The mighty scavenger
Jul. 9th, 2006 20:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI feel like I've dragged home an elk, and now I need to render and store it.
As I gaze across the vast fields of plastic bags, I am pleased with my work today. I went out to do The Shopping Trip for the majority of the disaster supplies. I stopped at the hardware store to get things like heavy-duty trash bags, shop towels, and drinking-water tablets, then went kitty-corner to the Albertson's store for groceries.
I had heard that store was closing, in Albertson's effort to shrink its presence here. The signs were up all over saying everything must go, but I went in to see whether they still had anything on my list. Boy, I'm glad I did.
The shelves were almost full. Everything was either 15% or 25% off. I spent two hours in there, examining every shelf for stuff we need to store, or stuff we use all the time and could stand to save on.
I have never before filled a shopping cart.
I have never before spent over $300 on one grocery-shopping trip.
The initial bill was something like $519. The guy asked me whether I had a savings card, and I practically threw it at him. Then we all waited about three minutes as the computer meticulously applied discounts. I ended up paying $325 for a trunkload of groceries, and I have the three-foot receipt to prove it.
Now the stuff is all spread out on the living-room floor, and I am just about to sort it. We have almost all the food and most of the toiletries now, though... I need to grab little things like hand sanitizer and a few more energy bars, but the bulk of it is done. I'll buy the water tomorrow (because that was one of the things that fled the store first). I need to go back to the closing store next week to grab some more spices, as the discounts will get deeper and there's no way they'll clear the spice racks and the several flats of vanilla by then. (I got mincemeat for $5/jar!)
They were out of chips, jello, rice, and cosmetics. Weird to see what goes first.
As I gaze across the vast fields of plastic bags, I am pleased with my work today. I went out to do The Shopping Trip for the majority of the disaster supplies. I stopped at the hardware store to get things like heavy-duty trash bags, shop towels, and drinking-water tablets, then went kitty-corner to the Albertson's store for groceries.
I had heard that store was closing, in Albertson's effort to shrink its presence here. The signs were up all over saying everything must go, but I went in to see whether they still had anything on my list. Boy, I'm glad I did.
The shelves were almost full. Everything was either 15% or 25% off. I spent two hours in there, examining every shelf for stuff we need to store, or stuff we use all the time and could stand to save on.
I have never before filled a shopping cart.
I have never before spent over $300 on one grocery-shopping trip.
The initial bill was something like $519. The guy asked me whether I had a savings card, and I practically threw it at him. Then we all waited about three minutes as the computer meticulously applied discounts. I ended up paying $325 for a trunkload of groceries, and I have the three-foot receipt to prove it.
Now the stuff is all spread out on the living-room floor, and I am just about to sort it. We have almost all the food and most of the toiletries now, though... I need to grab little things like hand sanitizer and a few more energy bars, but the bulk of it is done. I'll buy the water tomorrow (because that was one of the things that fled the store first). I need to go back to the closing store next week to grab some more spices, as the discounts will get deeper and there's no way they'll clear the spice racks and the several flats of vanilla by then. (I got mincemeat for $5/jar!)
They were out of chips, jello, rice, and cosmetics. Weird to see what goes first.
