$$: More Clothes, More Food, and Some Returns

As pre­dicted, my no-spend-day streak did not extend to a third day.  I man­aged to pro­cure a vehi­cle for the bet­ter part of the day but to do so I had to get up and get mov­ing ear­lier than I wanted to.  I won’t insult you reg­u­lar work­ing stiffs by telling you what I mean by “early.”

After get­ting The Son to “school” and The Hus­band to work, I man­aged to get sev­eral good errands done before hav­ing to head back to serve my vol­un­teer hours at the home­school co-op.

Tar­get — ($31.52)
I returned the Vick’s humid­i­fier with a bad fan.  I was so focused on my next errand that I for­got to check to see if they’d replen­ished their stock on that item.  I really will need to pick up another humid­i­fier before too long because our one func­tion­ing humid­i­fier sim­ply isn’t enough.

Aero­postale — $0.00
Here I did a straight-across-the-board exchange.  After dis­cov­er­ing that the 30x32 khakis I just bought are 1/4″ wider in the waist and 2″ longer than The Son’s cur­rent pair of 29x32’s (go fig­ure), I decided to keep one pair of 30x32’s and trade the sec­ond pair for 31x32’s.

The boy has grown another 1/4″ in the past three weeks.  And as skinny as he appears to remain, his waist size is expand­ing albeit not at the same rate as his height (thank goodness).

Eddie Bauer Out­let — $51.53
I hit pay­dirt here.  I found three beau­ti­ful but­ton­downs on the clear­ance racks for $9.99 each.  I picked out two striped oxford cloth shirts — one in a blue scheme and one in green (orig­i­nally $39.50)  The third shirt is a really soft, light­weight cot­ton moleskin-like fab­ric in a beau­ti­ful solid teal color (orig­i­nally $34.50).

There was a huge selec­tion of really hand­some shirts but I was look­ing specif­i­cally for non-poplin fab­ric for the com­ing colder win­ter months.

Then, in the check­out lane (they are good at hook­ing us, aren’t they?), I spied hot water bot­tles with down bot­tle cov­ers –  marked down 70%! I have been want­ing a new hot water bot­tle for no less than 5 years.  I kid you not.  So nat­u­rally, I bought two.  Each hot water bot­tle and cover set was $8.85 (orig­i­nally $29.50).

Kroger — $124.01

• gal­lon of Hori­zon organic 2% milk — $4.99 (saved $0.20)
• 1/2 gal­lon of Hori­zon organic choco­late milk — $3.49 (saved $0.20)
• 4 cans of Muir Glen reg­u­lar tomato sauce — $1.50/ea. (saved $0.39/ea.)
• 4 cans of Muir Glen no-salt tomato sauce — $1.50/ea. (saved $0.39/ea.)
• 2 bags of Bob’s Red Mill organic flour — $3.39/ea. (saved $0.60/ea.)
• Spice Island medium grind black pep­per — $3.68 (saved $1.81)
• Spice Island Ital­ian Spice mix — $3.68 (saved $1.81)
• Sim­ply Organic gar­lic salt — $3.49 (saved $1.50)
• Kroger raisin bran — $1.89
• Hori­zon sour cream — $2.00 (saved $0.99)
• Hill­shire Farms ham — $4.19
• Hill­shire Farms turkey — $4.19
• 2 Hun­gry Man frozen din­ners — 2.61/ea.
• Rudi’s Multi­grain Oat bread — $4.39
• 2 pome­gran­ates — $1.00/ea.
• 1.04# toma­toes — $2.09
• 5# box of clemen­tines — $5.99 (saved $2.00)
• 2.72# but­ter­nut squash — $1.36 (saved $1.33)
• 2 pack­ages of Clar­itin (30 count) — $19.99/ea.
• 1.51# broc­coli crowns — $3.00
• 5# bag of pota­toes — $3.79
• 6 Bartlett pears — $1.20
• 1.49# loose car­rots — $0.88
• 3 bag cred­its (should have received 4) — ($0.15)
• Spice Island coupon — ($1.00)
• Clar­itin coupon — ($1.00)

Eddie Bauer — ($10.80)
The Son really didn’t need three shirts (see above) — I just bought three so he could pick out which ones he wanted to keep.  He chose the green striped oxford­cloth and the solid teal shirt.  So, on the way to pick up The Hus­band from work, I made a quick detour to return the extra oxfordcloth.

(photo credit: Sub­ur­ban Wife)

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