Last week, I went to Joann Fabrics to purchase a new rotary cutter.  Here’s what I would have paid if I’d paid full price:

(1) Olfa 45mm ergonomic rotary cutter:  $32.99

(2) sets of 2 replacement blades (for four total blades):  $17.99 each

total:  $68.97

On Amazon.com that day, I checked and here’s what I would have paid if I’d bought basically the same thing (restricting myself to the stuff sold by Amazon itself so I could get free shipping):

(1) Olfa 45 mm ergonomic rotary cutter: $14.47

(4) replacement blades: $6.99 each

total: $42.43

Pretty big difference!!

Thankfully, I know better so I didn’t actually spend almost $70 on this purchase.  Instead, I had a 40% coupon, a $5 off of $35 coupon and the blades were “buy one, get one free”.

I actually ended up spending $32.78.

I feel like that’s a pretty good deal because I now have a fabulously easy-to-use rotary cutter along with enough replacement blades to last me for a couple years.

But let this be a lesson to all of you:

Never buy anything for full price at Joann’s!!

P.S. My life is really infinitely better now that I have a fully-functioning rotary cutter.  It’s a good lesson to me that I shouldn’t go months using a flawed tool, particularly when that tool is such a critical part of what I do.