Is this really my life? I am someone who buys four gallons of milk a a time? When did this happen?
This is what ran through my head today at Sam's club as someone waited for me to get done loading the milk into my cart. I ran to Sam's club this morning since I had an opportunity to do it without kids. Last time I took all 3 kids and it was a bit crazy. The term "3 kids" is also something taking getting used to. I walked out of a friends house briefly without Lauren the other day.
Anyway - these were the contents of my cart...my shopping list only had five things on it.
Aforementioned Milk
Box of 204 size 1-2 Pampers (no explaination needed there)
Box of 1200 paper plates - we use these at lunch and when we are lazy. If we didn't use these we would have too many dishes to fit in our dishwasher. These are the really thin cheap ones and we use more than one at a time if neccessary.
Gallon of canola oil
Socks for Luke
Juice boxes - Nathan only likes the orange juice in Minute Maid juice boxes - fortunately he can get them and do the straw all by himself - so worth buying!
4 large bottles of apple juice - mainly for Julia who has a cup every morning
Potato chips and tortilla chips - $2.44 for the big bags...not bad
6.5 pounds of ground beef - at $1.88 a pound it is worth packaging into 1 pound bags and freezing
Frozen sausage patties - total impulse buy. I love sausage and this way I can make myself one patty at a time.
Laundry detergent - With five people now in this house the amount of laundry is getting out of hand. Our habit is to do laundry once a week but we are getting the point where we can't get it all done in one day.
Clorox toilet drop-in thingies - we have a four and five year old using out toilets.....
I think that is it. Wow - how suburban mom can I be? This is a far cry from my former life as a CPA. I am not saying there is anything wrong with my life now - but sometimes it just seems weird to me that I am that thirty-something suburban mom with three kids buying four gallons of milk at a time.
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I also really like my life, and it would have been just as surprising to me ten years ago had someone mentioned to me that I would read someone else's shopping list with rapt attention. Seriously, that was a fascinating read for me.
What is the cost of milk in Colorado? There have been debates raging for years about price gouging on milk in Chicago. The grocery stores sell a gallon for $3.89. Walgreens sells it for $2.89, but it is usually on sale at least once a week for $2.29. Sam's club is less, but the money we'd burn in gas getting there is greater than the savings we'd get. I've noticed that at least half the people leaving Walgreens have at least one gallon of milk with them - I'd be willing to guess that it is the milk that draws the majority of their customers. We go through a gallon every 2 days - so it is lucky for us that Walgreens is less than a mile away and pretty much on the way to everything!
Seriously, I feel your pain! Our shopping list has gotten so out of control that I only buy size 6 diapers for the kids (Julie at night and London all the time). London (3mo) isn't in a size 6, but they certainly don't hang off of him.
The laundry in a house of five is definitely out of control, I totally know where you are coming from.
(((HUG)))
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