Mikasa Wine glasses

Every month the mission Support Group commanders get togther and have a little party, the selection is totally random. How do you know when it's YOUR turn to host a party? You get this cute pink flamingo stuck in your yard, LOL! So February is the month for us to host a party. The rule is that they have to have a theme...our theme is "Wine and Cheesecake tasting". I wanted to do something that was a bit different...everyone's heard of wine and cheese tasting...but what about cheesecake? I've got the 6 different cheesecakes down, now to get some more wine glasses (preferably ones that macth the ones we have).

Soooooooo anyway my quest for more wine glasses ends up with me driving all over the place for something decent looking. I saw some nice ones by Mikasa at Herbergers (that's our fancy department store in Rapid City) and they were nice but I didn't want to pay $50 for a set of 4, especially when I need at least 16 glasses. An idea that Lucien had was to buy plastic ones, ones we can toss into the recycle bin later on when we were done with them, the only ones I saw were $25 for a set of 4- for plastic? get out!

Smack me in the head but I didn't see anything at Target that I liked, and I roll my eyes at myself because I even tried Wal-Mart. For something half ways decent looking the best price was $17.99 for a set of 4- at Wal-Mart, that's still more than I really wanted to spend. So as a last resort I went to the Ellsworth AFB BX (base exchange- it's like a Target department store for military families). I see wine glasses that I like at a very reasonable price $4.99 for a set of 4 and they look like they will match our Williamsburg Winery stemware. But wait, right next to all of that is that very same set of Mikasa wine glasses that I saw earlier at Herberger's, the price tag on these were $29.99 but wait! There's another tag on the shelf partially covering the $29.99 tag and it says $12.47, woohoo! SOoooooo, I take a box over to the nearest price scanner to make sure of this low price and get this...it scans in at $6.27! I ran and got a cart and loaded myself up with some great looking stem ware at a fraction of the retail price! So for about $25 I was able to get $200 worth of Mikasa stemware. Here's a picture of what they look like...

But wait...then I spy the champagne glasses, they too are marked way down...yes at $6.27 for a set of 4. One quick phone call and I got the go ahead on getting them. So I spent a total of $50 and got $400 worth of Mikasa Stemware!