Suburban Wife’s Daily Dollar Diary

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Day 114: Groceries Galore!

Posted on | December 24, 2007 |

Christmas eve and The Daughter and I ran to the library and then went grocery shopping.  We took only one trip to the grocery store but we ended up going through the checkout line a full three times!

Does anyone else spend weeks shopping and feel like they’ve gotten way more than enough only to look at it on Christmas eve and panic because the pile of loot looks pathetically small?  That’s what happened to me this morning.  The party’s over, all the grandkids have been thoroughly gifted, and now I have one last day to make sure I’ve got all my ducks in a row for my own kids.  And all of a sudden I’m feeling panicked because it just doesn’t seem enough.

So we were there to 1) pick up some last minute stocking stuffers; 2) to buy supplies for the traditional “making gingerbread houses with graham crackers and powdered sugar glue” project that the daughter does with the children during church childcare; and 3) to buy one or two grocery items needed before the 26th.

Kroger — $44.90

  • Coleman ground beef — $12.34
  • beef jerkey — $3.99 (saved $2.00) [for The Son's stocking]
  • Mentos — $1.19 [mint flavored for The Daughter]
  • Mentos — $1.19 [fruit flavored for The Son]
  • Nerds — $0.75 [for The Son]
  • Altoids — $1.99 [for The Daughter]
  • Spree mini candies — $1.19 [for The Son]
  • Planter’s mixed nuts — $2.50 [for The Daughter]
  • Skittles gum — $0.69 [for The Daughter]
  • Skittles gum — $0.00 (saved $0.69) [for The Son]
  • candy — $0.75 [for The Son]
  • 2 bags Hairbo bears — $1.29/ea [for the gingerbread houses]
  • Brach candy — $2.00 [ditto]
  • Twizzlers — $2.79 [ditto]
  • bag of Nerds boxes — $2.99 [ditto]
  • 4 boxes Kroger graham crackers — $1.88/ea. [ditto]

Kroger — $4.08 (these were in my cart originally but somehow I missed them until I’d finished the first transaction so I had to start all over again just for these)

  • 2 Dove chocolate bars — $1.99 [plain for The Son; with almonds for The Daughter]

Kroger — $1.03 (we went in with just a mental list and then got distracted; luckily we remembered the powdered sugar before leaving the store)

  • Kroger powdered sugar — $1.00 (saved $0.99)
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One Response to “Day 114: Groceries Galore!”

  1. lee
    December 28th, 2007 @ 4:15 pm

    i make the graham cracker houses with my neices and my nephew. you can use pretzel sticks for siding and make them log cabins!

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