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I hadn’t realized it was New Years’ Eve until my co-worker let me know the office would be closed today.  I’m not too big on resolutions or anything like that, mostly because I know I will immediately forget about them and continue a normal and unrestrained lifestyle.  This year I will make an effort to actually follow my resolution, which I have already planned out.  The resolution is this: sell, return, and exchange products purchased from either backcountry.com or steepandcheap.com, and use the money to buy even cooler gear.  I came up with this brilliant resolution when I was looking through my order history at backcountry.com and steepandcheap.com and noticed the total of 24 purchases in the last two years.  In some senses it seems like a great accomplishment to have a multi-page order history, but in reality it is a disappointment–I only averaged one SAC purchase per month.  I can do better.

So, I publicly make this resolution to increase my SAC average purchase rate by buying more with the money I get from sales and returns.  Yes, I know it is retarded to return gear to buy more gear, but due to the impulsive nature of SAC, I have made some pretty retarded purchases–mostly because I can’t try things on over the internet.  Some things like a ZOIC Sportwool biking shirt which still has the cardboard tag on it, or my Arc’teryx delegate shorts which is too short for even Canadians.

And if any of you were wondering about the return policy, I had a great chat with Gearhead which, as a friendly mountain goat, told me that I could return and exchange anything for a full refund including items “30 years old and dragged through the mud by a camel”.  How nice of the goat.  I have a feeling I will be taking more than a few extraneous items when I go to the MLK SLC get together.

Some items I am contemplating purchasing with this steady income are:

• Deuter Futura Vario 50 + 10 L backpack
• - or - Osprey Atmos 50 L backpack
• - or - Mountain Hardwear Trance 55 L backpack
• - or - Arc’teryx Needle 55 L backpack (only on sale, or SAC if possible)
• The North Face Lifty GTX 400
• Black Diamond Winter Bivy
• - or - Mountain Hardwear Conduit SL Bivy

And that is only part of my Winter 2007/2008 list…