was 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide. She said it would fit and it had lights already on it.
This is her picture, the tree is beautiful, I just hate glitter.
I bought it but when we got it home and took it out of the box, in my living room, GLITTER WENT EVERYWHERE. The entire tree was covered in GLITTER. I told her since she kept pushing for me to buy it, then she can trade me for the one she bought, which she did. She then says that makes us even on the money, she must think she is talking to a different person because I think it means she owes me more money but I am not saying anything to her.
This is how the money went, she owed me 20 dollars, when we were at the thrift store we put it all together and she paid, my part came to 6 dollars which meant she now owed me 14 dollars. My tree cost 30 and hers 15. I would think she owed me another 15, am I wrong? How does she see it as even, if I gave her the tree, she would still owe me 14 dollars? I am not worried about the money, I am only trying to figure out her thinking.
I have a lot of Christmas lights, somewhere. I have searched and searched and my daughter has searched, maybe when I move or die, someone will find them but in the meantime, my sister said she has extra lights I can have. So the tree decorating has come to a stop until I get them.
photos are mine
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