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Volume II - Sheep For Golf Clubs Edition

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I grew up on a small farm and we always had about a dozen sheep, a handful of pigs, a slew of chickens, and some dogs and cats. I loved my time on the farm and I was very involved in my local 4-H club. I raised market lambs and took them to 3 different county fairs in my area. I did this up until I was a senior in high school. Only thing I did not like about it was the white shirt, white jeans, green hat, and the green tie that I had to wear. Hard to get chicks wearing that get-up!

But I digress. So I was in 6th grade the first year I took a market lamb to the fair. I named my lamb ‘Apache Chief’. To this day, I have no idea how I can up with that name. It came time to wash my lamb, comb his wool “real perty”, and take him on down to the fair. I showed him in front of the judge, got my blue ribbon and auctioned him off. I think I got $2.50 a pound, and he weighed 110 pounds so I WAS RICH!!! $275 at the time seemed like SO much money. My expenses were around $85 which gave me a nice little profit and offset the loss of my little buddy ‘Apache Chief’.

For a long time I had my eyes on a new set of golf clubs, I was like the boy in Christmas Story who ate, slept and pooped Red Rider BB gun! It was all he thought about, and these golf clubs were all I could concentrate on! I remember the day my Dad took me downtown to buy the clubs. I was on cloud nine! That is, right up until I took them out to the course for the first time. Every ball I hit either went into the woods or into the water hazard. I was so mad at those clubs, at ‘Apache Chief’, at my stupid decision to buy them, at the world. It was my very first buyers remorse and a great life lesson. I wanted to sell my clubs and use the money for something else, but my Grandpa talked me out of it and said I needed to give the clubs a longer trial period. And of course he was right, I used those clubs all the way through high school.

Turns out the idea of NOT giving up golf came full circle for me last year when I bought my 6 year old son his very first set of clubs for his birthday. His eyes lit up just like mine did 20-someodd years ago. Every since, we have been hitting a lot of balls together and it has been a blast enjoying the game with him. So in order to tie this together, here are some coupons for some sporting goods stores, and yes, they have plenty of stuff for you weekend warriors out there, like myself.

Sports Authority.com
Save 15% OFF your $100+ order thru this LINK ONLY (Discount appears at checkout, Some brands excluded)
Coupon Code: None Needed
Expiration: 3/31/08

Fogdog.com
Save 15% OFF your ENTIRE order thru this LINK ONLY (Discount appears at checkout)
Coupon Code: None Needed
Expiration: 3/31/08

Modell’s Sporting Goods.com
Save 15% OFF your ENTIRE order thru this LINK ONLY (Discount appears at checkout, some brands excluded)
Coupon Code: None Needed
Expiration: 3/31/08

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