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vanillafluffyToday is the first day of the rest of my life. What am I going to do? Well, Disney World is right out. I can't afford that shit, even if it's a "mere" 50 miles away. At the moment, my checking account balance is entirely to the right of the decimal, I have a like amount in my wallet, and payday isn't til Friday (and I need to be damn stingy with that).
So, the time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things---like the current value of aluminum cans. I have one bagzilla full (50G) plus another 30G or so I need to consolidate. Not sure what that is in pounds, or, as I said, the current going rate, but I'm guesstimating at least $5 worth, maybe a bit more, and that goes a surprisingly long way at the shiny new Aldi's up the road.
So, my plan is, to gather up my cans, take them to the recycler, nip into Aldi's on the way back---location, location, location!---and commence to cleaning up my kitchen so I can cook in it. I've done nothing but dump dishes in the sink since before I left to housesit in JUNE, so it's an unholy mess. Okay, I may have taken out some trash and done a cursory chucking out of the science projects in the fridge, but the countertops and sink are dreadful.
Monday I cruised through Aldi's with Kat, having liberated a handful of change from my fast-dwindling piggy bank---got a 69-cent box of crackers, a $2 bag of shredded cheddar cheese and a pound of ground turkey for $1.19. With tax, it was something like $4.05, and such a nice, CLEAN store!
(Not like the local Save-A-Lot which was an A&P originally, about a million years ago when I first landed here. It's been about three different things in the interim, including closed down for a couple years, and it's depressing. Back when I was out of work before I started the medical billing job, HWSNBN decreed that economy was to be the watchword of our lives and we'd shop there, even if it did have a funky smell and some really inbred-looking customers.*)
I have some taco seasoning and shells from the food pantry run with BC---that, with the ground turkey, should get me a couple of meals, and depending on my haul from the cans, I may be able to add some sour cream (under $1) and a bag of potatoes ($2.49)---although that'll depend on whether anything else looks like an irresistable bargain. I saw a really interesting variety of stuff---this may actually be fun.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pwcorgigirl, any suggestions?
Cans, cleaning, cooking---no commuting! Yay! (At least while I catch my breath....)
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* Which is not to insinuate that all SAL stores are nasty OR that all of the customers that shop at this particular store are members of family trees that don't branch a lot. We saw some really scary specimens, though.
So, the time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things---like the current value of aluminum cans. I have one bagzilla full (50G) plus another 30G or so I need to consolidate. Not sure what that is in pounds, or, as I said, the current going rate, but I'm guesstimating at least $5 worth, maybe a bit more, and that goes a surprisingly long way at the shiny new Aldi's up the road.
So, my plan is, to gather up my cans, take them to the recycler, nip into Aldi's on the way back---location, location, location!---and commence to cleaning up my kitchen so I can cook in it. I've done nothing but dump dishes in the sink since before I left to housesit in JUNE, so it's an unholy mess. Okay, I may have taken out some trash and done a cursory chucking out of the science projects in the fridge, but the countertops and sink are dreadful.
Monday I cruised through Aldi's with Kat, having liberated a handful of change from my fast-dwindling piggy bank---got a 69-cent box of crackers, a $2 bag of shredded cheddar cheese and a pound of ground turkey for $1.19. With tax, it was something like $4.05, and such a nice, CLEAN store!
(Not like the local Save-A-Lot which was an A&P originally, about a million years ago when I first landed here. It's been about three different things in the interim, including closed down for a couple years, and it's depressing. Back when I was out of work before I started the medical billing job, HWSNBN decreed that economy was to be the watchword of our lives and we'd shop there, even if it did have a funky smell and some really inbred-looking customers.*)
I have some taco seasoning and shells from the food pantry run with BC---that, with the ground turkey, should get me a couple of meals, and depending on my haul from the cans, I may be able to add some sour cream (under $1) and a bag of potatoes ($2.49)---although that'll depend on whether anything else looks like an irresistable bargain. I saw a really interesting variety of stuff---this may actually be fun.
pwcorgigirl, any suggestions?Cans, cleaning, cooking---no commuting! Yay! (At least while I catch my breath....)
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* Which is not to insinuate that all SAL stores are nasty OR that all of the customers that shop at this particular store are members of family trees that don't branch a lot. We saw some really scary specimens, though.