Lessons Learned
This past week was an interesting one, with a few things learned along the way!
Experience #1: On Tuesday, I went to Target to pick up a few things like toilet paper, pull ups (gotta be ready if Ryan decides to cooperate with the the potty, right?) and soda. Since the TP took up so much room, I put it under the basket. I paid for everything, walked out to the car, emptied the basket, and put the cart in the corral - forgetting the 3 packages of soda.
It wasn't until I was pulling out that I realized I hadn't loaded up the soda into the car, so I looked over towards the cart and saw a man quickly loading MY soda into the back of his truck. It wasn't more than just 60 seconds between the time I got into my car and saw this happening. He MUST have seen me leaving the cart with soda on the bottom and getting into my car. Instead of saying something, he takes it.
What would you do if you were him in this case? I know that I would have tried to find the person who mistakenly left the soda. If I couldn't find them, I would have taken it back inside because it wasn't mine.
What would you do if you were me and saw this man helping himself to your soda? (He was driving a really nice truck, by the way.) What did I do? I let it be and cursed myself for not loading it up into my car all the way home. (Luckily, I used coupons, so it was cheap!) I thought about stopping, rolling down my window and asking him to load it into my car instead. But unfortunately these days, you never know about people. *sigh*
Lesson learned: Pay attention and load EVERYTHING into the car, OR don't put anything below the cart!
Experience #2: Today, I ran to Shaws to pick up a few more things! (HUGE sales this week!) I had Ryan and Megan with me. Usually they are pretty good, but they can be distracting - especially when checking out, I like to watch the screen to make sure that I'm getting all the discounts and prices I'm planning on.
I had split my groceries into two different orders to take advantage of a Catalina* (cash back to use on your next transaction) that was going to print out. (Did you know that you can do that? Split things up so you use them right away! It doesn't take much longer than paying for everything at once!) Anyway, the first transaction went through fine. The second transaction didn't. Of course, I was herding Megan and Ryan through in the cart and didn't realize that the checker hadn't scanned my store card for the second transaction! In the end, my groceries totaled about $92, after coupons it was about $65. That didn't seem right to me though, it was a lot higher than the $30 (for both transactions) I had calculated at home. But, they were already working on the next customer and the kids were getting antsy.
So, I took everything out to the car, loaded up the kids, started the car, and pulled out my receipt. It definitely wasn't right. The Hamburger Helper that was supposed to be only $1 a box rang up at $2.50!! Eeeek! When you buy 15 boxes, that adds up! I turned off the car, got the kids back out into the shopping cart, and went back in to the service desk, where we determined that my card wasn't scanned. I should have caught that - and the checkout guy should have caught it too, but we didn't. Anyway, they credited my account $46 - which in the end with both transactions was about right - whew!
Lesson learned: Either don't take the kids with me to the store so I can pay attention to the check out, OR make sure I check my receipt every time I shop!
Experience #3: This one requires a little bit of faith and knowing that we were blessed because we pay our tithing. A few weeks ago, Ric and I had our annual eye exams. If you don't know, Ric has reading glasses now that he uses at work. We found out that his prescription had changed, so he needed new glasses. (We think this is the reason that he was getting dizzy at work, his Rx was off!)
His prescription for new glasses had been sitting on my desk for a week. On Monday, I was surfing my regular coupon/frugal living blogs and saw a post that listed a sale on men's frames and lenses for a particular company. (Are you sitting down for this?) I found some VERY stylish frames, which included single vision lenses (anti-glare and all that), for ONLY $6.95. YES, you read that right, SIX DOLLARS and NINETY FIVE CENTS! Add the shipping and his completed pair of reading glasses was less than $15!
We couldn't go wrong to try this company, and we didn't. His glasses arrived today - they are very modern and the Rx is right. He's taking them to work tomorrow to see if he still has problems with getting dizzy. If he seems to be OK, I'm ordering ANOTHER PAIR! Why not? One for work and one for home! :)
Just so you know, the company is Coastal Contacts in Blaine Washington. I'm sure we'll be using them again! Even if we have to pay more for glasses!
Lesson Learned: Paying our tithing definitely blesses our family. We don't have a lot of extra money for things like this, especially since we used all of our flex spending for my gall bladder experience! Gotta love glasses for $14.38! :) We'll post pictures so you can see that we didn't pick up a cheap pair, they're actually very stylish!
PS - I have to share what we had for dinner tonight - Grilled Bruschetta Chicken. It was to die for! So easy, and didn't take more than 20 minutes to make! We're going to try the same ingredients on a pizza next - YUM!
