the dark side of not shopping
The last time Mister Ant and I went to the grocery store, it was June.
June.
We ran out of the stuff we usually depend on about two weeks ago. In the meantime, we haven’t been able to brown-bag for lunch. We’ve been improvising for beverages and snacks for two weeks. We’ve been eating stuff like ramen, hot dogs, pop tarts… Oh, it’s been awful. And I have no idea how much the convenience store runs and lunch runs have cost us. But we haven’t gone because we’ve been running around doing stuff, and because we have to go TOGETHER. (Don’t ask me, ask Mister Ant.)
So of course, when we went yesterday, we had to buy more than we usually do, because we tend to go bi-weekly.
About $80 more. Of course, about $20 of that was for non-grocery contact lens solution, but still. I had sticker shock at the register. We need to shop more often.
