More Couponing, Photo Marketing Convention and pictures!

So today I took my cousin Rachel and Aunty Lasi to do some couponing at Albertson's. We are totally taking advantage of this sale! Our checker was extra 'nice' to us, and by nice I mean extremely RUDE! But do you think we cared? NOPE! We "KILLED HER WITH KINDNESS"!!! It was funny funny funny...here's what I wrote at the PYP forums:

"That's my motto (well most of the time-lol). So today I went to Albertson's in Orem on Center Street. I had my cousin and my Aunt with me, they're newbies like me, but I had gone to take advantage of this sale last week and they kinda wanted me to help them to show them the ropes I, of course, agreed!

So we got our items, my cousin had four transactions and my aunt had four, I had one (but stood in a different line). Mind you, they only had TWO checkers at this Albie's at about 10 AM and one of those checkers was also monitoring the Self Check AND Customer Service!

After I had checked out, I could tell my cousin was getting flustered and the checker had the grouchiest look on her face, EVER! So I went over to help out. The checker was extremely rude and kept saying snide remarks. She also mentioned to a 'buddy' of hers (the bagger) how unhappy she was about having to be pulled from her break to do 'this'. It is so not like us to be rude back, but I seriously wanted to. Instead we were telling her how excited we were about this sale and how this is our first 'real' couponing trip since we took the 'class'. The checker looked SHOCKED, and I mean SHOCKED at that comment and said, "THERE IS SOMEONE WHO TEACHES YOU TO DO THIS?!" (I'm typing in caps because she was on the verge of shouting/crying) And we began to tell her about Grocery Smarts and Pinching Your Pennies and she says, "Only in Utah County would they do that!" She was TICKED!!! She was SOOOOOOOO MAD that someone actually TEACHES US to make her life MISERABLE! (At least I know that's how she felt) I told her, "Actually, I think Utah County is kinda not as busy as SL County" I also said, "And there are people ALL OVER the US that do this" and she said, "NO WAY! ONLY Utah County, NO one else does it!" She was totally arguing with me. Now, I could have thrown a fit, argued right back with her and told her not to be mad at us because their store manager didn't schedule enough checkers during a major sale like this, but instead we decided to "kill her with kindness" and keep positive over the whole thing. After we were done, we thanked her and told her we really appreciated it and she could have cared less.

It's funny because there were about at least 4 other women there who were fellow couponers (hi guys!) at that same store. So to all the frustrated checkers, please direct your anger/frustration at your store managers (or whoever does the scheduling) and encourage them to schedule MORE checkers during a sale like this.

That is my story LOL Sorry it was super long, but I just wanted to share my story in case someone had a similar thing happen to them. Kill 'em with kindness my fellow couponers, because in the end...WE are the ones who walked away with KILLER savings!!

I'm soooo extremely greatful for Grocery Smarts as well as PYP and all the hard work everyone puts in to these sites so that people like me, who can't afford to pay full price for anything, can actually be excited (not stressed) to spend money on food

Yay! "

On to the Photo Marketing Convention. My sister Lini works for Caesar's Palace and she's one of the Catering and Convention Manager, people, thingy. LOL! I don't know her "official" title, but it's something along those lines. Anyways, she called me today and said that one of her clients could get tickets to the convention, ALL INCLUSIVE-HOLLA! I've only been hearing all the hoopla (is that the word?) about WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International convention) but haven't heard anything about PMA. So when Lini told me about it, I googled it and they have a ton of stuff, mostly catering to helping you market your business/products but I'm soooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!! I should have made arrangements for WPPI, but I didn't even think to ask my sis for hookups, SILLY ME! But there's always next year :-)

And lastly, look at this McCutie (shout out to my Grey's girls! LOL):

 

Check out more of him and my other handsome boys, here.

Love you all and have a fabulous week!

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