The Bag That Almost Was...and may be again

K's grandparents gave us each Land's End gift cards for Christmas this year which included a free shipping offer if you ordered before January 30th. I had taken some time looking on the website and picking out what I wanted (gloves...I am in desperate need) but K hadn't. Since the 30th is fast approaching last night we went on the website to place our orders. Just my luck, the gloves were no longer there so I had to look for other options and found this:

So cute right? Especially with the navy monogram I was going to add for just $6. I was so excited about this bag and the joy were would share together this summer at the pool and the beach. Plus I had enough left on my gift card for a pair of slipper-socks...to hold me over until the beach.

I proceeded to the checkout happily...then began the attempt of redeeming the gift cards. 20 minutes later and no luck...I decided to chat with the "live help."

Me: I am trying to redeem a gift card and it isn't working!

Sally: Good Evening Ms. Cee, is this a L.L. Bean gift card?

Me: Yes, of course it is!

Of course I pay no attention to the fact that "Sally" just said L.L. Bean...until K looks over my shoulder and pointed out that our gift cards were in fact Land's End...why I hadn't realized this while I was shopping and checking out OR why I went to L.L. Bean in the first place I do not know. It does explain why the gloves I had picked out were not there. I quickly told "Sally" nevermind and closed out of the site and headed over to the far inferior Land's End.

I ended up with two pairs of gloves, which was what I originally wanted and needed, but after discovering the beach bag the gloves just didn't do it for me anymore. Who cares about warm hands when you have a new beach bag.

And now I am deliberating on if I should go back and buy it...some how I find it hard to justify spending money on a beach bag when there was a quarter of an inch of ice on my car this morning. Oh well, maybe it will go on sale.