Yesterday

I intended to blog about this my day yesterday but my husband was at the computer all night doing our taxes . Good times. For the first time in our married life, we will not be getting a refund. In fact we'll have to pay a significant amount. I guess this is one of those little "emergencies" Dave Ramsey talks about. He says you should have an emergency fund to pay for things that you don't see coming. We're working on it, Dave!

So here are a few nuggets from my day yesterday.

*Almost had a mental breakdown trying to figure out my grocery list without my "crutch". I was a faithful member of couponsense.com. This is an amazing website (similar to grocerygame.com, but better!) and it makes putting my lists together each week so easy and I get so many good deals. But because of family budget cuts, I decided to stop paying the $15 a month and try to figure it out on my own. It took me literally hours, but I think I did okay. I got some reassurance from my friend Becca who is very savvy when it comes to finding deals. She is a good friend. Go see her blog here if you live in AZ.

*I went to Albertson's first. They were having a huge NBA celebration or something. I didn't know they were doing this. First when I walked in, they handed me a card and had me step over to a computer monitor where they proceeded to scan my card. I didn't win the grand prize of attending some big basketball game (do you sense my disappointment? I don't even know what kind of a game it was!) but I was excited to win a pack of gum! Woo-hoo! Who doesn't like free gum?

*So I go about my business of grocery shopping. I was only getting a few things at Albies. Then someone makes an announcement over the loud speaker that if you can correctly guess who the '07-'08 NBA defensive-whatcha-majigger was, you'd get a free bag of groceries! All I heard was "free groceries"! I whipped out my cell phone and aksed Tripp (I was repeating the question in my head like a phone number so I wouldn't forget it!). I hussled to the front of the store thinking, "free groceries, free groceries!" I submitted my answer. Nope that's not it. I called Tripp back and aksed for another name. Nope that's not it. Okay, Honey try again! At the moment that Tripp said the next name, a guy beside me said it. He was right. Dang it! I was so close to getting those groceries! But do you know what happened? The man with the right answer said, "Oh, she can have the groceries, I just wanted to see if I knew the answer." That man has no idea how he made my day! I told him he should look through it and see if there was anything in it he wanted. But he said, nope, you can have it. I was so excited! Here's what was in that precious bag: a liter of soda, a box of popcorn, a loaf of bread, a can of spaghetti sauce, a package of spaghetti and a can of pringles. I. was. so. excited. Because remember from this post, how much I like free stuff?

*When I got home, the boys were playing next door at our neighbors' house. We live in this secluded cul-de-sac. You can see it here when Ryan learned to ride his bike. Anyway, I didn't pull all the way into the garage, like I normally do and it's a good thing or I would not have seen happen, what I'm about to share with you. I was going back and forth bringing in groceries and I noticed a car pull into our cul-de-sac and 2 people got out. Our neighbors always have people at their house, so I assumed it was some friends of theirs, but didn't think much of it. I came back out to get more groceries and glanced up to see the 2 men loading something into the trunk of their car. I did a double take because I recognized said object. Hey! That's OUR battery operated driveable jeep! Ryan and Casey had parked it on the sidewalk in between our house and our neighbors' house while they were playing next door! I said to them, "excuse, what are you doing?" They look up, surprised, "oh, this is yours?". "Uh, YEAH! Where did you find it?" They point to a location on our sidewalk, in front of our mailbox and proceed to put it back. Seriously? First of all, it's sitting in our secluded cul-de-sac, in front of our house, with no sign on it that says FREE. Would you really just take it like that in broad daylight? The nerve of people! And they saw me unloading groceries, and could've asked me if I knew if it was up for grabs! So what do you think? Were they trying to steal it or do you think they just thought it was left by the curb to go to the dump? I like to think the latter, but who knows with people these days!

So that was my yesterday! I'm looking forward to this weekend - I'm picking up my sweet step-sister who is visiting until Monday! Have a great weekend everyone!