.: Grocery shopping is a challenge!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Grocery shopping is a challenge!

For me, grocery shopping becomes much more enjoyable when I am saving money! It seems like food has gotten so expensive....so I take it as a challenge. I use coupons and sales to my advantage. Here's my haul from 1 store this week.... I spent $97 and saved $93...not too shabby! The rest I picked up from 2 other stores spending $75 and saving $47. This was definitely a week to stock up, it doesn't happen often that I can pick up cereal for less than $2 a box. It's kinda bad when the only thing I have to blog about this week is groceries!!!

4 comments:

Reeser5 said...: Haha April. I know what you mean. I am a big time coupon clipper and always looking for the best deals. I especially love when they store ends up paying ME to take food of their shelf. Way to go!; October 23, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Stacy said...: Now the trick is to make it all fit in your fridge! =); October 24, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Samantha said...: Nice work! That is awesome! I hope Chelsea is feeling better.; October 27, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Alli grins said...: Wow! Congrats you thrifty shopper! That is really a big deal now that prices have gone up! Your kids look great for Halloween and I'm excited that Prop 8 passed there. AZ passed Prop. 102 too! Yea! We're safeuntil Pres. O overturns them all:-) Love & miss you all!; November 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM

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Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

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When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.