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Change of Plans/Thoughts on Stocking Up

August 17th, 2005 at 02:14 am

Well change of dinner plans tonight - we're going out to a restaurant after all. Trying to coordinate times, menus, changes
of menus, etc. just got to be too crazy and Kevin told his mom we'd just go out to eat. She insisted that it was still
easier to eat here and Kevin told her it wasn't and that we'd all go out. I'm not sad about that! Yay! It will be nice
to visit with everyone =)

We filled up the 4Runner on Sunday. There was still about 1/4 of a tank left, and it STILL cost $35.00 to fill it. OUCH!
Currently, gas at our local Arco station is at $2.66. I've heard it will continue to rise until Labor Day and then there
will be a slight decline...before it starts inching it's way up again.

Man, everything is getting more expensive. It seems that every time I go to the grocery store, things are more expensive
than they were the week before. I used to spend about $75.00 - 80.00 every week for the two of us. I know that sounds
expensive, but really we eat nearly every meal at home or take it to work with us - we rarely eat out. Plus, prices in
Southern California are just outrageous anyway. Lately, though, it seems that the same items/amounts are costing us
about $100.00 a week. Pavilions has not been sending out their $10.00 off coupons - boy, I sure miss those! Hopefully
when they finish the remodel of this store they will start sending them out again. I've been shopping at Ralph's the
last few weeks because their flyers have had great coupons. I just got the new flyer today: 15oz box of Cheerios for .39,
64oz carton of Florida's Natural Premium orange juice for .39, and a 24 pack of Crystal Geyser water for $1.99. I think
those are great deals. I think I'm going to ask Kevin to help me re-arrange some things in the garage. Once things are
re-arranged, I think we'll have plenty of room to add a metal kitchen chef's rack (I saw them in the Target flyer - on sale
this week). Once the rack is in place, I'd like to start stocking up on some items. I do a little bit of that now, but with
prices so out of control - and more so to come with the outrageous fuel prices - I'd really like to stock up even more.
Obviously it would just be on the items we use, but I'd really like to have a 3-6 month supply of jams, canned chicken and
beef stock, peanut butter, canned tomatoes, pasta sauce, pasta, etc. I know for the things like pasta, flour and sugar we
will need to get airtight containers so that critters don't get to them. I still think it's a good idea. I'll talk to Kevin about
it this weekend and see what he says.

He's working two games this weekend so there's an extra $100.00. Way to go honey!

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