The Cardinal Rule for Shopping with Kids
All parents know that the best way to avoid meltdowns and tantrums is to leave the children at home when you shop. Of course, we also know that shopping without the kids is a pipe-dream, a logistical impossibility.
Today I’m going to share with you my sure-fire, tried-and-true method for avoiding the gimmes while shopping with children.
Never, [...]
Day 82: Last Minute Thanksgiving Supply Dash
As predicted last night, I had to make one more trip to the grocery store — mainly for the yams I needed for candied yams for our Thanksgiving Day feast. And what a feast it was! We received a very warm welcome this afternoon when we arrived with eight pies (five different flavors, eight pies) plus two [...]
Day 81: More Last Minute Thanksgiving Shopping
Yeah, I’m one of those people who always forgets a few items and has to go back to the store at least once each day after completing her big Thanksgiving Day-prep grocery shopping.
I did my big shopping yesterday. Went back again today and, honestly, could have gone back again this evening but the cold, snowy [...]
Day 80: The Claritin Saga Continues plus 1/2-Ton of Cement
Kroger — $89.20
The Clarinex saga continues. To recap: we switched insurance carriers on Oct. 1 but due to a paperwork snafu, we didn’t receive our insurance cards until about the near the end of the month. I refused to pay out of pocket for Clarinex so I went without for the month of October. When my [...]
Day 79: Doctors and Birthday Gifts
Doctor — $25.00
Co-pay at my internist’s office. I’ve been trying to get my Clarinex prescription refilled for almost two months now — first I didn’t have current insurance cards and then, when the cards finally came, my prescription had expired [see post]. So they gave me make an appointment for this morning, I go in and [...]
Maintenance Monday: Squeegee Me
I am of the “quality, not quantity” philosophy. But quality will only get you so far; proper maintenance of your possessions is a very important component to getting the most value out of the quality products you buy. My Maintenance Monday “column” of sorts is where I share a maintance tip that I employ to help keep my [...]
Elder Care Thoughts
I just ran across this interesting article, Cost of Elderly Care Is Double Prior Estimates, in the NY Times. It speaks to a subject that, while not yet a part of my life, looms like a dark cloud on my horizon. Actually, in my case, it looks like an impending first-class storm. And sometimes the prospect of how [...]
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