If Only Barnes & Noble Sold Flip Flops

On Sunday (my last day at Gesher LaTorah- a special ed. Sunday school)one of the parents gave me a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble. I was so excited because I really need books to take to camp with me and since I usually go through about seven a week and I will be spending seven weeks in camp with out a library any books I can bring with me are great. So I went online and started looking through some sale books by my fav. authors. After checking out two books, I realized that with shipping and handling two books were all I could afford with a $15 gift card. Right before I clicked on proceed to check out a free shipping offer on the top of the screen caught my eye. It said Free Shipping with Purchase of $25 or more. Almost dismissing it my brain began to work frantically (so if I purchase another $10 worth of books I can get five books instead of two with the money I save on shipping...) Then I realized that I had an old B&N gift card in my wallet that I think still had money on it. I was so excited I pulled it out and check the balance online. 10 bucks left, amazing, I could now get $25 worth of books with out worrying about shipping. So I go shopping and pull up 5 great books (at least I hope) I go to check out and just my luck, the total was 24.09 (I do not jest).

B&N sells nothing for a dollar so I knew that if I did not get another book I would be paying the same price for shipping and handling so why not grab another book and get the free s & h. A half an hour later I had my sixth book picked out which brought my total to $29 and change. Ok, I could handle five bucks for six books. I finally get to proceed with check out and I am ecstatic. That is until I see the little note at the bottom of the page.

The note reads: (ok this is somewhat like what it reads)
Your gift card has be used for this your order, remember only one gift card can be used at a time.
So children, I was back to square one and besides that the gift card they have down to use is the $10 one and there does not seem to be a way to switch the two cards so that at least I can use the 15 dollar one. Oy!

Tonight I get to call my campers' parents, I can't wait. Then I guess I will hit B & N again and see if I can figure out how I want to proceed. I mean I would go to the store but the real sales are online. sheesh.

Oh yeah and I really need flip-flops, well actually I need a lot more then that before I leave for camp next week. Got to go shopping and then start packing but I am just not in the mood. Maybe tomorrow.