Yesterday I took my elderly neighbour to the hardware store the largest in our area, as she had to buy some plastic ground sheeting to cover her garden where she is not growing anything this year in it as she is going interstate for a few months this summer. Now the one she uses is a builder black plastic and you buy it by the roll, 20m $54.95, some cord to tie things up in the garden and around the house, you could buy this by the metre but no she wanted a roll of it $25.75. Another large plastic container $16.95, some garden supplies, odd and ends $48.35 worth so hardware trip costed about $146.00.
After I packed up the car it was off to the supermarket for just a few things and quick look at the new upgrade at this one or so I thought. She like the new upgrade and $66.00 later including a tray of 12 mangos @$3.48 each for her family she is visiting today. We are off the Chemist, bakers and the butcher at another shopping area closer to home. She picked up medicine, along with the 5 bread rolls that she likes. At butcher’s cooked chicken ham and egg all up around another $74.00. Now I wanted to go home but first I had to take her home then unpack the car with all her stuff that she bought before I could. I got given half the chicken for lunch and 2 slice of ham. So 3 hours later after we started out I got home and again I had a NO Spend Day.
I do know that she has to pay for taxis if she goes anywhere alike this on her own and where we live to and from the hardware store would have been around $40 each way. If I want to buy anything its best I go on my own that way I can fit it in the car.
Until next time!
Another Shopping Trip again
October 31st, 2010 at 10:23 am
October 31st, 2010 at 04:14 pm 1288541693
BTW, I enjoyed your posts on the rice and beans recipes. Very creative, healthy and yummy.
It's nice that you have summer coming into season down on your end of the planet. Brrrr, we're just getting into the end of the no-heat competition up here, with furnaces ready to go full blast.
October 31st, 2010 at 09:00 pm 1288558856
We are having a poor chop of mangoes this year so they are expensive. I will buy just one for a treatthis year if the price doesn't come down soon!