This is an entry I have been planning on writing for over 4 weeks. Until 3 Christmases ago, I bought these flowers a week or so before Christmas because I wanted them to last through Christmas. The only person I had ever seen buy the things had always bought them within a few days of Christmas Eve and sometimes on that last moment day. I remember at least a couple times where they were purchased on Boxing Day (back when stores were open here on BD). If they lasted a week looking good then I thought they had done well.
What I did 2 years ago when we closed on this house was buy one for the house we were living in and one for this house. My plan was that I would get more as soon as those dropped off. To my amazement they didn’t. They lasted well into January. Last year, one of the 3 that I bought still looked pretty good on Valentine’s Day. This year, the ones we have now are over 4 weeks old and they look better now than they did when I bought them.
So, I have had some time to think about this whole thing. The person I mentioned in the first paragraph is somewhat of a penny pincher. The things were being bought on that last week because it is when the stores put them on sale as the opportunities to sell them are disappearing. At the same time, the relative humidity in those stores must be near 0. And the plants actually take quite a beating sitting in that dry store for 4 weeks or so. The one that lasted the longest last year was the first one I bought.
What is really running in the back of my mind though is, how stupid is that? I get 2 to 3 months of enjoyment out of them for full price and someone else gets 1 to 2 weeks out of them for half price. And I get the pick of the crop.
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