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Convenience Fees

This week, I had a crazy week.  Super crazy.  Busy, not a lot of free time.  So I decided to use an online grocery delivery service.  If you knew just how close I live to a grocery store, you would find this ridiculous.

But I have to admit, it was really convenient.  For a nominal fee, [...]

Dining out… again

Back from training.  I always go into training classes a bit wary.  I’ve done really great classes and really awful classes, and thanks to those awful ones, I tend to dread going.  Thankfully, this class was great!  I really wanted to get some blog entries written over the week, but there just wasn’t time with [...]

Continuing to clear out the cabinets

Over the weekend, I continued to clean out my kitchen cabinets.  The task is finally complete.  I didn’t have to throw out too much, but I was very disappointed in all the things that I inadvertently let go bad (or at least were past the expiration date – and I’m not that adventurous of an [...]

Making a coupon “worth it”

As I’m writing this, I just got back from the grocery store.  I had a 5% off coupon good for my entire purchase (with some exceptions, of course).  The coupon was set to expire on 12/25, and I wasn’t sure when I would have time to do a serious shop before then, so when the [...]

So you stock up and save, but where do you put it?

Right now, I have four boxes of cereal stored in my laundry basket in my bedroom closet.

(And as I write that, I wonder why I’ve never stored anything in there before.  Sure, I have to dump it out when I do the laundry, but it wouldn’t be a bad place to store laundry detergent.)

Why, you [...]