Well, not much to report on the home front. Seriously. Reed and I have had the privilege this week and half of last to share one car, which means we have a lot of car time, to talk. I'm sure Reed loves this. :) Like any normal female, especially from my family, I can find so many interesting topics to talk about. I think Reed has gotten used to this, but I think I am spoiled, because to begin with, he was a good listener. Or at least he fakes it really well! :)
I did learn a rather funny lesson today about Reed. We went to Albertsons to cash in on their great cereal sale they're having right now. And we ended up with quite a few boxes of cereal which would require ringing up on the cash register several times. And this store had no self-checkout lanes. So, we get in line in front of this older couple, (all the register lines were fairly longish) and I get all situated, pumping myself up to convince the lady at the register to help us to get the most for our money on our cereal buys.
Reed was starting to look uncomfortable as I got everything arranged on the conveyor, so I tried to talk him through what we were about to do.
"Okay, Reed. I'll buy the first five boxes, and then you buy the next five boxes and then we'll ask the cashier to ring up our last 5 boxes as another sale." Reed clearly was not sold on this idea. His first response, "I don't have any money on me." "That's okay, I do, I'll just hand you some money." He looked skeptical but knew I wasn't going to let him off so easy.
In the end, he was saved by the fact that one of his former co-workers happened to see him, and he went off to see how his friend was doing, while I successfully achieved 3 separate sales in one line, with one very nice cashier. (And one very elderly lady quite antsy to get her order rung up. She was clearly crowding me. :) Oh well, maybe she couldn't tell.) I'd like to add that frankly, not having Reed there at the time of the ring-up helped me to not pick up on his uncomfortable vibes, 'cause I was quite comfortable saving lots of money on boxes of good cereal.
What can we learn? Some people care about saving money, even if it might mean they get other people annoyed. And sometimes spouses are better at doing the heavy lifting than being your "partner in crime." What did you learn from this story?
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It brought back memories of when Mom would leave me at the checkout with money or all the groceries and tell me "I just have to run and grab some...". The whole time she was gone I always worried if she was gonna be back in time. :^>
I have a little of Reed's fear in me, especially because I've had an experience before where I thought I was doing everything right and was going to save a ton of money and then there was a mistake. That ticks me off. I was at an Albertson's on Mon where a lady had at least 6 carts of cereal. Yes, that was carts, not boxes! They just told people to pick another lane if they didn't want to wait forever. If you have a really good Albies then the cashiers are understanding and will try to warn the people behind you that it might be a little wait. A few years ago when they had the Kelloggs sale, I was buying 75 boxes (which was a few carts full) and they informed the people behind me of the wait. You were only buying a few boxes compared to what some people buy. I bought 56! (but I used the self-checkout and had some "helpers" who had to run the coupons and boxes for me). :^>
what did I learn from this posting? I learned to stick up for myself more 'cause that's what everyone else is doing! :^>
Mom must have done this on every shopping trip. I think it was her method of getting to the front of the line fast. She'd use a kid as her placeholder and go off to get the last of her groceries while we stood in line. I was always frightened to death that we'd get to the end of the transaction and Mom would still be off shopping. But no, she usually got back in time to pay for the groceries!
I remember Mom making us all stand in different lines so she could get a good deal on butter!! We all would buy the limit of butter (or whatever) at a different checkstand! Don't you guys remember that??
I too remember frequently being left by mom in line, while she went to go grab "one more thing she forgot". I always worried about getting the checker mad at me.
the thing you all have to remember is that you're not doing anything wrong. (I know it feels like it since this sale is so unbelievable).
You have the coupons, and you are simply buying sale items.
Believe me, you aren't the first or last people buying cart loads of cereal that these cashiers have seen!
And most managers welcome you buying cart loads. they stocked up with the idea that many people would buy cart loads.
On Wednesday I went to the older Nampa Albertsons and a manager there said that he thought they might have ordered a bit to much cereal and he hoped there would be enough people to buy it all.
I know the Caldwell Albertsons did the same thing.
So these store managers are prepared for you, all the cashiers I've encountered have been nice and helpful, and overall other shoppers have been understanding.
The only bit of advice I would give is that if you are going to multiple transactions, try and go when there aren't a million people in the store. 8-9am is usually a good time.
Hey hun i just wanted to let you know that my new blog is thestephensonsfamily2008.blogspot.com. wewere haveing some problems so we had to starte over....hope all is going good...and thank you for the invite to the babyshower.
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