$$: Cases of Lemonade & Fuel

Posted on | November 9, 2008 |

Total Spent Today: $237.61

Not only am I SWI (shopping while impaired) but I’m also sick. I’ve completely lost my voice, my throat is killing me, and I ache! Boy do I ache.

So the last thing I felt like doing was leaving the house to go shopping. Too bad for me we were completely out of milk. Running out of milk is an absolute no-no in this house. I always eat Kashi cereal for breakfast/brunch. Plus, I had a bank deposit to make.

Vitamin Cottage — $166.69

gallon of Horizon organic 2% milk — $5.19
six tins of Crown Prince smoked oysters — $1.89/ea. (on sale)
4# Horizon salted butter — $3.59/ea. (on sale)
two cans of Santa Barbara green olives — $2.85/ea. ( a guilty pleasure of mine)
two bags of Ricola Cherry Mint cough drops — $1.99/ea.
two rolls of Ricola Cherry Mint cough drops — $0.85/ea.
three rolls of Ricola herbal throat drops — $0.85/ea.
three cases (36 bottles) of Santa Cruz organic limeade — $0.99/ea.
six cases (72 bottles) of Santa Cruz organic lemonade — $0.99/ea.

The Husband is a huge fan of the Santa Cruz limeade. The Son and I are pretty big fans of the lemonade. The Santa Cruz juices are downright delicious and every summer they go on sale. But I haven’t seen a $0.99 per-bottle price for about three years. And every summer I majorly stock up. A few weeks ago, we ran out. Drank our whole stock of lemonade, limeade, strawberry lemonade, and raspberry lemonade.

Did I mention that The Husband loves the limeade? He loves it so much that earlier this week he requested that I pick up a bottle — no matter the price. So, as soon as I left the store I called my love on his cell phone and told him about how I’d scored him 3 cases of the stuff. He was thrilled. He was even more thrilled tonight when I informed him that it turned out we had 4 cases of limeade (two of the lemonade cases ended up containing mixes of lemon- and limeade). I love how easy it is to please that man.

Safeway — $22.21
Sure, I felt awful but the Subaru needed fuel so I stopped at the Safeway to tank up. I pumped 10.430 gallons at $2.129 per gallon. The Impreza, purchased in June ‘07, has 35,884 miles on it. That’s a lot of mileage in 16 months.

Vitamin Cottage — $48.71
Yes, I was still sick and still felt half a step from collapsing but I had to take The Daughter over to a friend’s house so they could make a huge batch of cornbread for a chili cookout, so I stopped into the store again and picked up 4 more cases (48 bottles) of Santa Cruz lemonade. This time I was more careful to make sure there were no mixed cases.

Now the storage room is filled with 13 cases of Santa Cruz organic juice. I’m not a huge believer in extreme stocking-up but this is an exception. There’s not a doubt in my mind that we’ll consume every drop of that juice before it’s “best used by” date in July 2010.

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