Day 192: Groceries

Posted on | March 11, 2008 |

I got home late last night to bare cupboards.  I definitely felt like Old Mother Hubbard especially when I had to scrape together a sack lunch for The Daughter and The Son this morning and had the prospect of two hungry teenaged boys to provide for.

My mom and I spent a great deal of time today running children to and from class and activities.  We spent the rest of the day at the bank setting up checking and savings accounts and CDs with the proceeds of yesterday’s house sale.  The buyer had shown up with a cashier’s check so the money was wired into my checking account yesterday afternoon.  For a few short hours there, I had some serious cash in my checking account  :-)

It’s all been distributed now into 8-month CDs earning 4.0% APY.  We wanted to stick it somewhere very safe but earning as much interest as possible for now.  As usual, the people at my local Washington Mutual provided excellent service.  My mom had really been dreading this part of the process and was dragging her feet this morning when I said it was time to head to the bank.  I’m so very glad it turned out to be an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Kroger — $91.13

• 5 boxes of Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal — $3.00/ea (saved $0.69/ea.)
• 2 boxes of Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal — $3.00/ea. (saved $0.69/ea.)
• 2 boxes of Annie’s cereal — $2.50/ea. (saved $1.29/ea.)
• Purely O’s cereal — $3.00 (saved $1.29)
• Health Valley cereal — $4.29
• bag of pre-washed organic lettuce — $3.99
• Dove shampoo — $3.99
• Dove conditioner — $3.99
• Claritin — $17.99 (saved $1.00)
• english muffins — $3.29
• Hillshire Farm lunch meat — $3.99
• red cabbage — $2.05
• carrots — $0.49
• 3 Digiorno pizzas — $4.99/ea. (saved $1.70/ea.)
• Horizon chocolate milk — $3.19 (saved $0.50)
• Horizon whole milk — $2.88 (saved $0.41)

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