Ellyn Oaksmith's Blog - Posts Tagged "saving-money"
Hoarding 101
When I am not feverishly working on my new book, $38,000 -- The Novel, (for those of you rightly getting on my case about the release -- Christmas, depending upon the speed and thoughts of my fearless first readers) I do things like drive my kid to the Justin Bieber Concert and watch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on my computer while Justin does his thing and my kids scream themselves silly.
Also, I grocery shop. But never like I did this morning, which was at a grocery store that was going out of business. I knew this place was closing. I'd stopped to get some eggs once and they didn't have any. End of story. Nope.
Today after my morning swim, I wandered, goggle rings circling my eyes, wet-haired and bedraggled, through Albertsons perusing empty shelves for anything of use. I found enough to justify the trip. More importantly, I discovered what people will do for 75% off their grocery bill.
They will skip work, returning again and again like looters until the shelves are stripped bare. They will wait in line with carts loaded with breakfast cereal and canned soup for a long, long time. They will chat about darned near anything to the other shoppers. (Cart loaded with Depends? Good story.) They will rejoice and laugh at their savings.
They will wander the barren aisles under harsh light in a scene reminiscent of a post apocolyptic action movie looking for something they can use and buy and most importantly -- save money on. They will stand in the parking lot behind their SUV loaded to the gills with non perisble food and read their arm-length receipt as if it is the hottest best seller. They saved $300 or more and they want to tell you about it. And they did the same thing yesterday.
What was my biggest savings? A Keurig coffee cup carousel. Would I have bought it if it wasn't 75% off? No. Did I really need four jars of cinammon sticks? No. Was it good clean fun? Absolutely.
Happy October.
Also, I grocery shop. But never like I did this morning, which was at a grocery store that was going out of business. I knew this place was closing. I'd stopped to get some eggs once and they didn't have any. End of story. Nope.
Today after my morning swim, I wandered, goggle rings circling my eyes, wet-haired and bedraggled, through Albertsons perusing empty shelves for anything of use. I found enough to justify the trip. More importantly, I discovered what people will do for 75% off their grocery bill.
They will skip work, returning again and again like looters until the shelves are stripped bare. They will wait in line with carts loaded with breakfast cereal and canned soup for a long, long time. They will chat about darned near anything to the other shoppers. (Cart loaded with Depends? Good story.) They will rejoice and laugh at their savings.
They will wander the barren aisles under harsh light in a scene reminiscent of a post apocolyptic action movie looking for something they can use and buy and most importantly -- save money on. They will stand in the parking lot behind their SUV loaded to the gills with non perisble food and read their arm-length receipt as if it is the hottest best seller. They saved $300 or more and they want to tell you about it. And they did the same thing yesterday.
What was my biggest savings? A Keurig coffee cup carousel. Would I have bought it if it wasn't 75% off? No. Did I really need four jars of cinammon sticks? No. Was it good clean fun? Absolutely.
Happy October.