Experience #1: On Tuesday, I went to Target to pick up a few things like toilet paper, pull ups (gotta be ready if Ryan decides to cooperate with the the potty, right?) and soda. Since the TP took up so much room, I put it under the basket. I paid for everything, walked out to the car, emptied the basket, and put the cart in the corral - forgetting the 3 packages of soda.
It wasn't until I was pulling out that I realized I hadn't loaded up the soda into the car, so I looked over towards the cart and saw a man quickly loading MY soda into the back of his truck. It wasn't more than just 60 seconds between the time I got into my car and saw this happening. He MUST have seen me leaving the cart with soda on the bottom and getting into my car. Instead of saying something, he takes it.
What would you do if you were him in this case? I know that I would have tried to find the person who mistakenly left the soda. If I couldn't find them, I would have taken it back inside because it wasn't mine.
What would you do if you were me and saw this man helping himself to your soda? (He was driving a really nice truck, by the way.) What did I do? I let it be and cursed myself for not loading it up into my car all the way home. (Luckily, I used coupons, so it was cheap!) I thought about stopping, rolling down my window and asking him to load it into my car instead. But unfortunately these days, you never know about people. *sigh*
Lesson learned: Pay attention and load EVERYTHING into the car, OR don't put anything below the cart!
Experience #2: Today, I ran to Shaws to pick up a few more things! (HUGE sales this week!) I had Ryan and Megan with me. Usually they are pretty good, but they can be distracting - especially when checking out, I like to watch the screen to make sure that I'm getting all the discounts and prices I'm planning on.
I had split my groceries into two different orders to take advantage of a Catalina* (cash back to use on your next transaction) that was going to print out. (Did you know that you can do that? Split things up so you use them right away! It doesn't take much longer than paying for everything at once!) Anyway, the first transaction went through fine. The second transaction didn't. Of course, I was herding Megan and Ryan through in the cart and didn't realize that the checker hadn't scanned my store card for the second transaction! In the end, my groceries totaled about $92, after coupons it was about $65. That didn't seem right to me though, it was a lot higher than the $30 (for both transactions) I had calculated at home. But, they were already working on the next customer and the kids were getting antsy.
So, I took everything out to the car, loaded up the kids, started the car, and pulled out my receipt. It definitely wasn't right. The Hamburger Helper that was supposed to be only $1 a box rang up at $2.50!! Eeeek! When you buy 15 boxes, that adds up! I turned off the car, got the kids back out into the shopping cart, and went back in to the service desk, where we determined that my card wasn't scanned. I should have caught that - and the checkout guy should have caught it too, but we didn't. Anyway, they credited my account $46 - which in the end with both transactions was about right - whew!
Lesson learned: Either don't take the kids with me to the store so I can pay attention to the check out, OR make sure I check my receipt every time I shop!
Experience #3: This one requires a little bit of faith and knowing that we were blessed because we pay our tithing. A few weeks ago, Ric and I had our annual eye exams. If you don't know, Ric has reading glasses now that he uses at work. We found out that his prescription had changed, so he needed new glasses. (We think this is the reason that he was getting dizzy at work, his Rx was off!)
His prescription for new glasses had been sitting on my desk for a week. On Monday, I was surfing my regular coupon/frugal living blogs and saw a post that listed a sale on men's frames and lenses for a particular company. (Are you sitting down for this?) I found some VERY stylish frames, which included single vision lenses (anti-glare and all that), for ONLY $6.95. YES, you read that right, SIX DOLLARS and NINETY FIVE CENTS! Add the shipping and his completed pair of reading glasses was less than $15!
We couldn't go wrong to try this company, and we didn't. His glasses arrived today - they are very modern and the Rx is right. He's taking them to work tomorrow to see if he still has problems with getting dizzy. If he seems to be OK, I'm ordering ANOTHER PAIR! Why not? One for work and one for home! :)
Just so you know, the company is Coastal Contacts in Blaine Washington. I'm sure we'll be using them again! Even if we have to pay more for glasses!
Lesson Learned: Paying our tithing definitely blesses our family. We don't have a lot of extra money for things like this, especially since we used all of our flex spending for my gall bladder experience! Gotta love glasses for $14.38! :) We'll post pictures so you can see that we didn't pick up a cheap pair, they're actually very stylish!
PS - I have to share what we had for dinner tonight - Grilled Bruschetta Chicken. It was to die for! So easy, and didn't take more than 20 minutes to make! We're going to try the same ingredients on a pizza next - YUM!
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