As a simple example of a sales promotion we will consider a money-off flash pack promotion for a convenience food product, using very simplified numbers.

If we are depressed, for example, it does no good to try to be undepressed or to somehow change ourselves. It does do good, however, to cultivate the soil of the soul with the ingredients of grace, truth, and time, and then we will gradually be transformed to greater stages of undepression, or joy.

Now the butt of a Martini in the small of your back hurts a great deal

She will freely admit that she's anally retentive to the point of bonkersdom. There was a dishwasher that we were never allowed to use, goodness knows why, and she used to have a thing about never putting the heating on.