Groceries, $100

 Photo of the day:

 

This is just ONE of our beautiful great grands. this is Oliver Jack, son of Josh and Megan. Ollie is walking around now and talking up a breeze. I heard him ask one of his cousins once, "Now what is your name?"  Asked as clear as a bell.

NOW for today:

It was late, but we needed something from the grocery store. I volunteered to head out and pick up the short list.  I don’t know about everyone else, but we have a place for our continuing list of needs from the grocery store.  Tonight it was a short list. My girl likes vitamins and supplements. Not sure if you must sift thru the vitamin and supplements aisle or not, but that is like an Easter Egg hunt.  Well tonight I could not find the two she wanted, I ran the gambit 3 times could not find them. I did get the rest of the list (plus a little more of course, )

Do you realize I carried everything I bought into the house in one load, the cost for that load was a little over $100. Shucks, 2 and a half pounds of Coffee was about $19. I think I will get ‘Chock Full of Nuts coffee next time, it was $16 for 2 ½ pounds.  BTW does anyone out there use Chock Full Of Nuts?

On line the big grocery stores said they had to increase prices because of Tariffs. That is common sense. I ran two businesses in my lifetime.  It is a fact, if wholesale prices go up so must your prices. To keep a business viable your prices MUST go up, that is simple common sense. Without a reasonable profit margin, a business goes broke.

I am not griping (much) but when you are old you tend to LOOK BACK and say ,’Our grocery bill for a week now is over twice my total income for a month when we got married.’

I know things have changed, but even YOU say, wow, two years ago things cost much less.

Sherry and I Thank God we can still afford to buy groceries without worrying, ‘will the check clear the bank.’

Hey back to my life, I took time to sit and read during the day. Sherry sat in our favorite swing in the picnic area and talked an hour today. Life is good, especially when you look over at a beautiful wife.

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I look forward to reading stuff here and spending time thinking of you and your lives.

Nite Shipslog

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