Day 218: Food, Parking, and a Shaving Kit

Ein­stein Bros. Bagels — $7.99
After church, The Son and I stopped for a half-dozen plain bagels and a tub of plain schmear.  It’s been a while since he’s asked for what used to be our weekly after-church bagel stop.

Nat­ural Gro­cers — $27.42
Yes­ter­day I picked up the huge con­tainer of pro­tein pow­der I’d ordered (not through Vit­a­min Cot­tage, rather through the Lavage prac­tioner).  Today I needed to shop for the other ingre­di­ents she wants me to put in his daily smoothies/shakes.

When I got home from the store I whipped up my first shake.  It did not get rave reviews.  In fact, it’s evi­dent that it’s going to come down to a bat­tle of the wills if I’m to get him to drink two of these things every day.  I can’t even imag­ine what it’s going to take to get him to fin­ish just this one.

In addi­tion to the pro­tein pow­der, each shake is sup­posed to con­tain a por­tion of fiber, pro­bi­otic, and essen­tial oils.  Because of my aller­gies, I can’t taste the con­coc­tion I brewed for him this after­noon but he hasn’t been shy in telling me how bad it is.  I promised we’d keep work­ing on the recipe but he doesn’t seem con­vinced that we’ll have much suc­cess. 

• Life­way straw­berry kefir — $2.65 (saved $0.30)
• Cas­ca­dian Farm frozen straw­ber­ries — $3.65
• Cas­ca­dian Farm frozen peaches — $3.54
• Santa Cruz orange mango juice — $2.39 (saved $1.10)
• Udo’s oil — $10.79
• Brown Cow plain yogurt — $1.89 (saved $0.50)
• Newman’s Own peanut but­ter cups — $1.19

Park­ing — $2.00
Charged to my WaMu debit card since I didn’t have any cash on my per­son.  The Daugh­ter and I attended a Col­lege Fair at a local uni­ver­sity. We were there for two hours — it was exhaust­ing but inter­est­ing and very pro­duc­tive.  If noth­ing else, it helped The Daugh­ter decide that she’s more inter­ested in a small lib­eral arts col­lege instead of a huge state university.  Her GPA is strong and her PSAT and PLAN scores this year were promis­ing.  She liked that many of the recruiters from the smaller col­leges had heard of and were famil­iar with the high school she attends.  In the end, it will all come down to the finan­cial pack­age.  We’re not inter­ested in her grad­u­at­ing with debt and The Hus­band is pretty clear on what he’s pre­pared to pay (basi­cally the cost for a 4-year in-state pub­lic uni­ver­sity).  At this point, my fin­gers are crossed hop­ing that we can find a school that’s a good fit for her that will offer a com­pa­ra­ble finan­cial pack­age.  Since she’s still just a sopho­more, we’ve still got plenty of time before deci­sions are made.

Lee’s Razors — $140.89  [www.leesrazors.com]
After doing a lot of research and price com­par­isons, I finally felt ready to invest in shav­ing equip­ment for The Son.  I plan to write an entire post ded­i­cated to my rea­son­ing behind fancy shav­ing equip­ment as opposed to the more com­mon dis­pos­able blades and canned shav­ing cream — look for that post soon.

In the meantime, I’m sure you’re dying to know what that kind of money bought, right?  Well, here we go.  I bought a three-piece shav­ing set for $119 that included:

• a Merkur HD (heavy duty) dou­ble edged safey razor
• a Vul­fix #2233 Super Bad­ger shav­ing brush
• a chrome shav­ing stand (holds the brush and the razor)

I also pur­chased a sam­pling of razor blades — 10 blades each of the three brands I’ve heard most about:

• Derby — $4.50
• Feather — $5.99
• Merkur — $4.90

Related posts:

1. Day 236: Lavage, Food, Park­ing, & Auto
2. Day 225: Din­ing, Toi­letries, Pic­tures, Con­trac­tor, and a Tournament
3. Day 203: Duct Tape, Park­ing, Food, Easter, Clothes
4. Day 106: Car stuff, Church stuff, Christ­mas stuff and a big Stu­pid Tax
5. Day 110: Brush­ing Up, Dress­ing Up, and Bagels