The Club

It's been just out of my reach for weeks, but on Sunday my bulk-buying dreams came true: We got a membership to the Club.

If you are not sure which Club I am referring to, I mean the Club that puts all other clubs to shame: Sam's Club. WOO HOO!!!!

I love a store where:

1. You have the option of pushing around a flatbed on wheels instead of a cart.
   
2. A box of granola bars weighs more than you do.
3. You can buy toilet paper that hasn't been opened.... gross, who does that?
   

I walked around laughing at the possibilities. We needed more Clorox, but did I need 4 containers of it? Probably not.

We settled on a few necessities:

Note how incredibly bad ass Adam is trying to look
while standing next to a tower of paper products.

The problem with buying things in mass quantities is finding a place to put it all.

If you've got a spill, I've got you covered.

So, after becoming part of the Sam's Club elite, I thought it couldn't get any better. How wrong I was. Today I had another fantastic Kroger find! This evening's find was much less disturbing than my last find.

Gummy bears for a quarter?!?! Yippie! I'll take 8 of 'em!

I promise they are not expired, open, or otherwise adulterated.... At least I hope not.

Cheapy TP update

I have not used the toilet paper yet.

It still makes me a little nervous.

People have brought up questions that I cannot answer, nor do I really want to think about in depth, but I'll share them with you and you can come to your own conclusions.

1. Was it returned? Did someone take it home, use a roll, and actually bring it back to the grocery store for a refund? Who does that?

2. Was the missing roll kidnapped? Do the police need to get involved? Do I need to plaster "missing" posters around the city and offer a reward?

3. Was it a bathroom emergency? Was someone walking down the TP aisle and thought, "Oh man, I have to go, and I have to go NOW."?

4. What if someone tampered with the remaining rolls? A terroristic attack of sorts. They'll get you when you're most vulnerable.

5. Was it simply a juice spill emergency and that was the closest absorbent item around?

I'll never know the true story. Personally, I like to think that the missing roll is on an adventure - It broke out of it's plastic jail and rolled away to a life of freedom.

Cheapy TP

Bad buying habits are hard to break, but ever since I came to the realization that money doesn't grow on trees, I've tried to be thrifty. It's hard. It used to be that I would run out to Target on a whim and go crazy buying needed and mostly un-needed items. Now I don't dare tackle any store without a list. I have my old roommate, Heather, to thank for the list making.

Well, today I hit a new level of thrifty awesomeness.

While shopping at Kroger I walked by the clearance section. Most of the time there is just a bunch of random crap sitting there expired, but today was different. I found a treasure:



Yeah.... I bought a pack of OPEN toilet paper.
It was missing a roll.
An entire discussion went on in my head before deciding on the purchase. Here's how it went:

Me: "WOO HOO!!!! CHEAP TOILET PAPER!!!"

Grossed out me: "Open toilet paper?? Are you freaking serious?"

Me: "Absolutely! It's like it has my name on it!"

Grossed out me: "That's disgusting... why is it open in the first place?"

Me: "I don't know, but it is 99 cents!! "

Grossed out me: "Whatever. You're weird."

Me: "But it's Charmin!"

Grossed out me: "Ugh, go away."

So yeah, now I have oddly opened (but taped shut) toilet paper. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet, but it's in my living room.

Movin' on up - hand me on down

Three years ago when I started pharmacy school I had all of these grand ideas about what would happen when I graduated and I was "rolling in money."

Now I am 15 days away from graduation and money is not raining down on me like my imagination would lead me to believe. It turns out that moving is expensive. Licensing is expensive. And furnishing our empty townhouse is, well, really expensive.

So, Adam and I have done some shopping at the best store ever: my parents' house.

They have been ever so generous and we are able to furnish our new place with some of the old furniture that I grew up with that has since found its home in the basement. I am trying to keep an open mind and not be picky because in my head my new home was decorated like it came straight out of a Pottery Barn magazine. Now it will just take some creativity. Cheap creativity.

Most of the stuff is great. And then there is the pink floral living room set.





































They are incredibly comfortable.

But they are pink.

And floral.

Anyone have any ideas on how to accessorize these bad boys and tone down the Pepto-ness?