Hello again! I can’t believe that we are into May already. I have no idea how we got here or what happened last week. Do you feel the need to write down every single thing that happens each day, so that you can refer back to it? Is it just me?
In Tracie’s weather updates: The weather is glorious here in Virginia at the moment. Soft evenings, with brisk mornings that you need a light jacket for, that segue into hot afternoons – that I avoid by not going outside – it’s lovely. I want it to last….. but Liva and I bought cucumber, zucchini, and yellow pear tomato seeds yesterday and I am itching to get them into the ground.
I have been ordering more things than I normally do from Amazon to keep myself out of the grocery stores. You’ll see below that I have a problem sticking to my list. So when I discover that I need something, I check the price against what I’d pay for it at Wal-Mart and if it’s relatively close in price, I order it from Amazon. Because A: it gets brought to my front door and B: I don’t end up spending $130 at Wal-Mart because I went in for $5.49 dishwasher cleaner.
This is a thing, BTW. Dishwasher cleaner. I’ve always used vinegar. I can hear you rolling your eyes…. My three year old dishwasher has started leaving grit on anything that I put in the top rack. We have done EVERYTHING to get it to stop. We have taken the stupid thing apart – and by we I mean Denton – he cleaned out all of the filters, I have cleaned everything on it inside and out, including the arms which are all clean, I have run multiple empty cycles with bowls of straight vinegar, and it’s somewhat better, but not great.
After visiting with Mr. Google and the plethora of morons on the internet, I finally stumbled upon someone who said that that grit is there because dishwashing detergent doesn’t contain phosphate anymore and that I needed to run several cycles with a dishwasher cleaner. Huh. We’ll see if this helps. And seriously. You would not believe how many people have asked about this problem online and had some wiseguy respond back and say “You should use a rinse aid to get rid of those water spots”. Really? We aren’t trying to get rid of water spots, but if we were I’m sure that would be super helpful. Thanks buddy.
All of that to say, here is what we spent on groceries last week:
Wal-Mart $7.85 on 05.01.19 | Food Lion $34.65 on 05.02.19 | Wal-Mart $85.93 on 05.06.19
Total spent for this week $128.43
January $740.71
February $631.00
March $689.00
April $405.44
May $128.43
And that’s it in the grocery haul department for our house. Are you keeping up with your grocery spending this year? Are you staying on track or do you just go with the flow?
Here are some ways I recoup part of my grocery budget each week:
ibotta | Checkout 51 | Receipt Hog | Walmart Savings Catcher
| Fetch (referral code – QF4TJ)
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