Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Lesson Learned...

It started off much like every other trip to Costco.  Fight for a cart [or 2 in our case!] and were off.  Anyone who has been to Costco knows what Im talking about.  We start shoveling everything into our cart from meat to toilet paper to Christmas gift baskets.  And yes, everything is discounted, but everything is also $10 since its in bulk.  So it really adds up fast.  Thirty minutes 2 hours later [thank you Christmas crowd] were finally ready to check outalong with every other mother, sister, and 2nd cousin in the Des Moines metro area!  At lastwe get to the check out.  Its our turn.  The sweet girl scans, and scans, and scans.  Finally our last item is scanned.  Our total is over $500 [ugh!] We go to pay.  They accept cash, check, debit, and American Express.  Sweet!  Well just debit it.  So we swipe.  The girl tells us it did work.  We swipe again.  This time it sayscall bank.  Weird!?  I know we have money in the account, so we call the bank.  They inform us that we have a limit and she could only raise this to $500 for the day.  Well that wasnt quite enough since we got gas, lunch, and stuff at Petsmart with our debit card before coming to Costco.  Sowith everyone waiting in the line behind us I was forced to run [yes, literally!] out of Costco to the car and grab my checkbook [thank goodness I had one in there!!!]. 
Lesson learnedtake both a debit card and checkbook to stores where I plan to make a large purchase. 
PSIm sorry if you were one of the people waiting in line completely frustrated with meno worriesI was frustrated too! :)

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