By far the worst part of my job is the MATH. I'm a sales assistant so I often get a big pile of post it notes and printed out emails with little notes that say, add 15% or mark up 10% or split cost between these two quotes. WHAT!? The first week or so I sweated through all my sweaters and hot tears spilled out onto my calculator as I furiously tried to figure out why every time I tried to find 15% of 674, I got a different number. Eventually I learned that marking something up 10% is not the same as adding 10% to it (I am still not sure why or how, but I know that it is) and I made a little cheat sheet of what buttons to press on my calculator and pinned it to the wall.
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Other than all the horrible awful no good math, my dresses and cardigans are all getting lots of good use. My office is pretty casual so I can wear all my favorite clothes, even my vans! Its hard to see but this dress has a really cute cowl neck, and the comfiest 1/4 sleeves. I scored it at goodwill for $6!
So those of you who are target shoppers might have guessed, this dress is actually from Target's maternity line. I am NOT PREGNANT! It just turns out I've got curves that fit well into clothes designed for just barely pregnant ladies.
So I know that half the people reading this are just waiting for me to say when the final Downton Abbey post will be ready. SOON I promise.
The other half are people looking to buy that Little Pal grill I showed you in THIS POST. Unfortunately I decided to use it, not sell it, and most of the paint bubbled up and fell off. I am scouring the internet to try to find you another one and I will post links here when I find it.
Glad to see you, love the shoes. Don't understand the difference between marking up 10% and adding 10%, but I'm retired, so maybe I don't have to know… ;-)
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