I´ll give you an offer you can't refuse
By marguicha
@marguicha (222744)
Chile
December 19, 2015 1:25pm CST
I loved the sentence when I saw it at The Godfather. The Godfather was used to make offers that other people could not refuse.
Now I have seen a lot of such offers online. Either we buy something immediatly or the offer is forever out of our reach. In that way, we are taught to buy quickly, before the offer is gone and without spending a moment to think about whether we really want it or need it.
Those Black Friday and Cybermonday offers are part of the same thing. And you suddenly find yourself with enough sheets to made beds for a boarding school, but not enough money to eat the rest of the month.
Today, as I was clicking at a PTC site (I´m waiting for my eldest daughter who is coming with her son to pick the apricots from the highests branch), the site offered me a Christmas gift.
I love gifts so I read on. If I spent $69 instead of $195 at a site I don´t know if it will hast until tomorrow, they would offer me a lot of extras.
I thought about it. I had the time that others don´t. I asked myself what would I do if I had said $69. I ended up thinking that I´d save it for a rainy day.
I´m mylotting and waiting for my daughter. I´m wearing a beautiful mexican dress that I bought over 20 years ago. It is mending but still beautiful and wonderful for this summer heat.
I´m happy. I need nothing. Step away, Godfather.
Joy to the world!
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19 responses
@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
True. If you really need it, you pay what it´s worth. If you don´t need it, why buy it.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
19 Dec 15
@marguicha Sadly you cannot fax me any because it would probably stick to the machine, but maybe you could email some.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
I so wish I could send you some. After all, I´m cooking some jam in this right moment. Not much, but still. The house is smelling like heaven.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
@Asylum It would clutter the virtual space. I still think a visit is best.
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@celticeagle (166660)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Dec 15
Yes, joy to the world. Don't buy stuff you don't need.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
We would live in a happier world if we learned to live with less material stuff.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
20 Dec 15
LOL! I have never seen one of those offers I bothered to accept, ma'am!
I will tell you something funny, though... If I am offered something in person that needs an immediate, "Yes, I'll take it!" or I lose the chance, I will pretend that I really want the item, but just don't have quite that much money, just to see how much lower the person will lower the price before I walk away laughing!
I love to mess up a good sale for someone! (grinning broadly!)
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
21 Dec 15
@Drosophila Uhm... no, not all of us hate you, Wendy.
I am fairly sure I did tell you my profession, I think?
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
21 Dec 15
@DaddyEvil Lol.. you sell computers and phones seem to be the gist of it.
But, ya, it's cos you don't know me yet.. mwhahahaha
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
20 Dec 15
Lol...ya, sales people hate me, I just don't buy stuff.
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@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
19 Dec 15
That's how my daddy saw it if you didn't spend it you would still have it which pleased my daddy all over the place.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
If you don´t spend your money (or energy) in things that aren´t really worthwhile, you can use them for what you really need.
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@softbabe44 (5816)
• Vancouver, Washington
20 Dec 15
@marguicha That's true also hang onto it while you can.
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Dec 15
I've also found those offers keep coming back, so they are not the now you see them now you don't offers they want you to believe they are. There have been times I debated about whether or not I wanted something, and low and behold another better offer came along than the first offer that was going to be gone in a hurry. Believe it or not, I held out until I had the lowest of the low offers and it was indeed very good and I did enjoy the benefits of the product.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
21 Dec 15
The best offer is, for me, to stay away from them. I live happily within my budget.
@BigMoney25 (1286)
• Philippines
20 Dec 15
The sales talk from salesmen nowadays are no different from all of these crazy offers online. Making us want to spend our hard earned money on all of those useless things I could say. I mean it's a crazy world, everyone is trying to get their money and doing whatever it takes. Sometimes people no longer care about fooling others as long as they get the bread, which is bad and sometimes immoral already. Take note, these are the people who graduated with great degrees in short they are educated, but nowadays it seems like the people who didn't get education because they are poor are the ones with kind heart Because for them money is not important and in return they give love more to others and give less attention to material things. Just saying... Happy Mylotting dear!
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
20 Dec 15
I hope the Godfather would bless us here lolz
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
21 Dec 15
Noone here would be happy with his blessings. He was a mafia godfather (see the book or watch the movie)
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
22 Dec 15
@TiarasOceanView Did you see the movie? Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, the best!
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
22 Dec 15
@marguicha Oh I see, I am Sicilian so it makes a difference to me
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
You are very right! I constantly want chocolate. I don´t buy it because I not only don´t need it, but it is not healthy for me.
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@Beatburn (4286)
• Philippines
21 Dec 15
@marguicha Wait a minute. If we're talking about chocolate then that's something I need like air.
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
20 Dec 15
Ah but did you see what happened to those that did take the deal from the Godfather???
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Dec 15
@marguicha
I have seen the movie on the TV about the Godfather and the mafia.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
20 Dec 15
No what happened when someone did take the offer from Godfather? @GreatMartin
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
21 Dec 15
@Marcyaz He killed them, of course . It is a mafia story.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
Fortunatly I don´t pay more attention to them than to the mails that tell me that I´m an heiress
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
20 Dec 15
The only offers I can't refuse is a good job offer xD
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@Drosophila (16571)
• Ireland
20 Dec 15
@marguicha thx thx glad to saved the $$$!
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@noblewriter (55)
• India
20 Dec 15
A penny earned is a penny saved. I would say you had taken a wise decision. Have a good and fun filled day
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
21 Dec 15
@marguicha
I would not fight someone or 50 cents off of something and glad I didn't go out on Black Friday.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
20 Dec 15
I don´t go for those offers either. But I have heard of people that have almost killed another human being to get something that is 50 cents less. I think that there are videos of last Black Friday in the US.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
19 Dec 15
I have noticed that the things I want to have are either much more expensive or can´t be bought with money.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
20 Dec 15
OH shame you live so far away I love apricots and apricot jam is my favourite. ( You probably call it jelly) !
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
21 Dec 15
I call it mermelada. It is in Spanish, of course.
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
22 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 We have two names in Spanish. The mermelada has chunks of fruit while the jalea is more like a jelly.
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
21 Dec 15
@marguicha Arr yes I imagined you were in the USA. I apologise. Lovely country!
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@marguicha (222744)
• Chile
21 Dec 15
I never have to check anything. I just don´t buy anything that people offer me. If I need something, I go and buy it. I DO NOT like salesmen.
@marijuana (570)
• Tel Aviv, Israel
20 Dec 15
@marguicha I hope they don't regret after .. but Im sure most would :)
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