These worthless days

We might as well pack up and go home. There’s no value left in this year.

I realised that the best days of 2006 were behind us on the 11th of January. Up to that point the year held great promise but it’s all gone now. I should have recognised the signs but I didn’t.

On the 11th of January I wandered into the local shopping centre and noticed that the big calendar shop in the middle of the centre had signs up everywhere saying 75% off everything. Even in the days before that they had reduced their stock by 50% but 75%, that’s huge. All diaries and all calendars are now selling for just a quarter of their original price.

I grabbed myself a twenty one dollar calendar for my office pin up board for a little over five dollars. It was a great saving but it got me thinking. If all the remaining days in the calendar are only worth 25% of the price of a calendar, the first 10 days must have been worth the other 75%. That’s a lot of pressure for the first 10 days of the year. Do the calendar retailers know something we don’t?

Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to make the most of the rest of 2006 as I eagerly await the first 10 glorious days of 2007.

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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He has worked in radio at Perth's media ministry Sonshine for over 25 years and has previously worked at ministries such as Compassion Australia and Bible Society.

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2 Comments

  • hehehe what a CRAZY thought… but it’s logical, isn’t it? Still, I’m all about getting my moneys worth so I might stick with the rest of the year, even if it is worth 25% of $1.95 (what can I say? I’m cheap)

  • That’s a good point; I wonder if it’s a sliding scale of worthy days?

    I’m thinking there are enough days worth minus amounts to increase the worth of all the other days. For instance, the day I have to spend doing taxes is a negative worth day, and therefore the day after improves in value.

    🙂

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