The best things in life are free…

A huge covered truck stopped outside my gate the other day. My missus thought that I had ordered some new furniture or something but no, it was some courier service agency delivering something that I had requested for…

– absolutely free from my credit card company. For one thing, I really must say that I am very impressed with the company or the people handling the bonus point-exchange for them considering that I had just put in the request online the previous week and I never expected it to be delivered so quickly.

Coincidentally, my blogger friend, Happy Surfer, had a post on credit cards not long ago. Well, I have two but I hardly use them as I don’t go shopping. Usually, I would use them to buy air tickets online, pay for hotels or at fine dining restaurants and so on. That is why I am not able to accumulate a whole lot of bonus points to exchange for free gifts.

Then the other day, I had a notification from the company saying that some of my bonus points would expire in December so I decided to just make use of them and claim one of the free gifts on offer. Unfortunately, with my limited number of points, I was not eligible for any of the nicer things they have in their catalogue. I do not need another toaster or a frying pan…and I do not think the watches are all that nice. In the end, I settled for this barbecue set…

I had a barbecue set before and we used it a lot a long time ago when we entertained at home more but for years, it had been left out in the sun and the rain…at the back of the house. It wasn’t big and was not getting into anybody’s way or anything but one fine day, I noticed that it was missing so I asked my missus and she said that it had gone rusty and she had thrown it away. Of course, it had gone rusty! It was cast iron…but would it matter at all since it was just the base to hold the hot burning charcoal? The grills are all nice and new, spick and span since we keep them in the house. Sigh!!! So, considering that I do not have a barbecue set anymore, I decided that I could just order one.

I heard it said that these days, if you order furniture, it would come in a box…and so it is with this barbecue set…

Hmmmm….I am not too good at assembling things and may end up getting the parts mixed up or the bits and pieces missing. Never mind, I will get down to it one of these days and with a little bit of luck, I will be able to put it all together nicely. Hehehehehehe!!!!

I wonder what the end result would look like but it doesn’t matter really. As they always say, the best things in life are free… LOL!!!