It smells of popcorn.
There’s an aura of happiness that sweeps in with the air conditioning.
Joy that can only be found in the comforting simplicity of khaki and red.
It calls.
Come to me.
Let me soothe every sorrow.
Soap is on sale 3 for 1 today!
And I run, RUN, to the comfort found in Egyptian cotton towels. Or in holiday themed plates (I know I’d only use twice a year). Seriously? Where else could you find a toaster that color?
That is sold to you by a person wearing a red shirt.
Named Rick.
Yeigermenjenson.
S.H.U.T.U.P.
Point being, I have a sick love affair with Target.
My husband calls it “$200″ instead of Target.
He calls it that because I can go for $10 worth of dog food and it always ends up costing $200.
Here’s how….
Pete goes into Target, gets dog food, pays for dog food, leaves. Cost: about $10.
Anissa goes into Target, passes kids’ clothing and remembers yellow shirt that needs replaced, then passes laundry detergent and should probably get some of that, passes greeting cards and thinks about holiday X coming up and must buy cards for six people, passes hair supplies and has to get shampoo/conditioner, passes baking supplies and picks up cookie cutters, passes light bulbs and picks up two packages of 75W, travel mugs are on clearance, grab two, pass batteries, don’t need them but always will soon, grab milk, coffee, bread, cereal, chap stick. Goes to check out. Pays. Cost: about $200.
Unload cart into van.
Drive away.
Realize I forgot dog food.
Better go back tomorrow.
About Anissa Mayhew
I think they pipe chocolate chip cookie aromatherapy through the vents. I’d have to call it $300.
Twitter Name: thatgirlblogs
It’s the bacon-scented hand sanitizer
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
funny stuff. . . a new target just opened about two miles closer to our house than the old target, but we’ve only been once cuz it’s so frickin’ busy you can’t even park your car. You’d think David Hasselfhoff was signing autographs in the men’s clothing department or something. . . Maybe if more people just bought dog food and left we would be able to go more often. . . :)
Twitter Name: lickthefridge
New Target smell!
A gift from the gods.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I loves me some Target. Or Tarzhay, as I pronounce it. It’s a french name meaning, “Wait until your husband gets the credit card bill.”
Twitter Name: thedgoddess
I thought it was French for “I didn’t really need or want that, BUT IT WAS ON SALE!”
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
My credit card bill every month actually went down when I moved to a part of town without a Target. Then a year later, they built a new one by my new home even closer than the old one was to my old home. I think they missed me.
Twitter Name: Kellyology
I spent so much time with kid#1 at the photo thing that when we moved there was a print of him hanging in one of the advertisement slots.
They sent us a card when we moved. A signed one.
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
Wow! That sounds like my last shopping trip at Target!
It’s like a sickness!!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
Like Lady Gaga, I have been choosing to shop elsewhere since concerns about their donations and the lawsuit against an LGBT equality group surfaced, and I’ve saved a ridiculous amount of money. It’s a pretty awesome unexpected consequence. Unlike Lady Gaga, I will not wear a meat suit, however. I have my limits.
Twitter Name: debontherocks
I don’t think I’ve ever started a sentence with “Like Lady Gaga” lol
But seriously, I didn’t know about any of that stuff!
Twitter Name: AdorkableKati
I can never go to Tarzhay anywhere near payday. And I STILL end up spending too much. I think they’re piping subliminal messages through the speakers to make people buy more stuff against their will.
Twitter Name: AdorkableKati
I try to avoid Target as I have no self-control but the bags of cotton candy in the dollar section? OMFG, I’ll take twenty, thankyouverymuch.
Twitter Name: izzymom
I’ve never tried that.
*hangs head in shame*
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
You’re missing out, my friend. Pick up a bag or ten the next time you go.
Twitter Name: izzymom
perfect name for that store, I act as if I might never be able to access any supplies ever again. Love/hate the place
This could be the last time you can buy bleach, pens and socks together EVER!!!! GO, BUY, NOW!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
You nailed it. And I seem to always have one of those white and red bags in my trunk, filled with something I need to exchange/return… which means one more trip through those popcorn scented doors, and one more $200 CC bill, dammit. I pledge to call it $200 from now on! Thank you for that.
Twitter Name: TheBeardedIris
There was a bag that I kept in my trunk for so long that by the I found it, it actually fit my child and it didn’t need to be returned!
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
That’s so true. I don’t understand why it doesn’t happen in other stores. Must have something to do with the arrangement of the merchandise. Too bad about their politics.
I became devoted to Aiming Low after reading a Target inspired blog. I mean, come on, these are my PEOPLE…. Finally!
But…. Does anybody else get a little sad when they drive by Target without going in? Or if you are on a car trip and you pass a really cool-looking Target and the pilot (husband that doesn’t *get* it) doesn’t want to stop because “we don’t need anything” sigh.
Twitter Name: Beccanurse