An Adventure to the Grocery Store

I know, you're thinking, my, she really must be running out of material already. This post is obviously going to be riveting. A trip to the grocery store. Really, Carolyn?

But stick with me here.

Rob and I go to the grocery store together every week. Before we go, we sit down together and meal plan for the week and make the list. We check the ad paper and look at the coupons we have. I've convinced Rob to let me assign a meal to every day of the week instead of just seeing what we feel like. It's helpful to me (and part of my Type A, let's face it) to have it all planned out so if Rob's not home yet I can just start dinner and know that's the plan.

Rob usually drives and parks in the same area -- near the road, almost the farthest spot possible.

We frequently wonder if the employees at the Pick N' Save like us or think "Oh God, here comes that couple" when we walk in the door. I like to think that they like us.

We have our routine -- Rob pushes the cart, I'm in charge of the list. (Isn't crossing things off of a list just the best?)

(Are we a 70 year old retired couple?!)

This is where we veer from the bounds of what I consider most people's shopping habits. (I'm sure we're not the only ones out there who do this. Maybe under the age of 50. But not the only ones). This week we needed new trash bags. First of all, we buy two different kinds. One for the kitchen garbage. The other for the non-paper recycling. Technically we have co-mingled recycling, but if you put it in the paper bag it gets used up too quickly. And there is just something that makes me uncomfortable with putting a used can in a trash can with no bag. But you can't recycle plastic bags. And we recycle quite a bit and the garbage bags we buy for the garbage are kind of expensive. So, we buy a second type of bag that is cheaper and then Rob just dumps out the contents in the big recycling bin and throws out the bag. (Whew. I didn't realize how much back story I'd need to write for this).

SO. We are in the store looking at the garbage bags. We've bought them before -- should be easy to pick out what you want. First up, recycling bags. Roundy's bags are on sale! The twist tie ones are like 14.1 cents each. (We look at the price per unit. For every bag we consider. This is why -- I kid you not -- we spent at least 5 minutes in that aisle looking at the garbage bags). Then, we get the Glad flexy bags withhout Febreeze because those bags STINK. But wait -- what about all of these other bags. How much are they? Decomposable bags end up being the cheapest at 13.2 cents each (or something like that. It was 2 days ago, I'm paraphrasing).

I must say, we don't do this every week or with every item. But it amazes me how much time we can spend in the grocery store.

I'm so glad that we do it together though. I think it turns something that could be a chore into a fun adventure!