on sale

so, if you know me, you probably know that i rarely pay full retail price for anything. i don't try particularly hard, since i find shopping to be rather painful in most circumstances. i keep a mental list running of things i need or will need in the near future, and when i see a good deal... lisa and mike are the same way. for example, we went grocery shopping today and ended up buying some $44 worth of food. we saved over $72. so if we were to pay full retail we would have shelled out well over $100. but we're not into that. often we go to the grocery outlet and save more than we spend, but today was special. we ran across the street (more like a game of frogger on this arterial) for convenience and were drawn in by the deals. and i admit, i splurged.

it is almost october after all, so who needs a 2008 calendar? well, for ten cents, i went for it. wild flowers, come on. i am already scheming some uses for the pretty pictures once the year ends. i threw another ten cents at a pack of gum and was happy to find the only non fruity flavor in the basket. in my opinion, gum and hot tea should never be fruity. there was the thirty some dollar steak we got for $5 or so.

now, i am a little ashamed to admit this, but baby food was such a good deal (14 cents for a 6 oz. jar of apple sauce) that i almost went for it. i was pretty close, i mean big people eat apple sauce too. i like apple sauce. but then i got to thinking about it and looking closer at it and decided that it might be a wee bit over-processed for my taste. more like mush than sauce. so i passed. but then i left the store and started reconsidering the baby food, because couldn't you use the baby stuff in baking... and no one would notice? and then you could offer your special treat to people, and tell them it was made of baby food. or not.