Delicious Nothings

The Free Drink Carrot

Ok, so I’m ready to admit it.  I have a fat wallet.  There, I’ve said it.  The elephant’s out of the room.

It’s true though.  I’ve always had a fat wallet.  In fact, I carry it in my front pocket because it’s like sitting on a huge rock if it’s in my back pocket.  And I don’t know about you, but I’m not a fan of sitting on rocks.  Just a personal preference.

Every so often, I go through my wallet and try to thin it out.  And every single time, I struggle when I get to my frequency cards.  You know, those little punch cards that everybody and their brother hands out.  I’ve got one for each of the six different coffee shops I visit plus a few other random ones.  They’re all in varying states of completeness: some are tantalizing close to a free drink, others are 10 more purchases away.

So here’s the problem….I can’t figure out which ones to get rid of.  I have to keep the one to the place I visit most often and I can get rid of the couple from the places I don’t frequent often.  That makes sense.  Right?  Well yeah, except the law of the universe will dictate that I don’t visit my favorite place for the next three weeks and I’ll end going to the place I haven’t been to in a year multiple times next week.  Arghh.  So in the end, they all go back into my wallet and the fat wallet returns.

How about you?  Are you tempted by the free drink carrot at the end of a full punch card?