Happy Halloween

Pictured below , a mummy dog w/ kraut.

Plan to go roaming the hood in search of treats with the princess. Still deciding on a costume.

Not your mama's picture day

Posing before school on picture day. The lunch choices are not smothered in red sauce as in past years. Today is also "shade out drugs" day , part of red ribbon week . Tomorrow, is crazy outfit day. I can't wait.

Free Gift with purchase

I was at an event recently and was approached by a salesman trying to get me to purchase the product he was selling. He offered me a free gift if I made a $20 purchase.

Since when is a gift called a free gift? Is there such a thing as a paid gift? I've noticed and I suspect you have as well that in many ads a free gift is offered with purchase. I was always under the asumption that a gift was a gift. A material item given without the expectation of receiving someting in return.

Since there is no English grammar rule I can find for a double affirmative(like the rule for double negative) logic here would suggest there is no such thing as a free gift. So the two affirmatives cancel each other out thereby producing a negative. Which means there is no such thing as a free gift.

By the way, I did not make the purchse but received a gift anyway, an advertising keytag.