If you will recall, I had planned to not shop much in the month of November. One of the reason was to continue reducing down our stockpile in addition to not wanting to leave a lot of food in our refrigerator while we were away. So it was starting to look a little bare around here and we had already plan to do a major shopping trip the first of December.<\/p>\n
I was super excited to find out that Starbuck’s K-cup were going to be on an awesome sale at Harris Teeter this week, Matt was even more excited than I was!\u00a0 The deal was part of “stock up” where you must buy 5 or more of an item to get the best price. 5 10 cup packs of Starbuck K cup for $25 is a good deal to begin with but I also had enough coupons for 10 boxes.. After looking over the ad, I planned to also purchase the 24 packs of water along with some can vegetables and cheese as well.\u00a0 I love Harris Teeter an even after my problems today, they still are my favorite store. The problems started at check out, I am very careful to\u00a0watch all my coupons but the computer\u00a0can sometimes not always be kind.\u00a0The first problem\u00a0that was an easy fix with a manager key is that it said I had too many coupons.\u00a0The store policy is that they will double up to 20 coupons a day.\u00a0I actually only had 13 coupons to\u00a0double but I had around 10 coupons that were\u00a0valued at $1.50 or more and would not double.\u00a0I guess the computer does not recognize the difference.\u00a0 Next as\u00a0my receipt was printing, I realized that my waters had not rang up at the EVIC price, this can only be corrected at the service desk. I was disappointed but it happens so I stopped by the desk.\u00a0\u00a0 Matt did make the comment that it seems that we had spent a lot for a trip and our saving was not adding up. I started looking over the receipt and realized that only 5 of my packs of K cups had rang up at the correct price. Luckily we were less than 5 minutes from the store so we turned around and headed back to the service desk. They were already aware of the problem but it still took around 15 minutes to get my $12 refund back to me. I am so glad that I was using cash this day because it makes all the changes and refunds much easier!<\/p>\n
Next we stopped at JC Penny’s to return a pair of boots, I order over Thanksgiving. I have wide feet and fat calves\u00a0 so finding boots to fit is near impossible. I tried on around 20 pair in the store now of which fit the way I wanted. I did find 2 pair of boots that I really liked that were available with wide calves, so I purchased both to be shipped to my house. UPDATE: One pair arrived and does not fit!\u00a0 I guess I will stick to the short ugly ones I have!<\/p>\n
After grabbing some lunch, we headed to Costco where we need to purchase lots of fruits and vegetables in\u00a0 addition to milk, eggs, bacon, cream cheese, etc.\u00a0 You get the idea and after spending over $400 you would think this would be the end to my grocery shopping. Not so, I also had to go to Aldi to pick up turkey and backing supplies.\u00a0 Even Aldi did not get my order right today. I was charged for 3 rugs instead of 2 but caught the mistake before leaving the store so I was able to get a cash refund as well.<\/p>\n
We currently have $15 left in our grocery budget for the month, which will certainly be used to purchase last-minute party supplies for school and home.\u00a0 As you can tell, today was not the easiest shopping day and I am so glad that I have no plans to shop for groceries again until after Christmas!\u00a0 Matt mostly likely will be making the trip to pick up items as they are needed!<\/p>\n
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If you will recall, I had planned to not shop much in the month of November. One of the reason was to continue reducing down our stockpile in addition to not wanting to leave a lot of food in our … Continue reading