One Hundred Dollars a Month

Fred Meyer $6.49

Mrs, HB and I got together last week and went on a {grocery} shopping trip as well as made a few meals together. It wasn’t a major stock up trip for either of us but while we were at Fred Meyer we found some sweet deals on canned corn $0.34 {closeout price} and bread. I had been trying to hold out for a decent price on butter but so far everywhere I check butter is going for $2.99 a pound {even at Costco!}. How much is it selling for in YOUR neck of the woods?

Fred Meyer $35.37 $27.42

Sunday morning I checked the online ad for Fred Meyer and was super excited when I saw their mix and match buy 5 get each item for $0.99 deal. All I had to do was buy in multiples of 5. Cool, I can do that I thought. {{{{Is it supposed to be I thought, or I thought to myself? I never understood that one. Because seriously, who else are you going to think to? – Will one of you grammar pros please answer that for me?}}}}

I also snagged Gala apples for $0.88 a pound, Pears for $0.99, 3 pounds of mandarin oranges for $3.77 and a few things to make enchiladas later in the week.

And then the cashier rang up my groceries.

The total came to $35.37 and I knew that something was wrong. I knew I had 15 of the sale items, and that they should have all rung up at $0.99 cents each. But for some reason they didn’t. I told the cashier something didn’t ring up right but we couldn’t figure it out quickly and so because she had a line of peeps, I just paid and then wheeled my cart over to the customer service desk.

Look at this ad. Wouldn’t you think you could buy ANY of the items listed above in multiples of 5 and get them for $0.99 each? Well, apparently not. The customer service lady told me I had to buy 5 from each little section {like a combo of milk, eggs and bread items} to get the $0.99 price.

Maybe it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these mix and match sales, but it seemed pretty misleading to me.

So anyway, she told me that’s why I was charged the regular prices.

But then I showed her my receipt and pointed out that I had bought 4 bags of sugar and I received the discount. And that I had also bought 6 jugs of milk buy the discount was not given.

Kind of weird huh?

Anywho, to make a long story short, the lady at the customer service desk said the price of milk wasn’t coded properly in the computer system and that’s why the discount did not come off. She didn’t have an answer as to why the sugar did though.

Blah blah blah… Because of the confusion, and the error in the computer system, the lady at customer service ended up giving me all the mix and match items for $0.99 each. Which was nice, I guess.

But it also sort of bothered me and made me wonder how many jugs of milk they had sold to people at the non discounted price. And that after all this, I still thought the ad was misleading.

I will say this about Fred Meyer though, they do have excellent customer service. In the 20+ years I have been grocery shopping with them, whenever I’ve had a problem they are quick to fix it. They listen to the customers and really do try and solve the problem. 

The HH brought home some free salmon from a co-worker. Yee-Haw!

Costco $10.97

It’s pumpkin pie season people. And I will happily throw down $5.99 for a giant Costco pumpkin pie. Bananas were $1.39 and I only bought the tortilla chips {$3.59} because of the long weekend {meaning the boys would have snack food} and because I already had a jar of salsa in the pantry.

I love it when Costco is in full on sample food mode. But sometimes, their offerings stop me in my tracks and make me wonder… What is this? Why do I feel the need to try it? Who is buying this stuff?  What a waste of resources.

I think it was some sort of bacon cheese crisp. Which in my opinion, is just another reminder that snack foods are sucking more money out of our pockets than we think they are.

But hey now, have you seen this?

A full on chicken dinner for $15.99! Why would anyone go to KFC for a chicken dinner when you can get one at Costco for less than half the price?

Seriously. I need butter prices to come down before baking season!

Trash bags are kind of funny when you stop and think about it. You are literally buying a product to put trash in that you know you will be throwing away. Why not just toss $0.50 in the garbage can each week instead?

$1.25 for an apple. Remind me to start an apple orchard when I move. Tell me, would you rather pay $1.25 for an organic apple or $0.40 for a regular apple on sale from the grocery store?

And, last but not least, if you are in the market for some 10 foot arborvitae trees, Costco has them in stock! Or at least mine did. $24.99 for a 10 foot arborvitae tree. You can’t beat that!

How about YOU? Did you find any sweet deals this week?

~Mavis

Total Spent This Week $44.88

Total Spent in January on Groceries $202.99
Total Spent in February on Groceries $143.94
Total Spent in March on Groceries $183.35
Total Spent in April on Groceries $205.67
Total Spent on Groceries in May $248.60
Total Spent on Groceries in June $147.47
Total Spent on Groceries in July $293.63
Total Spent on Groceries in August $117.29
Total Spent on Groceries in September $44.88
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Total Spent in January on Take Out, Date Nights, and Bakery Treats $42.19
Total Spent in February on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $118.45
Total Spent in March on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $25.29
Total Spent in April on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $62.50
Total Spent in May on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $54.52
Total Spent in June on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $119.15
Total Spent in July on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $12.45
Total Spent in July on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $0
Total Spent in August on Take Out, Date Nights and Bakery Treats $114.85