Need advice on kitty statue layaway

[Catty1]

It started here:

http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=159823

So now I have this wonderful, beautiful statue.

I finally got up the nerve to go cancel the layaway on the original one.

I felt odd about it for a reason, and I was right - no one was nasty, but the lady who ran the place (with her husband) said that maybe I didn't have the same one - that I wouldn't get my $20 back, and that I could get even longer on the layaway so I didn't lose my $20. She was offering this in a mama-wisdom kind of way.

so.

What I am thinking of doing is just buying it and trying to sell it on Craigslist or something. I have some steady monthly income now.

I don't even mind losing the $20. But I would really have to push it.

(mind you, the one I have is made in China, though it is fantastic...maybe the one at the store is one that was made at the original shop in England?)

I have til the end of September now. They could extend the layway til Christmas.

Any ideas?

[Karen]

Could you apply your $20 to something else in the shop? It is such a small amount compared to what the price of the statue there was ...

[Catty1]

Now there's a thought! Thanks!