FatBloggers.net A little push to lose the tush.

In my last post, I mentioned my wife had bought me a $50 Wal-Mart gift card. Well, after some considerate responses and doing a little scanning through Wal-Mart’s website, I found what I wanted. However, let me first present to you the rejected choices:

• Mini Fridge for my home office (nice, but tends to encourage bad behavior)
• Billy Blanks Taebo 5-DVD pack (yeah, right)
• Transformer Lunch Box (almost stayed on the list)
• New Weight Scale (wait, there’s nothing wrong with the current one… if you ignore the screaming it makes)
• Inline Skates (actually, the fall on Monday reminds me that I would probably really hurt myself with these)
• Padded Weight Bench (this sounded good, but there’s not much room at home for this)
• 5 lbs of Dove Dark Chocolate squares (um… no… yeah… no… please?… no)

My final choices ended up being the following:

• MIO Sport Select Heart Rate Monitor Watch
  - $34.82
• Foster Grant Sunglasses - $9.84
• Speed Racer pullback car (reliving my childhood and getting something I never could get then.. it was on clearance) - $1.50
• Reese’s Whoppers (my one anti-weightloss splurge) - $0.96

This was a grand total of $50.46 so I only had to dig out 50 cents and get four pennies in return.  I’m really looking forward to using the watch because of the stopwatch (now I can get real times tracked on my runs and can monitor my heart rate).   It was very difficult to see the tiny time on my tiny MP3 player hanging from my neck.  The sunglasses will be my new running sunglasses too.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I managed to make the gifts I chose fit the purpose of the gift card.  Thanks most of all to my wife, Amy.  I can’t wait to get the $100 gift card.