Even though I am working at the hospital in the morning tomorrow, I'm happy it is the weekend. I had a quick, and easy day at the dental office today, and I'm planning out our grocery list for tonight. Friday nights are our grocery date night. We hate going on Saturday night, and Sunday is awful unless you get there at the butt crack of dawn. So, Friday nights have turned out to the perfect night to go. Everything is usually stocked pretty well on Friday nights, and less screaming children that make my uterus shrink. We don't usually go out or make plans for Friday night since we both work on Saturday, so its just evolved into our weekly little tradition. Mike's dad thought that we would give that up once I started school, but I budgeted that time for our grocery date every week.
Sure, it really doesn't require both of us, and we are probably a little on the weird side for being so routine about it....but this is what works for us. I don't have to get mad at him for picking up the wrong type of shampoo, and he won't get mad at me for picking up the wrong kind of beer. We plan our meals together based on our schedules for the next week, and we are usually on the same page about what to buy, so it's really not annoying to go shopping with them. As sickening as it may sound, we like going together, and have gone grocery shopping together every single week for the last 5 years, minus the weeks where we have gone on vacation. We intend on keeping it that way until something changes where we can't anymore.
We have changed something about our grocery shopping habits lately, by starting to clip coupons. It takes some work to get them organized, but it is worth it. Last week, we saved $20 on our grocery bill last week between coupons and the 5% discount we get because we have a Target Debit card. If we didn't do our grocery shopping at Target, I wouldn't bother with the Target Debit card, because I am annoyed that it takes days for it come out of our checking account......but because we do so much of our shopping there, it was stupid to NOT get one. If you spend $100 a week at Target, you save $520 a year just because you have their Debit card. Sure, you can get their Credit card, too....but that's a whole world of danger that I don't care to accept the invitation to. So, luckily, I am pretty anal about keeping our checkbook balanced, but its just annoying to have to wait to make sure it all balances because Target takes their sweet ol' time.
Oh! And Target has started putting coupons on their website for you to print out, and they can send text messages with coupons you can redeem from your smartphone. (Geez, am I sounding like a commercial for Target, or what?!) I also have been getting coupons for free from Coupons.com. I just like having coupons for stuff that we were going to buy anyway. If I wasn't planning on buying 10 Weight Watchers entrees, that $3 off coupon is no good to me. But a $1 off lunch meat that we would buy whether or not we had a coupon? Score in my opinion.
My mom was an extreme couponer before it became popular Like, bought 2 extra pantries, and a huge deep freezer because of the stuff she was buying. It was embarrassing when she would drag in what started as a small recipe box, and eventually turned into a shoe box into the grocery store, BUT, I was also pretty cool with the amount of Hot Pockets we always had stocked. (I mean, Hot Pockets were the shit when I was 13!!) I don't think I could ever put the kind of energy into it that my mom did, nor do I wish to turn our 2nd bedroom into my stockpile room, but I figure coupons allow us to keep more of our money, so why not? It's just the two of us right now, there is no way in hell I'm going to buy 10 bottles of ketchup just because I can get them for free. It's just not going to happen, but 50 cents off one bottle is ok with me.
I do, however, want to stockpile cheap frosting so I can practice frosting with my tips. Maybe a trip to the dollar store is in order, they sell frosting, right? I'd frost slices of bread, or on wax paper or something.....because those cupcakes I made the other night are gone, and I don't think it would be a good time to make more cupcakes to practice on! lol
Oh, and as for a nursing goal? I have to get over this fear of putting in my job applications. I will think about working on my resume, and putting in more applications this weekend!
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