I really appreciate my landlady’s effort in putting some comfier seating in the house this winter. But faux leather is rather sticky in this climate. So I’ve been meaning to cover the chair with something. I priced sheets, fabric, table cloths, even curtains.
Finally, I decided that I wanted one of the rougher machine woven traditional Mexican blankets, preferably in purple, to sort of match my kitchen curtains. I laughed when I priced one in the Golden Zone at a whopping $200, best price $170. I was offered a slightly better price of $160 firm at the Mercado here and $140 firm in Durango. So yesterday, I ran into the beach blanket vendor here on Isla and made an appointment to check out his wares today.
I came home with this for $100:
Who you know is important!
I almost peed myself laughing when another vendor ran up to him and told him to stop bothering me because I’m an Islander and he retorted, “She’s my friend! We made a date for this!”
I love it that one vendor tried to protect you from another! You do make good friends.
That’s happened a few times! I think it’s really more of a ‘don’t waste your breath with this one’ kind of thing, though! 😀
With the blanket guy, I’ve always kept my word about meeting him and buying something. That very likely goes a long way.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is PESOS!
LOL Yes! I’m not going to write MXN or pesos all winter this year! 😀 So that’s 8.17CAD at the rate I bought my current batch of pesos for!
I’m sure you know this but copy and paste ₱ or unicode “&+#+ 8369;” or Alt + 8369. A bit more work that is true but not too much. I have 3-4 Special Characters that I use frequently and the unicode come almost without thought now.
The symbol for the Mexican peso is $, just like the US, Canadian, and Australian dollar. What you’re suggesting I use is the symbol for the currency of the Philippines. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/₱
I am in Mexico, spending Mexican currency, and using the symbol for that currency. You’ll just need to wrap your brain around it if it drives you nuts… 🙂
Your using the $ for peso is absolutely correct but the symbol that I suggested is also used in countries other than the Philippines. to represent pesos It was offered as a suggestion to provide clarity, even in Mexico you will sometimes see $US and $MN to avoid confusion. Sorry! I apologize if I insulted you in some way, it certainly was not intended.
That is so sweet that the vender’s are looking out for you.
As I said in reply to Linda, I’m pretty sure it’s more of a ‘Don’t waste your time with her’ kind of situation, LOL!
Ed, no apology needed. I just don’t think that I’m doing anything that needs clarification…