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School Shopping, Free Lunch, and Groceries

August 11th, 2012 at 09:07 pm

We got up bright and early this morning to head to the city where the mall and kohl's is. We met my sister at Kohl's at 10:00 so we could get the early bird special. My DD found a couple of shirts and a pair of jeans and some panties. My sister found some work clothes. I found a few shirts that were marked way down. All in all we spent $173 and my sister paid for it. She then asked if we wanted to go to lunch. Since we had planned to go to the Olive Garden she decided to come with us. She ended up stealing the check and paying for the meal. Thanks sis!

When we left my sister we went to the mall. We ended up spending $316. I guess I didn't overestimate as much as I thought. But I am glad that I took that amount out of the budget. My other sister had given me $200 toward clothes so my OOP is $116. Not bad.

One of the places we went to was the shoe store. When DD tried on the shoes, they only bring one out for you to try on. We didn't think about it and when we got home we only had one shoe. So we will have to make the trip to the mall again tomorrow to get the other shoe. They are holding it for us. I will be sure to take the back way in though. And I can just let DD run into the mall. I won't have to park that way. I can't believe I didn't think about that. Now I have to spend extra gas to get there and back. Bummer.

We went to the grocery store last night. I was hoping to get out of there for $100. I took a list and we stuck very closely to it. There was only 4 items that we got that weren't on the list. But I spent $176. I guess we were out of more than I realized. Hopefully next payday I won't have to spend that much again.

No Eating Out: 10/10
Tracking Food: NO 8/10
NSD: No 2/10

4 Responses to “School Shopping, Free Lunch, and Groceries”

  1. LuckyRobin Says:
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    They don't let you try on both shoes? That seems very weird to me. What if one foot is bigger than the other and you tried it on the smaller foot and then got them home and they didn't fit right? Are they worried about theft or something? I don't think I would shop at a place that didn't bring out both shoes to try on. Especially if they sent you home with only one when you bought them.

  2. jolie Says:
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    I have never shopped for shoes where they didn't bring out the box with both of them in it.

  3. snafu Says:
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    With $176. of new groceries + whatever was in the fridge & pantry, how many bkfsts, lunches & dinners can you make? The planning part is boring but it's worth the effort. For example, on Sunday you can cook 2 chicken dishes you like and have left over chicken to make Paella or Pilaf or Jambalaya for Tuesday. I use a Crockpot/slo cooker to avoid heating up the house. Try www.cooks.com for the ingredient at hand, it's fast & simple.

  4. Jerry Says:
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    Sometimes in areas with high theft problems it can lead shoe stores to only bring out one shoe at a time. People can try the shoes on and then actually run away in them, which is totally lame but a reality. It just offers the shoe store some insurance against dishonest customers, is all.
    Jerry

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