Bringing your lunch to work & requesting coupons as a loyal customer

As the cover of my book illustrates, I am a big proponent of bringing one’s lunch to work, and have been for years. Today, I enjoyed pasta salad and Italian wedding soup. Pasta salad leftover from an event (perk of being an Event Planner—where there’s an event, there’s food). The soup reminded me of a former multi-millionaire client of mine in Manhattan, who gave me money to buy his favorite Italian wedding soup and a sandwich at the deli (At the rate he was paying me, I was more than happy to “gofer” his lunch, plus, he invited me to get whatever I wanted, although I didn’t take advantage). His order alone cost about 10 bucks a day. My soup-from-the-can came to a grand total of $1.25.

I’m not a huge fan of junk mail—Okay, I have zero tolerance for it—but I did call the card outlet company requesting that they send me coupons since I’m a regular customer at their store. (see 10/6/07 entry to be posted)