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sold out?

minutechaser — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:28:14 +0000

So I wrote up my grocery list with the help of the store’s online catalog, head out there and most of the promo items on my list are sold out! How maddening is that! And it’s not the first time either.

Not that I like to use the word ‘false advertising’ but that’s close enough for me. I’m thinking if they don’t have sufficient stock to do a promo, then they shouldn’t do it. It is inconceivable that the promo has been on for only one day and everything’s been sold out. Grr!

Need to get out of the house

minutechaser — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:57:14 +0000

We’ve been cooped up around the house almost the entire weekend now. I desperately need to get out of the house even if it’s just for a while. Me and the kids are going to head out and find ourselves a good Chinese restaurant, feast on dimsum (dumplings) over pots of hot Chinese tea and then worry about how to reduce stomach fat later. Ya, we definitely need that !

Yay for pizza delivery!

minutechaser — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:37:49 +0000

It really helps to have a pizza order professional in the family. Yes, that would be my youngest daughter who is now a pro at calling the pizza delivery man. And of course, what’s not to love about Mr Pizza Delivery when he’s saved me so many trips to the pizza joint?

We’re staying in today. I reckon the malls will be jam-packed so best to avoid them altogether. Pizza will keep my brood happy for the day. I just hope we won’t be calling for the best diet pills delivery any time soon !

eat first, worry later

minutechaser — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:45:35 +0000

Okay, I’ve just received a gift redemption brochure from my favorite credit card center showing me all the gifts I can redeem for the bonus points I’ve collected each time I swipe my credit card and part with my hard-earned money.

This means I get to shop for free as I get to pay with my points, not real money. Nice . I’ve got a few items picked out already. And I’m also going to redeem some food vouchers. Yay, I get to eat for free too. Loving the sound of it already… but that means I may have to go noxycut to lose weight afterwards.

leisurely Mother’s Day lunch

minutechaser — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:48:16 +0000

Just got back from the mall. It was crowded, the restaurants are packed with the Mother’s Day crowd. Yes, at the rate people are eating, they’re going to need weight loss supplements soon, I tell ya.

We already had our early Mother’s Day dinner last night for this exact reason – so we don’t have to jostle with the crowd. Instead we had a leisurely and healthy lunch of Subway sandwiches today and then walked around the indoor Sunday flea market.

more peanut butter

minutechaser — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:09:37 +0000

Would you believe I missed buying more peanut butter because the shelf label showed a higher price than the cash register price? So I only realized the peanut butter was selling at such a steal when I noticed the price at checkout. Dang, I should’ve bought more bottles seeing as how we seem to be gobbling them at the speed of light.

Our little feast at home

clair — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:19:13 +0000

I went to a grocery sale last week and that’s probably the only time I buy lamb chops which are normally pretty pricey and we don’t eat a lot of lamb either. But it makes for a really nice treat now and then especially when I get them at a really good discount.

So we had our little feast last night of salad, lamb chops and pasta. Yum. If we’d had our meal out, it would’ve easily set us back by $100+. Eating out is getting to be so expensive. But last night’s feast cost us less than half of that, so I consider that to be double the treat .

buying groceries at two stores

clair — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:46:57 +0000

I shop at two grocery stores now. That’s one more than I’m used to. I used to buy everything from just this one store until I couldn’t stand how they were always overcharging me because they can’t seem to get the shelf prices to synchronize with the checkout prices.

It’s quite stressful to shop there because I have to keep a hawk’s eye on the prices as they flash across the cash register and then recheck the bill when I’m done paying. If I continue to allow myself to be ripped off there, even holding two jobs in philly area won’t be enough to see me through.

So I now shop at another grocery store where the prices are hardly ever wrong. I only go back to that other store to get what I can’t get here. Well, if they can’t get their act together, they’re just going to lose customers like me who are vigilant about checking before paying.

early groceries

clair — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:31:36 +0000

I’ve been making out my grocery list over the past few days. Yes, it does take me that long to jot it all down. Well, not all, I inadvertently will miss out some items that I really, desperately need. always! So sometimes I’m not sure I should even be making out a list in the first place .

Anyhow I shop at 2 grocery stores, so I’m going to try and get an early start this week after I check up on the term life insurance quote I’ve been promising my friend. And off I go!

my attempt at a grocery list

clair — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:59:21 +0000

Just got back from groceries. You would think that with the trouble I took being the good girl and drawing up my grocery list this week, I would not miss anything like I usually do.

I had ‘batteries’ on my list because I checked stock and found we’re running low and our wireless mouses seem to eat up batteries pretty quick. Well, guess what? I forgot to buy batteries. Yes, in spite of them being on my list and staring at me in the face .

One more thing I forgot – that auto insurance quote I was supposed to pick up for my neighbor since she’s out of town. So there you have it. My attempt at a grocery list .