Addendum to November 11 Spending

Posted on | November 13, 2008 |

Total Spent Today: $111.44

Ever wake up in the morning and have no recollection of where you went or what you did the day before? Okay, ever have that happen without the influence of alcohol?

All day today I’ve been freaked out by the fact that I posted Tuesday’s expenses thinking I was completely coherent only to discover that I completely forgot about the existence of a 3-stop shopping trip! I was driving; I was driving. And yet, just a few hours later when I wrote my post, I apparently had no memory of having done so. I guess I hadn’t recovered as much from being ill as I thought I had.

So, here’s the result of that out-of-body shopping experience on Tuesday, November 11:

Safeway: $33.43
The Tank needed gas so I stopped and pumped 16.478 gallons at $2.029 per gallon. The odometer at the time read 134,558.

Target: $21.61
After striking out at Kohl’s in my search for PJs for The Husband’s special-needs adult son, I decided that the pajama sets I’d seen at Target would do. We’d been hoping I’d find some with cuffs on the pant legs but an Internet search made me decide that such a style simply isn’t available right now.

Because I didn’t need to go to Costco, I visited the Target closest to our house. I assumed — erroneously, of course — that all of the stores would have the same offerings. The PJ sets I’d seen were not available at this particular Target. Instead, I happened upon a different style. They were a couple of dollars more expensive and have t-shirt tops instead of long sleeves, but they came in character designs. I picked out a pair with a “Grinch & Max” design. I think The Husband’s son will love them. And in case he doesn’t, or in case his mom vetos them, I asked for a gift receipt.

While at Target, I’d hoped to exchange (or at least return) the Vick’s humidifier I purchased on Sunday. Unfortunately, though I’d taken great care to package the unit with all the original packaging materials, I forgot to include the manual and other paperwork that was included in the box. The clerk wouldn’t accept the return without it. The paperwork was buried among my other papers on the kitchen table so now I have to make another trip over there.

When I had unboxed the humidifier, filled the tank, plugged it in, and turned it on, the fan made an awful, loud grinding noise. I have last year’s version of the exact same model and I know it’s not supposed to sound like that. So Tuesday I was all set to buy a replacement and worry about returning the first one some other time but this particular store was all sold out of that particular model. I guess it just wasn’t my night.

Whole Foods — $56.40
I know I keep saying that I’m done shopping at Whole Foods but, gosh darn it, it’s fairly convenient to other places I shop and I’m a pathetic creature of habit. The annoyance this time: they’ve cut way back on their inventory offerings, moved everything they did keep to new locations in the store, and they’re still just too gosh darned expensive.

I really needed to pick up a bag of flour but one of the products they’ve cut is Bob’s Red Mill organic unbleached flour. They still offer the tiny bags of specialty flours but no big bags of regular, everyday organic wheat flour.

Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal — $2.99 (can that be right? I wasn’t marked as being on sale on the shelf)
2# Horizon organic salted butter — $3.50/per pound
quart of Organic Valley buttermilk — $2.99
4 half boneless, skinless chicken breasts — $15.31
@ 2# 85% lean grass-fed ground beef — $5.95
house brand grated Parmesean cheese — $3.49
Organic Valley ricotta cheese — $7.49
fresh mozzarella log — $7.99
bag of Ricola herbal cough drops — $1.99
bag credit — ($0.10)

All of us are really jonesing for some fresh fruit and veggies but I simply did not feel up to evaluating produce. I should have picked up something frozen but it didn’t occur to me. I guess this really qualifies as a SWI (shopping while impaired) day.

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